Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Foundation Scotland - Kinross-shire Fund
The Kinross-shire Fund is dedicated to helping make Kinross-shire a better place to live. Priorities are: community events; community information & transport; community welfare; physical amenities; recreational facilities; care of the elderly.
Next deadline: 19 Jan 2026
Henry Smith Foundation - Holiday Grants Programme
The Holiday Grants Programme offers one-off grants for schools, youth groups and non-profit organisations to take children aged 13 and under on recreational day trips or short residential trips.
Next deadline: 19 Nov 2025
Wellcome Trust
The trust's vision is to achieve extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. It offers a wide variety of funding schemes.
Holywood Trust
The Trust supports opportunities for young people in Dumfries and Galloway, primarily aged 15-25. The focus is on helping young people move forward in their lives, whether by grants to organisations or to individual young people.
Next deadline: 12 Jan 2026
AMW Charitable Trust
The trust objects are widely drawn and include: religion, education, culture, social and physical wellbeing, poverty, and physical and mental disabilities. Priority is given to applications from the West of Scotland but also funds national organisations.
Whiteside Hill Wind Farm Community Fund
Supports community projects benefiting those living in areas covered by the community councils of Kirkconnel and Kelloholm and the Royal Burgh of Sanquhar and District.
Next deadline: 27 Apr 2026
SSEN Transmission - Community Benefit Fund
To kickstart impactful projects or initiatives that will bring meaningful benefits to communities near SSE energy infrastructure.
Next deadline: 19 Nov 2025
EDF Renewables Corriemoillie Community Fund (Marybank, Scatwell & Strathconon)
The Fund will support projects which will support positive change and strategic impact to people living in Marybank, Scatwell & Strathconon.
South Lanarkshire Renewable Energy Fund - Micro Grants
Awards micro grants to support local constituted and non-constituted groups for activity which is community focused
Benefact Group - Movement for Good
Movement for Good awards are available to charities that are changing people’s lives for the better. The public can nominate a charity they would like to see receive the money and competition winners will then be drawn at random.
Next deadline: 16 Dec 2025