Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
The Robert Clutterbuck Trust
They prefer their grants to be applied for the purchase of specific items to assist: Armed forces and veterans, sports and recreation for young people, the welfare of domestic animals, natural history and wildlife.
Next deadline: 31 Dec 2025
Foundation Scotland - Watten Wind Farm Trust
The Watten Windfarm Charitable Trust supports charitable activities that benefit the Watten community. It funds a range of areas including community activity, improving broadband connections, and improving the opportunities of local residents.
Next deadline: 31 Dec 2025
Shetland Islands Council - Economic Development Grant Scheme
The Economic Development Grant Scheme aims to stimulate local economic activity by supporting individuals, businesses and organisations to turn ideas into commercial reality.
The Wolfson Foundation - Funding for Places
The Foundation's main grants programme provides support for places. They fund capital initiatives across a broad range of organisations working across the fields of education, science and medicine, health and disability and arts and humanities.
Due to open: 20 Nov 2025
Highland Cross Grants
Highland Cross exists to raise money for causes that benefit the people of Highland, disadvantaged by disability, ill health or social need.
Next deadline: 30 Sep 2026
The Hugh Stenhouse Foundation
Supports social welfare causes, children and young people, medical and health organisations, environment/conservation and heritage. They prefer local initiatives where there help can make a real difference with priority for the West of Scotland.
The National Lottery Community Fund - (Scotland) - Young Start
Young Start is a grants programme that distributes money from dormant bank accounts. They will support a wide range of projects for up to three years that will make children and young people aged 8 to 24 confident, healthy, connected or enterprising.
Next deadline: 19 Dec 2025
National Manuscripts Conservation Trust
The NMCT is the only UK grant-giver that focuses solely on the care and conservation of manuscripts in the UK. Grants are towards the cost of repair, binding and conservation and preservation of manuscripts and towards the cost of first stage listing.
Next deadline: 1 Apr 2026
Edina Trust - Science Grant Scheme
The Edina Trust provides non-competitive, easy-to-access grants, for state primary schools in certain regions of the UK, to be used to promote the teaching of science and gardening.
Wooden Spoon
Wooden Spoon supports mentally, physically disadvantaged children. Funding is available for: Health & wellbeing, Playgrounds, Sensory rooms & gardens, and Specialist equipment & facilities.