Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
West Lothian Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
Funds community initiatives supporting mental health and wellbeing in the local area. Part of a nationwide scheme.
Next deadline: 6 Oct 2025
Cash for Kids - Holiday Hunger Grants
For organisations and service providers who support children and young people (up to and including 18 years old) that have a genuine need for support, are disadvantaged due to poverty, the increase in the cost of living
Next deadline: 21 Sep 2025
Educational Opportunity Foundation - Main Fund
The Educational Opportunity Foundation supports charitable organisations working to improve access to education or the quality of education for children and young people under the age of 25, both in the UK and internationally.
Next deadline: 14 Jan 2026
Granite Heart
Offers small grants to support charities, voluntary groups and initiatives working to make a positive difference in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
Next deadline: 21 Sep 2025
The Art Fund - Acquisition Grant
This programme helps museums and galleries purchase works of art and objects for their collections so members of the public can experience and enjoy them.
Dumfries & Galloway Council - Area Committee Grants
Dumfries and Galloway Council can provide financial assistance to the third sector (voluntary and community organisations) who can apply to one or more of four Area Committees: Annandale and Eskdale; Nithsdale; Stewartry; Wigtown.
Scottish Forestry - Community Fund
The Community Fund supports groups and organisations that encourage people to use woods more.
Beautiful Trouble - Get Up, Rise Up (GURU) Direct Action Fund
To support activists globally to shift power through strategic nonviolent direct actions to create a more socially and ecologically just, healthy, and equitable world for all.
Open Technology Fund - Internet Freedom Fund
This fund supports innovative internet freedom projects, including technology development, research, digital security projects, and convenings.
NESTA - Arts & Culture Impact Fund
The Arts & Culture Impact Fund is a £20 million impact investment fund for the UK's arts, culture and heritage social enterprises. The fund offers loans repayable until March 2032.