Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Muirden Energy - Community Benefit Fund
Muirden Energy provides community benefit funds to local communities that host their wind farms. They fund a wide range of community projects.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation - Social Investment
The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. They also offer social investment.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation - Grants
The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. Their new strategy focuses on three aims: Our Natural World; A Fairer Future; and Creative, Confident Communities.
Royal Mail - Matched Giving and Grants
To encourage its staff to play an active role in their communities through fundraising and volunteering, every Royal Mail employee can apply for a grant or matched giving.
Highland & Islands Climate Hub - Climate Festival Funding
Funding is available for a contribution of £150 to your organisation to stage an event from 13th September - 8th October 2025 as part of the Highlands & Islands Climate Festival.
Next deadline: 14 Jul 2025
Caithness & North Sutherland Fund
Funding is available for projects that increase the attractiveness of Caithness & North Sutherland as a place to live, work and invest with particular emphasis on achieving environment, social, culture and infrastructure improvements.
Next deadline: 1 Oct 2025
The Fore Trust
The Fore offers development funding and strategic support to early-stage charities and social enterprises. It makes unrestricted grants which have the potential to have a transformational impact on an organisation.
Due to open: 22 Jul 2025
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.
Arnold Clark Community Fund
The Arnold Clark Community Fund helps registered UK charities and community groups close to branches build stronger communities across the UK.
Scottish Wildlife Trust - Riverwoods Development Grant
Seeks to address one of the key barriers to river woodland creation by supporting the scoping, planning and design of River Woodland Development Plans for the benefit of river health, habitat connectivity and access to nature in Scotland.
Next deadline: 28 Jul 2025