Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Barbara Ward Children's Foundation
The Foundation is a small grant-making body that helps the smaller non-religious charities to serve severely disadvantaged children anywhere in the world where grants are likely to make a real difference.
The Cinnamon Network - Micro-Grants
Micro Grants are designed to kick start Cinnamon Recommended Projects.
Ashworth Charitable Trust
The Ashworth Charitable Trust is a small grant-making charity. It was created primarily to support humanitarian causes operating locally, nationally and internationally. For the most part, the Trust looks to fund projects and not core funding.
Social Business Trust
SBT’s mission is to support high growth potential social enterprises to scale-up their impact. They do that by investing cash grants and professional support from seven partner organisations in a carefully selected portfolio of social enterprises.
Pump House Trust
Supports wide range of charitable activity but are particularly interested in community development, environmental, women’s and youth issues with a view to including social inclusion at all levels.
The Shackleton Foundation
The Shackleton Foundation provides seed-funding to inspirational leaders and early-stage social enterprises with the potential to make a real difference to the lives of disadvantaged young people.
Miss Violet Murray Lessels Trust
Provides grants for: the prevention or relief of poverty, the advancement of education, the advancement of health, the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science.
W J Underwood's Testamentary Trust
Funds medical research in Edinburgh directed to achieve prevention of, cure for or relief from pain and illness.
Thistledown Trust
Supports registered charities, preference may be given to activities that are concerned with the welfare of animals. In recent years they have given to a wide range of organisations supporting health, young people and emergency relief.
The Allen Lane Foundation
The Foundation focuses on work which will make a lasting difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems.