Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Scottish Building Society Foundation
The Scottish Building Society Foundation will aim to invest in the long-term future of communities in Scotland. They are looking to provide financial support to charities and community groups.
Due to open: 1 May 2025
Scotland's Finest Woods Awards
The annual Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards’ Programme strives to reward and showcase all that is best in Scotland’s forests and woods.
Next deadline: 31 Mar 2025
The John Ellerman Foundation
The Foundation aims to advance the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world by focusing on the arts, environment and social action. Grants are made in three categories: Arts, Environment and Social Action.
Brownlie Charitable Trust
The objectives of the Trust are widely drawn. They fund mostly under the headings of adult and child welfare and medical research but also support armed services welfare, humanitarian aid and education.
The Helvellyn Foundation
The Helvellyn is a proactive funder who conduct their own research and reach out to organisations when appropriate. Their focus is around biodiversity, climate and the environment.
Film Hub Scotland - Film Exhibition Fund
Funding to help you engage audiences, promote British, independent, and international cultural cinema, and make your work accessible and open to all.
Next deadline: 28 Mar 2025
Ethnic Minority Development Fund
Available to any ethnic minority-led voluntary or community organisation in Scotland for projects which bring people together, support ethnic minority people, and improve spaces that matter to communities.
Opened: 12 Feb 2025
Next deadline: 14 Apr 2025
Security Industry Authority - grant for good causes
the Security Industry Authority distributes money they have received through proceeds of crime confiscation orders and give this money to registered charities and community interest companies in the UK.
Next deadline: 21 Feb 2025
Strategic Legal Fund
The SLF aims to tackle injustices and inconsistencies in law and practice that disadvantage or discriminate against people as a result of their migration status.
Next deadline: 31 Mar 2025
Bryson Corbett Charitable Trust
The objectives of the Trust are widely drawn. The trustees will employ their discretion in order to determine which charitable initiatives they support.