Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
sportscotland - Coach Education Subsidy Funding
Funding is provided by sportscotland to assist coaches to reduce the cost of their learning and development as this can often be seen as a barrier to participation and development.
Tincornhill Quarry Fund
Support projects from constituted organisations for long-term, sustainable environmental projects within the Parish of Sorn.
The Architectural Heritage Fund - Heritage Impact Fund
The Heritage Impact Fund offers tailored, flexible loans to charities, social enterprises and community businesses that want to acquire, reuse or redevelop historic or architecturally important buildings in the UK.
The Finnis Scott Foundation
The Trustees can make grants for any charitable purpose, but their present policy is to focus grant-making in the areas of horticulture and plant sciences, as well as fine art and art history.
Aberdeenshire Rural Communities Challenge Fund
Funding is available for community groups, charities, public sector organisations and cooperatives throughout Aberdeenshire (excluding the Cairngorms area) and can fund specific activities aimed at benefitting rural communities in the region.
Next deadline: 17 Aug 2025
SURF Awards
SURF’s annual awards are open to all community regeneration projects in Scotland that are currently in place or that have been completed within two years of the closing date.
Next deadline: 1 Sep 2025
Charles Hayward Foundation - Social & Criminal Justice - Main Grants
Funds activities which prevent people entering the criminal justice system and support those already in the system to move on and rebuild their lives.
Next deadline: 19 Sep 2025
The Rowing Foundation
The Foundation gives grants to help organisations and clubs involved in on water elements of the sport of rowing. They favour giving grants for equipment that will be used on the water and exclusively for juniors and the disabled of all ages.
Next deadline: 29 Sep 2025
Paul Hamyln Foundation - Youth Fund
The Youth Fund supports organisations whose main purpose is working with and for young people (aged 14-25) who face complex transitions to adulthood.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence.