Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. Their new strategy focuses on three aims: Improving Our Natural World; Tackling injustice to deliver A Fairer Future; and Nurturing Creative, Confident Communities.

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Major Grants

Funds organisations working directly with families in need. Organisations should have a focus on Family Support including early intervention, families coping with addiction, and prisoners' families.

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Small Grants

Trusthouse gives grants for running costs to charities and not-for-profit organisations under the overarching themes are Rural Issues and Urban Deprivation. Their preference is for front line organisations working directly with people in need.

The Gordon & Ena Baxter Foundation

Supports projects with clear benefit to communities in Moray and the Highlands and Islands. They will fund a huge variety of capital projects.

Hugh Fraser Foundation

Makes donations to registered charities which are active in such sectors as the arts and culture, medical & health, the environment and education, care and support of the young and elderly, people with disabilities and the under-privileged.

Next deadline: 24 May 2024

The National Lottery Community Fund - (Scotland) - Young Start

Young Start is a grants programme that distributes money from dormant bank accounts. They will support a wide range of projects for up to three years that will make children and young people aged 8 to 24 confident, healthy, connected or enterprising.

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.

South Lanarkshire Council - Social Enterprise Grant

Social enterprises based in the South Lanarkshire area can apply for small amounts of funding to start-up and/or grow trading activity that will deliver social and environmental impact.

Renewable South Lanarkshire Renewable Energy Fund Micro Grants

Awards micro grants to support local constituted and non-constituted groups for activity which is community focused

Foundation Scotland - Bad á Cheò Wind Farm Education & Training Fund

This Fund provides bursaries to residents of Community Council areas in Caithness to access training and education opportunities that better equip them with the range of skills needed to enter or retain employment in key sectors of the local economy.