Health and wellbeing
The Worshipful Company of Weavers
Please note the closing dates for applications are Thursday 4 July and Thursday 14 November 2024
Funds are available to organisations that can demonstrate impact with ex-offenders, young offenders or young people at risk of offending, either within a local area or nationally. Small grants are up to £5K, main grants are uncapped. UK registered charities and in exceptional circumstances CICs. Priority areas: supporting offenders into work and Helping specific groups within the criminal justice sector.
A B Charitable Trust
Please note the closing date for applications are Friday 26 July, Friday 25 Friday October 2025, Friday 31 January and Friday 25 April 2025
Grants between £10,000 and £25,000 are available for UK charities that promote human dignity and defend the human rights of the most marginalised and excluded people. Priority areas are migrants and refugees, criminal justice and penal reform, human rights and particularly access to justice.
The Veterans’ Foundation
Please note the closing dates for applications are Tuesday 30 July and Tuesday 15 October 2024
Grants to eligible organisations that provide assistance to serving and former members of the armed forces community, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families. Funding is for projects lasting up to three years to organisations with low to medium income. A range of factors will be considered including the service or item being funded, the number of beneficiaries, the importance of the grant to the applicant organisation, the efficiency of the organisation, the needs of the beneficiaries and its urgency.
Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
Please note the closing date for applications is Thursday 1 August 2024
UK charities can apply for small grants or general grants to help both children and adults suffering from severe learning difficulties, together with autism. The funding can be used to purchase equipment, support capital works as well as cover project and core costs.
The Social Innovation Challenge
Please note you must express interest by Wednesday 7 August 2024. The deadline for applications is Wednesday 4 September 2024
The 2024 Challenge is focused on breaking barriers to better health and wellbeing and supporting innovative social enterprise solutions that address the core inequalities related to health and wellbeing in Scotland. The winner will receive a £50,000 grant and tailored support for the duration of their award to help them kick-start their solution.
National Lottery Community Fund's Community Led Activity Programme
Please note the closing date for applications is Wednesday 21 August 2024
Grants are available to support improvement within Scotland's local communities and the wellbeing of individuals most in need. Voluntary and community-led organisations can apply for grants ranging from £20,001 to £150,000. These grants aim to facilitate both long-term initiatives and short-term activities, including those aiding community recovery from COVID-19. Funding can be used for staff costs, equipment, premises costs, overheads, building refurbishment, adaptations, and landscaping. Organisations may apply for funding up to three years to develop new projects or enhance existing services.
Agnes Hunter Trust SCIO
Please note the closing date for applications is Thursday 22 August 2024
Grants of up to £10,000 are available to registered charities with a focus on one key area - supporting disabled people in Scotland. Service provision will focus on providing opportunities and enabling people to lead fulfilling lives. This may include activities that offer advice, information and support, or life-skills, volunteering and employability training. To be eligible applicants must have an annual income of under £1million.
Green Hall Foundation
Please note the fund opens on 1 September 2024 and closes when 150 applications have been received
The Foundation aims to sustainably improve lives: among the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged particularly in the UK. Funding is between £1-10K and preference is given where the Foundation can meet a significant proportion of the funding required and will benefit a larger number of beneficiaries.
Help the Homeless
Please note the closing date for applications are Sunday 15 September and Sunday 15 December 2024
Grants of up to £5,000 for capital grants are available to registered UK charities, with a turnover under £500K, to help homeless people return to the community and enable them to rebuild their lives.
The National Drugs Mission Micro Grants
Please note this is a rolling fund and will remain open until all funds have been fully committed
Corra Foundation is distributing funds for organisations with income under £50,000 supporting people and families with experience of drug use or recovery.
Parkinson's Physical Activity Grant
Please note this is a rolling fund and will remain open until all funds have been fully committed
The Parkinson's Physical Activity Grants funds activity providers to give people with Parkinson's more opportunities to get and stay active. Grants of up to £3,000 are available for innovative and new or the expansion of existing activities.
The National Drugs Mission Local Support Fund
Please note this is a rolling fund and will remain open until all funds have been fully committed
The Corra Foundation is distributing funds for organisations with income under £500,000 supporting people and families with experience of drug use or recovery.
Cruden Foundation
Funds are available for mainly small and medium-sized registered charities based, or specifically working in, Scotland. There is a strong focus on community welfare, medical support and research, the arts, education and conservation.
Baillie Gifford Social Issues Fund
This fund supports projects tackling issues including homelessness, substance abuse, food insecurity, financial security, digital inclusion, loneliness and isolation, and supporting those who are care experienced, young people, and veterans. The fund can support core costs as well as project costs. However, it can only support applications where the grant request is at least 25% of the total costs. Please do not apply if your project as a whole costs more than £20,000. Please note this fund is only open to organisations with an annual income of under £250,000.
The Rayne Foundation
The Rayne Foundation’s open grants programme is focused exclusively on the following four areas of special interest:
- Young people’s improved mental health
- Arts as a tool to achieve social change
- Improved quality of life for carers and older people
- Better opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers
This more focused approach is the first step in the Foundation working towards becoming a more proactive and engaged funder and reflects our desire to think more carefully and have a greater impact on a smaller number of issues, over a longer period.
Henry Smith Charity’s Improving Lives Grant Programme
Grants are available to charitable and not-for-profit organisations, including social enterprises that help people when other sources of support have failed, are inappropriate, or are simply not available. £20k – £70k per year for up to 3 years to cover running costs, salaries and projects.
Barchester Healthcare Foundation
Small community groups, local charities and individuals can apply for grants of between £100 and £2K for equipment and to support projects that tackle loneliness amongst older people and adults with a disability. The funding can be used for day trips, outings and group holidays in the UK, activities, transport as well as equipment and materials. Grants for individuals must be completed by a third party who knows the individual in a professional or community-based capacity such as healthcare professionals, social workers
or charity or support group representatives
Albert Hunt Trust
The Trust supports UK-registered charities that: provide Hospice Care – core funding of hospices is a priority; provide support for the Homeless – typical core funding grant sizes range from £5,000-£10,000 for organisations with an annual fundraised income (non-statutory) of below £500,000 or promote Health and Wellbeing with a typical grant from £500-£5,000 for organisations with a total annual income of below £250,000.
Hugh Fraser Foundation
The 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 underprivileged. The Trustees’ policy is to focus on applications relating to activities and projects in Scotland, particularly those parts of Scotland where the local economy and/or circumstances make fundraising for charitable purposes difficult.
The Trustees meet normally in March, June, September and December. The cut-off date for applications is normally the beginning of the month preceding the month of the meeting date.
The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust
Grants are available for charities that work to improve the lives of socially disadvantaged and disabled individuals of all ages across the UK. Funding is typically been between £1,000 and £6,000 for UK-registered charities with an annual income of less than £1 million.
Utilita Giving
Utilita issues a range of grants to support people experiencing fuel and food poverty. Grants can be used for a variety of purposes, such as providing new vans or transportation for food banks to collect and distribute food; funding additional staff to operate a fuel poverty advice helpline, and providing additional funds to feed disadvantaged families in welcoming spaces.
Windrush Compensation Scheme
Grants of £22,000 (over two years) are available to help organisations cover the costs of caseworkers, administrative expenses, venue fees, and staffing costs. The programme aims to provide support to those affected by the scandal, helping them navigate the complex process of applying for compensation and securing their legal status.
Scottish Recovery Consortium Recovery Seed Fund
The Fund aims to develop and support substance and/or behaviour Lived Experience recovery organisations to trial, grow and develop their ideas, services or products and build organisational capacity. You can apply for up to £5000 if you are a substance and/or behaviour Lived Experience Recovery Organisation/voluntary group (LERO). Your organisation or group must be less than 12 months old, or unconstituted if you have been active for longer and have an income of less than £30,000 a year.
The Self Management Fund
The Self Management Fund is administered by the ALLIANCE, on behalf of the Scottish Government. It is open to all community and third sector organisations in Scotland, working to support disabled people, people living with long term conditions and unpaid carers regardless of their membership of the ALLIANCE.
In 2024 the fund aims to support projects that put people and communities at the heart of prevention and self management, two levels of grant are available:
Small grants of up to £15,000 for up to one year
Large grants of up to £120,000 for up to three years
The British Gas Energy Support Fund
The fund is available for British Gas customers with fuel debt of £250 to £2,000 to pay their energy bills over the coming months. Any British Gas customer in England, Wales and Scotland who has sought money and energy advice is eligible to apply for the support. Grants over £1,500 will be considered in exceptional circumstances.
National Lottery Community Fund - 'The UK Fund'
This new programme offers grants of £500,000 to £5m to organisations that want to do more to help communities come together and help make a better-connected society. Your project must either work across the UK or be able to inform, influence or scale across the UK.
The Allen Lane Foundation
The foundation offers grants up to £15K (average £5-6K) to small registered charities, voluntary groups, and charitable organisations. Funding programmes:
- Young People’s Programme
- Asylum seekers and refugees
- Gypsies and Travellers
- Offenders and ex-offenders
- Older people
- People experiencing mental health problems
- People experiencing violence or abuse
British Gas Energy Trust
Eligible applicants, regardless of whether they are a British Gas customer or not, can receive a grant of up to £1,500 to clear arrears with their energy supplier. Please note customers of Eon, Eon Next, EDF, Scottish Power, and Octopus should apply to their respective funds instead.
National Lottery Community Fund: Cost of Living Support
Grants up to £75,000 are available for community groups and voluntary organisations to help support individuals, families and communities currently experiencing hardship because of the cost-of-living increases.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Fairer Future
This grant stream supports projects that tackle injustice and structural inequality to create a more inclusive society, with a focus on five priority areas: arts and creativity making change; children and young people's rights; racial justice; gender justice; and migrant justice. The Foundation is keen to work with those with experience of the issues being addressed.
The Robertson Trust: Small Grants
Grants up to £75,000 over five years (£15,000 each year) are available to smaller registered charities (annual income £25-100K) working to support people experiencing poverty or trauma. These revenue grants can include unrestricted funding for core running costs and/or specific project funding.
The Nineveh Charitable Trust
The trust supports a broad range of UK-based projects and activities of benefit to the General Public, with an emphasis on promoting a better understanding of the countryside.
B&Q Foundation
Grants of up to £5,000 for UK registered charities for projects that improve homes and community spaces for those most in need, such as those experiencing homelessness, financial hardship, poor health, disability, or other disadvantage or distress. Larger funding amounts are occasionally awarded depending on the strength of the application and project. Applications can be submitted at any time and organisations should submit an expression of interest in the first instance.
Co-op Warm Spaces Funding Boost
A £1million match fund is available to support local organisations who are supporting their communities through rising costs this winter, by bringing people together into warm spaces. Every donation made is matched up to £250 – with a maximum of £3,000 of match funding per organisation.
The Percy Bilton Charity
Grants from £500 to £3k for charities assisting disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities, people with mental health problems and older people are available. You may apply for grants towards furnishings and equipment (excluding office items), and building or refurbishment projects.
Women’s Health Community Fund
This new fund aims to address inequalities in menopause care amongst under-served communities across the UK. The fund will provide small grants to groups and individuals for projects that raise awareness and improve education around menopause, particularly amongst those from lower-income families, ethnically diverse communities, those with disabilities and LGBTQ+.
The Souter Charitable Trust
One-off grants of up to £3,000 are available to registered charities for a wide variety of projects to promote health and wellbeing and to relieve human suffering in all its aspects. Priority for projects supporting people most affected by disadvantage. Trustees generally meet once a month.
Edward Gostling Foundation Capital Grants
Capital grants of up to £250,000 for UK registered charities and CIO’s working to improve the quality of life for people in need, particularly those living on very low incomes who have a disability or long-term illness. This programme encourages organisations to bring forward major capital projects costing £1 million or more that align with one or more of the foundation's funding themes. These projects should build new capacity, promote sustainability, and bring about a step change in the way care is delivered.
The Ann Rylands Small Donations
Grants to support charities’ core costs with a maximum award of up to £5,000 to provide practical and emotional support to people with – or at high risk of – physical or mental ill health, people living with disability, and their families and carers are available.
The Gateway Exchange Fund
Funding up to £5,000 is available to support activity across Scotland that empowers people to move on with their lives and fulfil their potential, where they would otherwise not have the opportunity.
Priority will be given to:
- Projects which help prisoners or ex-prisoners
- Projects which help those in recovery from drug addiction
- Mental health projects
- Projects supporting refugees and asylum seekers
- Projects supporting women and men recovering from sexual abuse.
All applicants must meet Foundation Scotland's Common eligibility criteria.
Arnold Clark Cost of Living Fund
Please note funding is open to charities/CICs who are within 50 miles of an Arnold Clark branch
Funding is available to organisations whose work directly supports those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, such as foodbanks, accommodation or poverty relief.
Arnold Clark Communities Support Fund
Please note funding is open to charities/CICs who are within 50 miles of an Arnold Clark branch
Funding is available to organisations that provide services which are widely accessible to those within our local communities and address the needs of the people living within them, supporting our local communities to a better future.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Migration Fund
Grants of up to £60K (3-4 years) or £50K (5 years) to support organisations who are working towards helping migrants and diaspora communities, building solidarity and collaboration across communities, and challenging the harm, inequity and oppression within their organisational structures and work. The fund is open to applications from non-profit organisations across the UK. Newly established and unincorporated groups are also welcome to apply if they fit the criteria. The Foundation can also provide pre-application support and a bursary of up to £500 to apply.
The Corra Foundation: The Independent Human Rights Fund for Scotland
Funding is available to help realise and defend rights and tackle issues affecting people’s daily lives. The Fund will focus on people whose rights are most at risk, such as those facing issues around poverty, housing, education, health, racism, and disability. The funding is intended to help organisations address the gap between policy and the lived experience of those most at risk, empowering communities to claim their rights and hold duty-bearers accountable.