Miscellaneous
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Major Grants
They operate a rolling programme and you can apply at any time throughout the year. There are no submission deadlines.
Preference for front line organisations working directly with families in need. Organisations should have a focus on Family Support, this may further include:
- Early intervention
- Families coping with addiction
- Prisoners' families.
Your organisation’s postcode, or the project area, must be ranked within the most deprived 15% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) for urban areas or within the most deprived 50% for rural areas.
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 under-privileged. So long as the object is charitable, the Trustees will consider any application from a registered charity..
They are particularly interested in applications from parts of Scotland where the local economy and/or circumstances make fundraising for charitable purposes difficult.
Hedley Foundation
Funding is available for small-to-mid-size registered charities helping to improve the quality of life of people in the UK, particularly those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable can apply for grants of up to £5,000. Occasional larger sums are given to charities where high impact can be achieved.
Hilden Charitable Fund
The Fund offers grants over 2 years ranging from £5,000 to £7,000 per year to charities (including SCIOs) and CICs with an income under £250K and focuses on two key areas:
- Asylum Seekers and Refugees: projects that provide essential services to asylum seekers and refugees, aiming to facilitate their integration into the broader community.
- Penal Affairs: The fund aims to fund projects that involve organisations working within prisons to provide support and assistance to prisoners, particularly women.
Aviva - Community Fund
Applications are open all year, with quarterly funding rounds for eligible charities.
The Aviva Community Fund supports projects that are fighting climate change and building stronger, more resilient communities across the UK and are investing in two key areas:
- Climate Action: Promoting healthy, thriving communities by preventing, preparing for and protecting against the impacts of climate change
- Financial Wellbeing: Helping people take control of their wellbeing by giving them the tools to be more financially independent and ready for anything
Bank of Scotland Foundation - Matched Giving Programme
Apply at any time. The funding year runs from January to December.
The Matched Giving Programme encourages Lloyds Banking Group colleagues in Scotland to get involved in the voluntary sector and to help fundraise through personal participation in events or give their time freely to support the work of charities throughout Scotland.
Every permanent Lloyds Banking Group colleague in Scotland is entitled to claim from the Matched Giving Scheme for a charity for which they have either raised money for or given time to.
People's Postcode Trust
There is both project and unrestricted funding of up to £25,000
available. Their funding themes are:
- Enabling participation in physical activity
- Enabling participation in the arts
- Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty
- Supporting marginalised groups and tackling inequality
- Improving biodiversity and responding to the climate emergency
- Improving green spaces and increasing access to the outdoors
- Providing support to improve mental health
Priority may be given to charities, and asset-locked organisations, including CICs, that:
- Have an annual income of £250,000 and below.
- Support communities that rank as being within the top 15% on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.
- Support people from minority/marginalised groups, communities experiencing racial inequity, people with disabilities and the LGBTQ+ community.
Blackhill Windfarm Community Fund Ltd
Grants will be made for applications that benefit people in the Community by advancing community development by supporting local environmental, educational, amenity or other initiatives in the area. Funds applications which benefit the residents of the Community Council areas of Abbey St Bathans, Bonkyl & Preston, Duns, Gavinton, Fogo & Preston, and Lammermuir.
Brownlie Charitable Trust
The trustees meet in November each year and all applications should be received by mid-October.
The objectives of the Trust are widely drawn. The trustees will employ their discretion in order to determine which charitable initiatives they support. They fund mostly under the headings of adult and child welfare and medical research but also support armed services welfare, humanitarian aid and education.
Apply in writing to the Trust.
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Lintel Trust Small Grants
Funding is available for community and voluntary organisations working to provide solutions for people with housing needs in Scotland. Small grants of either £500 or £1,000 are available for community led projects that help people to maintain their tenancies, improve their lives and engage and participate fully in community life. Aimed at small local projects (community groups and registered charities) that have a close connection with a housing association, housing co-operative or other social housing provider such as a local authority.
Screwfix Foundation
Please note the closing dates for applications are Saturday 10 August and Saturday 10 November 2024
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to local charities and not-for-profit organisations for projects that will fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities for those in need in the UK
The Charles Hayward Foundation
Please note the closing dates for applications are Friday 16 August and Friday 8 November 2024
Organisations with an annual income under £350,000 can apply for grants of up to £25,000 for projects over one to three years under their Social and Criminal Justice theme.
The SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund
Please note the closing dates for applications are Friday 30 August, Friday 29 November 2024 and Friday 28 February 2024
The Fund will award grants up to a maximum value of £5,000 to organisations who commit to delivering a project that meets at least one of five criteria, namely: Sustainability and the environment; Employability and career skills; Social inclusion; Technology and digital inclusion; and Improving the local community.
The Matthew Good Foundation
Please note the closing dates for applications are Sunday 15 September and Sunday 15 December 2024
The foundation aims to support small charities, not-for-profit groups and social entrepreneurs who are passionate about making a difference to people, their community or the environment. The Fund will share £10,000 between five shortlisted projects, voted for by John Good Group employees. To be eligible, applicants will have to have had an income of less than £50,000 in the last 12 months.
Rees Jefferys Road Fund
Grants and bursaries are available for research, education, and community projects to promote and secure better and safer roads in terms of design, engineering, and aesthetics, including enhancements of the experience of road users. In the past, grants have been between £5,000 and £30K. Trustees favour proposals which have national, rather than local, significance and those which involve other funding partners.
The Barrack Charitable Trust
Grants between £500 and £5,000 are available to registered charities, under the following main categories:
- The advancement of the arts, heritage and culture
- The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational facilities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities are primarily intended
- The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health and disability
The Trustees, while recognising that it is often difficult to raise core/revenue funding, and therefore being prepared to consider core/revenue grants in extreme circumstances, will nonetheless favour project funding
Motability - Active Travel Grant Programme
The first round of funding is now closed. Applications will open again in summer 2025.
Funding is available for UK charities and not-for-profit organisations to develop, expand and improve active travel options for disabled people. Grants of between £100K and £4 million are available over three years to ensure disabled people have equal opportunity to make decisions about how they travel in the UK by providing access to quality and affordable active travel equipment and journeys – whether by walking, cycling, push scooters, or use of wheelchairs and other mobility aids
Innovation Vouchers Funding
Standard and Student Placement innovation vouchers of up to £7,500 are available to encourage new collaborations between a Scottish organisation and a university or college. Aiming to make collaborative work accessible to all Small to Medium-sized Enterprise’s (SME’s), sole traders, social enterprises and third sector organisations and is open to applications from all industry sectors.
The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts
17 grant-making trusts established by three generations of the Sainsbury family. Each trust works autonomously as an independent legal entity with a separate board of trustees, actively led by an individual member of the family with keenly-followed interests.
Energy Saving Trust: Plugged-in Communities Grant Fund
Funding of 100% of costs is available for established community transport organisations to purchase or lease up to three zero emission community transport vehicles. Complete a pre-application check.
Dulverton Trust
Grants from £25,000 to £35,000 to medium-sized UK registered charities (with income between £200,000 and £3 million). Organisations working in the following categories may be considered:
- Youth Opportunities
- General Welfare
- Conservation
- Preservation
Ross and Liddell Community Bursary Programme
The programme offers small grants to local community organisations in Scotland that make a vital difference to their local area. Previous grants have been awarded to youth drama groups, sports clubs, mental health charities, early years groups and many more.
Aviva Community Fund
The fund supports innovative ideas that benefit their communities and is looking to raise up to £50,000, focusing on supporting projects that enhance community resilience in the face of uncertainty, in two main areas: Climate Action and Financial Wellbeing. To take part, the project must also be raising funds to develop a new approach, product, or technology, pilot a new scheme, implement a new initiative, or expand existing services.
The Grocers’ Charity
The charity typically provides one-off grants of up to £5,000 for UK registered charities. Currently, they are leaning towards, but not exclusively funding, applications which support youth, e.g., preventing (re)offending; helping those struggling due to financial hardship and environment charities helping to reduce plastic waste and reducing emissions
The Swire Charitable Trust
Please note the Trust runs a rolling programme and applicants can expect to receive an outcome within 2-3 months of submission
Grants are available to charities supporting some of the UK’s most vulnerable people to overcome barriers and realise their potential, and to charities who are protecting the environment and heritage.
Rayne Foundation
Their open grants programme focuses 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 for older people
- Better opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers
The Clothworkers Foundation
Funding is available to support capital projects that support disadvantaged sections of the community. This can include the purchase or renovation of buildings and the purchase of equipment and vehicles. To be eligible the projects must fit within one or more of the Foundation’s specified programme areas.
This includes:
- Alcohol and substance misuse
- Disadvantaged minority communities
- Disadvantaged young people
- Domestic and sexual abuse
- Homelessness
- Domestic and sexual abuse
- older people
The Foundation aims to make a decision within eight weeks for grants and projects less than £10,000 or within six months for grants over £10,000.
British Gas Energy Trust - Individual and Families Debt Write Off Fund
This fund remains open to pre-payment meter customers. 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. Customers of Eon, Eon Next, EDF, Scottish Power, and Octopus should apply to their respective funds instead.
Culture & Business Fund Scotland (C&BS Fund)
Match funding is available to culture organisations to enable partnerships and collaborations with businesses by incentivising sponsorships to bring diverse creative projects to life. It will provide match funding of up to £14,000 per organisation, to support as many arts and heritage organisations as possible, from grassroots initiatives to established cultural events. Other priorities will be to support organisations that have implemented Fair Work policies, have introduced carbon-neutral plans or policies and have embedded equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the activities for which they seek funding through the C&BS Fund.
Woodward Charitable Trust
Grants of up to £3,000 for core costs are available to charities with an income under £200K. They support at least one of the following three target groups:
- Children and Young People
- Disadvantaged families
- Prisoners and Ex-Offenders
They particularly look to fund projects that help families and young people and that are aiming to improve the life chances of their beneficiaries.
The HDH Wills 1965 Charitable Trust
Grants of up to £2,000 are available to support general, environmental and wildlife charities.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Migration Fund
Grants of up to £60K (3-4 years) or £50K (5 years) are available 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 Delamere Dairy Foundation
Grants of up to £5,000 are available for local projects that help strengthen communities for charities, community groups, social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations delivering projects that benefit communities through the advancement of agriculture and environmental protection, by improving the lives of young people and education and relieving financial hardship and sickness.