FIELD OF WORK: Sports

TYPE: Capital  

The fund supports capital projects that create or improve places that people take part in sport and physical activity. Awards are available for sports facility projects within club & communities, school & education or performance sport environments.

Funding Available: £200,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Community Groups Any non profit distributing, constituted organisations whose membership is open to all sections of society. This includes schools and public bodies such as local authorities.

FIELD OF WORK: Sports

TYPE: Capital / Core Costs

Funds applications for physical activity initiatives that: 

Offer high-impact, life-enhancing opportunities for those who live in the top 10% of areas of deprivation 

Remove barriers to participation for disabled or disadvantaged people  

Focus on grassroots involvement rather than elite participation in physical activity 

Focus on skills development and confidence building for individuals 

Incorporate effective strategies for wider impact, perhaps through training, partnerships and/or dissemination activities 

Demonstrate a high degree of involvement across the organisation from beneficiaries and those with lived experience 

Have a well-developed plan for sustainability and seek to deliver a legacy 

Reflect their values:   Excellence, Entrepreneurship, Integrity, Sustainability

Funding Available: £5000 - £30,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Organisations which:are either a registered charity or a registered CASC (Community Amateur Sports Club)

have been registered with the charity regulator for two years or more (charity applicants)

have been registered as a CASC for two years or more (CASC applicants)

have produced independently examined or audited accounts for at least one full year of operation

FIELD OF WORK: Ethnic minority-led voluntary or community organisation

TYPE: Revenue

Bring ethnic minority people together and build strong relationships across communities.

Help more ethnic minority people to be the best they can be, by supporting them as soon as possible.

Improve places and spaces that matter to ethnic minority communities.

Funding Available - £500 - £15,000

WHO CAN APPLY: You can apply if your organisation is a:

Unregistered voluntary or community organisation

Not for profit company

Registered charity (unincorporated)

Charitable incorporated organisation (SCIO)

Community interest company (CIC)

Faith based group (like a mosque, gurdwara, temple, church, synagogue etc.)

Standard and easy read applications forms can be downloaded from the Cemvo Scotland website. All completed forms should be e-mailed to: emdf@cemvoscotland.org.uk or sent by post.

FIELD OF WORK: Christian Faith

TYPE: Capital / Revenue

The Trust supports new work with the provision of small short-term grants to initiate projects in Christian action and research which cannot readily be financed from other sources.

Funding Available: £500 - £2,500

WHO CAN APPLY: Essentially Scottish

Distinctively new

Not readily able to be financed from other sources

Short term to get the project started - normally one year. The Novum Trust aims to ‘prime the pump’ and allow a new enterprise the chance to prove itself

Focussed on the welfare of young people, the training of lay people or new ways of communicating the Christian faith

FIELD OF WORK: Young people

TYPE: Capital / Core Costs

This round aims to reach under-served and marginalised children and young people. They may be affected by challenges including poverty, discrimination, and exclusion. For example, this could include care experienced or disabled children and young people. It may include children and young people from minoritised ethnic communities.

Funding Available: £1000 - £45,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Organisations which:

Address the specific local priorities (In Scotland, the Pudsey Next Steps programme welcomes applications from organisations working with racially minoritised children and young people. We particularly welcome applications from organisations working with children and young people from Asian communities.)

Have not been funded by BBC Children in Need before

Have an annual income of £100,000 or less

Are based in the community they serve

Are reaching children and young people aged 0-18 years who are experiencing inequality of opportunity Organisations must meet BBC Children In Need's Minimum Standards for Grant-making.

Organisations can apply for:

Grants from £1,000 – £15,000 per year for up to three years

Core (organisational running costs) or Project funding

Apply through the Project Costs or Core Costs programmes.

FIELD OF WORK: Arts, Heritage and Culture

TYPE: Capital, Revenue

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

Funding Available: £500 -£5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

FIELD OF WORK: Activities and Training

TYPE: Capital, Revenue

The Trust promotes the education and training of young people across voluntary youth organisations at a local level. Activities funded include: climbing, mountain biking, quad biking, skiing, sailing, kayaking and trips to various places of interest as well as weekends at Scout and Guide Centres. Support for overseas trips, expeditions and activities is also provided.

Funding Available: £90 - £8,500

WHO CAN APPLY: Scout Group

FIELD OF WORK: Isolation, independence, disability, housing

TYPE: Revenue / Core Costs

They support projects:

tackling social isolation in housing communities

promoting digital participation for housing communities

enabling older people to remain independent and in their own home

enabling people with disabilities to live independently

assisting people moving from homelessness into a secure tenancy

Funding Available: £500 - £1,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Not for Profit

FIELD OF WORK: Community

TYPE: Capital, Revenue

For the prevention or relief of poverty

the advancement of education

the advancement of religion

the advancement of health

the saving of lives

the advancement of citizenship or community development

the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended

the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

the advancement of animal welfare.

Funding Available - £1,000 to £2,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities in Tayside and Fife

Application form email or call Trust

glenrothes@eqaccountants.co.uk

FIELD OF WORK: Ecosystems

TYPE: Revenue / Core Costs  

Your project must focus on one (or more) parts of ecosystem restoration. These are:

Connecting nature corridors

Habitat and species restoration

Freshwater and wetland restoration

Coastal and marine initiatives

Control of invasive non-native species impacting on nature

Enhancing and connecting nature within villages, towns, or cities

Funding Available: £13,500

WHO CAN APPLY: Community Groups 

Successful applicants will receive up to £1,500 in professional fundraising support.

FIELD OF WORK: Health

TYPE: Revenue / Core Costs

The vision of the charity is to help people in Tayside live better for longer. This will be done through a new funding programme distributing funds to NHS Tayside services and the third sector, fundraising to increase the impact of the charity and wraparound support offering partnership opportunities, advice and collaboration.

Funding Available: £100,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Community Groups

FIELD OF WORK: Mental Health

TYPE: Not stated

The Fund’s aim is to support communities, enabling them to create the conditions for good mental health and wellbeing at a population level whilst ensuring access to a range of support to match their needs. 

Funding Available - £7,500

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities / CIC

FIELD OF WORK: Sports and Education

TYPE: Capital / Revenue

Supports the advancement of education and public participation in sport by assisting individuals to participate in physical outdoor activities in Scotland and other countries, assisting individuals to learn about the history and culture of Scotland and other countries, assisting individuals with training in outdoor skills.

Funding Available: £500

WHO CAN APPLY: Individuals, groups charities etc

Contact the Trust for an application form.

FIELD OF WORK: Community and Environment

TYPE: Revenue

Every three months, five shortlisted projects will be voted for by John Good Group employees. These five charities will all receive a share of £15,000 – the more votes a cause receives, the bigger the donation.

Funding Available: £2,000 - £15,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Be a local community group, charity, voluntary group or social enterprise that has a positive impact on communities, people or the environment.

Have an average income of less than £50,000 in the last 12 months.

Have a bank account in the organisation’s name.

Apply using the online form on the Foundation's website.

FIELD OF WORK: Arts

TYPE: Capital, Revenue, Core costs

The Small Grants Fund welcomes applications from arts charities working in any art form or cross-art form including but not limited to visual arts, performing arts, poetry, literature, film-making, music, photography, and digital arts.

Funding Available: £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Any

Download and complete the application form via the website, and submit with the accounts and protection policies as advised on the website guidance.

FIELD OF WORK: Environment

TYPE: Capital, Revenue

The aim of the Scottish Strategic Timber Transport Scheme is to facilitate the sustainable transport of timber in rural areas of Scotland for the benefit of local communities and the environment, maximising the value of monies available through innovative Regionally and Nationally Strategic projects and partnerships.

Funding Available: 50% of Cost

WHO CAN APPLY: Projects should have community and social and environmental benefits and reduce damage and disruption to public roads.

Application form and guidance available on the Scottish Forestry website.

FIELD OF WORK: Healthy Ageing / Employment

TYPE: Revenue

The programme provides specialist support for social entrepreneurs to help them grow as social leaders. They combine cash and coaching to help nurture ideas and grow impact. It doesn't matter what stage of development your social venture is at. It can be an idea on paper, or a social venture in practice already.

Funding Available: £8,000 - £18,000

WHO CAN APPLY: They can support you if you are:

Aged 16 and over

Living in and working to benefit people in the United Kingdom

Willing to participate in a learning experience

Have a real social impact

Fulfil a clear need and demand and have clear outputs and goals

Apply online via the UnLtd website.

FIELD OF WORK: Young People

TYPE: Capital, Revenue

The core objective of Digital Xtra is to inspire young people to learn digital technologies skills through high quality, exciting extracurricular activities, thus expanding Scotland’s future talent pipeline.

Funding Available - £500 to £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: UK registered company or UK registered charity, chartered body, local authority, school, college, or university actively involved in the provision of computing education and/or digital technologies related activities for young people

Application form available via the website.

FIELD OF WORK: Historic Buildings

TYPE: Revenue / Core Costs

The Historic Environment Grants Programme can support a wide range of projects which clearly relate to and will benefit Scotland’s historic environment.

Funding Available - £1000 - £500,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities, Local authorities, Religious bodies).

There are three different funding streams:

Express Grants: £1,000 to £25,000

Small Grants: £25,001 to £100,000

Large Grants: £100,001 to £500,000

Charities and not-for profit organisations can apply for up to 40% of grant-eligible costs.

Submit an expression of interest via the Historic Environment Scotland website. If your EOI is approved, you will be invited to complete and submit a full application which will ask for more detailed information about your project.

FIELD OF WORK: Vulnerable People

TYPE: Capital

The small grants programme supports small charities providing vital services to the most vulnerable members of our community. Your organisation must be currently supporting vulnerable people in geographical areas of high deprivation.

Funding Available - £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities and Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) registered and operating in the UK

Apply online via the Leathersellers' Company website

FIELD OF WORK: Community

TYPE: Capital, Revenue, Core costs

The Trust’s charitable purposes are the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science, the provision of recreational facilities, the advancement of citizenship and community development and the advancement of environmental protection or improvement.

Funding Available - £1,000 to £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Not Stated

Application form available on the Trust's website

FIELD OF WORK: Disability

TYPE: Revenue

The Trust provides financial assistance to help finance holidays, including respite care, for physically and mentally disabled children (aged 3 to 17 years), with preference being given to those locally resident in Scotland.

Funding Available - £1,000

WHO CAN APPLY: It invites applications from individuals and institutions.

FIELD OF WORK: Culture, Education, Health and Social

TYPE: Capital / Revenue

The Alexander Moncur Trust is a grant making charity based in Dundee. Its primary aim is to support, cultural, educational, health and social projects within Dundee and its environs.

Funding Available: £1,000 to £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

FIELD OF WORK: Small Unrestricted Grants

TYPE: Core Costs  

UK-wide and overseas also considered if the applicant charity has a significant presence in Scotland.

Funding Available: £500 - £2000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities with a presence in Scotland

No application send short letter

FIELD OF WORK: Children

TYPE: Capital / Revenue

The trust gives grants to organisations which deal specifically with the care and assistance of children.

Funding Available: £500 - £1000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

Organisations of a charitable nature who support children in need of convalescent treatment for sickness or disability.

Contact Trustees for an application form

FIELD OF WORK: Vulnerable People

TYPE: Revenue

The small grants programme supports small charities providing vital services to the most vulnerable members of our community. Your organisation must be currently supporting vulnerable people in geographical areas of high deprivation.

Funding Available - £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

FIELD OF WORK: Most charitable activites considered

TYPE: Capital / Revenue

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.

Funding Available: £4,713

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

Online application

FIELD OF WORK: Children and Young People

TYPE: Revenue

Trefoil supports the interests of children and young people with special needs, including physical disability, caring obligations, other disadvantage or learning and psycho-social needs to foster their independence, confidence and assertiveness.

Funding Available: £3,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Organisations

All applicant organisations must be able to demonstrate their financial propriety, solvency and two years of audited/independently inspected accounts. They won't normally consider applications from organisations with a turnover of £500,000 or more.

FIELD OF WORK: The Art, Medical Welfare, The Environment

TYPE: Revenue, Core costs

The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust funds United Kingdom Registered Charities operating in the UK in the fields of the advancement of the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement.

Funding Available: £500 -£6,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

Annual returns must be up to date

FIELD OF WORK: Housing

TYPE: Revenue, Core costs

They support projects:

Tackling social isolation in housing communities

promoting digital participation for housing communities

enabling older people to remain independent and in their own home

enabling people with disabilities to live independently

assisting people moving from homelessness into a secure tenancy

Funding Available: £500 - £1,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Not for profit and close connection to a housing Association, Housing co-operative or social housing provider

FIELD OF WORK: Financial, Wellbeing

TYPE: Revenue

The fund's mission is to contribute towards strategic change which improves financial well-being in the UK. They want everyone to have a decent standard of living and feel in control of their finances, improving the lives of those on low-to-middle incomes.

Funding Available: £10,000 - £200,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Registered charities, voluntary organisations, think tanks, campaigning groups, research bodies and universities.

FIELD OF WORK: Outdoor funding

TYPE: Capital

Grants of equipment and training bundles for community groups delivering projects which will benefit people or wildlife on the traffic-free paths of the National Cycle Network in Scotland.

Funding Available - Small Grant Funding

WHO CAN APPLY: Constituted community groups, charities and social enterprises can apply, as well as informal groups.

FIELD OF WORK: Disability

TYPE: Revenue / Core Costs

The Trust now focuses on one key area of funding support: offering grants to charities that support disabled people in Scotland

Funding Available - £3000 - £10,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Applicants must:

Provide a service that supports disabled people

Be a charity registered with OSCR

Deliver a service in Scotland

Have an annual income of less than £1 million

FIELD OF WORK: Buildings

TYPE: Capital

Supports projects that improve, fix and repair buildings, homes and facilities specifically used by people in need throughout the UK. 

Funding Available - £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

FIELD OF WORK: Vulnerable People

TYPE: Capital, Revenue, Core costs

Bank of Scotland Foundation recognises the profound impact that the cost of living crisis is having on people across Scotland. To ensure funding can reach those in real need, the Empower grants programme for 2024 will solely focus on helping charities who support vulnerable groups/people.

Funding Available - £50,000 to £150,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

Have an income of between £150k - £500k

Have a minimum of three years accounts lodged at OSCR

FIELD OF WORK: Young People

TYPE: Revenue

Benefit young people aged 11-25 years old. Supports those in a position of social disadvantage

Funding Available - £200 - £60,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charity, CIC or Club/ Association

Organisations must have have existed for at least 12 months at the time of submission, have a signed constitution/ governing documents, have a bank account in its own name which requires two unrelated signatories/ dual authorisation, have an active board of trustees or directors and have a suitable safeguarding policy.

To apply, submit a two minute video and complete an online expression of interest form which can be accessed from the Foundation's website. If you are shortlisted after the first stage, you will asked to complete a more detailed application on the application portal.

FIELD OF WORK: Veterans, young people, elderly

TYPE: Capital / Revenue

The main focus areas for the Trust are charities operating in Scotland or Canada, specialising in work related to veterans, young people and the elderly.

Within these criteria they have a particular but not exclusive or predominant interest in hospices and veterans of the armed forces.

Funding Available: Up to £7,500

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

FIELD OF WORK: Housing

TYPE: Revenue

It funds projects which promote and facilitate education, training and best practice for landlords, letting agents and tenants. 

Funding Available: Up to £24,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Organisations and individuals

FIELD OF WORK: Refugees

TYPE: Revenue

The Refugee Festival Scotland Small Grants Fund aims to help celebrate and highlight the contribution that refugee communities make to life in Scotland, while promoting and strengthening partnerships and connections.

Funding Available: £750

WHO CAN APPLY: The Fund is open to community groups and organisations that are led by refugees or focused on assisting refugee communities.

FIELD OF WORK: Electricity Support

TYPE: Capital

The Scottish Hydro Electric Community Trust is an independent charitable trust. The Trust offers help to customers faced with high charges for an electricity connection within the Scottish Hydro-Electric Distribution area.

Funding Available - £900 to £2100

WHO CAN APPLY: The supply must be for a connection to a domestic property or a community project. It can be for a supply to new property or to upgrade an existing supply..

FIELD OF WORK: Buildings

TYPE: Capital

Land Reclamation, Community Recycling, Public Amenities, Biodiversity, Historic buildings

Funding Available: £3000 - £50,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Not for Profit

FIELD OF WORK: Education, Health and Wellbeing

TYPE: Capital, Revenue

The Trust is a grant-making charity and although the objectives set out in its trust deed are far-reaching, the trustees wish to focus their help upon organisations and projects that address social issues particularly relating to education, health and well-being, and inclusion.

Funding Available: £300 to £5000

WHO CAN APPLY: Organisations

Apply in Writing

FIELD OF WORK: Children and Young People

TYPE: Capital, Revenue

Funding is intended for organisations which are involved in initiatives that benefit children, young people, students or researchers. In particular the grant aims to aid the development of medical research and higher or further education.

Funding Available: Small Grant Funds

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

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FIELD OF WORK: Sports, Health & Culture

TYPE: Capital, Revenue

The Weir Charitable Trust aims to support Scottish-based community groups and small charities to provide services across Scotland to help the Scottish community. These groups and charities are likely to have found it difficult to access funds elsewhere

Funding Available: Average of £25,000

WHO CAN APPLY: The applicant must be a community group or small charity, applying from a Scottish address, with an income of less than £125,000 a year.

FIELD OF WORK: Sports

TYPE: Capital / Core Costs

Funds applications for physical activity initiatives that: 

Offer high-impact, life-enhancing opportunities for those who live in the top 10% of areas of deprivation 

Remove barriers to participation for disabled or disadvantaged people  

Focus on grassroots involvement rather than elite participation in physical activity 

Focus on skills development and confidence building for individuals 

Incorporate effective strategies for wider impact, perhaps through training, partnerships and/or dissemination activities 

Demonstrate a high degree of involvement across the organisation from beneficiaries and those with lived experience 

Have a well-developed plan for sustainability and seek to deliver a legacy 

Reflect their values:   Excellence, Entrepreneurship, Integrity, Sustainability

Funding Available: £30,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charity 2 years + / CASC 2 years +

NEEDS ACCOUNTS FOR APPLICATION

FIELD OF WORK: Armed Forces

TYPE: Capital

Grants towards projects that assist in the refurbishment or extension of rental accommodation that will offer high quality support for veterans with a housing need. They want to support projects that need help to refurbish existing housing for veterans. This could be transitional or permanent housing

Funding Available: £75,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities or registered social housing

FIELD OF WORK: Armed Forces

TYPE: Capital

The Hidden Voices Programme will award grants of up to £20,000 to enable and deliver accessible mental health and wellbeing support for those with seldom heard needs in Armed Forces communities.

Funding Available - £20,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities / CIC

FIELD OF WORK: Armed Forces

TYPE: Capital

Large grants towards new builds and significant refurbishment, including extensions, of rental accommodation offering high quality support for Veterans with a housing need.

Funding Available: £75,000 - £500,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities / Social Housing providers

Two stage funding application process

FIELD OF WORK: Mental Health / Arts

TYPE: Revenue

The Anti-Stigma Arts Fund supports arts projects in any medium that aim to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination.

Funding Available: £500 - £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Constituted Groups and Organisations

Partnership working between organisations and creative practitioners is encouraged and you must be able to demonstrate that you possess / can access the necessary skills to take the project forward.

Application forms are available on the See Me website and should be submitted by email.

FIELD OF WORK: Arts

TYPE: Capital / Revenue

Fidelio welcomes applications for grants in support of the Arts particularly for Music, including Opera, Lieder, Composition and Dance.

Funding Available: £5000

WHO CAN APPLY: Institutions Colleges, Arts Festivals

FIELD OF WORK: Education

TYPE: Capital / Revenue

The Trust gives grants to individuals and organisations for the advancement of education for the public benefit. The Trustees have interpreted that as enabling them to support other charities working to help the education and development of young people, other organisations which carry out similar functions and individuals who need assistance with courses.

Funding Available: £1000 - £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Organisations and individuals

Grants are given for equipment and project costs, or for bursaries. Priority has been given to North East Fife and surrounding areas, but projects have been helped throughout Scotland.

FIELD OF WORK: Armed Forces

TYPE: Capital

This programme offers grants of between £3,000 and £20,000 to support serving families stationed overseas. It aims to help overseas bases, or UK-based charities working with them, identify and address challenges impacting the wellbeing of partners, children and young people during overseas deployments.

Funding Available: £3000 - £20,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Armed forces Unit / registered charities working in partnership with an Armed Forces overseas unit

FIELD OF WORK: Museums

TYPE: Revenue

The Small Grant Fund supports museums to develop their work and deliver against the priority areas of Scotland’s museums and galleries Strategy. The fund can support:

Small scale project work

Acquisition of equipment and other resources to address time specific needs

Preparation and scoping work to plan and inform future strategic development

Funding Available - £300 - £15,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Any organisation that runs an accredited museum in Scotland

FIELD OF WORK: Environmental

TYPE: Capital / Revenue / Core Costs

The Green Match Fund is a match funding campaign for charities which are working on environmental issues as part of their core mission. All public donations made to participating charities via the BigGive website during the week of the campaign (18 - 25 April 2024) will be matched up to a specific amount.

Funding Available - £2500 - £25,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities

FIELD OF WORK: Heritage

TYPE: Revenue

Historic Environment Scotland’s Heritage & Place Programme is an area-based funding programme that aims to contribute to the development of vibrant and sustainable places in Scotland, through community-led regeneration of the historic environment. It supports the development and delivery of heritage focused schemes within conservation areas, or alternatively distinctive heritage areas with local authority recognition.

Funding Available - £750,000 - £1.5M

WHO CAN APPLY: Local authorities, national park authorities and not-for-profit organisations based in Scotland.

FIELD OF WORK: Families

TYPE: Revenue / Core Costs

his theme aims to support nurturing relationships within families and communities to help break the cycle between persistent poverty and intergenerational trauma, and support recovery

Funding Available - No Specified

WHO CAN APPLY: You must be a registered charity with an annual income of between £30,000 and £2 million

FIELD OF WORK: N/A

TYPE: Revenue

This Scottish Government funded programme was set up to support development of co-produced, person centred, self management activity across Scotland. Learning from people’s lived experience of living with long term conditions, and their unpaid carers, is at the heart of what the Fund is designed to achieve.

Funding Available - £15,000 - £120,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Constituted not-for-profit organisations, such as charities, CICs, and community groups

FIELD OF WORK: Welfare

TYPE: Not Stated

The Trust supports a wide array of charitable initiatives. Previous awards have been under the following categories:

Adult and Child Welfare

Animals

Children

Medical Research and Support

Funding Available: £0 -£2000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities, hospices and other health related services

FIELD OF WORK: Sports

TYPE: Capital / Grant / Loan

The Transforming Scottish Indoor Tennis Fund will deliver a national strategy to create a network of regionally based indoor tennis centres in Scotland to ensure that the majority of the country has access to a high quality indoor tennis centre.

FUNDING AVAILABLE: up to £1,250,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Community Tennis Networks, Tennis clubs and schools

Priority will initially be given to projects which involve a minimum of 3 indoor courts and funding of up to 66% project costs is available up to a maximum of £250,000 per court.

FIELD OF WORK: Building Renovations

TYPE: Capital

Land Reclamation (Object A) Community Recycling (Object B) Public Amenities and Parks (Object C) Biodiversity (Object D) Historic Buildings (Object E)

Funding Available: £2,000 - £40,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charities , Community groups, Not for profit

FIELD OF WORK: New Organisations

TYPE: Any / Unrestricted

The Fore offers development funding and strategic support to early-stage charities and social enterprises. It makes unrestricted grants which have the potential to have a transformational impact on an organisation. For example enabling your organisation to take a step forward in its development or giving you the chance to do something you couldn’t before.

Funding Available: £30,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Registered charities, community interest companies, charitable incorporated organisations and community benefit societies with annual income of less than £500,000.

FIELD OF WORK: Communities

TYPE: Revenue

Every three months, five shortlisted projects will be voted for by John Good Group employees. These five charities will all receive a share of £15,000 – the more votes a cause receives, the bigger the donation.

Funding Available: £2000 to £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Your application must be on behalf of a local community group, charity, voluntary group or social enterprise that has a positive impact on communities, people or the environment and has an average income of less than £50,000 in the last 12 months.

FIELD OF WORK: Mental Health

TYPE: Revenue and Core Costs

The Fund’s aim is to support communities, enabling them to create the conditions for good mental health and wellbeing at a population level whilst ensuring access to a range of support to match their needs.

Funding Available - Level 1 up to £7,500. Level 2 grants from £7501 - £25,000

Charities and charitable organisations and constituted groups. Unconstituted groups can apply for up to £2000.

FIELD OF WORK: Building

TYPE: Capital

The main goals of the funding are that:

Church buildings are well maintained, adaptable and in good repair

Church buildings are suitable, open and welcome

Funding Available: £500 - £10,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Christian Place of Worship

FIELD OF WORK: Welfare

TYPE: Revenue and Core Costs

The Volant Charitable Trust Small Grants Programme is prioritising the focus of its awards on charities and organisations who are particularly addressing poverty and deprivation, helping to support vulnerable groups who are most affected, with an emphasis on women, children and young people. Poverty and deprivation/ Women/Children and Young people

Funding Available: £5,000

WHO CAN APPLY: All applicants must fit Foundation Scotland's funding criteria and have an annual income of less than £250,000.

FIELD OF WORK: Holiday fund

TYPE: Revenue

The Trust provides financial assistance to help finance holidays, including respite care, for physically and mentally disabled children (aged 3 to 17 years), with preference being given to those locally resident in Scotland.

Funding Available: Average £892

WHO CAN APPLY: Individuals and groups

FIELD OF WORK: welfare

TYPE: Capital / Revenue

The Stafford Trust is a grant making Scottish charitable trust which provides financial support to charities registered in the United Kingdom, with a preference towards charitable organisations in Scotland.

It funds charities under the headings of :

animal welfare

child/adult welfare

medical research

local community projects

HM services personnel

sea rescue

overseas appeals

Funding Available: £1000 - £20,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charitable Organisations

FIELD OF WORK: Medical / Youth / Aged / Culture

TYPE: Capital and Revenue

The Meikle Foundation (previously the Martin Connell Charitable Trust) has supported a wide range of charitable activities including medical, youth, aged and cultural.

Funding Available: £1000 - £10,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charitable Organisation