FIELD OF WORK: Women and Children

TYPE: Core Costs

Project areas of interest, in order of priority, include. Poverty and deprivation (with an emphasis on women, children and young people)

Funding Available: £5000 - £45,000

FIELD OF WORK: Drugs and Recovery

TYPE: Capital / Revenue / Core costs

LSF Micro is for grassroots and community-based groups in Scotland, which deliver frontline services to support people who use or used drugs, people in recovery and/or families affected by someone else’s drug use.

Funding Available - £1000 - £20,000

Maximum income £50,000

FIELD OF WORK: Armed Forces and Suicide Prevention

TYPE: Revenue

Your project will need to address one of the three key outcomes:

To support staff who work with vulnerable beneficiaries Address mental health wellbeing, help seeking, and stigma within the Armed Forces communityTo address the needs of under-represented groups

Funding Available: £50,000 - £100,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charity/ Statutory organisation

Does not provide funding for Capital Expenditure Will not fund general fundraising activites Funding is not retrospectively

FIELD OF WORK: Young people and Disabilities

TYPE: Revenue / Core Costs

Improving the life chances of disadvantaged young people

Understanding and improving our marine environment

Helping those living with disability fulfil their potential

Funding Available: Not Stated

WHO CAN APPLY: Charity

Whirlwind’s primary focus is to enhance the potential for success in life of young and disadvantaged people who could not otherwise participate in the activities we fund. We define this group as being up to 25 years of age

FIELD OF WORK: Children and Young People

TYPE: Capital Revenue / Core costs

We want to focus on quality work with young people to deliver at least one of these:

Increased peer leadership or peer mentoring.

Better employment options that can be measured.

Accredited non-formal learning through voluntary activity in the community.

Programmes that lead to improved mental health or wellbeing are particularly encouraged.

Funding Available: £1000 to £30,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charity

Small Grant – £1,000 to £10,000 per annum for up to three years • Main Grant - £10,001 to £30,000 per annum for up to three years

TYPE: Fundraising

NHS Tayside colleagues can claim up to £500 for fundraising activities generating over £1,000 to help deliver the charitable priorities.

Funding Available - £500

WHO CAN APPLY: NHS tayside colleagues

FIELD OF WORK: Mental Health & Substance Use

TYPE: Salaries, Capital and Expenditure

Groups can apply for funding between £50,000- £100,000 over 3 years (max £250,000) to help support the priorities focused on prevention.

Funding Available: £50,000 - £100,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charitites, CIC, Commuity Groups etc

FIELD OF WORK: Mental Health & Substance Use. Health Innovation

TYPE: Salaries, Capital and Expenditures

Groups can apply for funding between £500 and £25,000 (maximum of £20,000 for two years and a maximum of £25,000 over three years) to establish innovative projects to tackle issues affecting our community.

Funding Available: £500 - £25,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charitites, CIC, Commuity Groups etc

FIELD OF WORK: Racism

TYPE: Capital / Core costs

To build a deeper community understanding of the future AROS.

To undertake focused conversations about how the participatory community research undertaken by the Anti-Racism Interim Governance Group (AIGG) in 2023 fed into the developing plan for the new organisation.

To explore, from this baseline, how people think the future AROS could work for them.

Funding Available: up to £5000

WHO CAN APPLY: Third Sector Organisation, Grassroots, Community group

Information sessions for this fund are available on the 11th September, 17th September, 24th September via website booking

FIELD OF WORK: Research

TYPE: Capital, revenue and core costs

The aims of the 2024-25 Public Engagement Fund are to:

Communicate the impact of data research

Showcase cutting-edge data research

Involve new audiences

Create new partnerships

Funding Available: £1000 - £10,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Group, Company, charity, or equivalent 

Objectives :-Widen participation by involving and engaging members of the public who may not usually interact with science, with the hope they take an interest and want to have a voice in data science

Bring together researchers and communities to shape data research approaches

Impact society, groups and individuals

FIELD OF WORK: Women / Girls

TYPE: Capital, Revenue and Core Costs

Be delivering work in Scotland that supports women and/or girls (aged 12+) and have been for at least a minimum period of 12 months AND

Listens to and involves women and/or girls in your work, ensuring the voices and views of your service users are heard.

Funding Available: £8000 - £40,000

WHO CAN APPLY: Registered charity or other registered not–for-profit entity CIC can apply

We understand that every organisation has different needs and ideas. A Henry Duncan Grant can fund new project idea, help you continue an existing project, or support your general running costs, for example paying staff, rent or overheads. The way you use the grant can change from year to year.

FIELD OF WORK: Poverty, Education, Religion, Health, Saving lives. Community development

TYPE: Capital / Revenue

Miss A M Pilkington charitable Trust has a very wide range of areas that they distibute funds to.

Funding Available: £1000 to £2000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charitable purpose

Previous grantees have included Aberlour Child Care Trust, Chest Heart and Stroke (Scotland), Fife Young Carers, Pitlochry Theatre, and RNLI (Anstruther).

APPLICATION BY EMAIL

FIELD OF WORK: The Environment

Funding that is open this time is Environment-Focus on land-based projects relating to biodiversity, such as sustainable farming practices, and/or species preservation/re-introduction.

Are locally or regionally based.

Can be rural or urban.

Could contain a research element that seeks to provide the evidence base for change and has the potential to be scaled up.

Involve volunteers and/or community engagement.

Funding Available : Not Stated

WHO CAN APPLY: Charity

The Trustees are especially interested in charities whose work is centred around protecting and enhancing the natural world.

FIELD OF WORK: The Arts

Visualisation made by an artist to explain information – this can be a drawing, a painting, a photograph, or even a collage, as long as it retains its purpose to visually represent a story, facts and details.

Development of the potential of young people in the visual arts with an emphasis on painting and drawing.

Support for the art of Illustration

Funding Available: Not Stated

WHO CAN APPLY: Charity

The Trustees are especially interested in charities whose work is centred around protecting and enhancing the natural world.

FIELD OF WORK: Young People

Providing early intervention and rehabilitation designed to prevent offending or re-offending; or

Aiming to strengthen families and keep children out of care

Funding Available: Not Stated

WHO CAN APPLY: Charity

The Trustees are especially interested in charities whose work is centred around protecting and enhancing the natural world.

FIELD OF WORK: Arts, Facilities, Age health disability

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 to £5000

WHO CAN APPLY: Charity

Preference is given to organisations in Scotland. Grants are normally made only to a recognised Scottish Charity

FIELD OF WORK: Buildings

TYPE: Capital

The purpose of the fund is to make grants for the judicious restoration and repair of buildings of historical or antiquarian interest in Scotland

Funding Available: £5000

Preference is given to Scotland

APPLICATION BY EMAIL