VCEL Monthly Funding Update | July 2026

1 | FUNDING NEWS

To Absent Friends – Small Grants

To Absent Friends is Scotland’s annual festival of storytelling and remembrance, taking place from 1–7 November each year. The festival was created by Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief and encourages communities across Scotland to come together to remember friends, family members and loved ones who have died, whether recently or many years ago.
The festival helps strengthen community connections and reduce the isolation that can often accompany bereavement. Community groups, charities, schools, faith groups and other organisations are invited to organise events and activities as part of the festival programme.
Small grants of up to £275 are available to support organisations and groups taking part in the festival.
Activities can be large or small, in-person or online. Previous events have included:

• Coffee mornings
• Poetry and storytelling sessions
• Guided walks
• Creative workshops
• Gardening activities
• Family events
• Remembrance meals
• Memory walls or reflection spaces

The festival is intentionally flexible, allowing communities to commemorate and remember in ways that are meaningful to them.
Deadline: 2 September 2026
Further information and applications:
https://www.toabsentfriends.org.uk/content/hold-an-event
For ideas and resources to help plan an event, visit:
https://www.toabsentfriends.org.uk/get-involved

TSB Flee Fund

The TSB Flee Fund is designed to support individuals experiencing domestic abuse or financial abuse who need help to leave a difficult or unsafe situation.
The fund provides grants of up to £500 to help cover essential costs associated with leaving and rebuilding independence.
Key features of the fund include:

• Grants of up to £500
• The funding does not need to be repaid
• Applicants do not need to be a TSB customer
• The fund can help with essential costs when leaving an abusive situation

The fund is intended to remove some of the financial barriers that can prevent people from moving away from harmful circumstances and accessing safety and support.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.tsb.co.uk/help/support-if-youre-in-a-vulnerable-situation/domestic-abuse-support/

2 | ARTS & CULTURE

Radcliffe Trust
Funding is available for UK charities, not-for-profit organisations working in the areas of music, especially chamber music, composition and music education, or in heritage and crafts. Heritage and Crafts Grants are generally in the region of £2,500 to £7,500. Music Grants are generally in the region of £2,500 to £5,000.
Deadline: 31 July 2026  
Radcliffetrust

Association of Independent Museums (AIM) – Museum Fundamentals Grant Programme
Grants of up to £20,000 are available for small-to-medium sized museums across the UK to support core museum activities such as conservation, collection care, and exhibition development. This fund aims to support museums with core activities, enabling them to care for collection’s more effectively and efficiently and to meet the standards required for Accreditation.
Deadline: 07 August 2026   
Grants Museum–fundamentals

PRS Foundation – PPL Momentum Music Fund
Grants are available to support the development of talented emerging UK musicians and bands, helping them to sustain and develop their careers.   Grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 are available.
Deadline: 10 August 2026   
PRS foundation.com

Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust – Emerging Maker Grants
Grants are available for the training and education of UK-based early-career craftspeople who wish to develop their skills and expertise.  The grant provides between £3,000 and £10,000 for essential skills training.  The grant is open to all UK based makers who identify their practice within the field of craft and have a strong foundation and clear commitment to their craft. Emerging makers are defined as individuals at an early stage of their career, who have been in professional practice for four years or less.
Applications will open 8 July to 12 August.
Deadline: 12 August 2026
Emerging Maker Grants

Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust – Scholarships and Apprenticeships
Scholarships and apprenticeship support is available to fund further study, training and practical experience for craftsmen and women across the UK who want to improve their craft and trade skills.  Scholarships are worth between £3,000 and £18,000, depending on how much funding is required for a project.
Deadline: 12 August 2026
Scholarship Trust

Idlewild Trust
The Trust offers grants of up to £7,000 to registered charities working in the following two areas:
Arts Grants: Nurturing Early Stage Professionals – grants support training opportunities for emerging professionals, working creatively and backstage, within the performing and visual arts, post-training, and at an early stage in their career.
Conservation Grants: Objects and Works of Art – grants support the conservation of cultural heritage of recognised national and international importance in museums, libraries, galleries, historic buildings, or landscapes accessible to the public.
Deadline: 05 September 2026 
Idlewild Trust

PRS Foundation – Open Fund for Music Creators
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to support the development of outstanding UK songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds, at different stages of their career.
Deadline: 07 September 2026  (18:00)
PRS Foundation

BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund
The funding (£ 150,000) is intended to support UK-based organisations in designing and delivering creative project development programmes in feature film and narrative immersive media. These programmes should benefit participants and their projects by supporting writers, directors, producers and immersive artists.
Deadline: 09 September 2026 
BFI Funding

Theatre Improvement Scheme
Grants of up to £20,000 are available for not-for-profit theatres in the UK for capital improvement projects that will improve environmental sustainability.
Deadline: 11 September 2026  (12 noon)    
Theatres Trust

Scops Arts Trust
A limited number of grants are available to charities across the UK for new high quality projects that provide opportunities for people from all backgrounds to access, enjoy and participate in the arts.
Deadline: 15 September 2026 
Scops Arts Trust

Fidelio Trust
Grant funding of up to £5,000 to help individuals (over 21 years) and groups of exceptional ability in the UK that would not otherwise be able to carry out an artistic project or activity without financial support.
Deadline: 25 September 2026 (noon)
Fidelio Trust

Youth Music – NextGen Fund
Grants of up to £3,000 are available to young creatives in the UK to help them take a step forward to participating in and changing the music industries.  The funding is intended help early-stage musicians and wider music adjacent creatives to invest in their own projects and make their ideas happen. The fund is especially aimed at those whose lack of finance holds them back from pursuing their goals.
Deadline: 25 September 2026   
Youth Music

Michael Tippett Musical Foundation
Grants are available to support projects and activities that support young musicians and composers, new music, and music education initiatives.  Grants of between £500 and £3,000 are available. The average grant is around £2,000. This fund aims to support group music-making, especially those that involve young people in the process of composing and developing new ideas.
Deadline: 30 September 2026 (midnight)      
Tippett Foundation

Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust
Small grants are available to British artists, designers, writers and performers over the age of 30 who are experiencing financial difficulties in the pursuit of their careers.  Awards typically range from £250 to £1,000.
Deadline: 02 October 2026 
Oppenheim Downes Trust

Heritage Crafts Association – Endangered Crafts Fund
Grants are available for craft practitioners, community groups and voluntary organisations across the United Kingdom to deliver projects that protect endangered crafts and provide opportunities for makers and trainees to develop their skills.  Grants of up to £2,500 are available.
Deadline: 16 October 2026 
Heritage Crafts

The Charlotte Aitkens Trust
Grants of up to £2,500 are available for charitable organisations within the UK who promote the creative arts for the public benefit, especially literature, whether fiction, non-fiction drama or poetry. The Trust will only accept applications from organisations whose core purpose is in the support of literature and literacy.
Deadline: 31 October 2026 
Charlotte Aitken Trust

Association of Independent Museums (AIM) Training Grants
Grants are available to support member museums across the UK in developing the skills and expertise of their workforce (paid or voluntary).  Grants of £350 are available.
Deadline: 14 December 2026 
Aim–museums

Turtleton Charitable Trust
Grants are available to registered charities in Scotland for charitable projects in the fields of heritage, the arts and education.  Grants are usually for between £5,000 and £25,000, although larger grants or multi-year commitments may be awarded at the discretion of the Trustees in limited circumstances.  The Turtleton Charitable Trust was established in 2007 and is administered by Turcan Connell.
Deadline: 31 December 2026 
Turcan Connell Charitable Trust

Museums Galleries Scotland – Museum Futures: Innovation Fund
Grants are available to museums in Scotland to improve their financial sustainability.  Grants of between £20,000 and £250,000 are available. Projects can last up to three years and must begin with six months of the award date.
Deadline: 20 January 2027 (17:00)   
Museums Galleries Scotland

Museums Galleries Scotland – Museum Futures: Unlocking Potential Fund
Grants are available to museums in Scotland to address barriers to strategic development.  Grants of between £10,000 and £100,000 are available.
Deadline: 20 January 2027 (17:00)    
Museums Galleries Scotland

Association for Industrial Archaeology – Restoration Grants
Funding is available for the restoration of historically, technically, architecturally, and/or archaeologically important industrial buildings, structures, machinery, vehicles and vessels within the UK. Two funding streams are available:  Major projects – up to £30,000. Grants must form a significant portion of the total project costs (normally, at least 20% of the total project costs).
Small projects – up to £10,000 for projects with total costs of no more than £12,500.
Deadline: 31 March 2027 
Industrial–archaeology Restoration–grants

Golsoncott Foundation
Grants of up to £3,000 are available to voluntary sector organisations in the UK for projects that promote fine arts and music. Applications for the August 2026 trustee meeting are currently being accepted.
The Trustees normally meet on a quarterly basis (February, May, August, and November).
Applications should be submitted at least three weeks before a scheduled trustees’ meeting.
Deadline: Ongoing
Golsoncott Foundation

Made in Scotland: Funding for Onward International Touring
Support available for Scottish artists, companies and organisations, who presented work as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, to take advantage of invitations to present work at international festival and venues.  The maximum that applicants can routinely apply for is £15,000.
Deadline: Ongoing
Support for Artists

BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund
Funding to is available to support various audience related activities in the UK, including film festivals, distribution releases, multiplatform distribution proposals, touring film programmes, large scale and ambitious film programmes.   Grants of between £20,000 and £200,000 are available, with an upper limit of £500,000 for projects of exceptional scale and ambition.
Deadline: Ongoing  
BFI Get Funding

BFI National Lottery Screen Heritage Fund
The funding is intended to support organisations that hold screen heritage collections to widen access, develop skills and build resilience.  There are three funding strands:
Project funding – for audience-facing projects that ensure more people can engage with heritage collections that better reflect the diversity of the UK; build a thriving screen heritage sector; unlock the UK’s screen heritage for education and enjoyment; and help enable everyone to experience a greater range of screen culture.
Resilience funding – to support public screen heritage archives and collection networks across the UK to help the sector adapt and thrive.
Individual Skills funding – to remove the obstacles to getting into the screen heritage sector or for career progression.
The following levels of funding are available:

• Project funding – grants of between £10,000 and £140,000.
• Resilience funding – grants of between £10,000 and £140,000.
• Individual Skills funding – grant of £10,000 per year.

Deadline: Ongoing  
BFI Funding

Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Arts-based Learning Fund
The funding of up to £ 300,000 is intended to create a more equitable school system where high-quality arts-based learning is a core part of all children’s education.  Applications will be accepted from:
Arts and cultural organisations working in partnership with formal education settings (including state-funded primary and secondary schools, SEND specialist schools, Further Education colleges, alternative provision settings such as Pupil Referral Units, and some types of state-funded Early Years settings).
Organisations that are developing established programmes of work and/or testing new approaches.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Arts–based Learning Fund website

Creative Scotland – Open Fund for Individuals
Supports a wide range of activity initiated by artists, writers, producers and other creative practitioners in Scotland.   The fund is intended to support periods of research, development and/or delivery of creative activity, such as specific projects and productions for up to 24 months. It can support an individual’s time where this is related to specific creative outcomes.    Grants are available for amounts between £500 and £50,000.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Creative Scotland – Open Fund for Individuals website

National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations
This fund aims to support organisations who seek funding to undertake creative activity such as a specific project or production, a programme of creative work, or a period of research and development.  This includes funding for:
a specific one-off project or production or a period of creative research and development or a longer term programme of work.
It can also support organisations to undertake business and organisational development that will: enhance their business sustainability through the development of new or more diverse income streams, or consider broader organisational development costs.
Eligible organisations can apply for funding between £1k and £100k for projects or programmes lasting up to 18 months.
Deadline: Ongoing  
National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations website

Awards for Young Musicians
Grants of £100 to £2,000 are available for the UK’s most talented young instrumentalists in any genre, aged five to 17 years of age who, because of financial need, may be prevented from fulfilling their creative potential.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Awards for Young Musicians website

BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund
Grants of between £20,000 and £200,000 are available to support various audience related activities in the UK, including film festivals, distribution releases, multiplatform distribution proposals, touring film programmes, large scale and ambitious film programmes.  Applications are accepted all year round but must be submitted 16 weeks before any funded activity.
Deadline: Ongoing 
BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund website

Creative Scotland – National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations
Grants of between £1,000 and £100,000 are for constituted artistic, creative, or cultural organisations across Scotland to deliver a variety of creative projects and activities and enable business changes or development projects that make the organisation more financially sustainable. The fund is open all year round.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Creative Scotland – National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations website

3 | BUSINESS & ENTERPRISE

Veterans’ Foundation – Salary Grants
Grants are available for charities and not-for-profit organisations that provide support to those in need among serving Armed Forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families across the UK.  Grants of up to £25,000 per year for up to three years are available.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Veterans Foundation

Youth Jobs Grant
Employers in Great Britain, of any size, can receive a grant for hiring young people aged 18 to 24 who have been on Universal Credit and seeking work for six months or more.  The scheme is intended to assist young people who are not in education, employment or training, with youth unemployment having reached 16.1% in late 2025.  The grant of up to £3,000 is designed to support sustained employment and complement normal recruitment activity.
Deadline: October 2028     
Youth Jobs Grant

SWEF Business Grants
Grants are available for young entrepreneurs across the UK, aged between 18 and 30, to start or grow a new business.
The following levels of funding are available:

• Start-up grants of up to £500 for pre-revenue businesses or businesses turning over less than £500 per month.
• Business grants of up to £2,000 for businesses turning over more than £500 per month that have been trading for less than two years.

Deadline: Ongoing   
SWEF Business Grants for 18 – 30 Year Olds

MMC Venture Capital
Equity investments available to early-stage UK SMEs that demonstrate high growth potential.  Although MMC Ventures can provide investments to companies in any sector, they tend to focus support on the following:

• Business software & Digital Media
• Financial services
• E-commerce
• Business services

Deadline: Ongoing  
MMC Venture Capital website

Pentech Ventures
Pentech invests in teams who believe they can build a category leading software company.  Areas of interest include: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Big Data; Infrastructure such as Blockchain; and verticals that are enabled via the efficient use of AI and new infrastructure approaches, such as FinServ, Health, and Enterprise Transformation.   Initial investment is likely to be £500,000 to £2 million, with up to £10 million invested over the lifetime of the investment.
Deadline: Ongoing    
Pentech Ventures website

Access to Work
Financial assistance is available to help organisations in Great Britain with any extra employment costs that result from employing a person with a disability.  Access to Work provides grants to employers towards extra employment costs which result from an employee having a disability. The programme aims to provide practical advice and support to disabled people and their employers, in order to overcome work related obstacles which result from disability.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Access to Work website

Kaleidoscope Investments (Ki)
Kaleidoscope is aimed at giving financial backing to help disabled entrepreneurs in the UK start their own business. The fund will assist in the development of the businesses it invests in and ensure they make a worthwhile return for investors.
Deadline: Ongoing (link may be slow to load) 
Kaleidoscope Investments website

Foundation Scotland – Social Investment Fund
Grant and loan investments are available to social enterprises, community organisations and charities across Scotland to benefit local communities.   Objectives supported: Prevent and/or relieve poverty, Advance community development, Advance education and urban and rural regeneration.
Deadline: Ongoing (link may be slow to load)   
Foundation Scotland – Social Investment Fund website

Growth Impact Fund
Funding is available to early stage growing social enterprises and charitable organisations in the UK to address the structural barriers that diverse organisations face.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Growth Impact Fund website

Redundancy Payments – Financial Assistance
Assistance to help employers in the UK with severe cash flow problems to make necessary redundancy payments.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Redundancy Payments – Financial Assistance website

LaunchMe
LaunchMe is an accelerator programme for ambitious, social enterprise start-ups in Scotland. It aims to develop a pool of strong, capable and ambitious social enterprises that can go on to secure investment, so they can achieve social impact at scale.
Deadline: Ongoing   
LaunchMe website

Scottish Government – Oil and Gas Transition Training Fund
Funded training opportunities are available to help oil and gas workers across Scotland retrain for roles in other industries.  The funding aims to support oil and gas workers with training and careers advice, enabling them to transition their skills and experience into sectors such as sustainable energy, life sciences, advanced manufacturing and defence.
Deadline: Ongoing   
Transition Training Fund

The Prospectory – Idea Fund
The funding is intended to enable people to test out an innovative technical solution that can deliver a social or environmental benefit.  The fund offers grants ranging from £250 to £3,000.
Deadline: Ongoing  
The Prospectory – Idea Fund website

4 | CHILDREN & FAMILIES

Trefoil – Grants
Grants are available for registered charities and other not-for-profit organisations to deliver projects and activities that support children with additional needs across Scotland. Funding is awarded at the discretion of the Trefoil. Preference will be given to:

• Projects promoting education, health, and social welfare.
• Team building activities.
• Recreation with an education element.
• Therapeutic activities that are not core funded by the statutory authorities.
• New development and start-up project costs.

Deadline: 07 August 2026
Trefoil Grants

Trefoil Personal Development Grants
Trefoil offers Personal Development Grants to young people in Scotland under twenty-five years old with special needs, whether mental, social, or physical, that affect their development.
Deadline: 07 August 2026
Trefoil Personal Development Grants

Toy Trust
Grants of up to £5,000 are available for registered charities undertaking projects to support disadvantaged and disabled children who are under 13 years of age within the UK and abroad. Funding is available to help disadvantaged children aged below 13 years and their families to:

• Alleviate suffering.
• Support children through awful experiences.
• Encourage achievement through adversity.
• Purchase vital equipment.
• Provide care.
• Bolster existing initiatives.
• Initiate brand new projects.
• Satisfy basic needs.

Projects should:

• Show real benefit for relieving hardship and suffering to beneficiaries.
• Run for a minimum of one full year.

Deadline: 15 August 2026 
Toy Trust

Warburtons Families Matter Community Grants Programme
Small grants of up to £400 are available for local projects, activities and organisations that have charitable aims and that will be of real direct benefit to families in England, Scotland and Wales.
Deadline: 17 August 2026
Warburtons

Kelly Family Charitable Trust
Grants of up to £5,000 are available for UK registered charities, working locally or regionally in the United Kingdom, whose activities nurture and support family life.
Deadline: 01 September 2026 
Kelly Family Trust

The Classical Association – Major Projects
Funding available for projects that look to support and encourage the study of classical subjects in schools and sixth-form colleges.  The Association’s grants typically fund activities with the aims of:
Supporting the teaching and learning of classical subjects and topics, primarily in UK schools, but also amongst the wider public
Increasing access to classics, widening participation and pursuing EDI objectives in UK classics Small grants of up to £4,999 will be awarded four times a year.
Large grants of £5,000 and over will be awarded twice a year.
Deadline: 01 September 2026  
Classical Association

Children’s Alliance
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the UK to give children and young people a better start in life through projects involving the medium of water.  The Children’s Alliance is a charity and outreach initiative of Water Babies (the largest baby swim school In the UK).   Grants of up to £15,000 are available, though the majority of grants awarded are under £10,000.
Deadline: 30 September 2026  
Childrens Alliance

Adamson Trust
Grants for voluntary and community organisations and charities to help with the cost of holidays or respite breaks for disabled children (aged 3 to 17 years) with physical, mental, or emotional impairments. Funding is at the discretion of the Trust.
Deadline: 30 September 2026 
Adamson Trust

Armed Forces Families Fund – Service Pupil Support Fund
Grants are available to schools and local authorities for projects which support Service children (aged 4 to 18 years) in the UK along their educational pathway.  Grants of £5,000 to £150,000 are available for stand-alone projects delivered over a period of up to two years.   The 2026 programme is seeking projects that clearly address one or more of the following outcomes:

• Closing the academic gap.
• Support for service pupils with SEN/D, ASN, ALN.
• Mobility, deployment and separation.
• Low numbers of service pupils.

Deadline: 30 September 2026 (noon) 
Covenant Fund

Michael Tippett Musical Foundation
This fund aims to support group music-making, especially those that involve young people in the process of composing and developing new ideas. Grants of between £500 and £3,000 are available. Projects taking place in or out of school, college or university, or in community settings in the UK will be considered.
Deadline: 30 September 2026 (midnight)
Tippett Foundation Website

Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts – JJ Charitable Trust Literacy Small Grants Scheme
Grants are available for organisations undertaking charitable projects focusing on literacy teaching for children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia, in the UK. Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 are available.  Groups can apply for a multi-year grant, over a maximum period of three years.
Deadline: 01 October 2026 
Charitable Trust

Universal Music UK Sound Foundation (UMUKSF) – School Funding
Grants are available to UK schools to support the purchase of musical instruments and equipment.  Grants of up to
£800 are available. Applications will open in August for funding offers made at the end of January
Deadline: October 2026   
UK Sound Foundation

Scottish Book Trust – Live Literature Programme
The Trust offers funding to schools, libraries, community groups and not-for-profit organisations based in Scotland to deliver literature events or author visits in their local community.
The Programme works by the applicant contacting an author from the Live Literature Author Directory to deliver an event, and the Trust will pay half the set author fee plus expenses. Events can take place in person or remotely.
The Programme will cover the £120 of the author’s fee plus all author expenses within set guidelines.
Organisations must pay a set contribution of £90 plus VAT per author session.
Deadline: 20 November  2026  
Scottish Book Trust Live Literature

Happy Days Children’s Charity
Funding for families with children aged 3-17 who are disabled, have a special need or have been abused.  The Happy Days Charity is a national children’s charity dedicated to providing holidays, days out, and theatre trips for disadvantaged young people with special needs. The Charity supports families with children aged 3-17 who have learning difficulties, physical or mental disabilities, acute, chronic or life limiting illnesses, been abused or neglected, witnessed domestic violence, been bereaved or act as carers for a parent or a sibling.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Happy Days Children’s Charity UK – Apply for Funding

Mother and Baby Unit Family Fund
A Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) is a specialist inpatient unit for people who:

• develop severe mental health problems in the later stages of pregnancy
• develop severe mental health problems during the year after their baby is born

You can claim towards the cost of travel, food and accommodation when you’re visiting someone in an MBU, if you are the:

• partner of the person who gave birth
• baby’s other parent
• main carer of the person who gave birth

If you have children who are 16 and under, you can claim towards the costs travel, food and accommodation during their visits to the MBU too.
For further information and how to make a claim,
Mother and Baby Unit Family Fund website

Aberlour Urgent Assistance Fund
The Urgent Assistance Fund remains committed to providing emergency cash grants to help families who are struggling to provide essentials such as food, heating, beds and clothing for their children.   Applications must be submitted via a sponsor.   Sponsors can be frontline professionals working for a registered charity, housing association or public sector organisation who:

• are working directly with the children/young person
• have made a full assessment of the child’s or young person’s needs
• Children and young people must meet the following criteria:
• Aged under 21 OR aged 25 and under if the young person is care experienced.
• Living on a low income and experiencing financial hardship.
• Have experienced a crisis that has recently had a significant and enduring impact on:
• their wellbeing
• their development and education

The family or young person has recently taken action to improve their situation, are actively engaging with support and are moving on from the crisis.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Aberlour Urgent Assistance Fund website

True Colours Trust – UK Small Grants
Small grants are available to UK registered charities and community interest companies that are working to make a difference to the lives of disabled children (up to 25 yo) and their families in the UK.   Grants of up to £10,000 are available.
Deadline: Ongoing  (link may be slow to load)
True Colours Trust – UK Small Grants website

Family Fund Trust
Grants are available to help families, or groups applying on their behalf, in the UK who are raising a disabled or seriously ill child or young person up to the age of 18 years.   The Trust believes services to families with severely disabled children are most effective when they can be adapted to families’ individual needs and personal ways of coping.  The Trust, therefore, encourages families to demonstrate the kind of support that would best meet their needs in easing the stress of caring for severely disabled children.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Family Fund Trust website

Family Recovery Initiative Fund
The Family Recovery Initiative Fund (FRIF) offers one-off grants of up to £5000 to groups that support families affected by alcohol and drugs in Scotland.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Family Recovery Initiative Fund

Buttle UK – Chances for Children
Grants of up to £2,400 are available for children and young people who have experienced a crisis that has recently had a significant and enduring impact on their wellbeing and educational engagement.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Buttle UK – Chances for Children

Variety Club – Equipment Grants
Grants are available for specialist equipment for the direct use of children up to the age of 18 years who are sick, disabled or disadvantaged and are resident in the UK.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Variety Club – Equipment Grants

Percy Bilton Charity – Grants for Organisations
Grants up to £5,000 are available to UK registered charities with primary objectives to assist one or more of the following groups: disadvantaged/underprivileged young people (under 25 years old); people with disabilities (physical or learning disabilities or mental health problems); older people (aged over 60).
Deadline: Ongoing  
Percy Bilton Charity – Grants for Organisations website

Tesco Stronger Starts Grants
Grants up to £1,500 are available to all schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, with priority given to projects that provide food and support to young people.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Tesco Stronger Starts Grants

Happy Days Children’s Charity
Funding for families with children aged 3-17 who are disabled, have a special needs or have been abused.    The aim is to help as many people as possible by funding trips, experiences, respite breaks and group activity holidays for those who need them most. Details of the different types of trips that we offer can be found on the website.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Happy Days Children’s Charity

Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park – Engagement Travel Grants
Grants of up to £250 are available for schools and groups working with disadvantaged people across Scotland to cover transport costs for educational trips to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.  There is no deadline and applications can be made at any time.   Guidance notes and an application form are available from the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park website.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Engagement Travel Grants website

Ernest Cook Trust – Outdoor Essentials Grant
Grants are available to UK state funded primary and secondary schools to enable them to get their pupils learning outdoors. The current round of funding offers grants for the following options:

• Nature and Nurture – school grounds improvements.
• Transport and Travel – transport costs to outdoor learning venues.
• Wellies and Waterproofs – outdoor clothing.

Deadline: Ongoing 
Ernest Cook Trust – Outdoor Essentials Grant website

Love Reading 4 Kids Funding for Schools
Grants are available to state funded schools in the UK to purchase books.   Grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 are available.   Applications are accepted from state funded schools in the UK, including primaries, secondaries and early years’ settings. PTAs are not eligible to apply, the application needs to come directly from the school.
Deadline: Ongoing 
The LoveReading4Kids Funding for Schools Scheme

Trefoil Holiday Grants
Trefoil offers holiday grants to individuals, families or small groups. Applicants for holiday grants should be under 18 years of age and residing in Scotland. Trefoil funds holidays in the UK only and overseas trips are not supported.
Deadline: Ongoing
Trefoil Holiday Grants

5 | COMMUNITY FUNDING

• Support carers during changes in their role.
• Make it easier to identify and support carers.
• Improve support for carers who face extra barriers.
• Change how care is understood and valued.

Unpaid carers are defined as ‘Adults or children who look after a relative, friend or neighbour. They might look after someone due to a disability, illness, mental health condition, addiction or old age’.
The following costs are eligible for funding:

• Organisational running costs.
• Equipment.
• One-off events.
• Staff costs.
• Training costs.
• Transport.
• Utilities.
• Volunteer expenses.
• Part of the organisation’s overheads.
• Some capital costs.

Deadline: 15 July 2026  
Supporting Change Carers

Scottish Hydro Electric Community Trust
Grants are available to support charities and community projects with the cost of electricity supply connections.
Deadline: 17 September 2026 
SHECT

Veterans’ Foundation – Salary Grants
Grants are available for charities and not-for-profit organisations that provide support to those in need among serving Armed Forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families across the UK.  Grants of up to £25,000 per year for up to three years are available.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Veterans Foundation

80. Veterans’ Foundation – Standard Grants
The Veterans’ Foundation provides grants to support charities and organisations delivering services to serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers, and their immediate families who are in need. Beneficiaries are individuals who are experiencing challenges such as unemployment, homelessness, mental or physical ill-health, disability, financial hardship, family bereavement, or other welfare issues.  Grants of between £5,001 and £30,000 are available. This can be for one year or a multi-year grant for up to three years (eg £10,000 per year, over three years).
Deadline: 30 September 2026  
Veterans Foundation

People’s Postcode Trust – Scotland
The funding is intended to support organisations whose core purpose and everyday work align closely with one of the Trust’s current themes:
Enabling participation in the arts.
Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty.
Supporting marginalised groups and/or tackling inequality.
Improving mental health with a focus on organisations that are actively supporting specific mental health issues, rather than general mental wellbeing activities.  Grants of up to £50,000 in total over a three-year period are available, depending on the organisation’s income.
Deadline: 01 October 2026 
Postcode Trust

Aviva Foundation – Financial Futures Fund
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations in the UK that are delivering bold, long-term solutions to help people build financial resilience.  The funding is for programmes and projects that:
Build financial confidence and capability – helping people manage their money and plan ahead.
Improve access to fair, affordable, and inclusive financial services – such as savings, protection, and pensions.  Support people through financial shocks and hardship – including access to essentials and opportunities to build savings.
Address systemic issues – such as debt, housing insecurity, and digital exclusion, which can undermine financial resilience.
The average grant awarded is typically between £250,000 and £300,000, spread over three years.
Deadline: 07 October 2026 
Aviva Foundation

Chrysalis Trust
A small number of grants are available for UK registered charities with projects that are less popular and harder to fund that focus on the trust’s priorities of relieving poverty and disability and providing access to shelter, education, healthcare and water.
Deadline: 15 December 2026  
Chrysalis Trust

Scotmid Co-op – Community Grants
Grants of up to £500 are available to local voluntary and community groups and charities for projects that support local communities served by Scotmid stores. A successful grant may come in the form of money or Society vouchers or a combination of the two.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Scotmid Coop Community Funding

Thomas Wall Trust – Grants for Individuals
The individual grants programme aims to support motivated adults living in the UK to undertake education and training that will increase their chances of employment.
Grants of up to £1,500 are available to undertake accredited vocational training up to level 3 (Qualification levels explained) and towards other costs associated with studying.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Thomas Wall Trust Website

Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust
Grants are available to UK based charities for projects that support people of all ages who are socially disadvantaged and/or have disabilities.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust website

Pub is the Hub
Pub is the Hub encourages rural pub owners, licensees, and their local communities to work together to support, retain and locate local services, where possible, within the pub, whilst often improving the viability of the business itself.   The provider may be able to assist some projects through its own Community Services Fund, which aims to support projects as a fund of last resort, where no local funding for services currently exists. A grant of up to £3,000 may be provided.   Pub is The Hub does not always have funds to be a direct provider of grants or loans for individual diversification projects. It does, however, provide advice help and support at no cost to licensees and seek to work with the local authorities to find the potential funding sources.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Pub is the Hub website

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Grants are available for small and medium sized local charities and not-for-profit organisations in the UK with a track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation or deprived rural areas. Projects will be expected to focus on community support. This could include
community transport schemes in Rural locations (with a population of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants in a village/town) in England, Scotland and Wales.   Applicant organisations’ postcodes must be ranked within the most deprived 50% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation.   To check the SIMD ranking of your project area, check on the SIMD website map and click on the area to see the ranking.  The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation is a relative measure of deprivation across 6,976 small areas (called data zones). If an area is identified as ‘deprived’, this can relate to people having a low income but it can also mean fewer resources or opportunities.  If the area has a ranking of under 3,488 it should be eligible to apply.   Support can be available from your local Community Development Officer contact by email, stating your location: Communitydevelopment@argyll-bute.gov.uk Small grants are available of £2,000 to £10,000 for one year. (Successful applicants can reapply for a further two years. No further applications can be made after the completion of a third grant.)
The amount requested must not be for more than 50% of the total cost of the project. Grant recipients must be able to start spending the grant within three months of the award being made.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation website

Robertson Trust’s Community Spaces Fund
Funding is intended to support the running costs of local community centres, hubs or anchor organisations that are delivering and/or hosting a range of services and activities in places with high levels of deprivation. Examples of eligible work include: The running costs of an accessible community hub based in a town with high levels of deprivation. The hub hosts and delivers services for local people, including community meals, family activities, a youth group and drop-in sessions with partner organisations such as the Citizens Advice Bureau and local employability service.  The running costs of a village hall in a rural community where there are no other community facilities. The hall hosts a range of groups and services, such as a parent and toddler group, a food pantry, and warm space, and provides access to IT facilities.  Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 per year for up to three years are available to registered charities working in Scotland.   Organisations should demonstrate the various services they deliver and/or host related to preventing or reducing poverty and trauma for local people.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Robertson Trust’s Community Spaces Fund website

Royal Countryside Fund – Supporting Rural Communities
The UK-wide Supporting Rural Communities grant programme launched on Friday 10th January 2025.
This new differentiated funding will support transformative, community-led initiatives across the UK, unlocking the huge potential for positive change in rural communities. The aim is to support innovative solutions that will “power up, not prop up” communities, inspiring change and encouraging economic vibrancy. Organisations can apply for grants of up to £25,000 over a period of 24 months to deliver activities along the themes of:

• Keeping young people in the countryside
• Powering up rural communities
• Increasing environmental sustainability
• Building emergency resilience in rural areas.

Support will be focused on isolated rural areas where the activity is required due to a lack of alternative services. Projects must be community led and show that they actively listen to, understand and respond to the needs of their local community. The fund is also looking for community organisations that demonstrate one or more of the following characteristics:

• Working towards a long-term vision
• Facilitating collaboration/connectedness
• Demonstrating innovation.

Deadline: Ongoing  
Royal Countryside Fund – Supporting Rural Communities website

National Lottery Awards for All – Scotland
The National Lottery Awards for All programme is a partnership between The National Lottery Community Fund
Scotland, Sportscotland and Creative Scotland.  For arts and sports projects, applications can be made for up to £10,000 supporting projects for up to 12 months. For community-led projects (that are not primarily arts or sport focused), applications can be made for up to £20,000 per year supporting projects for up to two years.   Groups can only hold one National Lottery Awards for All grant at a time.
Deadline: Ongoing 
National Lottery Awards for All – Scotland website

Cruden Foundation
This fund aims to support charitable projects and activities in Scotland for the benefit of people living there. Funding is intended to support projects with a strong focus on community welfare, medical support and research, the arts, education, and conservation.  Most grants are in the £2,500 to £5,000 range, although both smaller and larger grants can also be requested.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Cruden Foundation website

UK Community Foundations
Grants for projects in all sectors of the local community. Each foundation has its own character appropriate to the location and grants may be made to a wide range of activities including :health; children and young people; arts and culture; the environment; services.   Community foundations can meet all areas of community need, including but not limited to:

• Arts and culture.
• Education.
• Environment.
• Health.
• Community development.
• Children and young people.
• Older people.
• Employment and training.

Deadline: Ongoing 
UK Community Foundations website

Robertson Trust – Wee Grants
Grants of up to £5,000 are available.  Revenue and capital funding for constituted community groups and small charities who support people who are experiencing (or are at high risk of experiencing) poverty and trauma, with an annual income of under £30,000.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Robertson Trust – Wee Grants website

National Lottery Community Fund – The UK Fund
Grants of £500,000 to £5 million are available to not-for-profit groups for projects which forge connections between communities to create a better-connected society across the UK.
Deadline: Ongoing 
National Lottery Community Fund – The UK Fund website

6 | ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION

• 31 July 2026 for Stand-alone Organic Conversion and Maintenance applications.

Guidance notes and the online application portal can be accessed from the Rural Payments and Services website.
Deadline: 31 July 2026 
Rural Payments

Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust
Grants are available to animal welfare charities for projects or activities in the UK that benefit and protect animals, relieve the suffering of animals, address the conservation of wildlife or encourage a greater understanding of animals.  Grants range from £1,000 to a normal maximum of £10,000. Applications for these grants are considered three times a year by a panel of the trustees.
Deadline: 01 August 2026 
Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare

Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust
The objectives of the Trust are:
To promote horticulture.
To promote the conservation of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity.
To promote the creation, development, preservation and maintenance of gardens accessible to the public. The advancement of horticultural education.
Grants of up to £5,000 are available. Typical grants are usually in the range of £3,500 to £5,000. Applicants are welcome to apply for grants of less than £500.
Deadline: 15 August 2026 
Stanley Smith UK

Future Woodlands Scotland – Research and Innovation Grants
Grants are available to organisations in Scotland undertaking new ideas to enhance and develop native woodland, and research the contribution of such woodland to biodiversity and carbon.   Grants up to £10,000 are available. The whole project can be of any size and there is no defined maximum project cost.
Deadline: 23 August 2026 
Future Woodlands

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust – Sustainable Future Programme
Grants are available for imaginative and inclusive approaches to tackling the climate crisis and building a just and equitable economy in order to protect the planet for future generations.
Deadline: 02 September 2026 (10am)   
JRCT

British Ecological Society – Outreach and Engagement Grants
The funding is for BES members to deliver independent outreach, public engagement and science communication activities that engage public audiences with the excitement, importance and relevance of ecological science or enhance the experience and skills of others to communicate ecology with public audiences.
The grant will support diverse formats that reach and engage public audiences in innovative, creative and impactful ways, whether through in-person events, digital formats, or physical resources.  Grants of up to £2,000 are available.
Deadline: 08 September 2026
British Ecological Society

NatureScot – Peatland ACTION Fund
Peatland ACTION supports the restoration of degraded peatlands across Scotland, offering funding for land managers.  Generally, projects should be greater than 10 hectares, with a cost over £10,000.
Deadline: 30 September 2026 
Nature Scot

Sea-Changers Grant Programme
One-off grants are available to UK-based marine conservation charities and not-for-profit organisations for projects that address specific marine conservation areas.  Sea-Changers is the UK charity dedicated to raising money for UK-based marine conservation. Its vision is to create a world where the seas and shores are clean and healthy and marine species are protected. Two levels of funding are available:
Small Grants programme – up to £500.
Main Grants programme – between £500 and £2,500.
Deadline: 30 September 2026 
Sea–changers

Scottish Government – Upland Sheep Support Scheme
A scheme providing additional support, on top of the Basic Payment Scheme, to sheep producers who farm in Scotland’s rough grazing areas.  The funding is intended to help maintain sheep flocks in farm businesses reliant on poorer quality rough grazing found in Scotland’s Basic Payment Region three. Payments will be made to help farmers maintain the social and environmental benefits that sheep flocks bring to those areas.  The payment rate for eligible animals is not fixed. The rate will vary each year depending on the total number of eligible animals claimed in the calendar year.
Deadline: 30 November 2026  
Rural Payments

Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme (SSBSS)
Financial support is available to help producers maintain beef suckler herds at levels that sustain Scotland’s commercial beef industry while delivering associated environmental and social benefits. The payment rate for eligible animals is not fixed. The rate will vary each year depending on the total number of eligible animals claimed in the calendar year.
Deadline: 14 January 2027   
Rural Payments

The Mushroom Trust
Grants are available for organisations in Scotland to support the creation, maintenance and improvement of urban green spaces.  This fund aims to support the creation, enhancement, and upkeep of green spaces throughout Scotland. This includes both the creation of urban spaces, such as public parks, community gardens and allotments, as well as other environmental and conservation projects, such as ancient woodland restoration projects.  Grants of between £500 and £10,000 are available.
The average grant amount is £5,000.
Deadline: 31 March 2027  
Mushroom Trust

Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund (SMEEF)
Funding is available to enable investment in tangible, effective marine and coastal restoration projects in Scotland, undertaken by organisations across all sectors. The main aim of the Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund (SMEEF) is to support practical improvements to Scottish marine and coastal ecosystems. Although it is anticipated that most applications for enhancement projects will initially focus on salt marsh, seagrass, sand dunes, native oysters, marine birds and cetaceans; the funder is keen to receive proposals for research to inform a broader range of potential marine and coastal enhancement opportunities across all relevant species and habitats.
Deadline: Ongoing 
SMEEF website

Pets Foundation – Preventing Pet Relinquishment Grants
Grants are available for projects which aim to keep pets with their owners and out of rescue, including projects providing emergency pet fostering for people facing crisis, subsidised veterinary care, neutering schemes and pet food banks.   Grants of up to £80,000 per year are available.   Multi-year funding applications, up to a three-year period, will be considered.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Pets Foundation website

Scottish Forestry Community Fund
Grants are available to voluntary and community organisations, development trusts, social enterprises, charities and local authorities for projects and activities that encourage people to use woods more.  The funding aims to encourage and support greater use of woods by people to improve their health, wellbeing and life chances.
Applicants will need to provide match funding for projects above £1,000.
Deadline: Ongoing    
Scottish Forestry Community Fund website

Pets Foundation – Rescue Centre Grants
Grants are available for charities and non-profit organisations in the UK whose main objective is the rescue and rehoming of domestic pets in the UK.
The Pets Foundation provides three grant programmes:
Rescue Centres  – to support organisations whose main activities are the rescue and rehoming of UK pets.
Pets Assisting People – to support organisations whose main activities are one or more of the following: The provision of temporary or ongoing assistance to ensure pets can remain with their owners, where rehoming takes place only when it is not possible to reunite the pet with their owner.
Changing the lives of adults and children through the provision of animal-based activities or practical assistance.
Preventing Pet Relinquishment – to support projects that aim to keep pets with their owners and out of rescue.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Pets Foundation – Rescue Centre Grants website

Plug-in Vehicle Grant (PIVG) Scheme
As announced by the Chancellor at the Autumn Budget, £120 million will be provided in 2025-26 to support the purchase of new electric vans via the Plug-in Vehicle Grant and to support the manufacture of wheelchair accessible EVs.  The amount of the grant depends on which category the vehicle is in.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Plug–in Vehicle Grant (PIVG) Scheme website

Exchange Market
A pilot funding scheme rewarding arable farmers in the UK for reducing emissions within their supply chains through tailored, verified plans.   Farmers can join Exchange Market by having a completed Exchange baseline and a recent Farm Carbon Toolkit assessment. The Soil Association Exchange will then work with applicants to create a verified emissions reduction plan. With annual payments based on verified results, the programme ensures transparency and accountability at every step.  Farmers in the scheme can earn up to £60 per tonne of carbon reduced annually, with 50% of payments provided upfront to support their transition.
Deadline: Ongoing (website may be slow to load) 
Exchange Market website

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation – Grants
The minimum grant size is £30,000 and available to organisations doing legally charitable work in the UK that focuses on the Foundation’s funding priorities of improving the natural world, securing a fairer future, and strengthening the bonds in communities in the UK.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation – Grants website

Swire Charitable Trust
Grants are available for UK registered charities working to deliver positive and lasting change to UK society under three programme areas: opportunity, environment and heritage.
Deadline: Ongoing   
Swire Charitable Trust website

Electric Vehicle Chargepoint and Infrastructure Grant for Landlords
Funding to install electric vehicle chargepoints as a landlord, social housing provider or property factor.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Electric Vehicle Chargepoint and Infrastructure Grant website

7 | GENERAL FUNDING

• Sport – Projects to encourage and increase public participation in sport (eligible activities should involve physical skill and exertion).
• Recreational facilities – Providing or organising recreational facilities (buildings, pitches or similar) with the aim of improving the conditions of life for the people for whom the facilities are primarily intended. This is only in relation to facilities which are primarily intended for people who need them due to age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
• Animal welfare – The advancement of animal welfare.
• Health – The advancement of health, including prevention or relief of sickness, disease or human suffering.
• Culture – Supporting the heritage – tangible or otherwise – of Scotland, through projects that encourage participation in and preservation of Scotland’s distinctive culture.

Deadline: 31 July 2026  
Weir Charitable Trust

WCIT Charity
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the UK to deliver IT projects and activities that support the themes of education, inclusion, IT for charities, and understanding of IT.  Grants of up to £15,000 are available.
Deadline: 14 August 2026
WCIT Charity

Emerton-Christie Charity
A very small number of one-off grants of up to £3,000 are available for registered charities in the UK undertaking projects in the areas of health, supporting those who are disadvantaged, or the arts.
Deadline: 31 August 2026 
Emerton Christie

Woodroffe Benton Foundation – Small Grants Programme
The Foundation aims to support charitable projects in the UK that provide care for the sick and elderly, conserve and improve the environment, promote education, and help those in need as a result of disaster or as a consequence of social and economic circumstances. One-off grants of between £500 and £2,500 are available.
Deadline: 31 August 2026 
Woodroffe Benton

Grocers’ Charity Grant
One-off grants of up to £5,000  are available to small UK registered charities for work in the specific areas of: relief of hardship; children and young people; disability and inclusion; the elderly; health; military; environment and conservation; the arts; and heritage.
Deadline: 01 September 2026 
Grocers Charity

Green Hall Foundation
Grants of up to £10,000 for UK registered charities to fund special projects or the purchase of equipment that will benefit their charitable purposes.
Deadline: 02 September 2026  
Green Hall Foundation

CPF Trust
Grants for UK-based charities addressing health and social issues, the arts, education and animal welfare.  Oneyear grants are made at the discretion of the trustees, but are usually between £1,000 and £3,000.
Deadline: 30 September 2026 
CPF Trust

Fat Beehive Foundation
Grants of up to £2,500 are available to small UK registered charities to help them improve their digital presence.
Deadline: 30 September 2026  
Fat Beehive Foundation

People’s Postcode Trust – Scotland
The funding is intended to support organisations whose core purpose and everyday work align closely with one of the Trust’s current themes:
Enabling participation in the arts.
Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty.
Supporting marginalised groups and/or tackling inequality.
Improving mental health with a focus on organisations that are actively supporting specific mental health issues, rather than general mental wellbeing activities.
Grants of up to £50,000 in total over a three-year period are available, depending on the organisation’s income.
Deadline: 01 October 2026  
Postcode Trust

The DPO Centre – Charity and Community Fund
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the UK to support a range of data protection advice and consultancy services.  A total of £100,000 is available across two application periods throughout the year.   Grants of up to £10,000 are available to put towards any of the consultancy services the DPO Centre provides.
Deadline: 01 March 2027
DPO Centre Fund

RS MacDonald Charitable Trust
Funding is available for registered charities in Scotland in the following areas: tackling child abuse and neglect; visual impairment; neurological conditions; medical research; and animal welfare.   The Trust’s principal areas of interest are:
Tackling child abuse and neglect.
Visual impairment.
Neurological conditions.
Medical research.
Animal welfare.
Small grant applications are accepted any time.
Deadline: Ongoing  
RS MacDonald Charitable Trust website

De Brye Charitable Trust
Grants are available for charitable organisations that provide care and housing for the aged, orphans and neglected children or aid physically disabled children and the blind.   The majority of grants are between £500 and £5,000.  The Trust does not have a website or an email address.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Enquiries: 01727 869141

Rhododendron Trust
Grants are available to UK registered charities who are working for the welfare of the disadvantaged in the UK and overseas as well as some cultural and wildlife projects.
Deadline: Ongoing    
Rhododendron Trust website

Mickel Fund
Grants of up to £10,000 are available.   Funding is available for projects in Scotland that address one or more of the following categories: The advancement of education.
The prevention or relief of poverty.
The advancement of health and saving of lives.
The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture and science.
The advancement of public participation in sports.
Deadline: Ongoing    
Mickel Fund website

Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust
The Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust offers grants to registered charities active in Great Britain.
The funding is intended to support projects relating to young people, people with disabilities, the environment and the arts.   Grants usually range from £500 to £2,500.
Deadline: Ongoing    
Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust website

National Lottery Awards for All – Scotland
For arts and sports projects, applications can be made for up to £10,000 supporting projects for up to 12 months. For community-led projects (that are not primarily arts or sport focused), applications can be made for up to £20,000 per year supporting projects for up to two years.
Deadline: Ongoing  (link be may slow to load) 
National Lottery Awards for All – Scotland website

MacRobert Trust
Grants are available for UK registered charities with a preference for organisations based in Scotland which have projects that address the themes set out by The MacRobert Trust.
Theme 1:   Armed Forces & Good Citizenship
Theme 2:   Education & Professional Excellence
Theme 3:   Local Community & Other MacRobert Interests
Deadline: Various  
MacRobert Trust website

Matthew Good Foundation – Grants for Good Fund
A small number of grants are available for local community groups, charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises in the UK for projects that have a positive impact on communities, people, or the environment.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Matthew Good Foundation – Grants for Good Fund

The Rozelle Trust
The Trust will generally support smaller charities, especially those working at grass roots and local community level where the funds will be able to make a significant difference.   Awards will be made to support a wide range of charitable activities to benefit young people and children, those experiencing poverty, and the disabled.
Deadline: Ongoing
The Rozelle Trust website

Robertson Trust – Transport Grants
The new-look Transport Grants offer increased funding of between £5K-20K per year for 1-3 years. For registered charities working in Scotland.    Currently only accepting applications for Transport Grants for work which addresses our themes of Financial Security, Education Pathways or Work Pathways, or which are focused on removing transport barriers for people and places with higher rates or risks of experiencing poverty and trauma, to ensure they can participate in and connect with their communities. This is in recognition that a lack of access to affordable, reliable transport can impact the ability to participate in society and thrive.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Robertson Trust – Transport Grants website

Bus Operator Accessible Information Regulations Support Grant
Small operators of local bus services in Great Britain can apply for grant funding to increase the provision of onboard audible and visible information, in order to comply with the requirements of the Public Service Vehicles (Accessible Information) Regulations 2023.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Bus Operator Accessible Information Regulations Support Grant website

Paths for All – Ian Findlay Path Fund
Grants are available for charities, community groups, other third-sector organisations and National Park Authorities for projects that improve path networks and promote walking, wheeling, and cycling across Scotland. Funding of between £10,000 – £100,000 is available, with 30% match funding required.   If you are at an early stage of your project, the funder can offer up to 100% of design costs.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Paths for All – Ian Findlay Path Fund website

Energy Saving Trust – Plugged in Communities Grant Fund
Grants are available for community transport organisations across Scotland to cover the costs of purchasing or leasing a zero-emission vehicle.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Energy Saving Trust – Plugged in Communities Grant Fund website

Foundation Scotland
Some of the funds are available on a Scotland-wide basis, and others are aimed at specific geographical areas or themes. You’ll find grant size and criteria information on each fund’s page, together with any unique criteria. Also, every fund lists a deadline for applications, and there may be more than one round of funding each year. When searching, be sure to note all the key dates in the fund listing.
Deadline: Various 
Foundation Scotland website

The Access Foundation
Grants are available to registered charities, CICs, educational establishments and CIOs for projects that mitigate the digital divide by making computing facilities, support and/or learning available to disadvantaged and vulnerable people.
Deadline: Ongoing  
The Access Foundation website

The Family Recovery Initiative Fund (FRIF)
Grants are available to organisations and groups working to support families affected by alcohol and drugs in Scotland.  One-off grants of up to £5,000 are available.  Projects funded through the FRIF have included Digital Inclusion.
Deadline: Ongoing 
The Family Recovery Initiative Fund (FRIF) website

Clothworkers’ Foundation
The Foundation aims to use its funding to improve the quality of life for people and communities that face disadvantage and marginalisation.  Funding is available for capital costs, including: digital/audio visual equipment.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Clothworkers’ Foundation website

Robertson Trust – Wee Grants
Grants are available for small charities and community groups in Scotland carrying out charitable work in local communities to address poverty and trauma – and support for digital access. Projects might include ESOL classes, digital skills, and support for people looking for work.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Robertson Trust – Wee Grants website

8 | HEALTH

James Tudor Foundation – Mental Health Grant
Grants of up to £25,000 are available to UK registered charities addressing mental health issues affecting children and young people, and adults.
Deadline: 31 August 2026   
James Tudor Foundation

Ulverscroft Foundation
The Foundation provides funding for projects in the UK that benefit visually impaired people. Grants range from around £100 to £500,000.
Deadline: 15 September 2026 
Ulverscroft Foundation

The Primary Club
Grants are available to support sport and recreation for blind and visually impaired people throughout the UK.
Recent examples of funded projects include:

• Creating children’s tactile audiobooks about three sports stars.
• Supporting children’s residential outdoor activity breaks in specialised centres.
• Developing a multi-sensory woodland environment in Cornwall, building on a major investment by RNIB.
• Supporting several tandem cycling clubs to supply, maintain and store their equipment.
• Supporting numerous clubs which offer regular training sessions and competitive matches in cricket, goalball, Showdown, baseball, golf, bowls and other sports

Deadline: 30 November 2026   
Primary Club

Blue Light Wellbeing Fund
The funding is intended to support the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of the entire Blue Light Community – across health, emergency, social care, and armed forces – recognising their vital role in society. There is particular interest in applications for projects that support individuals across multiple Blue Light services, fostering collaboration and shared learning. Priority will be given to initiatives that include clear, well-developed plans for continuing the work beyond the life of the grant.  Grants of up to a maximum of £25,000 are available.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Blue Light Wellbeing Fund website

Gardening With Disabilities Trust
Small grants are available to groups and individuals in the UK who suffer all kinds of chronic disabilities – mental and physical – to help them get gardening again.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Gardening With Disabilities Trust website

Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants Programme
Grants are available for activity providers, communities, networks and organisations across the UK to develop new opportunities for people with Parkinson’s to become and stay active or help increase their levels of physical activity. Grants of between £500 and £3,000 are available.  Applications will be accepted from activity providers, national governing bodies, Parkinson’s groups and branches, and sports and healthcare professionals.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants Programme website

RNIB Technology Grants
The funding is intended for UK residents who are registered blind or partially sighted people and who have been refused funding from their local authority for the items they need. The grant will support the cost of any item that is on the RNIB list of approved equipment.
Deadline: Ongoing  
RNIB Technology Grants website

Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust
Grants are available to UK based charities for projects that support people of all ages who are socially disadvantaged and/or have disabilities.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust website

Vegetarian for Life Grants
Funding is available for charities and charitable organisations supporting older vegetarians and vegans.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Vegetarian for Life Grants website

Hargreaves Foundation
Grants are available for charities and educational institutions that support those under the age of 18 years, and living with a mental health condition / disability / poverty through the mediums of sport and education.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Hargreaves Foundation website

The Family Recovery Initiative Fund (FRIF)
One-off grants of up to £5,000 are available to organisations and groups working to support families affected by alcohol and drugs in Scotland.
Deadline: Ongoing  
The Family Recovery Initiative Fund (FRIF) website

Barchester Healthcare Foundation
Grants are available for small local groups and small local charities to improve the quality of life and combat loneliness in older people as well as adults with a physical or mental disability.  Grants for individuals and groups available.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Barchester Healthcare Foundation website

Fletchers Foundation
Grants are available to charities and organisations in the UK working to support individuals or families who have suffered life changing circumstances as a result of illness (born with or acquired), severe personal injury, accident or medical negligence.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Fletchers Foundation website

9 | LAND & PROPERTY

B&Q Foundation – Home Improvement Grants
The funding is intended for UK charities working to improve the lives of people in need by supporting projects that make homes safe, welcoming, and comfortable. Grants are for essential home improvements and home starter kits—helping individuals and families facing homelessness, domestic abuse, disabilities, illness, or financial hardship to feel more settled and supported in their living spaces.  Grants of up to £10,000 are available for home improvement projects that will be completed in the next 12 months.
Deadline:14 August 2026 
B&Q Foundation

B&Q Foundation – Home Starter Kit Grants
One-off grants of up to £10,000 are available for UK registered charities who are providing home-starter packs for people in need to move into their home.  The funding is intended for UK charities working to improve the lives of people in need by supporting projects that make homes safe, welcoming, and comfortable.
Grants support home starter kits to help individuals and families facing homelessness, domestic abuse, disabilities, illness, or financial hardship to feel more settled and supported in their living spaces.
Deadline: 14 August 2026
BQ Home Starter Kits

Help the Homeless Grant Scheme
Grants for capital projects are available to small and medium-sized charities registered in the UK working to assist homeless people to rebuild their lives and return to the community.  Grants of up to £5,000 are available.
Deadline: 20 September 2026 
Help the Homeless

National Heritage Memorial Fund
Funding for charities, not-for-profit organisations and public bodies to help with the cost of acquiring historic land, buildings, works of fine and decorative art and other objects of interest which are important to national heritage.
Deadline: Ongoing 
National Heritage Memorial Fund website

Scottish Land Fund
Grants between £5,000 and £1,000,000 are available to organisations in both urban and rural Scotland which are community-led, community-controlled and defined by a geographic area that can demonstrate significant positive impact for the community as a whole. Applicants will have the opportunity to test out and develop their ideas with support from a Scottish Land Fund Adviser.
Deadline: Ongoing (link may be slow to load)
Scottish Land Fund website

10 | POVERTY & COST OF LIVING CRISIS

British Gas Energy Trust
Grants are available to individuals and families across Great Britain to be used to help write off their energy debts. , regardless of energy provider.
The Trust offers two funds:
•       Individuals and Families Fund – Open to Credit and Pre-Payment Meter customers •            British Gas Energy Support Fund – now closed
Both are intended to tackle fuel poverty by clearing the energy debts of struggling households and respond to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.   You do not need to be a British Gas customer to apply for this fund – you can be a British Gas Customer, or a customer from another supplier with arrears of up to £1,700.
Deadline: Ongoing
Visit the Fund Website

COSARAF – Hardship Grants
Grants of up to £2,000 but only in exceptional circumstances will individuals receive a grant of more than £500 these are available for third party social organisations to support individuals and families across the UK who are in financial need and have exhausted all other sources of funding.
Deadline: Ongoing
Visit the Fund Website

Faith in Community Scotland – Greener Spaces, Fairer Places
Grants of up to £500 are available to local faith groups and other related organisations for projects that address poverty and climate change in communities across Scotland.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Visit the Fund Website

Cavell
Cavell helps registered nurses, midwives, nursing associates and maternity support workers, both working and retired, when they’re going through tough times. This is often due to illness, disability, older age, domestic abuse and the impact of the rise in living costs.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Visit the Fund Website

The Rozelle Trust
Financial assistance is available to smaller charities in Scotland that work to support the poor and disadvantaged in their local communities.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Visit the Fund Website

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Grants of £2,000 to £10,000 are available for small and medium sized local charities and not-for-profit organisations in the UK with a track record of success working to address local issues in communities of  deprived rural areas.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Visit the Fund Website

Victim Support Scotland – Emergency Assistance Fund
Grants are available to support people affected by crime across Scotland and provide a wide range of goods and services to people who would typically lack access to financial help.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Visit the Fund Website

Thomas Wall Trust – Grants for Individuals
The individual grants programme aims to support motivated adults living in the UK to undertake education and training that will increase their chances of employment.
Grants of up to £1,500 are available to undertake accredited vocational training up to level 3 (Qualification levels explained) and towards other costs associated with studying.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Visit the Website

Robertson Trust – Nurturing Relationships
Grants are available to registered charities working to support nurturing relationships within families and communities, to help break the cycle between persistent poverty and intergenerational trauma, and to support recovery.
Small Grants – £30,000 to £200,000.
Large Grants – £200,000 to £2 million.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Visit the Fund Website

Family Action – Welfare Grants Programme
The Welfare Grants Programme is aimed at people who already receive means-tested benefits but still need a little helping hand to afford basics or replace essentials like a broken washing machine. Together with emotional support this can help individuals and families avoid a bigger crisis and get back on track.  The fund is open for applications for people over the age of 60 who live anywhere in the UK including Greater London. Applications can only be made by a suitable referring organisation such as a statutory agency or charity that provides health or social care, housing associations, probation services and GP’s. Members of the public cannot apply themselves directly.  
Deadline: Ongoing
Visit the Fund Website

Randal Charitable Foundation
Both small scale-grants (under £3,000) and larger-scale grants are available for UK based charities, voluntary groups, and other not-for-profit organisations to support projects and activities that directly assist people in the most desperate need, with a particular focus on directly saving lives and improving quality of life. The enquiry process will remain open until Trustees determine sufficient enquiries have been received. The enquiry window may be closed at any time and may be closed without further notice.
Deadline: Open for Enquiries 
Visit the Fund Website

11 | SPORT FUNDING

Sports Facilities Fund
Grants are available for the provision or upgrading of sports facilities in local communities throughout Scotland. Grants of to 50% of eligible project costs up to a maximum of £200,000 may be awarded. Applications will be considered from any non-profit distributing, constituted organisations whose membership is open to all sections of society.
Deadline: 01 September 2026  (17:00) 
Sport Scotland Funding

Scottish Mountaineering Trust
Grants are available for organisations and individuals to promote public recreation, knowledge and safe enjoyment of the mountains of Scotland.
Deadline: 21 September 2026 
The SMT

Children’s Alliance
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the UK to give children and young people a better start in life through projects involving the medium of water.  The Children’s Alliance is a charity and outreach initiative of Water Babies (the largest baby swim school In the UK).   Grants of up to £15,000 are available, though the majority of grants awarded are under £10,000.
Deadline: 30 September 2026  
Childrens Alliance

Rowing Foundation
Grants are available for equipment that will support the participation of young people and disabled people in rowing in the UK.   There are two funding streams:
Equipment grants of up to £4,000 in any five-year period; this can be comprised of a single grant or smaller grants aggregated over the period. Grants are for up to 50% of the overall project costs.
Boat refurbishment grants of up to £4,000 for up to 50% of the costs of refurbishments of boats used by juniors.
Deadline: 05 October 2026 (noon) 
Rowing Foundation

Barclays Community Sport Fund 2025 to 2027
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations operating in an area of high deprivation in the UK to make football, cricket, or tennis more accessible to women and girls.  The funding is unrestricted and can be used for anything that will support delivery of football, cricket, or tennis activities for women and girls.
Deadline: 04 November 2026
Barclays–community–sport–fund

British Dodgeball Coach Training Fund
Part-funding is available to organisations for dodgeball coaching courses and accreditation throughout 2026.
Grants of up to a maximum of £315 are available per organisation.
Deadline:  21 December 2026 
Dodgeball Training Fund

Sports Charity Scotland
Grants are available to charitable organisations in Scotland who operate within sectors representing children, young people and sport.  The funding is intended to provide support which can make a significant difference to the delivery of existing activities that will benefit children and young people, the disabled and disadvantaged in Scotland.   Most awards made are between £500 and £5,000.
Deadline: Ongoing (link may be slow to load) 
Sports Charity Scotland website

Sports Scotland – Transforming Scottish Indoor Tennis Fund
The aim of the fund is to support the creation of indoor tennis facilities in area of high demand across Scotland, as well as to provide investment in pre-existing facilities. This is part of a wider strategy to create a national community tennis network and generate working partnerships across local communities while increasing participation in tennis clubs across Scotland.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Transforming Scottish Indoor Tennis Fund website

RYA Foundation
Grants are available for sailing clubs in the UK to promote participation in boating by those who are disadvantaged by reason of youth, age, infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances.
Deadline: Ongoing 
RYA Foundation website

Boost Charitable Trust
Small grants are available to charities and not-for-profit organisations with a focus on helping disabled and disadvantaged individuals in the UK to participate in sport.   Boost has awarded grants across five areas of disadvantage: Social exclusion, Financial hardship, Physical and learning disabilities, Mental health, Medical research and relief.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Boost Charitable Trust website

SportsAid Award
Assistance for unfunded talented young sportsmen and women (12-18 years old or up to 35 for disability sports) who participate in specific sports and are preparing to compete in major international competition.
Deadline: Ongoing 
SportsAid Award website

12 | YOUNG PEOPLE

Sasha Foundation
Grants are available for charitable organisations across the UK working to support young people suffering from mental health and drug abuse issues.  Typically, grants will be up to £10,000 and at most will be for up to 50% of the total cost of the proposed project.
Deadline: 10 October 2026 
Sasha Foundation

Triangle Trust 1949 Fund
Grants are available for charities, not-for-profit social enterprises and community interest companies in the UK that are working to support young people with criminal convictions or young people at high risk of offending for the first time. For the 2026 funding rounds, the focus is specifically on young women and girls who have been in the criminal justice system or who are at a high risk of being drawn into it.  Grants of between £50,000 and £100,000 for a duration of 18 months to three years.
Deadline: 15 October 2026 
Triangle Trust

Magdalen Hospital Trust
One-off grants are available for small UK registered charities working with vulnerable children and young people especially those at risk of sexual and other forms of exploitation within the UK. The funding is intended to promote the welfare of young people under the age of 25 years, who suffer from various effects of social deprivation, abuse, mental and physical disabilities, inadequate housing, lack of education or training, and the problems derived from unemployment and broken families.  Grants tend to range from £500 to £2,000.
Deadline: 31 October 2026  
Magdalen Trust

Weaver’s Company Benevolent Fund
Grants are available for UK registered charities and charitable incorporated 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 of up to £5,000. Main Grants have no maximum amount.
Deadline: 12 November 2026  
Weavers Charity

Youth Jobs Grant
Employers in Great Britain, of any size, can receive a grant for hiring young people aged 18 to 24 who have been on Universal Credit and seeking work for six months or more.  The scheme is intended to assist young people who are not in education, employment or training, with youth unemployment having reached 16.1% in late 2025.  The grant of up to £3,000 is designed to support sustained employment and complement normal recruitment activity.
Deadline: October 2028 
Youth Jobs Grant

Scottish Gambling Education Hub – Gambling Education Youth Fund
Grants of up to £500 are available for groups of young people across Scotland to deliver gambling education and prevention projects and activities.  The Scottish Gambling Education Hub is a Fast Forward Programme, in partnership with GambleAware, that supports young people’s health and well-being by promoting gambling education and prevention across Scotland.  This fund aims to enable youth workers and young people to transform their ideas into action and create their own local gambling education and prevention project.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Gambling Education Fund – Scottish Gambling Education Hub

Sofronie Foundation
Grants are available for charities and not-for-profit organisations across the UK to deliver educational or vocational projects to improve the lives of disadvantaged young people.  Funding is for interventions that:
Increase access to higher education – Educational programmes for young people that raise aspirations, build confidence, and develop skills in preparation for university.
Increase access to vocational training – Initiatives that provide young people with practical skills or offer opportunities of work experience in preparation for future employment.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Sofronie Foundation website

Wooden Spoon Charity
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations that are working in the UK to support the lives of children and young people with a cognitive age under 25 years who are disadvantaged physically, mentally, or socially.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Wooden Spoon Charity website

Cash For Kids – Holiday Hunger Grants
Grants are available to charities, voluntary and community groups to provide food and activities for disadvantaged children and young people during the school holidays.  No minimum or maximum values are stated, but awards are usually between £1,000 and £3,000.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Cash For Kids – Holiday Hunger Grants website

Ernest Cook Trust – Outdoor Essentials Grant
Grants are available to UK state funded primary and secondary schools to enable them to get their pupils learning outdoors.   The current round of funding offers grants for the following options:
Nature and Nurture – school grounds improvements.
Transport and Travel – transport costs to outdoor learning venues.
Wellies and Waterproofs – outdoor clothing.
Deadline: Ongoing  
Ernest Cook Trust – Outdoor Essentials Grant website

Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park – Engagement Travel Grants
Grants of up to £250 are available for schools and groups working with disadvantaged people across Scotland to cover transport costs for educational trips to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.  There is no deadline and applications can be made at any time.   Guidance notes and an application form are available from the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park website.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Engagement Travel Grants website

National Lottery Community Fund – Fairer Life Chances (Scotland)
Grants are available to voluntary and community and public sector organisations in Scotland for projects that support children, young people and families, or help people to be healthier and have better access to support, with a focus on those experiencing poverty, discrimination and disadvantage.   The Fund is intended for projects working to achieve the following objectives:
Children, young people and families thrive.
People have better relationships, connections, and physical or mental health.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Fairer Life Chances (Scotland) website

Hargreaves Foundation
Grants are available for charities and educational institutions that support those under the age of 18 years, and living with a mental health condition, disability or growing up in poverty through the mediums of sport and education.   The Foundation aims to distribute a total of around £2 million in grants per year. There is no minimum or maximum grant size. The following organisations can apply:
Registered Charities or Charitable Incorporated Organisations.
Schools and Further Education Colleges (usually exempt charities).
NHS Trusts.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Hargreaves Foundation website

Trefoil – Lilias Finlay Holiday Fund
Trefoil offers holiday grants to children and families who meet the development needs criteria.
Applicants for holiday grants should be under eighteen years old and living in Scotland. Trefoil only funds holidays in the UK and does not support overseas trips.
Applications for holiday grants are open and considered all year. Please apply at least 12 weeks before your holiday. Your applications should be supported by two references.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Holiday Fund website
Lilias Finlay Holiday Fund Flyer

Leslie Sell Charitable Trust
Grants for trips or projects associated with the Scouts or Guides movement within the UK. Please note the Trustees are unable to consider applications for trips or events submitted within four months of your proposed departure or event date due to processing times.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Leslie Sell Charitable Trust website

National Lottery Community Fund – Young Start Fund
Grants of between £20,001 and £100,000 for up to three years are available to voluntary and community organisations in Scotland for work that helps young people (aged 8 to 24) to become more confident and play an active part in realising their potential.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Young Start Fund website

Foux Foundation
Grants are available for registered charities across the United Kingdom and Ireland (and worldwide) to deliver a variety of projects and activities that address health, education, youth opportunity, and the relief of poverty.
Deadline: Ongoing 
Foux Foundation website