The National Lottery Community Fund - National Lottery Awards for All Scotland

Awards For All supports projects that aim to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need. Priorities are: bringing communities together, improving places that matter to communities, and enabling people to fulfil their potential.

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. Their new strategy focuses on three aims: Improving Our Natural World; Tackling injustice to deliver A Fairer Future; and Nurturing Creative, Confident Communities.

abrdn Financial Fairness Trust

The fund's mission is to contribute towards strategic change which improves financial well-being in the UK.

Next deadline: 3 Jun 2024

Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust

The Trust gives grants to registered charities that work in the UK. They focus on specific priorities every year. The focus area for rounds 3 and 4 in 2024 is Food Poverty.

Due to open: 1 Jul 2024

Andy Jackson Fund for Access

The Fund aims to improve and increase access to paddle-sports/canoeing for the waters of Scotland (e.g. canal, open water, marine and river). It provides funding to any project in Scotland that helps paddlers get on the water.

A B Charitable Trust

ABCT supports charities that defend human rights and promote respect for vulnerable individuals whatever their circumstances. The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with marginalised and excluded people in society.

Next deadline: 26 Jul 2024

Social Business Trust

SBT’s mission is to support high growth potential social enterprises to scale-up their impact. They do that by investing cash grants and professional support from seven partner organisations in a carefully selected portfolio of social enterprises.

The Seafarers' Charity

The Seafarers' Charity makes a life-changing impact in troubled times. They award grants to organisations support those who work – or have worked – at sea, and their families.

The Oak Foundation - Housing and Homelessness

The Oak Foundation seeks to fund initiatives rooted in a deep understanding of the experiences of people facing homelessness, addressing three themes: renter rights; supply and access to affordable homes; and reduction in homelessness.

Scottish Education And Action For Development - SEAD Fund

SEAD provides small grants for individuals or groups for positive action, and campaigning. Focus areas are: women’s rights, young people and their global rights, climate justice, inequality, poverty and health justice.