Guide to finding funding
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The Conservation Volunteers - The Chestnut Fund
Makes grants available to encourage and enable community groups to carry out conservation activities. There are two types of grants; Start-up and Support grants.
Sir Iain Stewart Foundation
The fund has broad purposes, but favours children, older people and small, local projects.
Foyle Foundation - Small Grants Scheme
The scheme is designed to support charities registered and operating in the United Kingdom, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities.
Foundation Scotland - Coalburn, Douglas & Glespin (CDG) Community Fund
Supports community projects benefiting those living in Douglas (incorporating Glespin and surrounding areas) and/or Coalburn community council areas.
Next deadline: 5 Jun 2024
The Arran Trust
This small trust supports conservation and community projects throughout Arran including wildlife, paths and trails, marine, conservation, and sustainability.
Carnegie Dunfermline Trust
Grants are given for projects and activities with social, community, educational, cultural, sporting and recreational purposes. The Trust looks for innovative and far reaching proposals, together with those that particularly impact on young people.
Valencia Communities Fund - Scottish Landfill Communities Fund
Valencia Communities Fund supports community, heritage and biodiversity projects located within 10 miles of any active landfill site or transfer station accepting 2,500 tonnes of waste.
Muirden Energy - Community Benefit Funds
Muirden Energy provides community benefit funds to local communities that host their wind farms. They fund a wide range of community projects.
Sainsbury's Local Charity Scheme
Every year Sainsbury works together with their customers and colleagues to support a local cause at the heart of the local community. Each store will nominate a long list of local charities that benefit their community.
Foundation Scotland - David and Averil Macdonald Fund
The David and Averil Macdonald fund was set up to support charitable activity supporting communities in Islay, Tain, Elgin and Livingston.