Quaker Housing Trust

Supports charitable housing projects giving safe, affordable, and often supported, homes to people of all ages and meeting a wide variety of housing needs. They give grants and interest-free loans.

Next deadline: 12 Jun 2024

Foundation Scotland - Social Investment Fund

The Social Investment Fund offers blended grant and loan investment to social enterprises, community organisations and charities. Investment can be used for capital expenditure, asset acquisition and business growth.

NESTA - Arts & Culture Impact Fund

The Arts & Culture Impact Fund is a £20 million impact investment fund for the UK's arts, culture and heritage social enterprises. The fund offers loans repayable until March 2032.

Co-operative & Community Finance Limited

Makes loans to employee or community owned social enterprises, including co-operatives, community businesses, development trusts and businesses developed from the charitable and voluntary sector.

sportscotland - The Transforming Scottish Indoor Tennis Fund

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

Next deadline: 1 Jun 2024

Firstport - Social Entrepreneurs - Boost It

Boost It helps social entrepreneurs in Scotland to strengthen their businesses so they can successfully increase trading. It targets those social enterprises who need to increase their levels of trading, rather than those looking to scale up.

Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust - Funding and Bagpipe Loans

The Trust aims to advance education the arts, heritage, culture and community development by encouraging young people in Scotland to take up and play the chanter, pipes and drums, and by supporting the development of school pipe bands.

CAF - Venturesome

CAF provides social investment loans which are unsecured. Investments are tailored to the needs of the organisations they finance and can be used for working capital, delivering new services or building organisational resilience.

Western Isles Development Trust - Main Fund

The purpose of the trust is to support the regeneration and development of the Outer Hebrides through disbursement of Community Benefit secured from the local deployment of Renewable Energy installations.

Social Investment Scotland - Investment

Provide loan funding for assisting with capital expenditure, revenue funding, marketing, business development or working capital.