National Lottery Awards for All offers funding to support what matters to people and communities. The programme is a partnership between the National Lottery Community Fund Scotland, sportscotland and Creative Scotland. It has three funding priorities: bringing people together and building strong relationships in and across communities; improving the places and spaces that matter to communities; enabling more people to fulfil their potential by working to address issues at the earliest possible stage. If you are applying for a project involving the arts, they will prioritise projects that: engage people from areas of high deprivation; remove financial barriers to access creative activities; address rural isolation and encourage activity in rural areas; engage older people, people in care homes and carers; engage care leavers; support integration of refugees and asylum seekers. If you are applying for a project focused on sport, they will prioritise projects that: engage young people from our most deprived areas; engage girls and young women; engage disabled young people. The National Lottery Community Fund is the new name for the Big Lottery.

The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. It aims to improve the quality of life for people and communities throughout the UK both now and in the future by funding the charitable work of organisations that are building an inclusive, creative and sustainable society. It supports work that focuses on Arts, Children and Young People, Environment, Food and Social Change. The fund aims to unlock and enable potential, back the unorthodox and unfashionable, build collective networks and catalyse system change.

The Trust’s objects are to promote: excellence in education, and in the care of those who are learning disabled or otherwise at risk. It promotes religious tolerance and understanding in an international context; research into the regeneration of the ecosystem of the Scottish Highland with a view to establishing sustainable long term benefits to the environment and rural community; public education and learning by research into social sciences and economic policies and publication of such research. The Trust supports the work of national and local charities whose aims are similar to its own, and donations are made with the intention of building long term relationships.

SEAD provides small grants for individuals or groups for positive action, and campaigning. They fund proposals where the grant will have the most impact, for example, helping a new campaign to get started, or funding a specific concrete action for a local community. They promote social justice, with a current focus on climate justice, inequality, poverty, women's rights, young people and their global rights and health justice.

LUSH supports small, grassroots organisations around the world working in environment, animal protection and human rights. They look for organisations that take on issues that others don't, those that push the boundaries and challenge mainstream opinion. They support non-violent direct action groups that play an important part in bringing about social change.

Social investors can provide the required up-front funding for new interventions and services delivered by charities and social enterprises, knowing their returns will only be made if the intervention achieves specific improved social outcomes. Examples of such programmes are: working with vulnerable children to improve educational attainment, and providing family therapy to avoid vulnerable adolescents being taken into local authority care.

The Trust focuses on funding small community projects that support the advancement of education, community development, human rights, environmental protection, conflict resolution and reconciliation. They retain a strong connection to UK based charities, but also support specific projects around the world.

JRCT wishes to prioritise support for charitable work on the following issues: Challenging militarism, Scrutiny of counter-terrorism measures in the context of human rights and peacebuilding, Building support for alternative approaches to defence and security.

Seafarers UK is a leading provider of grants to maritime charities and charitable maritime projects, working to help serving and ex-serving seafarers and their families who are experiencing hardship. The seafarers they support are: older seafarers, over the usual age of retirement, and their dependants; working age seafarers working at sea in the maritime industries, former seafarers under retirement age and Merchant Navy cadets and trainees; families and dependants of current or former seafarers who are still of working age; young people in maritime youth groups focusing on those considering or pursuing a career at sea.

The overall focus is on developing and promoting sustainable, low-carbon alternatives to the current consumerist and growth-based paradigm. Funding priorities: Better economics, Beyond consumerism, New voices.