Community Building Grants are aimed at charities helping people and communities in Scotland who are experiencing (or at risk of experiencing) poverty, trauma or both. With this capital funding, they want to support the physical development and/or improvement of buildings that will be used to host or deliver a range of work addressing the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of the following themes: - Financial wellbeing, - Emotional wellbeing and relationships - Educational and work pathways. See funder website for details of target groups.

Large Grants focuses on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of the following themes: - Financial wellbeing - Emotional wellbeing and relationships - Educational and work pathways. They seek to fund work that: meets people's immediate needs, provides earlier help, tests new approaches or does more of what work, and is universal or targeted. See website for details of target groups.

Small Grants focuses on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of the following themes: - Financial wellbeing - Emotional wellbeing and relationships - Educational and work pathways. They seek to fund work that: meets people's immediate needs, provides earlier help, tests new approaches or does more of what work, and is universal or targeted. See website for details of target groups.

The purpose of Wee Grants is to fund initiatives at a local level. Wee Grants focuses on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of the following themes: - Financial wellbeing - Emotional wellbeing and relationships - Educational and work pathways. See funder website for details of target groups.

The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence. They make grants across the UK to organisations in the following categories: Arts; Education; Youth; Health; Community; Museums and Heritage; Environment; Religion and Welfare.

Young Start is a grants programme that distributes money from dormant bank accounts. They will support a wide range of projects for up to three years that will make children and young people aged 8 to 24 confident, healthy, connected or enterprising. They will fund work that achieves at least one of the following three outcomes: - children and young people have better physical, mental and emotional wellbeing - children and young people have better connections with the wider community - children and young people get access to new skills and training opportunities which will help them to get a new job or start a business.

Fund projects that help families and young people and that are aiming to improve the life chances of the beneficiaries. They prefer projects that promote community cohesion and the development of skills that will change the outlook and outcomes for the users. Organisations that promote volunteering and involve both past and present users in their delivery are encouraged. They are looking for organisations which aim to achieve a positive impact in at least one of the following areas: - Children and young people who are isolated, at risk of exclusion or involved in anti-social behaviour. - Disadvantaged families - Prisoners and ex-offenders and specifically projects that maintain and develop contact with prisoner’s families and help with the rehabilitation and resettlement of prisoners and/or ex-offenders after their release. The Trustees favour small-scale, locally based initiatives and most grants are only for one year.

The foundation supports homelessness, health and wellbeing, employability, education, environment and sustainability. It particularly helps with initiatives that develop and improve local communities by: - tackling a specific community issue - helping voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient - encouraging the involvement in the community of those too often excluded - enabling young people to develop skills for the benefit of the community.

This programme will fund work supporting the UK’s most vulnerable, disadvantaged and/or under-represented women and girls to: - Improve their mental health and wellbeing, gaining confidence, tools, skills and support to sustain those improvements; and/or - Improve their financial resilience, increasing their routes out of poverty, gaining confidence, tools, skills and support to secure a stable financial future. They will also build stronger women’s organisations that are more sustainable and better able to meet the needs of women and girls. They will prioritise: - organisations with a track record of similar work - applications which focus on sustainable improvement in the lives of women and girls - work to empower women and girls and which takes an asset-based approach - work to address intersectionality - focus on excluded and /or under-represented women

Funding is UK-wide although a preference is given to Scotland. Themes supported are: Services and Sea; Education & Training; Children & Youth; Science, Engineering & Technology; Agriculture & Horticulture; Tarland & Local Area. Lady MacRobert and Douneside category awards remain closed, however they have made available limited awards to help appropriate registered charities that are particularly struggling as a direct and evidential result of the Covid-19 pandemic.