The Trust provides funding to charities to deliver positive outcomes for the individuals and communities that they work with through three funding strands. Care and Wellbeing seeks to improve people's physical and mental health including: ensuring the best quality of life for Scotland’s vulnerable adults, including those directly or indirectly affected by dementia; improving the health and wellbeing of children & young people affected by mental and/or physical ill health; supporting adults with life limiting, long term health conditions or disability to overcome barriers and remain involved with their communities. Realising Potential addresses social and educational inequalities in children and young people including: enabling young people to realise their potential; supporting “at risk” young people to make positive choices; broadening horizons and nurturing talents among Scotland’s young people. Strengthening Communities looks for solutions which address local need including: reducing health and social inequalities in Scotland’s communities; supporting people and communities to find routes out of poverty; empowering communities.

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. The National Lottery Community Fund is the new name for the Big Lottery.

Gives one-off capital grants to UK charities working in the following areas: alcohol and substance misuse; disabled people; disadvantaged young people; domestic and sexual violence; elderly people; homelessness; disadvantaged minority communities; prisoners and ex-offenders; visual impairment. Their one-off grants are for the purchase of specific and pre-determined capital item(s) for a particular project, including: buildings; fixtures, fittings and equipment; vehicles.

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.

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 Trust provides grants to registered charities in Scotland for work relating to training for employment, employment support and vocational skills. It is particularly interested in employment and skills training for young people who are unemployed, and in re-training and support for unemployed people to get them back into work. The Trustees to have particular regard to the needs of the communities in Airdrie and Ayr in Scotland and with West Bengal in India.

The Foundation is dedicated to helping disabled, sick and disadvantaged young people and children (from 0-25) to transform their lives. Applications working in the areas of education or health with one of the following four chosen focus groups may be considered: Children and young people with disabilities; Children and young people who are sick in hospital; Children and young people who are life limited (requiring palliative care); Mental Health of Children and young people.

The purpose of the FWDF is to provide employers with flexible workforce development training opportunities to support inclusive economic growth through up-skilling or re-skilling of employees. The Fund is in addition to apprenticeship support, access to which is available to all employers in Scotland; and Individual Training Accounts (ITAs), which provide eligible individuals with the opportunity to undertake learning opportunities to develop their skills for employment. The FWDF may be particularly beneficial in addressing skills gaps and training needs of the older workforce.

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. Since 2010 they have positively impacted the lives of 750,000 people, providing £9 million worth of cash and in-kind assistance.

Poppyscotland works collaboratively with other organisations, providing funding so that members of the Armed Forces community can access the specialist services they need. Funding covers health and well-being of veterans and their families, access to employment opportunities and employment skills, advice and support.