The Baillie Gifford grants programme supports grass roots community organisations across the whole of Scotland. It replaces Foundation Scotland’s Express Grants programme. Priorities for the programme are: children and families, elderly people, education, environment, health, people who are physically disabled, homelessness, women and grass roots sports.

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.

The Reach programme is suitable for charities can demonstrate they address disadvantage or social exclusion and will reach the most vulnerable people across Scotland, to provide them with opportunity and equality and making positive, sustainable change. For disadvantage examples include charities addressing primary disadvantage such as homelessness, abuse, mental health or poverty, or secondary disadvantage such as debt issues, learning disabilities, illiteracy, lack of employability skills or health issues. For social exclusion examples include charities addressing exclusionary challenges for minorities, people with disabilities, LGBT people, drug users, institutional care leavers, the elderly or the young.

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 supports organisations that; Provide Hospice Care; Provide support for the Homeless; Promote health and well being. Areas of support have included physical and learning disability, physical and mental health, social challenge and deprivation.

Lintel Trust distributes to support projects with a housing focus that will deliver positive outcomes for beneficiaries in Scotland. Their aims include: older people are more able to remain in their homes and live independently; increased digital participation by older people including access to the internet and the skills to make the most of digital platforms; life circumstances of older people are improved; people from black and minority ethnic communities have improved opportunities to participate fully in community life; reduce the impact of homelessness and improve opportunities for homeless people with a particular focus on single person households; disabled people have improved opportunities to participate and to live independently and engage fully in community life; improve the mental health and wellbeing of individuals.

Grants are distributed twice a year with the sole purpose of improving the lives of others through charitable donations in and around Scotland, and where possible on a global scale, with a focus on five core funding priorities: the advancement of education; the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of health and saving of lives; the advancement of art, heritage, science and culture; the advancement of public participation in sports.

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.

QHT give grants and interest-free loans as one-off funding for capital cost items of expenditure across a wide range of practical elements. These include: buying, building, converting, renovating or refurbishing property; expanding an existing housing project; making a housing project ‘greener’; smaller practical things which turn a house into a home. Through four specific grants they also fund work relating to good practice and development: the Health Check Service provides a professional consultant to help you in evaluation of the present and future ‘health’ and potential of your housing project; the Feasibility Study Grant helps towards the cost of getting professional to help you test the feasibility of specific proposals for providing affordable rented housing; the Environmental Assessment Grant helps towards the cost of getting professional help to identify and use environmentally-friendly options in your social housing project: the Dissemination of Good Practice helps towards the cost of making more widely available proven good practice which will help other organisations provide better social housing.

The Cinnamon Project Lab competition is looking for ambitious church-based social action projects that want to develop their initiatives so other churches can replicate them. This year they are looking for church-based projects supporting local people with housing needs and building community.