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 Robertson Trust wants to support smaller charities and community groups who are doing good work in their communities which fits their funding strands: Care and Wellbeing - Improving the quality of life for those affected by physical and/or mental health issues and their carers; Strengthening Communities - Increasing the ability and capacity of people and communities to create solutions which address local need; Realising Potential – Developing confidence and resilience in young people, particularly those who face barriers to success.

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.

Will fund projects at a local and community level delivering an aspect, or strands, of the following sub-categories: targeted early intervention programmes aimed at reaching the most troubled and vulnerable families in a community; preventative and diversionary projects for young people at risk of offending including tailored interventions identifying and addressing the particular needs of girls and young women; programmes, particularly those with a focus on young offenders, combining prison based and community interventions dealing with rehabilitation of offenders, accommodation and support on release, helping with maintaining family relationships, mentoring, and mapping and creating pathways to employment; programmes of support directed towards rehabilitating the victims of domestic abuse and criminal exploitation.

FiMT was established to improve the transition of Service personnel, and their families, from military into civilian life, focusing on those most vulnerable to failure. They are particularly interested in the following areas but this is not exclusive: finding a job, training, education and transition services; early Service Leavers; finding a home; impact on families; support for spouses, dependants and partners; improving the well-being of the Armed Forces Community; ex-Service personnel in the Criminal Justice sector; access to information, help and guidance

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 Building Scotland Fund is a £150 million fund which helps: the development of new affordable and private sector housing; the development of modern industrial and commercial property; support industry-led research and development. Funding is only available up to March 2021 so is best used to help projects that are at a later stage of development. This means funding is unlikely to be available if your project is at a concept stage.

OneFamily Community Grants help OneFamily customers and their communities by supporting local groups, charities, projects and schemes. The nominated organisation/cause will be a non-profit organisation that is inclusive and accessible, based in the UK and that benefits the local community. Only OneFamily customers with a live policy are eligible to apply for a Community Grant.

The Gannochy Trust is an independent grant maker, informed by its Funding Strategy and Guidance for 2019 to 2022. During this funding strategy, the greater percentage of the Trust’s funding will be aimed at groups and organisations within Perth and Kinross. Organisations within Perth and Kinross can apply for funding: improve the quality of life for people; develop and inspire young people and improve the availability or quality of the built and natural environment for wide community use. In the rest of Scotland the “develop and inspire young people” strand is available to organisations which support direct work with young people who are disadvantaged and vulnerable in communities that have limited access to resources and opportunities. The Trust aims to fund the most compelling projects or organisations that deliver the outcomes that they hope to achieve with our funding, particularly for young people. The Trust will accept applications from organisations working in areas such as community, sport, culture including art, music and dance, youth work, environment, health and wellbeing and heritage.

The Plugged-in Households Grant Fund (PiHHs Grant Fund) is an opportunity for not-for-profit housing associations, housing cooperatives and constituted community groups in Scotland to apply for funding to procure the services of a zero emission car club vehicle, for use by their tenants and the wider local community. A car club provides shared access to one or more vehicles as an alternative to private car ownership. This provides: affordable access to zero-emission vehicles to households across Scotland, including those without allocated off-street parking; a viable alternative to owning a vehicle for people who only need one occasionally; access to alternative transport options for people who don't have their own vehicle; an opportunity to experience electric vehicles regardless of income or location.