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Funding

Creative fundraising approaches, current available funding streams, and examples of successful funding applications


Grant funding

  • The Big Lottery Scotland - Through their Investing in Communities scheme, BIG in Scotland gives out millions of pounds each year to good causes across the country.

  • Climate Challenge Fund - The Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund, managed by Keep Scotland Beautiful, supports communities to tackle climate change by reducing their carbon emissions and increasing their capacity to take action. The fund will run until at least 2015.

  • Creative Scotland -Creative Scotland offer investment grants for both capital and cultural economy projects across Scotland.

  • Esmee Fairbairn Foundation - The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation aims to improve the quality of life throughout the UK by funding the charitable work of organisations with the ideas and ability to achieve positive change and are keen to support work that might otherwise be considered difficult to fund.

  • Leader - LEADER is part of the Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP). LEADER is a bottom - up method of delivering support for rural development through implementing local development strategies. Support, awarded by Local Action Groups (LAGs), is aimed at local projects with a wide community benefit that show an element of originality or experimentation where possible, and complement other activities within the local development strategy.

  • The Robertson Trust - The Robertson Trust is an independent Scottish grant-making Trust which exists to provide financial support to charities as defined by the Law of Scotland. In practice, this enables the Trustees to donate to a wide range of charitable objectives where the work takes place in, or has an impact on, Scotland.

  • The Tudor Trust - The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making trust which supports voluntary and community groups working in any part of the UK.


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Funding applications