This programme provides early-stage financial support for community enterprise projects across the Scottish Crown Estate that contribute to community wealth building, local regeneration and sustainable development, and, ultimately, help create great places to live, work and visit.
Key Criteria
The fund is open to all communities up to five miles from Scotland’s coastline or within five miles of the rural estates. It offers early-stage financial support for local projects that will help achieve the following objectives:
- Create self-sustaining community enterprises that will promote sustainable development through the provision of local economic, social, and/or environmental benefits.
- Contribute to the regeneration of places through improvements to buildings or community spaces that will support self-sustaining community enterprises delivering sustainable development.
They are looking to make awards of between £20,000 to £50,000 for a one-year period for local projects with demonstrable community support that will assist self-sustaining community enterprises. To ensure projects are sufficiently linked to the Scottish Crown Estate and its key sectors, applications should demonstrate how they will address at least one of the following themes:
- Sustainable Rural/Coastal Housing
- Climate-Resilient Communities
- Community Infrastructure
- Skills, Enterprise and Circular Economy
- Sustainable Tourism, Recreation and Heritage
