Through their Wee Grants, The Robertson Trust offers funding to charitable organisations that support people and communities in Scotland who are living with poverty or trauma.
Key Criteria
Constituted community groups and registered charities with an annual income of less than £30,000 can apply for funding of up to £5,000 for one year.
Wee Grants fund work focused on groups of people who experience higher rates of poverty and trauma, or who are at higher risk, than the population as a whole. They are aimed at those groups in Scotland who are more likely to experience low incomes and restricted opportunities as a result.
These groups include but are not limited to:
- Lone parent families.
- Child poverty priority family groups (including larger families, families with young children, and young parent families).
- People experiencing severe or multiple disadvantage (e.g. due to homelessness, substance misuse and offending).
- Disabled people.
- Communities experiencing racial inequity
- Asylum seekers, refugees and those with no recourse to public funds.
- Households claiming Universal Credit or related low-income social security benefits.
- People with experience of the care system.
- Unpaid Carers.
- Women with low incomes.
- Young people (in most cases up to age 25, or 30 for those with additional support needs).
- Older people with low incomes.
- People living in deprived places, including rural or remote communities.
It is expected that most applicatins will be from organisations with a broad, community focus, the trust are also interested in funding targeted requests which address one or more of their funding themes:
- Funding Security - addressing the financial and material effects of poverty on people and communities.
- Education Pathways - equipping people for the future through learning and skills pathways.
- Work Pathways - improving employability services, and employability rates, for key population groups currently underrepresented in the labour market, and overrepresented in low paid, insecure, work.
- Nurturing Relationships - Supporting nurturing relationships within families and communities, to help avoid the impact of poverty on relationships, and support recovery.
Your work does not need to fit with one of these themes to be considered for funding, however, it should be focused on delivering services or support for people and communities with higher rates of or a higher risk of poverty and trauma.
