Funding Opportunities

With grants of up to £250,000, the Innovation Fund supports museums in developing, trialling and implementing activities that will improve their financial position.

With grants of up to £100,000, the Unlocking Potential Fund supports the strategic development of museums by addressing issues that are currently preventing them from moving forward.

The Grocers' Charity is the charitable arm of the Grocers' Company. As a grant-awarding body, they invest in and support a broad range of small and medium-sized UK-registered charities. They provide one-off grants of up to £5,000 to UK registered charities with an income of less than £500,000. 

The Wise Music foundation aims to help a broad range of domestic and international charitable causes, not necessarily music-related ones. It provides financial support for people experiencing hardship, distress and illness, with a focus on children, the homeless and people living in poverty.

National Lottery Awards for All offers funding to support what matters to people and communities. The programme is a partnership between the National Lottery Community Fund Scotland, sportscotland and Creative Scotland. It can fund projects that will do at least one of these things:

• bring people together to build strong relationships in and across communities
• improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
• help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage
• support people, communities and organisations facing more demands and challenges because of the cost-of-living crisis.

The Craighnish Trust focuses on environmental and human rights issues as well as the particular special interests of the trustees. Previous awards have included grants to organisations working in conservation, refugees, youth, and music. The fund has a Scottish bias but is not exclusive to Scotland.

The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded, charitable grant-making foundation, which supports a wide range of causes across the UK.

The fund awards grants to projects that value, care for and sustain heritage for everyone across the UK, now and in the future.  

Heritage can mean different things to different people. It can be anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations. This could include nature and habitats, historic buildings and environments, or cultures, traditions and people’s memories. 

The fund awards grants to projects that value, care for and sustain heritage for everyone across the UK, now and in the future.  

Heritage can mean different things to different people. It can be anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations. This could include nature and habitats, historic buildings and environments, or cultures, traditions and people’s memories. 

Museums Galleries Scotland's Museum Development Fund supports museums to deliver medium-sized, strategic, sustainable development projects in line with their  own business plans and the Strategy. Accredited museums can apply for between £15,000 to £60,000 and projects can run for 2 years.

The Sackler Trust has supported research and education charities across the UK since 2010.