Funding Opportunities

The Public Engagement Grant Scheme aims to support the Institue of Physics 'Limit Less' campaign by improving the relationship with physics of young people and their influencers, including their parents and carers. They offer grants of between £500 and £4000 for physics-based activities in the UK. 

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. 

Trefoil supports the interests of children and young people with special needs, including physical disability, caring obligations, other disadvantage or learning and psycho-social needs to foster their independence, confidence and assertiveness.

This funding is for projects that support children, young people and families or that help people to be healthier and have better access to support.

Grants of between £300 to £20,000 are available for organisations in Scotland with an annual income of under £500,000, looking to support children and young people aged 8 to 24.  

The7stars foundation offers funding to charities, CICs, Schools, Nurseries and Children’s Homes for apprenticeship training to support young people who are challenged by the issues they prioritise.

The PF Charitable Trust's funding policy is to support work at community level and the foundation provides a valuable service in targeting appropriate groups. 

The grant is available to any child, up to the age of 18 years, resident in Orkney and who is disadvantaged due to any disability, behavioral or psychological problem, experiencing poverty, deprivation, illness, distress, abuse or neglect.

Grants of up to £500 are available to individuals in Scotland aged 16-26 looking to make a positive change to the issues that matter to them.

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

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.

Parents, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists of a child or young person under the age of 18 living with a disability or long-term health condition, can now apply for funding to purchase a new wheelchair.

The Robertson Trust offers funding to charitable organisations that support people and communities in Scotland who are living with poverty or trauma.

Young Start offers grants of £20,001 - £150,000 for up to 3 years to organisations in Scotland that work with children and young people, aged 8 to 24.

The National Lottery Community Fund worked with children and young people to design this funding. It focuses on what matters to them and how they want to be involved.

Aberlour’s Urgent Assistance Fund can provide immediate relief to families with children (aged 21 and under) who are suffering extreme hardship. This support is usually via cash grants to assist with a range of needs, such as food, utilities, clothing, bedding, appliance repairs, replacement of appliances that have failed, or other essentials (excluding carpets, floor coverings or electronic devices).

Stronger Starts supports thousands of local community projects and good causes across the UK. The scheme is open to all schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, with priority given to projects that provide food and support to children, young people and families. It provides grants of up to £1500 to local projects from across the whole of Scotland.

The programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances and is delivered by Family Fund Business Services. It provides items that meet a child’s most basic needs such as a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal and other items or services critical to a child’s wellbeing.

Buttle UK offer individually tailored grants of up to £2,400 for children and young people who have experienced a crisis that has recently had a significant and enduring impact on their wellbeing and educational engagement. They fund items and activities to help improve children and young people’s wellbeing and increase their capacity to engage in education and learning.

The Clothworkers’ Foundation award grants for capital projects to UK registered charities, CICs, and other registered UK not-for-profit organisations (including special schools). They fund both large and small projects. The size of grant awarded depends on a number of factors including the size of the organisation and the cost and scale of the capital project.

The broad aim of the Heart of the Community Grant Trust is to provide financial grants for community projects that deliver lasting change within the regions in which the Company operates (Shetland, Orkney, Highland and Argyll).

The Robertson Trust offers funding to charitable organisations that support people and communities in Scotland who are living with poverty or trauma.

The Robertson Trust offers funding to charitable organisations that support people and communities in Scotland who are living with poverty or trauma.

The Roberton Trust offers offers funding to charitable organisations that support people and communities in Scotland who are living with poverty or trauma.