Funding Opportunities

This is a capital fund that offers grants to support employers in improving facilities and infrastructure that enable staff to walk, wheel or cycle to work.

Typical projects range from £500 – £10,000, although higher value projects are possible and should be discussed with HITRANS before an application is submitted.

This grant supports local authorities and community organisations to install and improve public cycle parking and related infrastructure.

The cycle parking fund supports the outcomes of the People and Place Programme. 

The Veterans’ Foundation operates an open grants programme for charitable organisations that provide direct support for the UK armed forces community.  Their funding is directed towards work that serves our end beneficiaries - specifically serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families. 

The Major Grants Programme is designed to help generate sector-wide learning and build strategic partnerships around key issues led by the Armed Forces sector. 

Grant awards are anticipated to be between £200,000 and £500,000 for partnerships of more than two organisations, over a 12 - 24 month period.

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.

Boost Charitable Trust is a grant-making charity whose mission is to fund and support inspiring programmes which help improve the lives of the disabled and disadvantaged through the power of sport.

The trust offers two different levels of funding:

1. Small Awards, up to £750, which are considered through a shorter process.

2. Large Awards, over £750, which are considered by the full trustee body at the next trustee meeting.  Most recent Large Awards have been in the range of £2,000 to £7,000. 

The Veterans’ Foundation Small Grants funding programme supports charities and other not-for-profit groups that provide assistance to those in need among serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families.

Grants are available for between £500 and £5,000 and must be spent within 12 months.

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.  

The Foundation provides grants to help organisations and clubs involved in 'on water' elements of the sport of rowing. Most of their grants are awarded to UK rowing clubs but they also support any club or organisation involved in “on water rowing-type” activities.

The Sasha Foundation (TSF) was set up to support charities that work with mental health issues in memory of Sasha Love. In the UK this involves supporting young people with a bias towards young people, who are suffering from depression and mental health issues or who are confronting drug abuse issues. Additionally, it involves supporting education and healthcare projects and programs in low and middle income countries, with a bias towards education for young women.

The Esmee Fairburn Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. They also offer social investment.

As well as making direct investments into organisations seeking to create impact towards their aims, the foundation also invests into impact funds, which are managed by other social investors. They offer loans (secured and unsecured), equity, fund investments and everything else.

Expressions of Interest can be submitted at any time.

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. 

This funding is for organisations in Scotland, that The National Lottery Community Fund currently fund. They want to support organisations to try out new ideas and ways of working, or to develop their organisation and improve their current work.

Funding from £300 to £50,000 is available, for up to 2 years.

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.

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.

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

The fund, which is administered by Victim Support Scotland, is open to any victim of crime who is resident in Scotland who is currently accessing victim and other support services. It is also available for people who live outside of Scotland who have been bereaved by a crime that has occurred within Scotland. Support organisations can apply for funding on behalf of victims.

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.

This funding is for projects that will help people connect more with each other. For the Community Action funding programme, The National Lottery Community Fund define communities as people who share an identity, interest or experience. They also include people living in the same place. They will support projects that are open, inclusive and led by their community.

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.

Social connections and community activities are at the heart of creating healthier, happier lives and a flourishing society. That’s why we support amazing community-led projects.

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.

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).

Charles Hayward Foundation fund preventative and early intervention programmes being delivered at the community level which allow older people to stay in their own homes and remain independent. They are interested in programmes which can demonstrate their effectiveness in improving the quality of life of older people. We favour projects that offer a consistent and sustained benefit rather than one-off events or short-lived activities.

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.