Community Building Grants are aimed at charities helping people and communities in Scotland who are experiencing (or at risk of experiencing) poverty, trauma or both. With this capital funding, they want to support the physical development and/or improvement of buildings that will be used to host or deliver a range of work addressing the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of the following themes:Financial wellbeing, Emotional wellbeing and relationships, and Educational and work pathways. See website for details of target groups.

Large Grants focuses on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of the following themes: Financial wellbeing, Emotional wellbeing and relationships, and Educational and work pathways. They seek to fund work that: meets people's immediate needs, provides earlier help, tests new approaches or does more of what work, and is universal or targeted. See website for details of target groups.

A partnership between Unbound Philanthropy, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Legal Education Foundation is making available £600,000 over three years from 2018 through the Transition Advice Fund (TAF). The fund aims to ensure that EU citizens living in the UK have the support that is needed to secure their right to settled status. TAF will prioritise those who are likely to face barriers, described in this Migration Observatory report, and has a particular interest in the needs and rights of young people. Recent attention given to the Windrush generation and young people who have spent the majority of their lives in the UK but do not have settled status highlights the importance of this fund.

The Trustees can fund a wide range of charitable activity but are particularly interested in supporting those charities or projects connected with community development, environmental, women’s and youth issues with a view to including social inclusion at all levels. In 2018 they funded under the headings citizenship and community development, arts, conservation, health, human rights, relief of poverty, religion and sport.

ABCT supports charities that defend human rights and promote respect for vulnerable individuals whatever their circumstances. The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with marginalised and excluded people in society. Their three priority areas are: Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, Criminal justice and penal reform, and Human rights, particularly access to justice.

The Foundation supports projects that seek to influence values and attitudes, promote equity and social justice, and develop radical alternatives to current economic and social structures. The main priorites are; peace and sustainable security and environmental sustainability. They only support practical projects when they are clearly of a pioneering nature, with potential for influencing UK national policy.

The objects of the charity are to make grants for charitable purposes to other charities and individuals. Grants are made under the categories of medical research, vulnerable in society, war veterans, homelessness, human rights, hospices and the arts.

They want to support people to create a world in which power is more equally shared, and in which powerful institutions are responsive and accountable to wider society and aligned with the long-term public interest. Their funding priorities are : Strengthening corporate accountability, Strengthening democratic accountability, Encouraging responsible media.

Trustees will consider proposals in the field of autistic spectrum disorder. Wherever possible, projects are preferred which include people with ASD in decision-making. The Trust also considers proposals in the field of disability, violence and access to justice. This is a developing field of interest. At present grants in this area mainly arise from trustees’ own research and that of their expert advisers. The trustees have an annual small grants programme for play schemes run in the summer school holiday which support children with ASD.

Grants will advance educational opportunity and social well-being across the UK and will improve the design and operation of social policy, especially in education, welfare and justice. They prioritise rigorous and impartial research, development, and analysis projects that: identify and explain the social and economic determinants of early childhood adversity, transitions from adolescence to young adulthood, and social and economic well-being in adulthood and later life; improve well-being for society as a whole, while ameliorating negative distributional outcomes and the greatest harms; support the development of workable evidence-based solutions for policy and practice over the medium term.