The Gordon and Ena Baxter Foundation supports a huge variety of projects. Generally, applicants should demonstrate a sound management plan, and a clear benefit to communities in Moray and the Highlands and Islands. They will fund projects that cover one or more of the following: Education and Training, Health, Care, Sport, Arts and Heritage, and Conservation and Environment.

The Foundation supports a wide range of charities, mostly in Scotland, and principally working in the fields of medical facilities and research, the relief of poverty and assistance to the aged and infirm, education and learning, encouragement of personal development and training of young people and the provision of better opportunities for the less privileged and the vulnerable and the encouragement of music and the arts. They also fund under the headings conservation and environment, disadvantaged and disabled, elderly, homeless and hospices, music, theatre and visual arts, religion and youth.

The AEB Charitable Trust presently makes grant to charities in support of the following: The promotion of interests of wildlife, ecology and nature; The advancement of health, in particular, research into and treatment of Alzheimer's and the care of the confused elderly; The support of museums and galleries, music and the arts in Scotland; assistance to the infirm, the emergency services, disabled and retired members of the Armed Forces. The Trust favours organisations in the Lothians and Borders areas.

The trust supports the relief of poverty, aid for the aged, the infirm and handicapped, the advancement of education, the provision of recreational facilities and the preservation of buildings or other items of national or historic interest. The Trustees also tend to favour capital projects rather than running costs. Categories of funding include: child and adult welfare; environment and conservation; animal welfare; medical research and support; research and education; international welfare and arts.

The Cruach Trust is a small Scottish charity, which provides financial support for gardeners, retired gardeners and for preserving gardens throughout the United Kingdom. The trustees also have discretion to make donations to a wide range of organisations in the UK and abroad. Examples of grants are for: supporting a horticultural apprenticeship, arranged through the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; gardens, wildlife and the natural environment; music, the arts and cultural charities; medical research and support; organisations working with children, the elderly and vulnerable.

This trust concentrates on medical research and the welfare and education of children. It funds a wide range of charitable activities and beneficiaries including Christian charities and the benefit of sailors/lifeboatmen, the aged, the poor and people with disabilities. Usually half of the available funds is distributed to one organisation, approximately 8 organisations receive grants of between £1,500 and £3,000 and a number of organisations receive smaller grants.

The Foundation supports a wide range of charities both in the UK and abroad. Areas of particular interest to the Trustees include: promotion of the evangelical Christian faith; education, with a particular interest in the promotion of science and engineering, and youth development; medical research, with a particular emphasis on dementia and stroke; social/medical welfare projects, particularly those benefitting elderly and disabled people; preservation of cultural/environmental heritage and improving access to the arts for young people and the disabled (projects of national importance only); overseas development projects.

The objectives of the Trust are widely drawn. The trustees will employ their discretion in order to determine which charitable initiatives they support. In the past they have supported medical research and support, adult and child welfare, wildlife conservation, and humanitarian aid.

Funds medical research in Edinburgh directed to achieve prevention of, cure for or relief from pain and illness.

The Trust achieves its objects by making grants to individuals, organisations and institutions carrying out projects of significance to horticulture, gardening or botany with a strong horticultural element. The following is a non-exhaustive list of typical projects: gardeners’ training schemes run by appropriate organisations; restoring gardens of historic interest; developing new gardens for public access and enjoyment; exhibitions, book publications, research and educational programmes relating to horticulture; expeditions to collect and protect plants of scientific and horticultural value; and study-visits by horticulturists or botanists with strong horticultural links.