The trustees make donations to charities that were of significance to the late Mrs Isles Denny, including children's leukaemia charities, mental health charities and carer charities in Dundee.

The fund gives small grants to organisations including those supporting people with disabilities or health problems. It mostly funds in Dundee and the North East.

The Trust provides grants to Associations and Charities involved in work for the relief of poverty or suffering of any kind, for the preservation of wildlife and improvement of the environment. The Trust favours applications from the Dundee area.

This NHS Tayside fund is available for communities to enhance their environments, promote community spirit and inspire pride in neighbourhoods. Groups are invited to apply to establish projects or take action to tackle issues which affect the everyday lives of people living in our communities. The fund is particularly looking for new and inventive ways of helping communities. The fund will support the most disadvantaged communities across Tayside, and help to achieve ambitions for health equity. Includes the delivery of services and/or projects that have been identified by the community as meeting a need or aspiration.

The Customer and Community Investment Fund (CCIF), is a funding scheme for community projects. The fund allows LNER to work in partnership with charities, their customers and the communities located along the LNER route. They are looking for projects that support the key themes of: - Mental health: Creating a culture of positive mental health, bringing people and communities together and taking positive action to prevent suicide. - Education and employability skills: A focus on building skills, promoting employability and education amongst marginalised groups by investing in the skills requirements of now and the future. - Diversity and inclusion: Supporting diverse and inclusive community projects, creating opportunities for learning and the social mobility of vulnerable groups. - Environmental Sustainability: By providing support to environmental projects and encouraging sustainable mobility, our aim is to reduce the impact of congestion on our customers and communities, cutting emissions and improving air quality.

The trust makes a large number of mostly small grants to charities, with a preference for those in Dundee and Tayside.

Gives groups and organisations promoting community safety activities consistent with the Dundee Community Safety Partnership Strategy and Action Plan access to grant aid to deliver locally based responses to identified community safety issues. Funds can be given to support: publicity and promotion; materials and equipment; relevant travel costs and administrative costs.

Community groups can apply for help in funding projects, programs or community events within the city that supports Dundee City Council's General Equality Duty to pay due regard to the need to: - Eliminate discrimination - Advance equality of opportunity - Promote good relations across the range of protected characteristics The general equality duty covers the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation. The equality duty also covers marriage and civil partnerships, with regard to eliminating unlawful discrimination in employment.

The fund will support help to deliver activities that make a difference to the lives of Sanctuary’s residents and their communities (Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow. Projects should fall into one or more of these themes: Employment; Education; Skills and Training; Health and Wellbeing; Community safety and infrastructure; Environment; Financial inclusion.

The Trust will gives grant towards religion; medicine; education; youth; and historic building maintenance. The Trust has a preference for the Dundee and Tayside areas of Scotland.