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.

Our Place aims to empower local people and organisations to bring about a massive and lasting positive difference in a limited number of neighbourhoods. It is focused on the assets that exist in these neighbourhoods and will bring together local talent and energy, connect individuals, groups and organisations and increase the confidence of people to take positive action. It is not an open fund and operates only in: Auchmuty in Fife; Camelon in Falkirk; Lochside and Lincluden in Dumfries and Galloway; Ardrossan (Central and North East) in North Ayrshire;Whitlawburn and Springhall in South Lanarkshire and Shortlees in East Ayrshire.

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.

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.

Beneficiaries include all or anyone or more of:- (a) The Church of Scotland General Trustees; (b) The National Trust for Scotland; (c) The Old People's Welfare Committee of the Dundee Council of Social Service, or any charitable institution concerned with the welfare of the citizens of Dundee; (d) The University Court of the University of Edinburgh; (e) The University of Southampton; (f) The University of Dundee; (g) The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, or any other charitable institution connected with work for the blind; (h) any other charitable institution or charitable institutions selected from time to time by the Trustees.

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

Trustees normally only give consideration to applications for assistance from local organisations in Dundee and Tayside. Trustees favour organisations which work in the social and welfare areas, assisting people struggling to cope with day-to-day living or suffering from disability. They may also support national charities for their work in Dundee and Tayside and organisations in this area whose activities can be enjoyed by a significant proportion of the local population. A number of smaller grants averaging £1,500 are made, larger grants of between £10,000 and £36,000 are made to larger projects being undertaken in the Dundee area.

The trust was set up for the benefit of the citizens of Dundee. It's principal activities are the support of local charities, the Armistead Lecture series and the Dundee Educational Prize Fund.