The Youth Scotland Rural Action Fund is a Micro Grant fund being supported by The Robertson Trust and The Gannochy Trust. This fund has been created in response to the challenges which rural youth groups are facing in funding the delivery of community based universal youth work. It will make small awards to enable youth groups operating in rural communities to provide more and/or better youth work opportunities for young people.

The trust supports a wide range of charitable activities in and around the City of Perth which the Trustees feel are beneficial to the City of Perth.

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 Gannochy Trust is an independent grant maker, informed by its Funding Strategy and Guidance for 2019 to 2022. During this funding strategy, the greater percentage of the Trust’s funding will be aimed at groups and organisations within Perth and Kinross. Organisations within Perth and Kinross can apply for funding: improve the quality of life for people; develop and inspire young people and improve the availability or quality of the built and natural environment for wide community use. In the rest of Scotland the “develop and inspire young people” strand is available to organisations which support direct work with young people who are disadvantaged and vulnerable in communities that have limited access to resources and opportunities. The Trust aims to fund the most compelling projects or organisations that deliver the outcomes that they hope to achieve with our funding, particularly for young people. The Trust will accept applications from organisations working in areas such as community, sport, culture including art, music and dance, youth work, environment, health and wellbeing and heritage.

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

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 aim of this grant is to enhance the tree cover within the National Park to support delivery of National Park Partnership Plan priorities and improve and enhance the natural capital for the benefit of people and wildlife. The grant offers financial assistance to plant individual trees or small areas of woodland that might not usually be eligible for other funding but will help to enhance: riparian habitats; historic gardens and designed landscapes; Tree Preservation Orders and Conservation Areas; public realm and delivery of public amenity benefits, such as locations by core paths, public roads and in areas of green space used by the public.

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.

Funds primarily around Dundee and its surrounding geographical area for general charitable purposes for the relief of poverty, the advancement of education, the advancement of religion and purposes beneficial to the community which do not come under the three previous purposes. As a rough geographic guide, almost all grants are awarded to charities or their projects that fall within an area stretching around Dundee, through north Fife, Perth and Angus.

The Moto in the Community Trust aims to make a real difference to the communities around Moto’s locations. One of the ways they do this is by providing each Moto location with the opportunity to adopt a local community partner. By joining forces with community groups and charities we are able to support them in realising their objectives. Local community partners benefit from opportunities to visit their partnered Moto site, exhibit their publicity material and collect for their own registered charity on specific fundraising days. Local community partners can also benefit from their grant scheme.