Social Business Trust

SBT’s mission is to support high growth potential social enterprises to scale-up their impact. They do that by investing cash grants and professional support from seven partner organisations in a carefully selected portfolio of social enterprises.

Environmental Key Fund - Blacklaw Windfarm Community Benefit Fund

The Blacklaw Windfarm Community Benefit Fund is open to communities living closest to the windfarm development through a community and environmental grants scheme.

Next deadline: 4 Jun 2024

Mrs M A Lascelles Charitable Trust

The Trust makes grants to charities and voluntary organisations in Scotland and the UK. They fund a wide range of organisations with a preference for countryside, health, art and young people.

Marc Fitch Fund

Makes small grants towards the costs of publishing scholarly work in a range of fields including regional and local history, archaeology, historical geography, and the broad fields of the heritage, conservation and the historic environment.

Next deadline: 1 Aug 2024

Tweed Forum - Fallago Environment Fund

Fallago Environment Fund is investing in local and regional projects right across the Scottish Borders, including areas that don’t have access to a local community benefit fund.

Next deadline: 1 Sep 2024

Dumfries & Galloway Council - Area Committee Grants

Dumfries and Galloway Council can provide financial assistance to the third sector (voluntary and community organisations) who can apply to one or more of four Area Committees: Annandale and Eskdale; Nithsdale; Stewartry; Wigtown.

SSE - Strathy North Joint Community Fund

The community fund can support projects which build the sustainability of the local communities as vibrant places to live, work and visit, and support the development of a range of activities and services available to the community.

Next deadline: 30 Jun 2024

South Lanarkshire Council - Renewable Energy Fund

Funds are available for capital projects which improve quality of life and economic prosperity of communities within 10km of participating renewable energy developments at Whitelee, Pates Hill, Stallashaw and Blacklaw.

Fife Environment Trust - Small Grants

The trust continues to operate as one of the key funding bodies in Fife, awarding grants for community, environmental and heritage projects across the Kingdom to benefit the lives of those living close to landfill sites.

Fife Environment Trust - Large Grants

Supports projects in communities across Scotland focused on sustainability and responding to the climate emergency.