Local Improvement Fund - Virtual Information Session

Wednesday 22th June, 12:30 pm – 13:30 pm

The purpose of the Highland Alcohol and Drugs Partnership is to achieve improved outcomes for individuals, families and communities across Highland. HADP is a multi-agency partnership responsible for providing the overarching strategy and action plan for reducing drug and alcohol harm. They have provided funding to ensure that projects developed and delivered locally can help towards tackling the issues impacting on communities and individuals.

Take a Break

Take a Break provides cash grants to unpaid carers of disabled children and young people, who have complex additional support needs, or serious or life threatening health conditions.

Take a Break grants can be used flexibly to access single or multiple breaks from caring.

Take a Break aims to ensure that unpaid carers of disabled children and young people, are able to have a life alongside their caring role, and are as physically, mentally and emotionally well as they can be.

All grants are discretionary and are subject to available funding.

Deadline: Monday 20th June

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Self Management Fund

This is the second round of the Self Management Fund: Resilience, Recovery and Development. Third sector and community organisations in Scotland can apply for a grant of up to £60,000 for up to two years to support people living with long term conditions, people living with disabilities and unpaid carers to self manage. The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) administers the Self Management Fund on behalf of the Scottish Government to third sector and community-based organisations across Scotland to develop self management activities. 

Deadline: Monday 27th June

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Investing in Communities Fund

The Investing in Communities Fund (ICF) is a streamlined communities fund that is delivered as part of the Empowering Communities Programme. The fund reflects our commitment to investing in communities so that they can develop the resources and resilience to decide their own aspirations, priorities and solutions in response. The fund also helps to meet our targets as set out in the child poverty delivery plan and to underpin the Place Principle by encouraging more joined up collaborative approaches to services and assets to achieve better outcomes for people and communities.

Deadline: Tuesday 28th June

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Small Change

Big Difference

We’re keen to support the needs of charities who may be impacted by the coronavirus crisis. During this time we are relaxing our eligibility criteria so that donations to support running costs will be considered. The SCBD scheme invites members to donate the annual pence of interest from their savings or mortgage accounts to the Charitable Foundation. Every penny received through the scheme is used directly to help charities. Together, these small sums of money make a huge difference in the communities where our members live and work.

Deadline: Thursday 30th June

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Children’s Community Support Programme

There are a significant number of organisations and businesses that are struggling financially, as a result of Coronavirus. Due to lockdowns, and social distancing children across UK have been unable to access the services they used to. There will no doubt be long-term negative effects because of the pandemic, but Little Lives UK wants to guarantee that children’s services and activities are not one of them. Hence, we are launching our Children’s Community Support Programme. We’re offering to support organisations that work with children, who are in need of support during these challenging times.

Deadline: Thursday 30th June

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Henry Duncan Grants 2022

In 2022, Henry Duncan Grants will fund organisations that can demonstrate that they are supporting children and young people (aged 6-26 years) to overcome the impacts of inequality in their lives. Henry Duncan Grants will be open to grassroots organisations with an annual income of £500,000 or less. Organisations can apply for up to £40,000 across five years (£8,000 per year) in unrestricted funding.

We anticipate making grants up to a total of £925,000, meaning approximately 23-25 organisations are likely to receive funding.

Deadline: Sunday 5th July 

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Let's Move Together

Versus Arthritis want to address and prevent the likely reduction of marginalised communities driving sport and physical activity forward, by fostering and protecting community bodies, coaches, and volunteers.

By recognising the need for this funding to be opened UK wide, Versus Arthritis has made £150,000 available through The Let’s Move Together Fund which will support organisations in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

Deadline: Sunday 31st June

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The Community Ownership Fund

The UK government has launched a new £150 million Community Ownership Fund to help ensure that communities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can support and continue benefiting from the local facilities, community assets and amenities most important to them.

Voluntary and community groups can bid for match funding to help them buy or take over local community assets at risk of being lost, to run as community-owned businesses.

Deadline: Friday 19th August

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SURF Awards

SURF’s annual awards process is delivered in partnership with the Scottish Government. It is open to all community regeneration projects in Scotland that are currently in place or that have been completed within two years of the closing date.

The SURF Awards has been running since 1998. It provides an opportunity for regeneration projects of all sizes to demonstrate value to funders and partners, support team-building and develop a national profile.

Deadline: Monday 5th September

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Smarter Choices, Smarter Places Open Fund

The Smarter Choices, Smarter Places (SCSP) Open Fund aims to encourage people to change their everyday travel behaviours. Grants are available to encourage people to use buses and community car clubs for longer journeys; walking and cycling for short journeys, and home-working to replace daily commutes.

The Open Fund is available to support public, third and community sector organisations. The fund aims to help cut Scotland's carbon emissions and improve our air quality. It will also help reverse the trend towards sedentary lifestyles and will tackle health inequalities.

Deadline: Ongoing

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Highland Children's Trust Grants for Education & Support Professionals

The Highland Children’s Trust was established by Trust Deed in April 1985, taking over from a predecessor trust scheme originating in 1936.

Do you know of any children or young people in any of these circumstances?

• Low family income
• Unable to go on a school trip, or to a local feis, without help
• Child with learning difficulties
• Unable to have a family holiday
• Student from a low income family in financial difficulty
• Young person finding it difficult to raise the funds for an expedition
• Young person needing financial help to get a job, set up in business or finding a home.
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If any of these apply, please get in touch using the contact us form.

Deadline: Ongoing

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Easyfundraising

Easyfundraising turns the everyday online shopping of your staff, members, volunteers, and supporters into funds for your voluntary organisation, non-profit, charity, or CIC. When they use the Easyfundraising website or app to shop with leading retailers, the retailer sends your organisation a free donation at no additional cost. To get your fundraising off to the best possible start easyfundraising offers a completely free 1-2-1 session with one of our friendly fundraising coaches. It won't take long, and they will show you the best way to make easyfundraising work for your voluntary organisation, non-profit, charity, or CIC with tailored tips, tools, and a guided tour.

Deadline: Ongoing

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Sustaining Creative Development

The Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development aims to enable organisations to explore ways of working that will help them to adapt and respond to the current changing circumstances. The overall budget for this fund in the financial year 2021/22 is £7 million. Creative Scotland is committed to ensuring that people are supported to develop excellence and experimentation in a wide range of arts and creative activity, reflecting Scotland’s diverse and dynamic cultures. We want to ensure that the experience of the arts and creative activity benefits as many people as possible across Scotland’s communities and places.

Deadline: Ongoing

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Flexible Food Fund

The Argyll and Bute Flexible Food Fund (ABFFF) is aimed at tackling financial insecurity for adults and families across Argyll and Bute.

ABFFF offers financial support and wider confidential professional help to anyone suffering hardship. Working in partnership with the Community Food Forum, Bute Advice Centre and ALIenergy, households with low incomes and no access to cash savings can apply for immediate financial support. The Fund will help support daily living expenses. If the claimant engages with these services, a second payment will be made to contribute to a further months daily living expenses.

Deadline: Ongoing

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Funding for Year 2 Confirmed

£15 million for second year of fund announced

More information coming...