Funding Opportunities Member Bulletin

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Social Entrepreneurs - Build It

Build It is for social entrepreneurs who have tried and tested a social enterprise idea and want to turn it into their full-time job. Typical requests at this level are: up to £20,000 for a single salary, with a further £5,000 to be spent on additional essential costs or up to £25,000 split between two or more salaries.

The panel are looking for evidence that the Build It award will allow an enterprise to establish new, permanent roles while increasing both the income generation and the measurable social impact during the funding period.

Deadline: Thursday, January 26

Beatrice Caithness Fund

The Beatrice Caithness Community Fund is now at the end of its five-year lifetime plan and has some residual funds remaining. A final application round is now being held.

The fund has been established to contribute to the communities impacted from the construction of an 84 turbine offshore wind farm set in Moray Firth and will invest in local projects.

Deadline: Friday, January 27

John Watson’s Trust

Awards grants for educational purposes to children and young people under the age of 21 who have a physical or learning disability, or who are socially disadvantaged.

Grants are available to individuals or organisations working with eligible children and young people. Funding includes support for school and youth trips and residential experiences.

Deadline: Friday, January 27

Gordonbush Community Fund

Through our Gordonbush wind farm we make around £200,000 per year available for community and charitable projects. Between 2011 and 2036 we expect to invest £5.2 million in local projects.

Supports community and charitable projects in Brora, Golspie, Helmsdale and Rogart Community Council areas. Grants are available to legally-constituted community groups, non-profit organisations and registered charities supporting activities.

Deadline: Tuesday, January 31

Responsive Grants

The Responsive Grant-Making programme is their main programme where they are pleased to consider applications for support.

The responsive grants are usually unrestricted one-off grants of around £700 – £1,000 each. Occasionally the trustees may award other amounts (and for a particularly strong applications we may occasionally make a double award). But in considering an application to us, it is worth thinking how an unrestricted grant of up to £1,000 could allow your charity to do more than at present.

Deadline: Wednesday, February 1

The Hugh Fraser Foundation

The Foundation makes donations to registered charities which are active in such sectors as the arts and culture, medical & health, the environment and education, care and support of the young and elderly, people with disabilities and the under-privileged.

The Trustees’ policy is to focus on applications relating to activities and projects in Scotland, particularly those parts of Scotland where the local economy and/or circumstances make fund-raising for charitable purposes difficult.

Deadline: Wednesday, February 1

Soirbheas Grants - Tier 2

Objectives:

Improving the energy efficiency of the housing within our communities.

Strengthening the local economy by encouraging new businesses and encouraging employment and training opportunities.

Protecting our environment for future generations.

Improving the quality of life of the elderly and vulnerable, including young people within our communities.

Deadline: Wednesday, February 1

Creative Scotland Open Fund -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.

Deadline: Sunday, February 8

Funding Opportunities

Agnes Hunter Trust SCIO

The Agnes Hunter Trust SCIO was established in 1954 to support registered charities delivering health and social welfare projects in Scotland.

Priorities for the Trust include services or projects that focus on: self-management and awareness; advice, support and information; life-skills training; employability, particularly in relation to IT, literacy and numeracy; helping people participate and contribute to their community.

Deadline: Thursday, February 23

The Scottish Hydro Electric Community Trust

The Scottish Hydro Electric Community Trust is an independent charitable Trust which was founded by Scottish Hydro-Electric plc (now SSE plc) to provide help to customers in the company’s distribution area faced with high charges for an electricity connection.

The Trust was established in 1998 with independent Trustees appointed to award grants to offset high connection costs in deserving individual domestic cases and for special community projects.

Deadline: Tuesday, February 28

The Weir Charitable Trust

The Weir Charitable Trust aims to support Scottish-based community groups and small charities to provide services across Scotland to help the Scottish community. These groups and charities are likely to have found it difficult to access funds elsewhere.

The Trust will consider funding specific activities and services in sport, recreational facilities, animal welfare, health and cultural projects (see “What we fund“) to improve the quality of life for people, either through a particular field of expertise or via a local community.

Deadline: Tuesday, February 28

Community Learning Exchange

While the Community Learning Exchange is administered by Scottish Community Alliance (SCA), it is primarily intended as a resource to be shared by SCA’s member networks and offered to their members and partners. For this reason, all applications to the Learning Exchange must come through one of SCA’s member networks.

Prior to applying you should identify your host and discuss your learning outcomes with them to ensure they are the best match for you.

Deadline: March 2023

Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme

Registered Charities, Community Interest Companies, Co-operative Societies and Community Benefit Societies can apply for funds to deliver energy related projects that meet the scheme priorities and benefit people in England, Scotland and Wales. This core priority aims to help people who are most at risk from cold homes and high energy bills. Occasionally there may be additional priorities linked to a funding round e.g., a specific geographical focus or type of energy consumer.

Deadline: Ongoing

Cultivation Street 2023

The Cultivation Street campaign is all about community gardens and what makes them so fantastic. Community gardens come in a myriad of shapes, sizes and styles. They all have a different heart and a unique mission. What each one of them has in common though, is the ability to bring people together using the power of nature to inspire, heal and make people happy.

Please use the link below to register your interest in Cultivation Streets 2023 competition.

Deadline: Ongoing

Community Infrastructure Support Programme (CISP)

The North Highland Initiative’s Community Infrastructure Support Programme has been set up to provide grants of up to £1,000 for small initiatives in the community, tourism and support sectors in Caithness, Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty. For 2022, we have valuable and welcome partners in this work from Dounreay and the Coastal Communities fund which have both committed vital financial support to the program. This specific assistance is aimed at enabling many small communities in this area to become better prepared for the 2022 tourism season and beyond through the development of small – scale infrastructure projects.

Deadline: Ongoing

The Energy Support Programme

The Energy Support Programme is a natural addition to our Community Support Programme that has distributed almost £200K of small grants to over 120 community led projects in the last two years.

The ESP is aimed at helping our communities meet the current, and still developing, energy and cost of living crisis. We recognise that many community and voluntary groups will, amongst other things, be facing increased charges to run or hire meeting spaces, deliver food larders or meal services. These services are vital to keep our communities vibrant, to sustain our young, elderly, or vulnerable, and to support well-being programmes and combat loneliness.

Deadline: Ongoing

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