FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES:
Please note that TSI is here to help organisations with applications. Call 0300 303 4141 or email us at support@argylltsi.org.uk
Please note that TSI is here to help organisations with applications. Call 0300 303 4141 or email us at support@argylltsi.org.uk
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Fareshare’s Surplus with Purpose
Description: Fareshare provides funding to food businesses to offset the costs of sending good quality surplus food to good causes, helping the people most in need. Criteria: The fund is open to companies seeking to unlock new or hard-to-reach surplus (or ‘waste’) food as well as those that haven’t previously worked with Fareshare. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £50,000 Closing date: Applications can be submitted at any time |
Youth Scotland Rural Action Fund
Description: This fund aims to enhance and develop community-based youth work in Scotland’s rural communities and has been created in response to the challenges rural youth groups are facing in funding the delivery of community-based universal youth work. It will make small awards to enable youth groups provide more and/or better youth work opportunities for young people. Criteria: Applicants must be volunteer-led and delivering in local communities. Minimum: £100 Maximum: £750 Closing date: 6th March 2021 |
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Funding to Support Pet Rescue Organisations Affected by the Coronavirus
Description: Funding is available to support organisations which rescue and re-home pets or provide temporary support to ensure pets can remain with their owners. Criteria: Charities and not-for-profit organisations may apply. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £10,000 Closing date: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis 
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The Argyll Energy Advice Service
Description: Alienergy delivers a home energy advice service to households across Argyll and Bute, where assistance is available to anyone suffering from fuel poverty. Free training events can be delivered to organisations and groups that support disadvantaged people, to help them recognise and refer fuel-poor households. Criteria: Contact Rachel on 07860 774 929 to enquire or make a referral. Minimum: £0 Maximum: Unknown Closing date: Ongoing 
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Updates to National Lottery Community Fund Programmes
Description: The National Lottery Community Fund for Scotland has announced changes to two of its funding programmes to ensure that communities are supported better through the pandemic. The changes have been made to ensure that communities are still able to access funding to help them respond and recover by helping to broaden the type of work that can be funded, making funding available for shorter periods and making the application process quicker. National Lottery Awards for All and Young Start Fund remain unchanged. Criteria: The Community-Led Fund, which provides grants of up to £150,000 for wellbeing projects, will now support projects of up to 3 years. The Improving Lives Fund has increased funding to up to £200,000 for projects lasting up to 3 years to help people facing challenging circumstances. Minimum: Please see above Maximum: Please see above Closing date: Applications can be made at any time. 
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ACHA Community Action Fund
Description: Argyll Community Housing Association still has grants available within this year’s Fund. Funding is available for projects that focus on culture and recreation, the environment, e.g. green spaces, community facilities, social activities, health and wellbeing, unemployment, financial hardship, training and education and community safety. Criteria: Registered charities with a connection to housing or to the aims and objectives of the Association may apply. Applications will be considered in January 2021 for funding to be made available to spend on projects up until March 2021. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £500 Closing date: May 2021 
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National Lottery Community Fund – Young Start
Description: Young Start helps young people across Scotland become more confident, so they can realise their own potential. Funding is available to help children and young people have better physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, have better connections with the wider community and get access to new skills and training opportunities which will help them get a new job or start a business. Criteria: Voluntary or community organisations Minimum: £10,001 Maximum: £100,000 Closing date: Applications are being accepted now 
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Love Your Network
Description: The Love Your Network grant, funded by Transport Scotland, seeks to empower communities to learn more about their local routes and implement physical improvements which make journeys on the National Cycle Network more attractive and enjoyable. Criteria: Support is available to constituted community groups, registered charities and other social enterprises. Minimum: Grants have been changed to grant equipment and training bundles rather than money. Maximum: As above. Closing date: 28th May 2021 
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Scottish Sea Farms Heart of the Community Trust
Description: The broad aim of the Trust is to provide financial grants for the community using the following criteria: health and health promotion, education and personal development that leads to the enhancement of a community and community projects.
Criteria: Projects that deliver lasting change within the regions in which the company operates, including Argyll.
Minimum: £0
Maximum: The average award is currently £4,000-£5,000
Closing date: Ongoing
Description: The broad aim of the Trust is to provide financial grants for the community using the following criteria: health and health promotion, education and personal development that leads to the enhancement of a community and community projects.
Criteria: Projects that deliver lasting change within the regions in which the company operates, including Argyll.
Minimum: £0
Maximum: The average award is currently £4,000-£5,000
Closing date: Ongoing
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Free Trees for Community Groups and Schools
Description: The Woodland Trust has thousands of free tree packs to give away to community groups and schools. The trees are available for planting on an area that is accessible to the public so that it can be used and enjoyed by others. Criteria: If applying as a school, trees should be planted on either the school grounds, land the school has arranged regular access to or in an area that is publicly accessible. Minimum: £0 Maximum: Unknown Closing date: Applications are currently being accepted for trees to be delivered in March 2021. 
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Funding Available to Support Local Good Causes
Description: The Morrison’s Foundation awards grants to community projects that improve people’s lives and deliver public benefit. Criteria: Charities with financial information dating back to 2012. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £25,000 Closing date: Applications can be submitted at any time 
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The Community and Third Sector Recovery Programme
Description: Funding is available to support third sector organisations and communities through the transition from lockdown to recovery. The £25m Scottish Government-funded programme has two strands: Adapt and Thrive which provides tailored support and funding to organisations so they can operate sustainably post-coronavirus and Communities Recovery Fund which will support the delivery of services and activities that were suspended or reduced because of the virus, or the creation of new services.
Criteria: Charities, community and voluntary groups, and social enterprises may apply.
Minimum: £0
Maximum: Unknown
Closing date: Applications can be made at any time
Description: Funding is available to support third sector organisations and communities through the transition from lockdown to recovery. The £25m Scottish Government-funded programme has two strands: Adapt and Thrive which provides tailored support and funding to organisations so they can operate sustainably post-coronavirus and Communities Recovery Fund which will support the delivery of services and activities that were suspended or reduced because of the virus, or the creation of new services.
Criteria: Charities, community and voluntary groups, and social enterprises may apply.
Minimum: £0
Maximum: Unknown
Closing date: Applications can be made at any time
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Description: In response to the COVID pandemic and climate change, the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation is launching a new strategy which will focus on three inter-dependent aims: improving the natural world, tackling injustice to deliver a fairer future and creative, confident communities. Criteria: Charities or initiatives with ideas working towards these aims should apply. Funding can be used to cover core or project costs and collaborative approaches are encouraged. Minimum: £30,000 Maximum: Social investments of between £100,000 and £2 million. Closing date: Expressions of interest can be submitted at any time. 
Scotland’s Events Recovery Fund
Description: A new £2.75m fund has been launched by EventScotland and the Scottish Government to help Scotland’s events sector plan and deliver events through to the end of 2021 and to provide support as the industry responds and adapts to the effects of Covid-19. The Fund aims to help re-start the events sector and address additional costs which may be incurred as a result of new hygiene and health and safety requirements. Criteria: Small grants are available for smaller community events and events with existing EventScotland funding offers. Large grants are available for larger scale events supporting the visitor economy. Minimum: Small grants £1,000-£5,000 Maximum: Large grants £5,000-£35,000 Closing date: Applications can be made at any time 
Argyll and Bute Council Supporting Communities Fund
Description: The Supporting Communities Fund must deliver benefits for communities based on the following criteria: Resilient Communities – rebuilding from a pandemic and increasing community capacity Greener, cleaner communities – climate change mitigation Creative Communities – supporting health and wellbeing Criteria: The Fund is open to the voluntary sector, community councils and parent councils. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £2500 Closing date: 20th March 2021 
Small Grants Available for Community Projects
Description: The Scotmid Co-operative is offering grants to assist and support community projects and initiatives throughout Scotland. Last year Scotmid awarded grants to organisations ranging from parent and toddler groups to national campaigns. Funding is concentrated on the areas of: Children/Youth, Health & Wellbeing, Fair Trade, Social Inclusion, Arts & Culture, Environment, 65+ Groups (age), and Active Lifestyles. Criteria: To be eligible for funding, applicants must be a group or individual acting for the wider benefit of the local Community; and live within the geographic boundaries of one of Scotmid Regional Committees. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £500 Closing date: Applications can be submitted at any time. 
Scottish Land Fund
Description: Technical assistance funding is available through the Scottish Land Fund. Grants are available to help prepare to purchase a community asset and can fund specialist advice and/or professional fees including the preparation of feasibility studies and business plans, valuations and surveys as well as some costs towards community engagement. Criteria: Funding is available to voluntary, community and public sector organisations who want to take ownership of land and buildings to help urban and rural communities to become more resilient and sustainable. Minimum: £2,500 Maximum: £30,000 Closing date: Applications may be submitted at any time. The funding round for stage 2 applications - to fund the purchase of land or buildings for the community - is currently closed. 
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The National Lottery Scottish Land Fund
Description: The current round of the Scottish Land Fund closed to full applications in August. We aren’t currently accepting applications for land, buildings, or asset purchases. However, we can still consider first-stage applications to help communities develop their ideas or do preliminary work around taking ownership of assets. See details of SLF Technical Assistance Grants on this page. Criteria: To discuss what we might be able to support, please get in touch with the Scottish Land Fund team at the National Lottery Community Fund on advice@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk or 0141 846 0447 Minimum: £0 Maximum: Unknown Closing date: Ongoing 
NFU Mutual Charitable Trust
Description: The Fund is interested in initiatives in the areas of education of young people in rural areas and the relief of poverty within rural areas. Trustees are particularly interested in funding larger initiatives which would have a significant impact on the rural community. Criteria: UK charities working in agriculture, rural development and insurance are eligible to apply. Minimum: £1,000 Maximum: £50,000 Closing date: 29th May 2021 
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Description: Having focused their efforts on the pandemic, the Fund is re-opening for smaller grant applications. A phased re-opening of project funding begins on 25th November. This will provide some much-needed financial assistance, particularly to those heritage sector organisations which have been unable to access Covid-19 emergency funds. Criteria: The Fund will prioritise projects that boost the local economy, provide job creation and encourage skills development, support local health and wellbeing, encourage re-building community cohesion and demonstrate environmental long-term sustainability and inclusions have been built into the plans. Minimum: Phase 1 £3,000 - £10,000 and £10,000 - £100,000 Maximum: Phase 2 will open on 8th February 2021 Closing date: Ongoing 
NFU Mutual Community Giving Fund
Description: Applications are invited to meet the fund’s priorities of connecting the community, reducing isolation, providing opportunities and encouraging resilience. Criteria: Registered charities, schools and community groups may apply. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £1,000 Closing date: 31st March 2021 
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