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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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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NFU Mutual Charitable Trust Funding for Rural Community and Education Projects
Description: The Trust supports charities in the UK working in agriculture, rural development and insurance. Criteria: The Trustees are particularly interested in initiatives in the areas of education of young people in rural areas and the relief of poverty in rural areas. Minimum: £1,000 Maximum: £50,000 Closing date: 30th October 2020 |
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 |
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Boost It Fund
Description: Boost It Fund is the most recent addition to the Scottish Entrepreneurs Fund, delivered on behalf of the Scottish Government. Boost It helps social enterprises that have been trading for up to three years to strengthen their businesses so they can successfully sustain trading by providing repayable grants. It can also help social enterprises at the start-up stage if they need an injection of capital to get their idea started. Criteria: Minimum: £30,000 in repayable grant Maximum: £50,000 in repayable grant Closing date: 12 noon on 3rd November 2020 
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 
CalMac Community Fund
Description: The CalMac Community Fund helps those most in need across our west coast communities by making awards to help local organisations achieve their goals. We will seek to support services that tackle social isolation, mental health, loneliness and/or poverty. Criteria: Non-profit organisations registered to the islands and ports we serve, which engage and deliver services for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people. Minimum: £500 Maximum: £2,000 Closing date: Applications open Thursday 1st October 2020 and close 1700 hrs Monday 30th November 2020. 
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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 |
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: 1st December 2020 |
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. 
Funding to Improve Homes and Community Spaces
Description: The B & Q Foundation provides funding to support people in need including those suffering financial hardship, sickness, disability, or other disadvantage or distress. Grants are available for projects that support people experiencing bad housing or homelessness as well as community projects looking to improve their spaces. This could be a community hall or care centre, hostel or hospice. Criteria: Registered charities are encouraged to apply. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £5,000 Closing date: Applicants are required to submit an expression of interest and funding will be awarded before the end of 2020. 
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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. 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 
Aviva Community Fund
Description: Aviva has launched the latest round of its Community Fund, teaming up with Crowdfunder to support projects that boost the resilience of communities in the face of uncertainty. Projects to be supported will be addressing community resilience – tackling inequality and improving environments, and financial capability and inclusion – promoting financially inclusive communities where people can manage their finances better and avoid problem debt. Criteria: Small charities, schools and community interest groups in the UK with innovative ideas that benefit their community should apply. Once applications have been submitted, applicants will need to create a fundraising page on Crowdfunder that Aviva employees can browse and donate to. Applicants can also showcase their projects to raise additional public donations. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £50,000 Closing date: 19th January 2021 
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