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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Social Entrepreuners Fund
Description: The SEF offers three funds: Pounds for Purpose if you are aged 16-26 and want to put an idea that creates a positive impact into action; Start-It for the start-up costs of your social enterprise idea; Build It if you have tried and tested your social enterprise idea and want to turn it into your full-time job. Criteria: Wherever you are on your social enterprise journey Minimum: £0 Maximum: Pounds for Purpose £500; Start It £5,000; Build It £25,000 Closing date: Ongoing 
Screwfix Foundation
Description: The Screwfix Foundation is open for applications for projects that will fix, repair, maintain and improve the properties and community facilities of those in need by reason of financial hardship, sickness, disability, distress or other disadvantage. Grants are available for all kinds of projects, from repairing buildings and improving facilities in deprived areas, to decorating the homes of people living with sickness and disabilities. Criteria: Charities and not-for-profit organisations are encouraged to apply. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £5,000 Closing date: Applications can be made at any time and will be reviewed on a quarterly basis. 
Resilience and Recovery Loan Fund
Description: This emergency fund will provide repayable finance to UK charities and social enterprises directly affected by the COVID-19 crisis, many of whom are facing urgent cash-flow problems and disruption to their delivery. Criteria: Charities and social enterprises Minimum: Loans of £100,000 Maximum: Loans of £500,000 Closing date: 31st March 2021 
Funding for Research and Projects that Address Severe Learning Disabilities
Description: The Bailey Thomas Charitable Fund provides research and project funding in the area of severe learning difficulties, including autism, for both children and adults. Grants are made to cover capital projects and core costs. Criteria: Registered charities, schools and PTAs, and Industrial and Provident Societies may apply. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £10,000 Closing date: Applications can be submitted at any time. 
Community Justice Fund
Description: Specialist social welfare legal advice organisations can apply for grants to help cope with the immediate impact of the pandemic and lay the foundations for longer-term renewal. Criteria: Registered charities working in the UK Minimum: £25,000 Maximum: £75,000 Closing date: Wave one is ongoing 
The Mickel Fund
Description: The Fund’s mission is to use innovative thinking, the human capital of the trustees and strong governance to leverage financial capital in supporting both entrepreneurial charitable activity and longstanding philanthropic endeavours, including crisis work in the UK and globally. Criteria: The Mickel Fund aims to be a flexible and helpful funder that builds relationships with the organisations it funds. It recognises that charities are often dealing with complex issues and tries to provide advice and support as well as donations. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £10,000 Closing date: 3rd February 2021 
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Seafarers UK COVID-19 Emergency Fund
Description: In response to COVID-19’s impact on merchant seafarers, fishers and their families, this new £2m fund is intended for distribution in 2020/21, with 75% allocated to the international merchant seafaring community and 25% to UK coastal fishing fleets. Criteria: Grants are offered to charities and other organisations providing frontline and support services to merchant seafarers, UK fishers and their families. Minimum: £0 Maximum: Unknown Closing date: Applications can be submitted at any time and should be made via email to grants@seafarers.uk 
The Rank Foundation – Pebble Grants Programme
Description: Charities and churches can apply for funding of capital projects or for a one-off short term activity, such as an annual respite break or holiday for disadvantaged young people. Criteria: Total project cost must be less than £150,000, annual income must be less than £500,000 and the organisation must already have raised a third of total costs. Minimum: £0 Maximum: Unknown Closing date: Ongoing 
Digital Boost Development Fund
Description: This £10m fund is open to Scottish businesses to help them do more with digital in these challenging times. Funded by The Scottish Government in conjunction with Business Gateway and its DigitalBoost programme. Criteria: All industry sectors are eligible for consideration. Charities, social enterprises and third sector organisations can also apply. Your business must be trading a minimum of 6 months. Grant recipients will be expected to contribute at least 25% of the cost of their project. Minimum: Businesses who are VAT registered can apply for grants of up to £25,000 Maximum: Businesses who are not VAT registered can apply for grants of up to £5,000 Closing date: Fund opened 12th January 2021. 12/01/21, 7:24pm, Fund Suspended: Due to the current level of applications for the DigitalBoost Development Grant, new applications have been suspended as of this evening. Please check www.digitalboostdevelopmentgrant.co.uk for regular updates. 
The Fore Transformational Grants
Description: The Fore makes unrestricted grants which have the potential to have a transformational impact on an organisation. Transformational impact includes helping an organisation become more sustainable, more efficient, to grow significantly or enabling an organisation to take a major step forward of some kind. The Fore is particularly looking to fund small organisations working with marginalised groups and led by people in the community that may have found it hard to access trust and foundation funding in the past. Criteria: Any registered charity, CIC, CIO or Community Benefit Society with turnover of under £500,000 in the last financial year is eligible to apply. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £30,000 Closing Date: Ongoing 
Funds for Financial Literacy Projects
Description: The MSE Charity gives grants for projects focused on building financial capability skills and activities that make a lasting impact on how people think, behave and manage their money. Criteria: Not-for-profit organisations may apply. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £5,000 Closing date: Ongoing 
Funding to Develop Digital Services
Description: The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Comic Relief have announced that not-for-profit organisations in the UK can apply for grants of up to £70,000 through the Tech for Good digital development fund ‘Build’ programme. The funding will be available to use technology to explore different approaches to delivering better services during the Covid-19 crisis. The funding is being made available through the Tech for Good digital development fund ‘Build’ programme. Criteria: Over £1 million will be available to individual not-for-profit organisations or those working in partnership to define, test and develop user-centred digital solutions to create more impact for the people they work with. Applications that aim to adapt or re-purpose existing technology are also eligible for funding. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £70,000 Closing date: 12th February 2021 
The Marsh Christian Trust
Description: The aim of The Marsh Christian Trust is to create a sustainable way to give something back to society by supporting organisations and people who are making a difference. The Trust focuses on funding which could help organisations pay for various running costs such as volunteer expenses, training days and other core outgoings. Charities will be working in the areas of arts and heritage, social welfare, environmental causes and animal welfare, education and training and healthcare. Criteria: Applicants must be registered charities. This does not include Community Interest Companies. Minimum: £300 Maximum: £2,000 Closing date: Applications can be submitted at any time. 
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Foundation Scotland Response, Recovery and Resilience Fund
Description: The Fund supports organisations in Scotland which are helping vulnerable people impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. 1st December sees the Fund enter its Resilience phase, with applications that fit the new resilience criteria being prioritised. Criteria: Grants are available to help charities and constituted community groups with an annual income of up to £250,000 to continue their operations in the ‘new normal.’ From 1st December, priority will be given to applications that fit the resilience criteria. Minimum: £1,000 Maximum: £5,000 Closing date: Applications can be submitted at any time but funds are limited. |
Funding to Help Vulnerable People Apply to the EU Settlement Scheme
Description: The Home Office has announced funding is available to help vulnerable EU citizens apply to the EU Settlement Scheme, which allows them and their families to continue living and working in the UK after 30th June 2021. Criteria: Charities can apply for funding to provide support. Minimum: £0 Maximum: Unknown Closing date: Ongoing |
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Henry Smith Charity Projects that Improve People’s Lives
Description: The charity provides grants of between £20,000 and £60,000 per year for up to 3 years for charitable organisations that help people when other sources of support have failed, are inappropriate, or simply not available. Funding priorities are help at a critical moment, positive choices, accommodation/housing support, employment and training, financial inclusion, rights and entitlements, and support networks and family. Criteria: Eligible organisations include charities and not-for-profit organisations (including social enterprises) in the UK with a turnover of £50,000 - £2 million. Minimum: £20,000 Maximum: £60,000 Closing date: Applications can be made at any time. 
Capital Projects Benefiting Disadvantaged People
Description: The Clothworkers Foundation awards grants towards capital projects and may cover the cost of buildings, fittings, fixtures, equipment and vehicles. The work of organisations applying must fit within one or more of the Foundation’s programme areas which include alcohol and substance misuse, disadvantaged young people, domestic and sexual abuse, homelessness, older people and people with disabilities. Criteria: Registered charities, CICs and other registered not-for-profit organisation, including special schools, may apply. Minimum: Decision within eight weeks for grants and projects less than £10,000. Maximum: Decision within six months for grants over £10,000. Closing date: Applications can be made at any time. 
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The Weir Charitable Trust
Description: The Trust is funding projects relating to sport, health, culture, the advancement of animal welfare and recreational facilities. Criteria: Charities and community groups with income of £100,000 or less Minimum: £0 Maximum: £25,000 Closing date: 5pm on 26th February 2021 
Help the Homeless
Description: Grants are available to organisations whose aim is to help homeless people return to the community and enable them to resume a normal life. The grants are available for capital costs. Criteria: Small and medium-sized charitable organisations may apply. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £5,000 Closing date: 15th March 2021 
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Funding for Armed Forces Day Events
Description: Ministry of Defence is providing funding for events such as tea parties, parades, big band concerts and live and static demonstrations to be held on or in the weeks around 26th June 2021. Grants can cover up to half the total cost of the event and could be used, for example, for decorations, flags and banners, advertising, insurance and PA and communications systems. Criteria: Organisations, schools and ex-service organisations may apply for funding. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £10,000 Closing date: Applications can be made between 4th November 2020 and 1st March 2021. 
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The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Description: The National Lottery Heritage Fund has resumed accepting small and medium project funding applications and launched an interest free loans pilot. The aim is to help the UK’s heritage sector respond to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Heritage Recovery and Resilience Loans will also be available, providing sums of between £50,000 and £250,000 to not-for-profit organisations currently or previously in receipt of National Lottery Heritage funding looking to restart and develop their income generating potential. The deadline for applications is the 14th February 2021 Criteria: Phase 1 will see the Fund reopen to applications for heritage not-for-profit and public sector organisations, and local authorities, to build their resilience. Minimum: £3,000 Maximum: £100,000 Closing date: Applications can be made at any time. 
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Woodward Charitable Trust
Description: The Trust primarily funds projects that make good use of volunteers, encourage past and current users to participate and ensure that funds awarded are being well used and fall within the following areas: children and young people who are isolated, at risk of exclusion or involved in anti-social behaviour; disadvantaged families or prisoners and ex-offenders. Criteria: Registered charities, social enterprises, and CICs may apply. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £3,000 Closing date: Noon on 28th January 2021 
Extended Support for Leisure, Retail and Hospitality
Description: Significant top-up to the grant support available for hospitality, retail and leisure businesses across Scotland closed by level 4 restrictions will be paid. Businesses that haven’t yet applied for either of these funds should submit an application as soon as possible through their local authority website. Applications are now open. Criteria: In addition to the grants businesses receive through the Strategic Business Framework Fund, eligible businesses will also get a one-off grant of: £25,000 for larger hospitality businesses on top of the 4-weekly £3,000 £6,000 for smaller hospitality businesses on top of the 4-weekly £2,000 £9,000 for larger retail and leisure businesses on top of the 4-weekly £3,000 £6,000 for smaller retail and leisure businesses on top of the 4-weekly £2,000 Larger hospitality, retail and leisure businesses are those with a rateable value of £51,001. Smaller hospitality, retail and leisure businesses are those with a rateable value of £51,000 or less. 
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Emergency Funding for Charities Financially Impacted by the Covid-19 Crisis
Description: The Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK will provide support to organisations struggling to manage the financial impact of the pandemic either because of increased demand for their services or from loss of income. Support will be available to organisations in a critical position and operating in education relating to non-domestic animals, visual and performing arts, medical research, the relief of disability or severe illness or the accommodation of those in need. Criteria: Small- and medium-sized charities, CICs and registered societies may apply. Minimum: £0 Maximum: £1,000 Closing date: Applications can be made at any time. 
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Description: Funding is available to support families in need. Organisations applying should have a focus on family support in local areas of deprivation and this may include early intervention, families coping with addiction and prisoners’ families. Funding is available for core costs, salaries, running and project costs. Criteria: Charitable organisations with a focus on family support are encouraged to apply. The applicant organisation’s postcode or project area must be ranked within the most deprived 15% SIMD for urban areas or most deprived 50% for rural areas. Minimum: £10,000 Maximum: £100,000 Closing Date: Ongoing 
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