Faith in Community Scotland
Local faith groups and related community organisations in Scotland can apply for small grants of a few hundred pounds to help support families and individuals affected by the COVID-19 crisis. An initial fund of £100,000 has been made available by Faith in Community Scotland’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund. The focus of the fund is to support people most at risk of becoming disconnected during social distancing by meeting their needs, helping them to maintain safe relationships and allowing neighbours to support each other. Applications can be made at any time. info@faithincommunity.scot |
ROSA
The UK Fund for Women and Girls is a grant making charity that funds grassroots women’s organisations to help to make the UK a fairer, safer place for women has announced that is making grants of up to £10,000 available to specialist women's organisations across the UK through its Covid-19 Response Fund. The purpose of this first stage response fund is to provide quick and straightforward grants with very basic eligibility criteria. Rosa particularly welcomes proposals from women’s organisations in the UK that address the critical needs of marginalised women and girls that miss out the most and operate in less economically resilient towns, cities and rural areas within the UK. There is no deadline for applications. Rosa will consider them on a rolling basis from 5pm on Friday 5th June 2020 and aim to notify applicants of the decision within approximately two weeks of submitting an application. |
Women’s Fund for Scotland (Scotland) The Women’s Fund for Scotland has launched two new funding programmes in response to the Coronavirus. The Emergency Response grant is available to support Women’s organisations to equip them to deal with the changes required because of the Covid-19 outbreak and to continue to provide seamless services. This could include maintaining existing service provision by moving services online and / or developing new methods of service delivery that do not require face to face contact, unrestricted funding to cover a temporary shortfall in income on which the organisation previously relied. For example, a loss of income from charity shops, sales, or membership fees.
Grants of up to £5,000 are available through both grant schemes. In 2020 there will be one funding round, the deadline for receiving completed application forms and supporting documentation is 4pm on the 10th of August 2020. |
Funding to Support the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Veterans (UK)The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Positive Pathways programme has reopened for applications for projects that support the mental health and wellbeing of veterans by getting them out and active. Armed-Forces-supporting charities or CIC’s can apply for grants of £35,000 for projects developed by and for veterans which have a clearly identified activity for veterans to take part in, and should come under one of four themes: sports, arts and culture, getting outside and heritage. Applications are encouraged from under-represented organisations in West Scotland, and activities should be feasible with any social distancing requirements in place. The programme is funded by HM Treasury.
Applications for this round of funding close at noon on the 25th August 2020. |
Funding for Rural Community and Education Projects
The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust, which supports charities in the UK working in agriculture, rural development and insurance has announced that it is open for applications. The Trustees are particularly interested in initiatives in the areas of education of young people in rural areas and the relief of poverty within rural areas. Grants of between £1,000 and £50,000 are available. Closing date for applications: 30th October 2020 |
Baillie Gifford Foundation
Grants are available to support small community organisations across Scotland that are running programmes focussed on children and families, elderly people, education, the environment, health, people who are physically disabled, homelessness and women. Additionally, there is a ring fenced budget for projects involving grass roots sports. Closing date for applications: 24 August 2020 |
National Lottery Community Fund – Young Start Through Young Start we are offering funding from £10,001 to £100,000 to help children and young people across Scotland become more confident, so they can realise their own potential. We want to fund work that achieves at least one of the following three outcomes: children and young people have better physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, children and young people have better connections with the wider community and children and young people get access to new skills and training opportunities which will help them to get a new job or start a business.
Applications are being accepted now |
Magic Little Grants
This fund from Localgiving and the Postcode Community Trust gives local charities and community groups the chance to apply online for a £500 grant to deliver projects across Great Britain that encourage people to be physically active. Successful projects will support and inspire people to participate in sports or exercise with the primary aim of improving the physical health of participants. Applicants must have an active Localgiving membership and an annual income of less than £250,000. Closing date for applications: 31st October 2020 |
Independent Age Grants Fund (UK)Independent Age, which promotes independent living amongst older people has launched a £2 million Independent Age Grants Fund to help smaller charities across the UK working with older people hardest hit by the Coronavirus. Initially, Independent Age will begin by supporting work with two groups of older people, who can too easily miss out: Older people living in particularly complex and challenging situations and older people in danger of being out of sight and out of mind. Independent Age are looking to help organisations connecting with older people who are very isolated and most at risk of missing out on the help available. To be eligible to apply, the applicant organisation must be a registered charity having at least one paid member of staff (part-time is fine) and an annual income of £1 million or less (averaged across the last three financial years). The applicant organisation must be already working with older people in one or both of the two priority areas above. Organisations that do not specialise in work with older people are welcome to apply – but you must already be providing services for older people as part of their work. Charities are able to apply for grants of up to £15,000.
The next funding round will be open from the 27th July 2020 until 9am on the 21st August |
Funding to Strengthen Creative Opportunities for People with Mental Health Problems (UK) The Baring Foundation has announced the first call for applications for their new Arts programme supporting Arts and Mental Health to strengthen the creative opportunities available for people with mental health problems. The long-term funding programme is being made available to established organisations in the UK that focus solely on offering creative opportunities to people of any age living with mental health problems using the skills of professionally trained artists. £900,000 is available for this work in 2020 and it is envisaged that one-off unrestricted grants of between £12,000 and £15,000 will be awarded to be used to serve the organisation’s charitable purpose as they best see fit.
The deadline for applications is 12 noon on the 18th August 2020. |