£1,281,000 was awarded to 32 organisations across our funds in December. Our award announcements will now be monthly and anyone who would like to receive these directly to their inbox can do so by signing up to our mailing list.
If you would like to find out more about our funds, please click here. Currently, our funding is aimed at constituted community groups and registered charities who are working to alleviate poverty and trauma in Scotland, and who have an annual income of under £2 million. We have four funds under our new strategy: Wee Grants, Small Grants, Large Grants, and Community Vehicles. Each of these funds is designed to be clear, transparent and accessible to meet the needs of those we fund and potential applicants, and make sure our funding is targeted.
Each of the organisations below demonstrated in their application how their work is contributing to the alleviation of poverty and trauma in Scotland.
Would you rather see this list split by Local Authority? Download our report here.
Large Grants
- For registered charities with an annual income of between £100,000 and £2 million
- Revenue funding of between £15,000 and £50,000 for up to five years
- Unrestricted or restricted funding
- Can include the costs of equipment to support your work.
December 2021 awards:
| Positive Action In Housing | Money Skills Project | East Renfrewshire; Glasgow City; North Lanarkshire | £120,000 |
| New Start Highland | Running Costs | Argyll and Bute; Highland | £120,000 |
| Survivors of Human Trafficking in Scotland | The salary costs of the Project Manager | Scotland Wide | £120,000 |
| National Ugly Mugs (NUM) | The costs of the Umbrella Lane Project | Scotland Wide | £108,000 |
| Grampian Women's Aid | The running costs of Grampian Women's Aid | Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire | £105,000 |
| Monklands Women's Aid | The running costs of Monklands Women's Aid | North Lanarkshire | £105,000 |
| 3D Drumchapel | Running costs of 3D Drumchapel | Glasgow City | £105,000 |
| Clackmannanshire Citizens Advice Bureau Ltd | The salary costs of the Training & Volunteer Coordinator | Clackmannanshire | £87,000 |
| PATH (Scotland) | Running costs of PATH (Scotland) | Fife; Glasgow City; North Lanarkshire; South Ayrshire; West Dunbartonshire | £75,000 |
| First Step Community Project | Family Support Service costs | East Lothian | £69,000 |
| Heart and Sound | Running Costs of Heart and Sound | Fife | £66,000 |
Community Vehicle Grants
- For registered charities with an annual income of between £25,000 and £2 million
- Funding of up to £10,000 for a vehicle to support your work
December 2021 awards:
| Crookston Community Group | Community Vehicle | Glasgow City | £7,500 |
| Croy Community Hub | The Community Vehicle for the Food Pantry | North Lanarkshire | £5,000 |
| Glasgow Tool Library | Community Vehicle | Glasgow City | £5,000 |
| Fire & Peace Recovery | New Minibus | Glasgow City; Renfrewshire | £5,000 |
| Edinburgh & Lothian's Out of School Care Network | Towards the costs of the minibus | East Lothian; Edinburgh City; Midlothian; South Lanarkshire | £5,000 |
Small Grants
- For registered charities with an annual income of between £25,000 and £100,000
- Revenue funding of between £2,000 and £15,000 for up to five years
- Unrestricted or restricted funding
- Can include the costs of equipment to support your work.
December 2021 awards:
| The Shed Project | Towards the salary costs of the Youth Development Worker | Western Isles | £30,000 |
| Grace Church Family | Costs of Deeside Compassion | Aberdeenshire | £27,000 |
| Scottish Attachment in Action | The 'Why Attachment Matters to Black and Ethnic Minority Families' Project | Scotland Wide | £21,000 |
Wee Grants
- For constituted community groups and charities with an annual income of less than £25,000
- Funding of up to £2,000 for one year only
- Could cover revenue* or capital costs to support your work.
PLEASE NOTE As our Wee Grants fund offers small amounts of funding for grassroots groups, with a light-touch application and assessment process, we are able to fund some projects here which we would not consider supporting through our other Funds. This includes, for example, activities focused on wellbeing for groups of people we know are more likely to experience poverty and/or trauma. For our larger awards, we look for applicants to clearly demonstrate how their work seeks to address poverty and/or trauma, in line with our funding strategy. All awardees listed below have, however, shown that their work fits with one of our funding themes and may be aimed at one of our priority beneficiary groups.
December 2021 Awards:
| Friends at Braes | Braes Polycrub | Falkirk | £2,000 |
| 1st Elgin Beaver Cub Scouts | The Community Woodland | Moray | £2,000 |
| Sail Training Shetland | Sail Training for Young People | Shetland Islands | £2,000 |
| Mandown | Running Costs | Angus | £2,000 |
| Forth Valley Pandas | Running Costs | Falkirk | £2,000 |
| Hamilton Churches Drop In Centre | Running Costs | South Lanarkshire | £2,000 |
| The #C200 Fund | Vouchers for Care Experienced Young People | Perth and Kinross | £2,000 |
| Irvine Unit (No 429) of the Sea Cadet Corps | Clothing & Equipment | North Ayrshire | £2,000 |
| The Larder and Covid Support Group (Portlethen and Surrounding Areas) | Running Costs | Aberdeenshire | £2,000 |
| Churches Homeless Action North Ayrshire (CHANA) | Lunch club | North Ayrshire | £1,500 |
Continuation Awards
While all the above awards have been made as part of our 2020-30 strategy, the following continuation awards were made under our 2016-19 strategy last month. If you think you may be eligible for continuation funding, please visit our Support for 2016-19 Grant Holders resource.
| Step Together Volunteering | Step Together Dumfries & Galloway Youth Project | Dumfries and Galloway | £20,000 |