£1,308,500 was awarded to 34 organisations across our funds in August. 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 five funds under our new strategy: Wee Grants, Small Grants, Large Grants, Community Buildings 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.
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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.
September 2021 awards:
| Roxburgh & Berwickshire Citizens Advice Bureau | The Employment Rights & Advice Service (ERAS) | Dumfries and Galloway; Scottish Borders | £125,000 |
| Scottish Borders Rape Crisis Centre (SBRCC) | Salary cost of the Service Co-ordinator | Scottish Borders | £100,500 |
| Easterhouse Citizens Advice Bureau | The running costs of Easterhouse Citizens Advice Bureau | Glasgow City | £96,000 |
| Greater Pollok Citizens Advice Bureau | Running costs of Greater Pollok Citizens Advice Bureau | Glasgow City | £90,000 |
| Glasgow (Central) Citizens Advice Bureau | Core running costs | Glasgow City | £90,000 |
| Muirhouse Millennium community centre | The salary costs of 2 PT Children and Family Support Workers | Edinburgh City | £78,000 |
| Community InfoSource | Running Costs of Community InfoSource | Glasgow City | £78,000 |
| Cumbernauld & Kilsyth Citizens Advice Bureau | Running costs of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Citizens Advice Bureau | North Lanarkshire | £75,000 |
| Reidvale Adventure Play Association Limited | Core Running Costs | Glasgow City | £60,000 |
| Pollokshields Community Food Point (The Food Point) | The running costs of the Food Point | Glasgow City | £54,000 |
| Fife law Centre | The cost of the Outreach Service | Fife | £51,000 |
| Central Advocacy Partners | The Survivors Project | Clackmannanshire; Falkirk; Stirling | £50,000 |
| Fallin Community Enterprises t/a Recyke-a-bike | Work, Life & Cycle project | Clackmannanshire; Falkirk; Stirling | £48,000 |
| East Mains Baptist Church | Salary Costs of the Debt Centre Manager | South Lanarkshire | £46,500 |
Community Building Grants
- For registered charities with an annual income of between £25,000 and £2 million
- Capital funding of up to £75,000 towards ‘community hubs’.
September 2021 awards:
| Mid Argyll Youth Development Services (MAYDS) | New Windows and Doors | Argyll and Bute | £2,500 |
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
September 2021 awards:
| The Ripple Project | Purchase of a community car | Edinburgh City | £7,500 |
| Silver Birch (Scotland) Limited | The New Delivery Vehicle | East Dunbartonshire | £7,500 |
| Venture Scotland | The Replacement Vehicle for the delivery of the Development Programmes | Edinburgh City; Glasgow City | £5,000 |
| Kirkcaldy YMCA | Trailer | Fife | £1,000 |
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.
September2021 awards:
| Together For Better Life | The salary costs of the part-time Project Manager | Glasgow City | £45,000 |
| Home-Start Kincardine | Salary costs of the Scheme Manager | Aberdeenshire | £45,000 |
| Pennyburn Regeneration Youth Development Enterprise | Running Costs | North Ayrshire | £39,000 |
| Cranhill Arts Project | Running Costs of Cranhill Arts Project | Glasgow City | £36,000 |
| Youth Vision | The salary costs of the Field Manager | Edinburgh City | £33,000 |
| Hyzone Ltd | Running costs of Hyzone Ltd | South Lanarkshire | £30,000 |
| Highland Group Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) SCIO | Running Costs, including the volunteering programme and educational activities | Highland | £3,000 |
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.
September 2021 Awards:
| Sanday Men's Shed | The Men's Shed | Orkney Islands | £2,000 |
| Aeternum Project | Equipment, PVG and First Aid Training Costs. | Fife | £2,000 |
| Buttons & Bows Baby Bank | Running costs | Perth and Kinross | £2,000 |
| Contact Point in East Dunbartonshire | Social Interaction Groups | East Dunbartonshire | £2,000 |
| Jed Thistle RFC SCIO | The Extension | Scottish Borders | £1,000 |
| Erskine New Interest Group | Winter Social Event | Renfrewshire | £1,000 |
| Cathleen's Cabin | Respite holidays for children and young people | Scotland Wide | £1,000 |
| The Aarskog Foundation | Running Costs | Scotland Wide | £1,000 |