National Lottery Awards for All offers funding to support what matters to people and communities. The programme is a partnership between the National Lottery Community Fund Scotland, sportscotland and Creative Scotland. It has three funding priorities: bringing people together and building strong relationships in and across communities; improving the places and spaces that matter to communities; enabling more people to fulfil their potential by working to address issues at the earliest possible stage. If you are applying for a project involving the arts, they will prioritise projects that: engage people from areas of high deprivation; remove financial barriers to access creative activities; address rural isolation and encourage activity in rural areas; engage older people, people in care homes and carers; engage care leavers; support integration of refugees and asylum seekers. If you are applying for a project focused on sport, they will prioritise projects that: engage young people from our most deprived areas; engage girls and young women; engage disabled young people. The National Lottery Community Fund is the new name for the Big Lottery.

Funding to support communities to bring real improvements to the places they live and the wellbeing of those in need. They will fund organisations to deliver work that achieves the following outcomes: Everyone in the community has the opportunity to influence and get involved in community led activity; people in the community are better connected and work together to improve their wellbeing. The National Lottery Community Fund is the new name for the Big Lottery.

The fund will help communities take ownership of the land and buildings that matter to them, as well as practical support to develop their aspirations into viable projects. It supports communities to become more resilient and sustainable through the ownership and management of land and land assets. The Scottish Land Fund is open to organisations in both urban and rural Scotland which are community-led, community-controlled, and defined by a geographic area. The National Lottery Community Fund was previously known as the Big Lottery.

The fund supports capital projects that create or improve places that people take part in sport and physical activity. Awards of up to £100,000 are available for sports facility projects within club & communities, school & education or performance sport environments. In clubs and communities they will support: new, upgraded or extended sports facilities; Inclusive changing facilities; facilities that provide or improve access for outdoor sport and adventure activities; floodlights that increase capacity at appropriate sports facilities; major items of sports equipment. They will provide enhanced support to projects within or serving the most deprived communities, according to the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD).

The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence. They make grants across the UK to organisations in the following categories: Arts; Education; Youth; Health; Community; Museums and Heritage; Environment; Religion and Welfare.

This public engagement scheme supports projects that: raise public awareness of, and engagement with, contemporary physics; inspire and enthuse public audiences, especially those not previously interested in physics; reach adult and family audiences beyond the classroom; develop the science communication skills of individuals, particularly physicists. They are looking for projects targeted at audiences who aren’t already engaged with physics. Key audiences include women/girls, family audiences, and audiences with low science capital.

Ufi aims to help raise UK workforce skills, by promoting innovative use of digital technology to increase the number of adults accessing vocational learning. This call will support projects that show the potential to have a real impact in the world of vocational learning and to ultimately make a difference to how people learn and to the number of people gaining new skill; helping us to build a better, quicker, digital future for vocational learning. This means looking for projects that: use digital technologies in new ways to enable large numbers of learners to develop new skills during the project duration: demonstrate how this new approach can be used to achieve even greater scale in delivery of vocational learning; evidence the value of digital approaches to vocational learning more widely.

The Ronald Miller Foundation offers financial support to charitable initiatives that support causes relating to animal welfare, medical advancement, child welfare, education, and general causes. In order to keep administration down the Trustees have agreed that appeals letters will not be acknowledged. This will hopefully result in a larger amount being available for distribution for charitable causes

The trust usually supports specific services or projects and prefers to give start-up grants for new initiatives. Grants are usually one-off and average £2,000. They primarily give to organisations in Fife.

The Souter Charitable Trust supports projects engaged in the relief of human suffering in all its aspects in the UK and overseas – especially, but not exclusively, those with a Christian emphasis and ethos. Small grants may be awarded for gap year / short term projects which extend to at least one calendar year.