Grants available for community groups to do a tidy up or planting.

Awards for All offers community groups grants between £500-£10,000

This Small Grants Programme accepts applications up to and including £20,000 from charities registered in Scotland

Developing and improving local communities (for example, projects which bring people back into the community who may have been excluded; Enhancing learning opportunities across all ages and sectors.

Children in Need’s focus is firmly on those children and young people who are experiencing disadvantage.

Investing in Communities Fund grants up one million are available

Community and charitable organisations can apply for a laptop and a years worth of broadband connection. Closing date 13th January 2011

The scheme - an award scheme which offers community groups the chance to get online and help people discover the internet.

The Caithness and North Sutherland Fund was established by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd to distribute funding to community organisations for projects that will increase the attractiveness of Caithness and North Sutherland as a place to live, work and invest. There is a particular emphasis on achieving environmental, social, cultural and infrastructure improvements.

The Caithness Partnership has secured funds from Scottish Natural Heritage and the Highland Leader Programme to operate a Caithness Environment Fund.

Application form:
Caithness_Environmental_Fund_Application_Form.doc

Local grassroots community sports clubs in the UK that require funding for equipment, facilities or coaching can apply for grants of between £250 and £1,000 through Cash-4-Clubs.

Scottish rugby is to recieve money to invest in rugby club facillities and activities over next three years

Community groups and self-help groups, branches of national charities can apply for projects that
address a community issue.

Grants available from£300 - £2,000

The Dance Fund is a strand of Creative Scotland’s Creative Identities programme which is being delivered in partnership with YouthLink Scotland,

The Early Years Early Action Fund will open in mid-May 2011 and full criteria and application forms
will be available then.

The criteria is the funds can be used to grant aid an external body.

Big LotteryGot a great idea for a project to inspire your community?

Want to involve local people working together to tackle a problem?

Know what you want to do but need some money to make it happen?

The Jubilee People’s Millions could be the answer!

The Big Lottery Fund and ITV, with the approval of Buckingham Palace, will be helping to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. We’re looking for new projects that will improve local places and the lives of people in your community.

In June 2011 ITV regional news will feature two great project ideas in each region each night for three nights, competing for viewers’ phone votes. At stake is up to £60,000 from the Big Lottery Fund.

To have a chance of winning you’ll need to inspire local people to get involved with your project. It’ll also need to capture the public’s imagination and persuade them to vote for you.

We have £3.6 million to give out. We expect to make four awards in each ITV region.

Small grants programme for summer activities

Main grants for grassroots groups

The make a Splash small grants programme offers groups between £250-£2,000 to try something new.

Scottish charities that help people get back to work could receive a cash boost, thanks to the Scottish Community Foundation and the May Gurney Foundation.

The Festival of Museums will take place from 18-20 May 2012 and all museums and galleries in Scotland are invited to get involved.

Lottery funder NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) is seeking individuals and informal groups of people in their fifties and sixties within Scotland who have ideas about how their communities could become a better place to live.

The trust provides grants up to £10,000

Planning advice and support for rural community groups

The People’s Postcode Lottery Dream Fund exists to give organisations the chance to deliver a project they have always dreamed of, but never had the opportunity to bring to life. In order to make the most of resources available, all applications must come from a collaboration of one or more organisations.

This is a grant programme open to sports club and after school clubs.

The realising ambition programme wants to replicate interventions which are proven to support children and young peopleaged 8 - 14 year olds.

Royal Bank of Scotland is offering three community projects the chance to win awards of £6000 each.

Better Breaks Development Fund now open

single_outcome_agreement_guidance.pdf

Grants available to community groups who can demonstrate how funding will allow them to help more people participate in and enjoy swimming and to make swimming more accessible.

The Tesco Charity Community Awards for grants for children and their education and welfare will re-open for applications on 1 December 2011.

A large grant making charity, which make grants totalling approximately £25 million each year to up to 1,000 organisations and charities, for initiatives and projects that address social inequality and economic disadvantage.

THE People’s Postcode Lottery Dream Fund is a new initiative developed by the People’s Postcode Trust team to give charitable organisations the chance to apply for 12 months’ funding of up to £100,000 to deliver their “dream” project.

The Scottish Community Foundation works with the Volant charitable Trust to make awards of up to £10,000 per annum

Small grants available to groups to promote and celebrate volunteering

groups can apply for Training, visiting other organisations and consultancy