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The Fund is provided by EDF power solutions, the owner and operator of the Longpark wind farm. It benefits the Community Council area of the Parish of Stow in the Scottish Borders. It provides grants to support charitable activities that: - Enhance quality of life for local residents- Contribute to vibrant, healthy, successful and sustainable communities- Promote community spirit and encourage community activityGrants may support a wide range of costs, for example the costs of equipment, staff or sessional workers, consultations, running costs for local groups, maintenance or refurbishment of community facilities, and so on.

This fund supports local communities that live near new transmission infrastructure linked to the Skye Reinforcement Local Fund. To be eligible for funding, your project also must support one or more of the following themes: - Affordable & Diverse Housing Options (including a range of tenure options such as woodland crofts, rent-to-buy etc). - Community Assets and Infrastructure (including acquiring or improving community assets such as village halls).  - Community Capacity Building (including supporting core costs for community organisations to work toward long-term sustainability, for example through income-generating projects or strengthening operational capacity). Applications from organisations working in partnership to share resource are welcomed (for instance for a staff member to work across more than one organisation). - Local Amenities / Services (including facilities such as community shop, men's shed, tool libraries and sport / recreational activities).  - Transport and Connectivity (including community transport, active travel paths and infrastructure improvements to enhance accessibility). Under these themes, activities or projects that focus on or involve young people and projects that support or involve Gaelic will be especially welcomed.

The NAVT fund is a grant programme developed to enable voluntary, community and social enterprises in North Ayrshire to grow in size, improve long term sustainability, or increase their impact.Projects should meet the Trust’s objectives to: - relieve poverty among the residents in North Ayrshire Council- advance education among the residents of the operating area particularly among the unemployed- promote training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents of the operating area in obtaining paid employment- advancement of citizenship or community development

The Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme is part of the Local Full Fibre Networks programme, which has the strategic objective of increasing full fibre coverage across the UK. If you are a small or medium sized business in a rural area, you may be able to get a gigabit voucher worth up to upgrade your business broadband to a fast and reliable connection over gigabit capable infrastructure. The scheme is supplier-led. This means suppliers will be requesting the voucher on behalf of their customers. The value of the voucher will contribute to the build cost of installing a full fibre connection at the customer’s premises.

The Trustees have wide discretion as to which charities the trust supports. They fund activities falling within their charitable purposes of: poverty, education, health, saving of lives, sport, and recreational facilities and activities.

The Earls Gate Community Fund was established to support the communities surrounding EGEC's operations in the Falkirk area. Applications must:1. Demonstrate how the local community has been involved in the project2. Contribute to one of the three themes outlined for the fund: - Build stronger communities- Reduce social isolation among vulnerable people- Strengthen community relationships 3. Deliver in one of the areas identified for the fund.

Funding for summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5-16 years. Preference is given to:- small local play schemes that provide a wide-ranging programme of activities. Trustees prioritise activities that are relatively inexpensive such as crafts and cooking, as well as outdoor activities and sport.- schemes that involve a large number of children.- schemes where past users are encouraged to come back and help as volunteers.Trustees only fund programmes that run for a minimum of 2 weeks or 10 days across the summer holidays.