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The Aberdeenshire Community Resilience Fund is for community or resilience groups seeking funding to support community resilience.Funding can be used for anything that supports individual or community resilience in an emergency. They welcome innovative and novel approaches to improving resilience. This might be for new groups that might need equipment or resources to start up their resilience activities; or existing groups with ongoing costs or needing to replace out of date equipment for example: Generator costs, First Aid kits, Training, Work to enable power resilience, Torches, batteries, blankets, etc.

The fund aids research into learning disability aids the care and relief of those affected by learning disability. Their priorities are learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities) and autism and they will consider projects for children or adults. They will fund: - Capital building/renovation/refurbishment works for residential, nursing and respite care, and schools;- Employment schemes including woodwork, crafts, printing and horticulture;- Play schemes and play therapy schemes;- Day and social activities centres including building costs and running costs;- Support for families, including respite schemes;- Independent living schemes;- Support in the community schemes;- Snoezelen rooms.

The Kincardineshire Educational Trust was set up for residents, schools and organisations in the former County of Kincardine.The Trust awards grants to individuals, schools and organisations to help with the cost of school trips, further education and funding for sports clubs and facilities. Parents and guardians can also apply if they are receiving certain benefits or on a low income.

The Trust supports charitable institutions, societies and/or indigent persons connected with the town or burgh of Kinross and the parish of Orwell at the discretion of the trustees. Trust funds to be applied for charitable, beneficial or public purposes. In the past the trust has funded local youth, sport and school groups as well as churches, often for capital projects.

The East Renfrewshire Renewable Energy Fund (ERREF) is money received from renewable energy projects in East Renfrewshire and is administered by East Renfrewshire Council Environment department. The fund combines contributions from ScottishPower Renewables Whitelee and Middleton windfarms.Projects need to meet one of more of these priorities:- Community facilities and services such as hall refurbishment or buying equipment and vehicles- Community or local events such as summer fairs or special event- Environmental projects such as planting trees or building baths- Heritage projects such as history trails or statue conservation- Skills and employment such as training equipment- Sport and recreation such as upgrading play areas or buying sports equipment- Youth and education such as clubs, Brownies or nursery and school projects

FCDT distribute funds to charities, voluntary organisations and community groups local to REG Power Management’s Tormywheel Wind Farm. The Fund is open to any community project which is for the benefit of residents of the Fauldhouse & The Breich Valley Communities, located within 5km of the Tormywheel Wind Farm Development. This Fund can provide both capital and revenue grants. The main criteria that will be used when assessing applications received is the social, economic and environmental benefits which will result from the project.

The Casey Trust was started in 1996 to support projects exclusively for children throughout the world. Currently the Trust is particularly looking to support children's projects connected with the Arts, Mental Health, also child Refugees in the UK.The Trustees' policy will increasingly be to concentrate on fewer but more substantial grants. In addition, they are looking for start up projects or identifiable new initiatives within existing projects, rather than contributions to recurring events or continuing programmes.

This grant scheme exists to provide small amounts of funding, within a short timescale, to promote projects or activities which bring community benefit. Grants may be used for various purposes including: - equipment- accommodation or let charges- social events- running costs- trips and outings- programme costs- improvements and building repairs