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The fund supports community groups in Argyll and Bute. Projects should demonstrate the following key priorities: fairer communities, resilient communities, cleaner, greener communities and creative communities. Applications for funding of events and festivals are expected to bring economic benefit to the relevant area and have a developmental aspect.Applications to the fund must evidence direct benefit to vulnerable individuals and groups in the local community and partnership working where relevant.

The Trust supports non-profit organisations to test new ideas, be bold and try out new solutions. This programme supports organisations to develop sustainable and impactful ways to support people’s financial capability, their routes to fair work and the natural environment we live in.Projects must have a clear focus on one or more of the priority areas: increasing financial capability, creating pathways to good jobs, or championing the role of nature on healthy communities and economies. This pillar focuses on Ideas that provide new solutions to persistent problems.Applications must:- Be for a specific and new project- Demonstrate the project is innovative, practical and collaborative- Clearly illustrate how the project seeks to tackle the underlying, interconnected challenges at the root of the issue through frontline services- Show how the project's learning can be applied widely to deliver lasting impact and change in improving people's futures- Demonstrate impact nationally or regionally, or within a city Aberdeen Group has a significant office base

This fund is all about supporting and uplifting Cunninghame Housing Association's local communities in North and East Ayrshire, and Dumfries and Galloway. The fund can be used to support a wide range of activities. You can apply for funding to start a new project, enhance existing services, or even buy items that will help your group carry out its business.Their main goal is to benefit the communities where they operate. They aim to:- Encourage community development and active citizenship.- Promote public participation in sports.- Provide recreational facilities and activities.- Support equality and diversity.- Protect and improve the environment.- Help people in need due to age, health, financial hardship, or other disadvantages.- Support the arts, heritage, culture, or science.

The Fund will support projects which will support positive change and strategic impact to people living in the community council area of Contin, including Jamestown and Tarvie. In particular the Fund will support projects which will: - enhance quality of life for local residents- contribute to vibrant, healthy, successful and sustainable communities- promote community spirit and encourage community activityApplicants should consider the current community priorities which are:- access- history and heritage- improving outdoor spaces (woods and play park)- activities and social events for youth, families and other residents

The primary goal of the Parks4Life Community Fund is to support community groups to deliver on their aim of bringing parks to life and make the best of parks across Scotland for everyone to enjoy now and the future.Grants are available to community and Friends groups who work to improve, promote and develop a park or greenspace across Scotland. Funding could be used to help your group put on or expand an event to attract visitors to the park, skills training for your volunteers or something more practical such as a small planting scheme.They will prioritise:- Applications intending to “activate your park” through events such as a gala day or focussed park clean that will bring people to your park or greenspace.- Promote the work or community and friends group and the role of the park or greenspace.- Purchase of tools and materials that will help your group- Applications from groups across Scotland and in particular groups where their park or greenspace is in an area that scores highly on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), particularly those in the 20% of most deprived areas.

The Schroder Charity Trust is an independent grant-making Family Trust that has been supporting the charitable and voluntary sector for over 70 years. Currently they are only considering applications for work under the following two objectives:1. Enabling children and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds to thrive and achieve their potential in education and employment.2. Strengthening communities through services and opportunities which enhance the wellbeing and life outcomes of vulnerable and disadvantaged people.

The A’Chruach Wind Farm Community Fund supports community projects benefiting those living in one or more of the following community council areas: West Loch Fyne, Dunadd and Lochgilphead. The fund is provided by Nadara, the developer and owner of the A’Chruach Wind Farm in Argyll & Bute. Applications are expected to address one or more of the following outcomes (or changes for the community):- Advance rural regeneration though increasing opportunities for enterprise and vocational training. - Enhance infrastructure including affordable housing, transport, broadband, community-owned property and access routes. - Establish new community services and seek to improve or expand existing services, particularly with regard to young people and the elderly. - Develop and improve community facilities. - Enhance leisure facilities and to develop and expand tourism and leisure opportunities. - Capacity building for new and existing community organisations to help achieve the other priorities.Under the Multi Year Flexible Funding schemes, applications are invited for strategic multi-year grants for up to three years. This funding is flexible and can be spent by organisations on broad areas of activity, including costs that are traditionally hard to raise funding for such as staff costs and organisation overheads.

The purpose of Wee Grants is to support organisations who are focused on building strong communities in places which have higher rates of poverty and trauma, or who are working with certain groups of people who are at a higher risk of experiencing poverty and trauma.

The fund supports projects and initiatives that support the rural regeneration and sustainability of communities within the Ewe Hill Windfarm area and enhance the lives of those living and working in the area. Applications are welcomed that fall into the following categories: - educational projects- projects which enhance citizenship and community development and sustainability- projects promoting and advancing the arts, heritage, culture or science- provision of community facilities- provision of recreational facilities, including public participation in sport;- projects protecting or improving the environment.