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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 Ventient Energy, 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.

SafeDeposits Scotland, the country’s leading tenancy deposit protection scheme, has introduced a Community Fund designed to provide small grants to projects enhancing communities across Scotland.The SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund will award grants to organisations who commit to deliver a project that meets at least one of five criteria, namely:- Sustainability and the environment- Employability and career skills- Social inclusion- Technology and digital inclusion- Improving the local communityThey can support a wide range of projects from enhancing play areas to planting trees, and from providing isolated individuals with social opportunities and helping young people prepare for work.

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust runs a variety of programmes and funding opportunities in eligible coalfield areas in England, Scotland and Wales focused on five key priorities; Community, Health, Skills, Jobs and Climate.There are several different programmes/funding streams:- CRT Engage: health, skills and jobs programme. Funding for group activities, training, family hubs.- CRT Game On: using the power of sport to change lives for the better in former coalfield communities.- CRT Hubs: taking on a community asset to provide a base for local organisations to offer support, advice and opportunities to help people in need create a better life.- CRT Places: area based programme where our staff will focus their efforts on a specific location to deliver change for people living in that coalfield community. For coalfield communities in the 30% most deprived neighbourhoods based on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation.- CRT Support: free support to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations operating in Britain’s coalfield communities. - CRT Together (Wales only)

The Community Choices Small Grants programme offers community groups the opportunity to suggest project and activity ideas they want to make happen and to receive public funds in their ward to do it.The programme supports groups with a project idea that will make a difference to people living in the Falkirk area. Examples of successful projects range from a local youth theatre to a dementia support group; local youth organisations, a mental health support charity and numerous local sports clubs.

The Kinross-shire Fund is dedicated to helping make Kinross-shire a better place to live. Funds are raised from individuals, companies and groups which are then used to make grants to local projects and voluntary organisations making a real difference to life in Kinross-shire. Priority will be given to funding applications which:- strengthen existing local organisations by helping them to purchase equipment and resources- improve or develop local community facilities- encourage community activity and promote community spirit- support services for the elderly and persons with a disability- improve information about local community issuesHigher priority will be given to capital projects which make a lasting difference.

The South Kyle Wind Farm Community Benefit is providing assured income to the communities of Dalmellington, Patna and New Cumnock in East Ayrshire and Carsphairn in Dumfries & Galloway. the Fund’s outcomes are:- Improved and enhanced built and natural environment (housing, buildings, public spaces, the natural environment).- Increased leisure and tourism opportunities. - Improved infrastructure and connectivity (digital, physical, social, getting around). - An improving economy with inclusive and accessible opportunities for training, employment and enterprise.Improved opportunities for children and young people living hereUnderpinning these outcomes are four objectives that will can help maximise the social, economic and environmental benefit being achieved:- Promoting participation & equality- Supporting the communities to become more climate smart- Building community infrastructure- Building community wealth

The fund is to be used to provide support for strategic projects in South Lanarkshire. The priority areas are: - Creating opportunities: increase opportunities for education and employment- Empowering communities: build resilience and protect vulnerable residents- Building sustainable places: stimulate meaningful community regeneration You can apply for up to the maximum of the fund value.

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.

open to community groups and initiatives from across the area who can benefit from a share of £20,000.In other areas, similar sponsorship funds have helped a number of local projects near wind farm sites, from heated blankets for community groups; equipment for parent and toddlers’ clubs; bolstering the running of a local community-focused organisation to garden projects for schools and monies for a traditional music festival.