Small Grants

Revenue funding for registered charities with an annual income of between £30,000 and £200,000.

This is one of our four funding offers for registered charities who work to address poverty and trauma in Scotland.

Overview

  • For registered charities with an annual income of between £30,000 and £200,000.
  • Unrestricted or restricted revenue funding of between £5,000 and £20,000 per year, normally for 3 years but may be considered for up to five years in exceptional circumstances. This can include the costs of equipment to support your work.
  • For work that is clearly and intentionally aligned to a priority described within one or more of our funding themes. Details of our themes and priorities are as follows*:

Financial Security

Education Pathways

Work Pathways

  • We’ll aim to give you a funding decision within 8 to 10 weeks of receiving your application. If there are any changes to this timescale, we'll notify applicants on an individual basis.

*We will be launching a fourth funding theme later this year, following on from our previous Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships theme, with a sharper focus aligned to the aims of our strategy. Please sign up to our mailing list to receive details of this when they become available. 

To apply, you'll need:

  • At least three unconnected Trustees on your charity’s Board.
  • Recent independently examined or audited annual accounts (unless you are a newly registered charity).
  • A safeguarding policy if working with young or vulnerable people.
  • A full job description if your request is for funding towards a specific salary cost.

What's next?

Read the full guidance.
Please read our full guidance on applying for a Small Grant before completing your application form. You can have a look inside our application form here.

For more details of the kind of work we fund, take a look at Who and what we fund, and for information about the other grants we offer, see Our Funds