Funding for people experiencing challenges in their lives to help them overcome this and become more resilient. They want to fund activity which means people: are better able to identify solutions that enable them to take control over their lives and build resilience; are able to shape the projects and services they use to better meet their needs; have more access to support and opportunities to improve their lives. The National Lottery Community Fund is the new name for the Big Lottery.

The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence. They make grants across the UK to organisations in the following categories: Arts; Education; Youth; Health; Community; Museums and Heritage; Environment; Religion and Welfare.

Our Hope Beyond grants programme aims to enable churches and Christian charities to meet changing needs within their communities, helping them and the communities they support to adapt to the challenges and opportunities presented by the Coronavirus pandemic. The funding will address 3 themes: reducing loneliness and isolation; growing community resilience and promoting mental and emotional health and wellbeing; and growing technological capability and resilience.

The trust funds organisations working both in Scotland and overseas in education, health, and agriculture, also organisations concerned with conservation and wildlife matters, and the arts.

This trust concentrates on medical research and the welfare and education of children. It funds a wide range of charitable activities and beneficiaries including Christian charities and the benefit of sailors/lifeboatmen, the aged, the poor and people with disabilities. Usually half of the available funds is distributed to one organisation, approximately 8 organisations receive grants of between £1,500 and £3,000 and a number of organisations receive smaller grants.

Funds a range of charities, including those that provide for: the maintenance and expansion of Christian Churches and organisations; the maintenance, relief, medical treatment or care of the sick, the blind, the deaf, the dumb, the aged or the poor; the education or training or upbringing of the young; and the preservation of places and building a of historic or artistic interest. They fund under the headings of: church; community support; medical research/community care; armed forces welfare;arts; international aid.

Assists congregations of any denomination in Scotland in the preservation and upkeep of church buildings which are in regular use for public worship. They offer Fabric Grants to help with restoration projects in the repair of buildings and windows. Micro maintenance grants offers support towards the routine preventative maintenance in repair projects.

The Trust’s focus is on the relief of poverty and the advancement of the evangelical Christian faith, both at home and abroad. Financial support is given to a wide range of charities seeking to relieve poverty in its broadest sense, both throughout the UK and overseas. Grant recipients include organisations giving practical help those in need, offering direct support to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society including: the homeless; the elderly; former Servicemen and women; ex-offenders. They also support charities providing practical services to people with physical, mental and learning difficulties and their families/carers, organisations providing opportunities for training and development to young people and small-scale overseas development projects.

The Paristamen CIO is a small grantmaking charity. Its operational base is in Dunbar, Scotland. They support national charities where they meet their criteria and local charities based in the Yorkshire region or in Scotland. The Responsive Grant-Making programme is their main programme and the criteria are relatively broad. They make small unrestricted grants likely to make a difference to your operational work.

The trust funds the advancement of the Roman Catholic religion, including the promotion of the higher education for the Roman Catholic clergy or laity, and for the relief of poverty, the promotion of health and education overseas and youth work