The Ideas Fund
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Through the Ideas Fund, community groups can apply for Community Grants to work with researchers to explore issues important to them.
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Community Wellbeing Exchange
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The Community Wellbeing Exchange is a funded programme enabling community organisations to buy mental health and wellbeing focused activities from social enterprises. It provides a menu of over 170 activities that you may be interested in whether or not you are part of the programme.
Read MoreCommunity Enterprise
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Community Enterprise provides development support to social enterprises, charities and voluntary groups to help make ideas a reality. They developed the Social Enterprise Eco-system Map, which enables you to navigate through the business support, learning, networking and finance available from different organisations.
Read MoreSCVO
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Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) has a support section on their website to help you think through some of the key issues relating to starting and managing a voluntary sector organisation in Scotland. You can also find support and advice in relation to the climate emergency, the cost of living crisis and digital technology.
Read MoreCo-operate
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Co-operate is part of the Co-operative Group, and is a website providing information to help local community groups across the UK in their activities, and also for people to find relevant local groups. The website includes a ‘how to’ section with guides to funding, finding a venue, planning activities, getting started and more.
Read MoreThe Communities Channel guide to PB
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We highlight three ways that your community group can get involved in participatory budgteting…
Read MoreLand reform
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The section of the Scottish Government website covering land reform, including legislation and funding enabling communities to buy privately owned land.
Read MoreCommunity Empowerment
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The Scottish Government’s webpage on community empowerment. where you can find government guidance and other support for community asset transfer, participation requests, community councils, participatory budgeting and the Island’s (Scotland) Act 2018 as well as funding for activity in this area.
Read MoreVolunteering Matters
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Volunteering Matters' Action Earth grant allows groups to apply for grants of between £50-250 to run environmental activities that will protect Scotland’s green spaces.
Read MoreUnity Lottery→
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Through joining Unity Lottery, a proportion of money spent by your community members on this lottery will go directly to your group.
Read MoreTesco Community Grants→
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Tesco Community Grants funds community projects across the UK helping to fight holiday hunger, tackle mental health, support young people, host community events and more.
Read MorePeople’s Health Trust→
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People’s Health Trust funds good causes with money raised through The Health Lottery. The Trust's Active Communities fund offers funding to community groups.
Read MoreNeighbourly→
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Neighbourly is an online platform that connects community projects with businesses that want to help. Community organisations can enter their details so that potential donors can find them.
Read MoreThe National Lottery Community Fund
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The National Lottery Community Fund is worth checking to see what grants are available for community organisations, including for supporting people during the cost of living crisis.
Read MoreJust Giving
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JustGiving enables you to raise funds online. You can have your own funding page and use tools such as crowdfunding. JustGiving charges a small % of all donations.
Read MoreFoundation Scotland→
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Foundation Scotland distributes a range of funding, much of it directed at community groups and organisations.
Read MoreEasyfundraising→
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Easyfundraising is a way to raise money for good causes simply by shopping online. You can register your community group for free, and ask community members to support you whenever they shop on-line.
Read MoreCo-op Local Community Fund →
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The Co-op Local Community Fund supports projects that make a difference to local communities near to Co-op stores and funeral homes.
Read MoreScottish Community Alliance
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Scottish Community Alliance (SCA) is a coalition of community based, national networks and intermediaries – each one representing a different aspect of Scotland’s diverse community sector. SCA manages the Community Learning Exhange, which provides funding for community organisations to visit other groups in order to learn from each other and share ideas and approaches.
Read MoreAccelerate
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Accelerate offers business support for community based organisations who have little or no trading experience but wish to expand this aspect of their operation.
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