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 MoreEquality Network
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The Equality Network is a leading national charity working for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) equality and human rights in Scotland
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.
Read MoreThe Woodland Trust
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The Woodland Trust website contains various resources that can help your community group to promote enjoyment and use of woodland.
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Just Enterprise
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Just Enterprise is a programme designed to help sustain, develop and grow social enterprises and enterprising charities in Scotland.
Read MoreEnergising Community Halls→
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This guide to community energy can help your community building save money and look at what renewables might be suitable for your site.
Read MoreCommunity Shares Scotland→
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Community shares enable you to raise money for a social enterprise through selling 'withdrawable shares' to the wider community.
Read MoreSupporting Communities
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Supporting Communities is a programme of support for community organisations and their local partners. The programme is intended to enable community organisations (at all levels and stages) to improve their effectiveness and influence over the community needs and priorities that they are involved in tackling.
Read MoreDevelopment Impact and You (DIY) toolkit
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Nesta's Development Impact and You (DIY) toolkit contains a selection of innovation tools that should help you invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results. Visit the toolkit website for tools to help you plan, prioritise and problem solve amongst other things.
Read MoreCommunity Food and Health Scotland
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Community Food & Health Scotland (CFHS) is part of Public Health Scotland and supports community projects related to food and health. Their advice and resources page will be relevant to many community groups. It includes information on planning & management, funding, working with volunteers, networking and evaluation.
Read MoreACE - Guide to achieving community empowerment
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The Achieving Community Empowerment process is intended to help community groups and organisations become more confident, better organised and more effective in achieving their aims. The ACE Guide has been put together to help community groups, and those who work with them, through the process.
Read MoreCommunity Toolbox
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An online resource from the United States containing freely available tools on a variety of tools offering step-by-step guidance in, amongst other things, community-building skills.
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