FOCUS ON – FUNDING

Boots Charitable Trust
The Trust funds charities and voluntary organisations working in the areas of health, lifelong learning, community development and social care, and encourages applications from organisations where their grants can make the biggest impact. The main focus is on 3 areas: Health-supporting people and families living with cancer in deprived areas. Lifelong Learning- to enable young people aged 16-30 from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain skills to secure employment, Social Care- to support children and young people up to 18 who have experienced sexual abuse. Access the fund

Corra Foundation-You’re Only Young Once
You’re Only Young Once (YOYO) is a fund designed by young people as part of the Way Forward for Families Partnership Fund. The advisory group is focusing this small grant programme on supporting children, young people and their families to shape and share experiences, create connections and to create conditions where they are empowered to influence participation, policy and practice across Scotland. Access the fund 

Emerton-Christie Charity
The charity is a grant making trust donating to UK registered charities and tend to focus on the following areas: Education/Training, Advancement of Health or Saving of Lives, Disability, Arts/ Culture/ Heritage/ Science and the Environment/ Conservation/ Heritage. Access the fund

The Agnes Hunter Trust SCIO
The Trust supports registered charities who deliver health and wellbeing projects in Scotland, the focus for the Trust is to offer grants to charities that support disabled people in Scotland. Service provision will focus on providing opportunities and enabling people to lead fulfilling lives, activities include offering advice, information and support or life skills, volunteering and employability training. Access the fund

Creative Scotland-Youth Music Initiative
The YMI Access to Music Making Fund supports individuals and organisations working in the youth music sector to create and deliver high-quality music making opportunities for children and young people across Scotland that address inequity. The fund is aimed at those less likely to participate such as: Living in areas of social and economic deprivation, experiencing or at risk of experiencing harm and neglect, are care experienced, in the early years (0-5) of their life, are neurodivergent, experiencing mental health illnesses, experience of the criminal justice system, young carers and homelessness. Access the fund

The Thomas Wall Trust
The Trust believes that communication skills are critical capabilities for people who want to improve their employment prospects, self confidence, resilience and life chances. Offering grants to specific projects or core activities that develop these skills for people from disadvantaged groups. Welcoming proposals which target people experiencing multiple deprivation or other groups facing major hurdles to employment with a focus on women, people with physical, mental or learning disabilities, refugees and asylum seekers. Access the fund