FORTH2O - New Commissioning Fund Phase now live!
FORTH2O - New Commissioning Fund Phase now live!
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Dear Chamber member,
The Forth20 Commissioning Fund has reopened!
The £1m Commissioning Fund is a pivotal resource within the FORTH2O project, designed to spark investment and foster innovative collaborations across the region. By providing targeted financial support, the Fund enables partners and stakeholders to work together in new and creative ways, co-creating solutions that address pressing water challenges.
During Phase 2 they are inviting applications for Small Awards (£750-£10k, with an overall remaining £75k) and Large Awards (£10-£100k, with £572k remaining).
Submission deadline 4th July 2025.
Guidance:
• Applications are open to FORTH2O Partners from academia, business, government, and the third sector.
• Please note the guidance has been slightly updated for Phase 2 in line with feedback from Phase 1.
• During Phase 2 they are inviting applications for Small Awards (£750–£10,000) and Large Awards (£10,001–£100,000).
For further information and to make a submission please click here.
Social Enterprise Scotland - Funding & Grant Opportunities from £5k to upwards of £110K
Social Enterprise Scotland - Funding & Grant Opportunities from £5k to upwards of £110K
Social Enterprise Scotland Funding April-May 2025.pdf
Community Spaces Grants Now Open
Community Spaces Grants Now Open
Community Spaces aims to support local communities experiencing poverty and trauma in Scotland and is for registered charities with an annual income of between £30,000 and £500,000. Applicants can apply at any time and there is no set closing date for applications.
With our guidance now available, the fund will provide revenue funding of between £5,000 and £20,000 per year, for up to 3 years, to support the costs of community centres, hubs and anchor organisations that are delivering and/or hosting a range of services and activities to meet the needs of their community. Applicants should show how the various services they deliver and/or host relate to preventing or reducing poverty and trauma for local people.
By community, we mean a geographic community. This could be in an urban or rural area experiencing high rates of poverty and trauma.
We are particularly interested in supporting applications from organisations that can show how they reach out to and remove barriers for groups of people in their community who are at higher risk of experiencing poverty and trauma, such as disabled people, people experiencing racial inequity and asylum seekers and refugees, to ensure that they know about and can access the services and activities on offer.
The opening of our Community Spaces Grants marks the end of our phased return to Our Funds, following our pause last year. We will continue to embed cycles of learning and continuous improvement across our work, including how we consider applications to our Nurturing Relationships funding theme, which we will review after communicating decisions on applications made to our Open Call, which closed last month. We will always aim to do so in a way which is fair and transparent, in keeping with the IVAR Open and Trusting principles for flexible funding.
Each of our funds are designed to be clear, transparent, and accessible to meet the needs of potential applicants. We’ve worked hard behind the scenes to provide concise information on who and what we will fund under our Our Funds, however, if you have any feedback on this, we’d welcome the chance to talk to you about it.
We encourage all applicants to read through our guidance documents in the first instance before completing our application form, as this will increase the likelihood of a successful funding outcome.
We understand however that you may still have questions that cannot be answered by our guidance, and we accept enquiries by email to funding@therobertsontrust.org.uk or you can call us on 0141 353 4321. We are a small team but try to respond to enquiries as soon as possible.
Robertson Trust - Available Grants for Businesses
Robertson Trust - Available Grants for Businesses
Dear Chamber member,
Fellow Chamber Member, the Robertson Trust offers grants to help registered charities and constituted community groups.
Wee Grants
• For constituted community groups and charities in Scotland with an annual income of less than £30,000.
• Funding of up to £5,000 for one year only.
• Unrestricted; can cover revenue or capital costs.
Transport Grants
• For registered charities working in Scotland, with an annual income of £30,000 to £2 million, that support people who are experiencing (or are at high risk of experiencing) poverty and trauma.
• Funding of between £5,000 and £20,000 per year, for 1-3 years, to contribute towards the costs of transport to support your work.
• If you are already in receipt of a Small or Large Grant from us, you can still apply for a separate Transport Grant. However, we will take the fact that you already hold funding from us into account. In these cases, we are likely only to award a one-year Transport grant or, if we award you a 3-year grant, we are likely to cap this at a maximum of £20K in total.
Applications are now open.
Tackling in-work poverty in Scotland
Tackling in-work poverty in Scotland
Tackling in-work poverty in Scotland
Tackling in-work poverty in Scotland
Over the past year, our Work Pathways team has been exploring how changes to the world of work in Scotland can deliver big change that lasts on poverty and trauma in Scotland. Our Programmes and Practice Officer, Lyndsay Fraser Robertson, looks at how this work has helped inform our spending plans in this theme across 2024-25, with approximately £2 million available through our open call.
January Funding Finder
January Funding Finder
Please DOWNLOAD the January issue of the STP Funding Finder above.
Respite Pilot Child Minding Service & a Rural Pilot Funding
Respite Pilot Child Minding Service & a Rural Pilot Funding
There is currently 2 pilot projects running in Stirling in partnership with Stirling Council. They are working across all the Local Authority Areas but normally with Employability Services so she was very pleased to meet and are keen for our input and support.
They have funding over the next 3 years from Scottish Govt to recruit 1000 Child Minders across Scotland and this will be delivered in partnership with Local Authorities, their offer includes ensuring that individuals are fully supported, which includes a start-up grant of £750, learning and training, start up support and both group and one to one mentoring support.
The 2 pilots in Stirling are a Respite Pilot Child Minding Service and a Rural Pilot, They have 3 places remaining for this financial year if anyone is interested in working in this area.
The Respite Child Minding Pilot is aimed at offering Child Minding to parents who have an emergency situation and have no support or who need a break. This service is being managed by the Family Well Being Team and I have a meeting with their Team Leader next week, so I will find out how we access this support for our families if they need it.
The Rural Pilot is in partnership with Education and aimed at increasing Child Minders in the rural areas, going forward they will be focusing on the priority areas as well.
If anyone has any clients who may be interested, their website is the best place to get further information and there is a leaflet that can be downloaded. They did mention that people do not need to own their own home to become a child minder but would need permission for the home owner / landlord, you also don’t need to have a large property or a garden as some of their Child Minders live in flats.
The hours can be flexible to suit and some Child Minders only offer Before and After School Care.
Go Forth Stirling Shop Front Grant
Go Forth Stirling Shop Front Grant
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to all organisations within the Stirling Business Improvement District boundary that wish to improve, repair or upgrade their shop front, no matched-funding required.
We're excited to announce that following approval of funding from the Scottish Government' Place Based Investment Programme by Stirling Council, grants of up to £5K each are now available to business owners within the BID zone.
This is a limited fund available with £70K provided by the Place Based Investment Programme with a further £20K invested by Go Forth.
This fund is available to all commercial properties within our Business Improvement District. Any business owner who wishes to improve, repair or upgrade their shop front is encouraged to apply.
Please submit your expressions of interest and applications by 12/2 via admin@goforthstirling.co.uk (we only require key information about your project at this stage but the more detail you can provide the better.)
Submit any questions via the same e-mail address or reply to this newsletter.
The most commonly received questions include:
1) How do I know if I am in the BID zone? See the map here to check.
2) I am not a BID levy payer, can I still apply? Yes, you can.
3) Can I apply if I previously received funding for my shop front? Yes, you can. Whether your application is successful will depend on your project.
Please note we can't allocate funding for any work that's already in progress.
Businesses located in the CARS area may also apply for additional funding through the CARS scheme and more details are available in the guidance document or on the Stirling CARS website.
The application form, information pack and examples of previously funded projects are all available at https://goforthstirling.co.uk/business-grants/
UK Shared Prosperity Fund
UK Shared Prosperity Fund
Open and accepting applications
Open and accepting applications
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UKSPF_Interventions List.docxUK Shared Prosperity Fund
UK Shared Prosperity Fund
DRAFT UKSPF Application Formv4SLB_24_25.docxUKSPF Supporting Local Business Application Form
UKSPF Supporting Local Business Application Form
DRAFT UKSPF Application Formv4PS_24_25.docxUKSPF People and Skills Application Form
UKSPF People and Skills Application Form
DRAFT UKSPF Application Formv4CP_24_25.docxUKSPF Communities and Place Application Form
UKSPF Communities and Place Application Form
safedeposits-scotland-community-fund-small-grant-application.pdfSafe Deposits Scotland – Community Fund
Please submit your completed application form to communityfund@safedepositsscotland.com
The country’s leading tenancy deposit protection scheme, has introduced a Community Fund designed to provide small grants to projects enhancing communities across Scotland.
The SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund will award grants up to a maximum value of £2,000 to organisations who commit to deliver a project that meets at least one of five criteria, namely:
Sustainability and the environment
Employability and career skills - Social inclusion
Technology and digital inclusion
Improving the local community
Grants will be awarded on a quarterly basis and interested parties are invited to submit an application by one of the following dates, to be considered for the subsequent funding round:
Friday 29th December 2023
Friday 15th March 2024
The SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund’s rules and guidance outline in more detail what can and cannot be funded, and the requirements of any organisation applying for funding.
A set of FAQs has also been prepared for members of the general public who require further information on the SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund.
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