Sources of Match Funding
- LEADER requires you to have match funding to be eligible to apply.
Here are some sources of match funding which you might like to investigate and apply for to help support your application:
Funding Search
SCVO has launched a new website ‘Funding Scotland’, an online funding database and valuable resource for charities, community groups, social enterprises and voluntary organisations of all shapes and sizes. Visit Funding Scotland
- Perth & Kinross Grants Direct has been set up as a hub for information about various funding streams within the area.
- Perth & Kinross Cultural & Community Services produce a comprehensive Funding Alert (Dec 2015)
- Community Funds
- The Gannochy Trust – Gannochy Trust aims to work in partnership with the people and organisations that will help them to meet their aims of:
- Inspiring Young People (this is a Scotland wide fund)
- Improving the Quality of Life for People (Perth and Kinross only)
- The Robertson Trust – Robertson Trust have three funding strands; Care & Wellbeing, Realising Potential, and Strengthening Communities.
- The Arthur and Margaret Thompson Trust (Kinross-shire) – The principal aims of the Partnership are to identify, promote and encourage opportunities for:-Economic development, Tourism, Environmental improvement, and Community Recreation
- Community Environment Challenge Fund
- Community Investment Funding
- Perth & Kinross Sports Council Funding
- Kinross-Shire Fund
- The Forteviot Trust
- Blackford Community Fund
- Glendevon – EDF FundGlendevon – EDF Fund
- Lochelbank Community Fund – Glenfarg & Earn
- Baillie Gifford Community Awards – Foundation Scotland
- The Gannochy Trust – Gannochy Trust aims to work in partnership with the people and organisations that will help them to meet their aims of:
- Enterprise Funds
- Other Sources of Funding
- Scottish National Investment Bank
- Carbon Trust – Energy Efficiency Loans
- Energy Saving Trust – Low Carbon Transport Loans Fund
- Local Energy Scotland
- Zero Waste Scotland
- Regional Selective Assisstance (RSA)
- Scottish Edge
- Scottish Co-Investment Fund
- The Scottish Venture Fund
- Perthshire Creates
- DSL – Business Finance
- Make it to Market Grant
- Smart Scotland
- Interface – Start up or Growth
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
- Lloyds Bank & Bank of Scotland Social Entrepreneurs Programme
- Scottish Enterprise by Design Grant
- Innovation Competitions
- Scottish Enterprise Seek & Solve
- NESTA
- Rural Gigabit VoucherRural Gigabit Voucher
- Community & Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES)
- Local Support If you need support to develop your organisation’s capacity or need help on wider organisational issues, you can contact:
- Other National Funders
- LEADER sits within the Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP), you may wish to check whether your project would be eligible for one of the other grant schemes. An overview of the schemes can be found here.
- Big Lottery Fund
- Scottish Land Fund – will support rural communities to become more resilient and sustainable through the ownership and management of land and land assets. It will provide practical support and funding to enable local people to work together to enable their ideas and aspirations and plan and complete viable land and land and assets acquisition projects.
- Awards for All (small grants)
- Heritage Lottery Fund
- Sport Scotland
- Creative Scotland
- Morrisons Foundation grants
Corra Grants - Keep Scotland Beautiful – Climate Challenge Fund
- Plunkett Foundation
- Fundraising
- Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAs) has produced a toolkit to help identify ways to raise funds. “Beyond the Usual Suspects” gives helpful advice and pointers.