POWERING TRANSFORMATIVE FUNDING
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Making a difference throughout Scotland
Since 1996, we’ve helped distribute more than £200 million to charities and community groups across Scotland, creating happier, fairer, and more sustainable communities.
All over Scotland, local groups and charities have ideas and plans for how to make their communities happier, fairer, and more sustainable. What they often lack is the financial support to help make those ideas happen.
We work with funders, donors and philanthropists who want to support and strengthen the building blocks of these communities. We help them to channel their giving in a way that is most meaningful to them, or to support communities that they have a particular connection with.
We also work in partnership with communities themselves, so that they can maximise funding opportunities from place-based funds, such as community benefit funds provided by the renewables sector - like wind farms.
And we offer social investment opportunities that enable social enterprises, community organisations and charities to grow and deliver positive social impact.
For a quick introduction on how we make a difference, watch our animation.
More about usConnecting donors to communities
Over the past 12 months
We’ve paid out
£20.9m
through this many grants
3195
and this many funds
285
Investing in Enterprise
Foundation Scotland has extended support for the third sector even further by introducing innovative social investment opportunities to social enterprises in Scotland.
Social investment expands on our community foundation's core grantmaking services providing access to a greater range of funding options across Scotland. Find out more about social investment, including details of our Investing in Enterprise Fund.
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