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Scotland’s community foundation

foundation Scotland logo including photos of projects supported
foundation Scotland logo including photos of projects supported
foundation Scotland logo including photos of projects supported
foundation Scotland logo including photos of projects supported

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 us

Over the past 12 months

We’ve paid out

£20.9m

through this many grants

3195

and this many funds

285

Learn more about our impact

Social Investment support

Foundation Scotland has extended support for the third sector even further by providing 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.

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Our news

Fund News

Upcoming fund deadlines

Here's our quick reference guide to all funding application deadlines coming up this month. Be sure to check all guidelines and eligibility criteria before applying.

General News

Cost of Living - a crisis or the new normal?

In January 2023, Foundation Scotland published a report which explored the impacts of the rise in the cost of living on organisations funded through Foundation Scotland. The findings of a survey of…

Fund News

Westfield Cardenden Community Fund delivers powerful punch in first funding round of 2025

The Bowhill Miners Boxing Club in Fife has received funding from the Nadara Westfield Wind Farm Community Fund to continue the delivery of its free boxing programme to young people in the local…

Fund News

Langhope Rig Community Fund: small but mighty awards round

The Langhope Rig Wind Farm Community Fund had a small but mighty first round of 2025. Awards included funding to Edinburgh Science Foundation to deliver a series of STEM events to the three primary…