Shedloads of Opportunities

• Community Development
• Education & Skills
• General & Misc
• Health & Wellbeing
• Social Connection Projects

The purpose of the Community Grants Fund is to enable the Council to provide financial support to community, sports and voluntary organisations within Inverclyde. Funds are available towards operational, project and fee waiver costs where activities contribute to the quality of life of the people of Inverclyde.

You will need to specify if and how the awarding of a grant would contribute to and benefit the wider community, in line with the local priorities of:

empowered people
working people
healthy people and places
a supportive place
and a thriving place.
You will also need to specify on the paperwork how much funding you are requesting against the three categories:

Facilities/Core Costs;
Project Costs;
Fee Waivers

• General & Misc
• Health & Wellbeing
• Social Connection Projects

Warburtons Community Grants provides small grants to support charitable organisations towards broader activities which improve Health, Place or Skills for families in their community.

Grants can be used for something specific that will benefit the cause e.g. buying equipment to support an employability project etc.

Funds are allocated to Warburtons local bakeries and depots. This helps their Community Champions to make the best decisions for their local communities. Warburtons will use your postcode to understand which of their sites is closest to you, and that site will then receive the application and make a decision.

• N/A

Unrestricted one-off grants of around £750-£1,000 are available to local Scottish charities (income between £25,000 - £500,000) in Scotland.

• Environmental/Green Infrastructure
• Trusts/Foundations

The Trust aims to support smaller charities and good causes in Scotland to make a difference to their community for the benefit of people and planet through, for example: improving green spaces and increasing access to the outdoors; enabling participation in physical activity and the arts; and improving biodiversity and responding to the climate emergency.

Funding round dates for 2026 are:

Round 1: 9am 25th March - 12 noon 1st April - now closed
Round 2: 9am 24th June - 12 noon 1st July
Round 3: 9am 24th September - 12 noon 1st October

• Community Development
• Environmental/Green Infrastructure
• General & Misc
• Health & Wellbeing
• Social Connection Projects

The Community Fund was established to ensure local communities benefit from Edinburgh Airport activities. It provides financial support to community groups and charities that are committed to improving the opportunities, facilities and services available to local people.

The fund will consider applications from Edinburgh, Falkirk, the Lothians and Fife. Priority will be given to applications which reflect the four pillars of the airport’s Greater Good sustainability strategy - Zero Carbon, Enhancing Scotland, Scotland’s Best Business and Trusted Neighbour.

Initiatives could include:

The mitigation against and reduction of the effects of a changing climate.
The reduction of local, negative environmental impacts.
Supporting local biodiversity, rewilding, and/or restoration of the natural world.
The enhancement of local business, community groups and long-term sustainable partnerships in the airport’s surrounding area.
Improving healthy working lives and increase upskilling and employment opportunities for the socially isolated, economically deprived, and/or otherwise disadvantaged persons.
Improving care, expanding opportunity, providing shelter, and enabling rehabilitation of vulnerable groups in the community.
Providing urgent, targeted, local support during the cost-of-living crisis.