Shedloads of Opportunities

• Community Development
• Environmental/Green Infrastructure

Provides ‘Start-up’ grants (up to £200) and ‘Support’ grants (up to £500) for grassroots groups delivering volunteering projects to improve the natural environment.

• Community Development
• Environmental/Green Infrastructure

Provides grants up to £500 to support local volunteer-led projects improving green spaces, biodiversity, and environmental engagement.

• Health & Wellbeing
• Social Connection Projects

Grants (up to £25,000) are available to small charities or community groups in Scotland for work addressing sport, health, culture, animal welfare, or recreational facilities.

Grants are available to support services/projects in the following categories:

• Sport - Projects to encourage and increase public participation in sport (eligible activities should involve physical skill and exertion).
• Recreational facilities - Providing or organising recreational facilities (buildings, pitches or similar) with the aim of improving the conditions of life for the people for whom the facilities are primarily intended. This is only in relation to facilities which are primarily intended for people who need them due to age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
• Animal welfare - The advancement of animal welfare.
• Health - The advancement of health, including prevention or relief of sickness, disease or human suffering.
• Culture - Supporting the heritage - tangible or otherwise - of Scotland, through projects that encourage participation in and preservation of Scotland's distinctive culture.

Grants are available for any purpose that provides a benefit to the applicant's target audience.

Examples of eligible activities and costs are as follows:

• Capital projects (such as equipment, fixtures, fittings and refurbishments)
• One-off projects
• Running costs
• Core costs
• Salaries

• Environmental/Green Infrastructure
• Health & Wellbeing

Funding for registered UK Charities in the fields of the advancement of the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement. Core cost or project funding considered. An example grant is setting up a therapeutic gardening project.

The deadline for applications for small charity grants (charities with an annual income of £5m and under) is 1st June 2026. The deadline for first-stage applications for large charity grants (charities with an annual income of above £5m) is 8th May 2026. Second-stage applications for Large Charities will be 1st June 2026.

The next grants will be decided in mid-July 2026. Applicants will be informed by the end of August.

• N/A

The TCV Free Trees for Communities initiative aims to plant millions of trees for climate, wildlife and communities! Claim your community tree pack from The Conservation Volunteers and get planting with carbon-busting trees, plant a pocket forest - create havens for wildlife, and green up your local environment for generations to enjoy.