Shedloads of Opportunities

• Environmental/Green Infrastructure

Grant funding to support tree, hedgerow and orchard establishment.

The Tree Council actively supports community tree, hedgerow, and orchard projects that boost agricultural productivity and create publicly accessible green spaces that promote physical and mental wellbeing.

They have a range of opportunities for community groups to help you plant trees, hedgerows and orchards in your area.

• 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

The Green Community Grants Programme offers one-year flexible funding for not-for-profit groups in England, Scotland and Wales with an annual income between £10,000 and £1 million.

Your organisation's main aims and objectives must fit with one of the two funding themes:

Contributing to nature recovery and responding to the climate emergency
Improving nature-rich spaces and access to them

Whilst your organisational aims and objectives should fit one of these two themes, funding can also be used for a wider range of sustainable activities, including recycling, litter picking, beach cleans or sustainable transport.

• Environmental/Green Infrastructure

Give a gift that keeps on growing. Plant a tree.

Creating your own grove of trees and help create a beautiful, wild forest. Bare hillsides will be transformed into healthy young woodlands, rich in wildlife and protected for future generations.

You will receive an online grove webpage where friends and family can add trees and dedications of their own.

Groves cost £30 to create, and this includes your first tree.

• Community Development
• Environmental/Green Infrastructure

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