January Funding Ideas
BRIGHTGREENNATURE: Wild Your Space! Small grants are available for individuals, schools, and families in the Scottish Borders to bring wildlife into their green spaces.
Deadline: 3rd February 2025, guidance and application form here.
Souter Charitable Trust: One-off grants of up to £3,000 are available to registered charities for various projects to promote health and well-being and remove human suffering in all its aspects. Priority is given to projects supporting people most affected by disadvantage.
Deadline: Trustees review grants once a month; full details here.
Royal Countryside Fund: Not-for-profit community organisations with an income of less than £500,000 a year can apply for grants of up to £25,000 over 24 months to deliver activities that fall under four key themes:
- - Keeping young people in the countryside
- - Powering up rural communities
- - Environmental sustainability
- - Building emergency resilience in rural areas
Deadline: Expressions of interest will be accepted until 21 February 2025 (midday), full details here.
The Grow Wild Community Programme: Offers around 20 grants of up to £2,000 to not-for-profit groups across the UK to transform urban spaces for the benefit of people and wildlife through planting and championing UK native plants or fungi. Projects should enhance the biodiversity of the urban space with planting and growing as a core activity.
Deadline: 13 February 2025, full details here.
Music for All: Grants are available to address the musical needs of community groups and educational organisations. They like to support projects that aim to create truly sustainable music programmes.
Deadline: 27th of March 2025, full details here.