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Communities and Families Fund

The Communities and Families Fund is a grants programme funded jointly by the Scottish Government and the Big Lottery Fund in Scotland

The fund will support local projects that help families and communities give children the best start in life.

There are no deadlines and applications can be submitted at any time for projects between £250 and £10,000.

Before you submit your application to us, please read our blog to help make your application complete. We can only make a decision on your application when it is fully complete.

We are concentrating funding on projects that benefit children, or parents and families of children, who are eight years and under.

Examples of the types of local projects that we want to fund include:

– Parenting support and development projects
– Community play projects
– Projects that support better nutrition for young children
– Community-based family support and childcare projects

We can fund up to 100 per cent of project costs including materials, training costs, overheads and sessional staff. Full details of eligible costs are in our guidance notes.

Full details on their website.

Further Opportunities

  • Fenton Arts Trust

    The Trust is an arts charity, which focuses its efforts specifically on the support of artists at the beginning of their careers. Each year there are twenty five to thirty beneficiaries.

  • Jarman Award

    The Film London Jarman Award is an annual prize for mid-career film-makers whose work embraces the spirit and the legacy of Jarman’s highly experimental and risk-taking approach.