This first edition of Scottish Borders Council’s Guide to Funding aims to provide simple and clear guidance, with contact details, for a variety of common funding sources and support agencies. (Please note that the information contained in the Guide was correct at the time of publishing but is subject to continuous change, at short notice).
A multitude of funding opportunities is available and a huge amount of information, leaflets, funding packs, funding directories, newsletter and help-lines. So much information can be confusing and can cause some smaller groups to give up at the early stages. In response to this problem, the Guide hopes to bring together the most common funding opportunities that have real potential for helping all types of community and voluntary organisations in the Borders. We hope the guide will be a first point of contact for community groups and voluntary organisations and help them to increase their chances of making well directed, good quality applications for funding.
Types of Funding
There are many sources of funding available. Broadly they break down into the following categories:
- Public funding:
Scottish Borders Council
Scottish Executive
Scottish Arts Council
Sportscotland (the National Council for sport)
Other pubic bodies eg. Visitscotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, Historic Scotland, SEPA etc
- Private funding:
Trusts and foundations
Sponsorship
Donations
Businesses
National Lottery funding:
Big Lottery Fund
Scottish Arts Council
Sportscotland
Heritage Lottery Fund
Scottish Land Fund
Fresh Futures
NESTA
Awards for All
- European Funding:
Leader+
New Ways Events Innovation Fund
Objective 2 Funding
Objective 3 Funding
- Own fundraising:
Events - concerts, sponsored walks, coffee mornings, car boot sales etc
Charity Shops, Appeals - postal telephone, personal
100 Club Schemes
Legacies
Advertising on the Internet
And many, many more……
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