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Scotland’s community foundation

foundation Scotland logo including photos of projects supported
foundation Scotland logo including photos of projects supported
foundation Scotland logo including photos of projects supported
foundation Scotland logo including photos of projects supported

Foundation Scotland is an independent funder, and is Scotland’s only Community Foundation.


Since 1996, we’ve helped distribute more than £200 million to charities and community groups across Scotland, creating happier, fairer, and more sustainable communities. 

All over Scotland, local groups and charities have ideas and plans for how to make their communities happier, fairer, and more sustainable. What they often lack is the financial support to help make those ideas happen.

We work with funders, donors and philanthropists who want to support and strengthen the building blocks of these communities. We help them to channel their giving in a way that is most meaningful to them, or to support communities that they have a particular connection with.

We also work in partnership with communities themselves, so that they can maximise funding opportunities from place-based funds, such as community benefit funds provided by the renewables sector - like wind farms.

And we offer social investment opportunities that enable social enterprises, community organisations and charities to grow and deliver positive social impact.

For a quick introduction on how we make a difference, watch our animation.

More about us

Over the past 12 months

We’ve paid out

£20.9m

through this many grants

3195

and this many funds

285

Learn more about our impact

Social Investment support

Foundation Scotland has extended support for the third sector even further by providing innovative social investment opportunities to social enterprises in Scotland.

Social investment expands on our community foundation's core grantmaking services providing access to a greater range of funding options across Scotland.  Find out more.

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Our news

Fund News

Heriot Kids Club receives five-year grant to maintain essential rural childcare provision

Heriot Country Kids has been awarded funding to continue providing wraparound childcare services to families in the village of Heriot.

Fund News

£2 million funding from Essentia Foundation to support young people

Eight organisations across Scotland will each receive a £250,000 funding boost from the Essentia Foundation, in their largest grants programme to date.

Fund News

Local camera club captures community spirit through the lens of history

An ambitious photography project in Blackridge, West Lothian, has become a celebration of the area’s resilience, community connection and heritage.

Fund News

£69,000 funding boost for community projects in Dumfries and Galloway

Eight community organisations in Dumfries and Galloway have been awarded over £69,000 from the Glenkens & District Community Fund.