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Baillie Gifford International Fund
This fund is aimed at supporting registered charities who are working in International Aid Development to deliver their work. Grants of up to £5,000 are available for projects addressing the climate emergency outside of the UK.
Supporting grassroots projects for over a decade
Baillie Gifford has worked with Foundation Scotland for over ten years to distribute money to good causes. For them, it made sense to use Foundation Scotland’s grantmaking expertise and Scotland-wide reach to make grants, rather than setting up a Foundation of their own and all the administration that would entail. Grassroots organisations have always been at the heart of Baillie Gifford’s funding. By working...
Encouraging women to participate in sport
Bass Rocketeers Netball Club was established in 2014 to promote and provide access to the sport of netball for women and girls in East Lothian. The club aims to offer women and girls a supportive, cooperative and non-threatening environment where they can work together to achieve common goals. It promotes good health and wellbeing and hopes to improve the self-esteem of those involved. The club was awarded £2,000 from the Bai...
Bringing people together through food
Küche is based in Glasgow and was established in 2017 in response to the high level of asylum seekers (over 10% of the UK's asylum seekers are living in Glasgow), immigrants and people of different nationalities living in the city. They aim to bring people together, encourage discussion and break down misconceptions through food. The group were awarded £2,000 from the Baillie Gifford Community Awards Fund, which enabled them ...
Supporting men's health during lockdown
Menself+ CIC was established in 2015 and are based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow. They offer a range of activities targeted primarily, but not exclusively, at men aged 14 years plus. The group aims to combat isolation, reduce suicide, and encourage dialogue around men’s health issues. A grant of £1,700 from the Baillie Gifford Community Awards Fund enabled the group to deliver 20 weekly yoga sessions. Due to the Covid...
Empowering the blind and visually impaired
The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety (SCPS) was founded in 1997 by current Volunteer Manager, Alan Bell. The organisation became a registered charity in 2013 and aims to raise awareness of the importance of personal safety and to potentially save lives by preventing and reducing violence and fear of violence in Scotland. They are a volunteer-led organisation and their services are open to all and are usually free to take pa...
Our Donors
We connect funding with community organisations working on the ground, ensuring it stays relevant to local circumstances and delivers real impact. We help donors find the right fit between them and the causes they value, or the places where they want to make a difference. On this page, you can find out more about the journey some of our donors have been on and the impact their funds have made.
Empowering grassroots-led change across Scotland
An entrepreneurial streak combined with massive volunteer effort characterised our earliest activities. We stayed focused on raising independent funding to support charities and communities, but besides that guiding pole star, we were pretty wide-ranging and rarely said 'no'. Many of those early activities became their own organisation or have endured in different ways. We were at the forefront of large-scale fundraisin...
Have your say
The Stroupster Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund was launched in 2016; some six years ago. Since then small changes have been made such as increasing the number of rounds per year from two to three, and more significant changes such as the launch of the Education & Training Fund. If you would like to help shape the future of this fund please have your say by completing the online survey before the 31st January 2022. T...
Minnygap Community Fund projects in focus
The fund dates back to May 2018 and benefits residents of Johnstone, Templand and Kirkpatrick Juxta (Beattock), geographically defined by community council boundaries. Every year there is approximately £50,000 available for local individuals, community groups and charitable organisations. The fund supports a wide range of projects, costs and activities. Funding from the Minnygap Community Fund has previously supported Annand...