Scotland Funding

Site Visits Travel Bursary: The Growing Communities partnership has a travel bursary scheme funded by the Big Lottery. This is open to anyone actively engaged in community gardens, therapeutic gardens or city farms that wishes to go and visit other such groups to share ideas and good practice. This bursary scheme is not for allotments.

You will be able to apply for up to £300 in total for travel and associated expenses for up to six people. Bursaries will be awarded to applicants that can demonstrate that the proposed visit will inform and assist their own community garden, therapeutic garden or city farm. FCFCG and Trellis will be able to help you identify other community gardens, therapeutic gardens and city farms across Scotland to visit. Application success will depend on your application and available funding. We will award 10 bursaries each year. For more information please contact Vicki Ferguson using the contact details at the bottom of this page or download a form using the link below:

Site Visit Bursary application

The Allotments Regeneration Initiative runs a bursary scheme for allotments groups to visit other allotments sites. For more information on this, please go to www.farmgarden.org/ari

Women’s Fund for Scotland: Grants of up to £5,000 are available for International Women’s Day 2010 events, or for projects that benefit women run by not-for-profit groups. Project funding is for between 25-100% of projects costs, and projects should support women’s development, self-sufficiency, and economic and social equality, and applications that incorporate social enterprise are of interest. Deadline 11 December 2009. Contact: 0141 225 6670. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www.scottishcf.org/grantsforwomen

Voluntary Action Community Chest: The Voluntary Action Fund’s (VAF) Community Chest grant has re-opened for new applications. The grant is aimed at smaller community groups and voluntary organisations across Scotland and will provide grants of up to £1000 as well as free training to groups with an annual income of under £25,000. Deadline 30 Sept. For more info: www.voluntaryactionfund.org.uk/grant-schemes/comm

Support funding for food initiatives: Community Food and Health (Scotland) is committed to supporting community food initiatives delivering community food and health activities that are meeting the needs of the most disadvantaged members of society. One of CFHS’s roles is to improve and increase the robustness of organisations delivering community food and health activities, so that they are better able to overcome challenges to their long-term sustainability. Community food initiatives that are likely to face sustainability issues within the next 6-18 months are invited to apply to CFHS to be part of their business support programme. The programme will provide business support for up to ten community food initiatives. For more details and an application form, visit the Current Work page of the Community Food and Health (Scotland) website.