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The Weir Charitable Trust - Funding for community groups
Created: 05/03/2025
News/Events Category: Funding and Finance
The Weir Charitable Trust aims to support Scottish-based community groups and small charities to provide services across Scotland to help the Scottish community. These groups and charities are likely to have found it difficult to access funds elsewhere. The trust supports services/projects in the following qualifying categories:
- Sport: encouraging and increasing public participation in sport (activities which involve physical skill and exertion)
- Recreational facilities: the provision or organisation of recreational facilities (buildings, pitches or similar) with the aim of improving the conditions of life for the people for whom the facilities are primarily intended. This is only in relation to facilities which are primarily intended for people who need them due to age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
- Animal welfare: for the advancement of animal welfare
- Health: the advancement of health, including prevention or relief of sickness, disease or human suffering
- Culture: supporting the heritage - tangible or otherwise - of Scotland, through projects that encourage participation in and preservation of Scotland's distinctive culture
Who can apply?
Registered Scottish charities, constituted groups and community interest companies with an annual income of up to £150,000. Applications must meet one or more of the qualifying criteria of animal welfare, culture, health, recreational facilities, and sport.
Maximum annual income: £150,000
How to apply
The application form is available on the Trust's website. They request that any enquiries are made via email or using the online contact form on the Trust's website.
The closing date for applications is Friday 23 May 2025.
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