Deadline: 18-Jul-2025
The ScottishPower Foundation is accepting its annual grant applications.
Objectives and Aims
- Education, Training and Research
- Specific Objectives
- STEM: Inspiring young people to pursue qualifications and a career in STEM in order to contribute to energy sustainability
- Raising aspirations: Using innovative educational solutions to address society’s needs and challenge the next generation
- Specific Objectives
- Biodiversity and Climate Change
- Specific Objectives
- Environmental protection: Protecting or conserving the environment
- Habitat restoration: Contributing to the restoration of habitats and enhancing biodiversity
- Knowledge and research: Creating new solutions to the challenge of climate change
- Specific Objectives
- Art and Culture
- Specific Objectives
- Restoration, development and conservation: Safeguarding artistic and cultural heritage
- Cultural initiatives: Celebrating diversity and cultural identity through the arts
- Specific Objectives
- Social Initiatives
- Specific Objectives
Funding Information
- They accept applications for between £35K- £150K.
Ineligible Projects
- Unrestricted costs (costs which can be used for anything without prior consent/agreement from the Foundation)
- Funding that will be passed on to individuals or other organisations
- Short term interventions including conferences, galas, holidays and expeditions
- Sponsorship or funding towards an appeal
- Projects that take place outside the United Kingdom
- Medical care or medical research
- The promotion of religious or political beliefs
- Projects which are primarily based around animals, unless the main purpose of the project is aligned to one of their strategic aims
- Projects which are primarily based around sports activities, unless the main purpose of the project is aligned to one of their strategic aims
Eligibility Criteria
- In addition to addressing at least one of the above specific objectives, all the following statements must apply to your organisation:
- The bank account into which the funding is to be made is not based in a restricted country (i.e. tax haven, high corruption risk or sanctioned country)
- You have an active board of at least three unrelated trustees
- You have been registered with one of the UK Charity Regulators for at least one full year. They don’t accept applications from exempt charities
- You have at least one year of published accounts covering a 12-month operating period that show as received on the relevant charity regulator website
- Your income in the last set of published accounts was greater than £75,000 but does not exceed £10,000,000
Ineligibility Criteria
- Applications for funding for building work/land development are not eligible in the categories of Education, Training and Research or Social Initiatives.
Application Requirements
- Your Articles of Association
- Your most recently published annual accounts covering a 12-month operating period, that show as received on the relevant Charity Regulator website. Your income shown in these accounts should be greater than £75,000 but should not exceed £10,000,000.
- Your written policy on Safeguarding (if your organisation works with children or vulnerable adults). Please note that they are examining your policy in their capacity as a funder only and not in any advisory capacity. Their review of your policy should not be relied on as an endorsement of it.
- A letter from your CEO or the Chair of your Board of Trustees confirming that your Safeguarding policy has been reviewed by your Board of Trustees within the last two years.
- Evidence of planning and/or all necessary consents (if you are applying in the categories of Art and Culture or Biodiversity and Climate Change, and your project includes any building work or land development that requires consent).
For more information, visit ScottishPower Foundation.