Deadline: 19-Jul-24
The ScottishPower Foundation is pleased to announce the Annual Grants Programme.
Aims
- In order to be considered, your application must address at least one of the following specific objectives which have been set for the 2025 round of funding to support the overarching strategic aims:
- Education, Training and Research
- STEM: Inspiring young people to pursue qualifications and a career in STEM in order to contribute to energy sustainability
- Raising aspirations: Addressing society’s educational needs by inspiring and challenging the next generation through innovation
- Biodiversity and Climate Change
- Environmental protection or improvement: Protecting and enhancing the environment
- Habitat conservation: Contributing to the protection and conservation of habitats and enhancing biodiversity
- Knowledge and research: Developing new solutions to the challenge of climate change
- Art and Culture
- Restoration, development & conservation: Protecting and safeguarding artistic and cultural heritage
- Cultural initiatives: Celebrating diversity and cultural identity through the arts
- Social Initiatives
- Economic security: Alleviating poverty, including in-work poverty, caused by the cost-of-living crisis
- Economic opportunity: Supporting entrepreneurship and skills development for the most vulnerable groups.
- Education, Training and Research
Funding Information
- Your application must be for at least £35,000 and must not exceed £150,000
- Your project must start between 31st March 2025 and 31st December 2025 and be completed within 12 months. They will only approve funding for a one-year period
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications for funding for building work/land development are not eligible in the categories of Education, Training and Research or Social Initiatives.
- In addition to addressing at least one of the above specific objectives, all the following statements must apply to your organisation:
- 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
- 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)
Ineligible
- They provide funding that is restricted to the delivery of specific projects, and not for general unrestricted running costs. There are certain types of activity that they are unable to fund. Your application must not request funding for any of the following:
- Unrestricted costs
- 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 the strategic aims
- Projects which are primarily based around sports activities, unless the main purpose of the project is aligned to one of the strategic aims
- Projects that include building work/land development in the categories of Education, Training and Research and Social Initiatives
For more information, visit ScottishPower Foundation.