Deadline: 31-May-2024
Applications are now open for the Robertson Trust Small Grants to address poverty and trauma in Scotland.
Who and what are Small Grants for?
- For registered charities working in Scotland, with an annual income of between £25,000 and £100,000, that support people who are experiencing (or are at risk of experiencing) poverty or trauma
- Unrestricted or restricted revenue funding of between £2,000 and £15,000 per year, for up to five years
What type of work will you fund?
- Through the Small Grants, as with all the funding, they want to support work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of these themes:
- Financial security: addressing the financial and material effects of poverty on people and communities.
- Emotional wellbeing and relationships: ensuring people have emotional wellbeing, and confidence and strength in their relationships with others.
- Educational and work pathways: equipping people for the future through learning and skills pathways.
- Across all three themes, they can fund work that:
- meets people’s immediate needs around poverty and/or trauma
- provides earlier help which aims to prevent or reduce the likelihood of experiencing negative outcomes relating to poverty and/or trauma
- tests new approaches or does more of what works
- is universal (aimed at a wide group of people or an entire community) or targeted (focusing on a specific beneficiary group, e.g. young people), as long as it shows how it will meet the needs of people (at risk of) experiencing poverty or trauma.
What can I apply for?
- Revenue funding of between £2,000 and £15,000 per year for up to five years, depending on your need or request.
- They can consider unrestricted funding, which can be used to support any costs within your organisation, to help you further your work. Where there are elements of your organisation’s work that do not fit with the themes, you may not be eligible for unrestricted funding.
- Alternatively, they can consider restricted funding for a specific salary, project or service, including any associated equipment costs. They can consider fully funding a small project or part-time salary, or part-funding a larger project, service or full-time salary.
- You don’t need to have any match funding in place when you apply, however if the total costs of your project, service or salary exceed the maximum award size, you will need to consider additional sources of funding.
- You can only hold one revenue grant from the Trust at any one time.
- If your organisation also needs capital funding specifically towards the costs of a vehicle, you can apply separately for a Community Vehicle Grant.
Who can’t apply?
- Charities who are already in receipt of revenue funding from them. You can only hold one revenue award at a time. This includes revenue funding from the previous Open Grants programme (which closed in early 2020). You can reapply once your existing grant ends and you’ve sent them your End of Grant Report.
- Charities who unsuccessfully applied to the previous Open Grants programme (which closed in early 2020) within the past 12 months. You can reapply once 12 months from the date of your decline email has passed.
- Housing Associations and Arm’s Length External Organisations (ALEOs). These types of organisation are not currently eligible for funding from us. However, they are committed to reviewing the guidance and criteria across the course of the strategy.
For more information, visit The Robertson Trust.
For more information, visit https://www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/funding/small-grants/
