Questions & Answers
You can apply to Awards for All if you are a not-for-profit/voluntary and community sector group, community council, school or health body. A range of organisations can apply but we prioritise smaller voluntary and community groups with an annual income of less than £20,000.
You can apply for a grant of between £500 and £10,000 to be used within a year. Organisations can apply for up to £10,000 within any 12-month period - this means if you get a grant for less than the maximum amount you can reapply within the same year as long as all end of grant monitoring is completed satisfactorily and the award is closed on our system.
Awards for All Scotland can fund projects that benefit people living in Scotland.
Awards for All aims to get lottery money into local communities in Scotland.
We can fund projects that meet one or more of the outcomes for Scotland:
- People have better chances in life
- Communities are safer, stronger and more able to work together to tackle inequalities
- People have better and more sustainable services and environments
- People and communities are healthier
You can contact the Scotland Information Team on 0870 240 2391 or by emailing Scotland@awardsforall.org.uk. For an application pack you can call 0845 600 2040 or textphone 0845 755 6656.
Awards for All Scotland has some new priorities. These are listed in full in the guidance notes. One of our priorities are those areas we’d like to see receive more funding from Awards for All, based on our analysis of where our funding has gone to date. These are different for each of the three lottery distributors:
Big Lottery Fund
Aberdeen City
Aberdeenshire
East Ayrshire
East Lothian
North Ayrshire
Perth & Kinross
Scottish Arts Council
Aberdeen City
Falkirk
Inverclyde
Perth & Kinross
Renfrewshire
West Lothian
sportscotland
Angus
Clackmannanshire
Dundee City
East Renfrewshire
Falkirk
Shetland Islands
Small towns (those with a population of 3,000 to 10,000) are also a priority, as well as areas that feature in the 15% most deprived data zones in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD).






