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Who can apply?
You can apply if you are a not-for-profit group or you are a parish or town council, school or health body.
You must have a bank account that requires at least two people to sign each cheque or withdrawal.
You must use the grant within one year.
We cannot award grants to profit-making companies or individuals.
How much can you apply for?
Between £500 and £10,000 to fund a specific project or activity. Organisations can receive up to a maximum of £10,000 from Awards for All in any twelve-month period. Groups can only make one application at a time.
Awards for All will fund a wide range of projects and activities.
Find out more about what we will fund.
Awards for All funding priorities
Awards for All makes small Lottery grants to local groups who want quick results from Lottery funding in their community. As we have a great deal of applicants for Awards for All, we are focussing our funding on certain groups in order to make decisions more quickly, so that funding reaches successful applicants as soon as possible.
Organisations we would like to prioritise are:
- New groups (except Arts)
- Groups with an annual income of less than £20,000
- First time applicants
- People under 25
- People over 64
- People with disabilities
- People with mental health concerns
- Minority groups
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- LGBT groups
- Groups working to eliminate sectarianism
Please do not be put off if your group does not fit into one of these categories - we have £13 million to distribute this year and would encourage applications from outside of our priority areas, as we will consider all applications which fit our Awards for All guidelines.
We want to ensure that Awards for All funding is distributed fairly across Scotland, so there are some areas where we would like to focus our grant making. Funding levels across the country are constantly monitored by our staff, so areas of focus may change. If you are based in one of these areas we will automatically prioritise your application.
