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home
Learn
Report
- Responsibilities
- Reporting to duty bodies
Prevent
- Interventions
- Funding
Litter pick
Collect data
- Importance of data
- Data collection
Engage in policy
Organisation support
- Litter management
- Community involvement
Resources

Prevent
Interventions
Funding

Funding

Community groups can acquire funding or other forms of support for projects that directly and indirectly reduce litter and/or littering behaviour. Some are listed below.

Whilst we aim to keep this up-to-date there may be other funds available and fund schemes can change so these could no longer be relevant. The first four are links to search engines for funding too which may have other funding options.

SCVO Funding

Foundation Scotland

YouthLink Scotland – Youth work grants and funding search engine

Scottish Land Commission - Funding sources for work on vacant and derelict land

Your local authority, town council, parish council – sometimes these bodies have funding or support to communities such as grants.

Local businesses and organisations – many businesses and organisations want to support their local communities and may have dedicated funding for local causes.

Tesco Stronger Starts

The scheme is open to all schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, with priority given to projects that provide food and support to young people.

MyParkScotland

Scotland’s only crowdfunding site specifically for parks and greenspaces. Listing on the site is free of charge and open to groups involved in parks and greenspace across Scotland. This could be for a park improvement project (big or small), or used to part-fund a larger project.

Biffa award

Funding for locations near landfill sites under one of four themes: rebuilding biodiversity, community buildings, recreation or cultural facilities.

Arnold Clark Community Fund

Charities and community groups can apply to improve communities in areas that a near Arnold Clark branches.

Screwfix Foundation

Provides grants for projects that improve, repair and maintain homes and community facilities used by those in need.

Aviva Community Fund

Funding and support for local projects and causes including on climate action which includes promoting healthy, thriving communities.

The National Lottery

Funding for projects that do at least one of these three things: bring people together and building strong relationships in and across communities; improve the places and spaces that matter to communities; help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest stage.

Love your Network

Grants available to help with improving or enhancing spaces along local paths or to help local wildlife neat the National Cycle Network.

Greggs Foundation

Provides grants aiming to improve the health and wellbeing of people in communities where Greggs operates.

Delamere Dairy Foundation

Funding for charities and organisations whose purpose fits with the objects of the Foundation: the advancement of agriculture and of environmental protection; the advancement in life of young people by developing their capabilities so that they may mature as contributory members of society; the relief of financial hardship; the advancement of education; the relief of sickness.

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation

Provides single year small grants for core project costs that have a focus on community support.

Action Earth

Environmental grant scheme in Scotland to support communities tackle climate change and biodiversity loss.

Scottish Forestry

A community fund for groups that encourage people to use woods more.

FCC Scottish Action Fund

Grants for not-for-profit organisations with projects towards the objects of the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund - land reclamation, community recycling, public amenities and parks, biodiversity, historic buildings.

Scotmid

Funding for a group or individual acting for the wider benefit of the local community, living within the geographic boundaries of one of the Regional Committees and the project must address a community issue or support a local community initiative and provide benefit to the local community.

ASDA Foundation

Supports organisations in several ways including their Investing in Spaces and Places Grant for local groups aimed at improving community spaces and places where local people can be together and thrive.

Morrisons Foundation

Grant funding for registered charities for projects that help to improve people’s lives. Projects must meet at least one of the funding objectives: tackling poverty and social deprivation; enhancing community spaces, facilities and services; improving health and wellbeing.

Matthew Good Foundation

Funding for small and growing charities, voluntary groups or social enterprises impacting communities, people or the environment.

Heritage and Place Programme

Funding to support the development and delivery of heritage focused schemes within conservation areas, or distinctive heritage areas with local authority recognition. Applications can be accepted from local authorities, national park authorities and suitably experienced not-for-profit organisations based in Scotland.

Paths for all

Grand fund to improve paths and make active travel easier and more attractive including removing barriers and improve accessibility.

The Mushroom Trust

Funds projects that support the creation and improvement of greenspaces, particularly in urban environments, through an emphasis on horticultural aspects.

Sea-Changers Marine Conservation Social Fund 2023/4

Grant funding for socially beneficial marine conservation approaches and solutions which achieve one or more of the following objectives: to address the root causes of marine conservation threats and challenges in the UK; to prevent or reduce negative impacts on UK coastal and marine environments and/or species; to add to the body of knowledge about marine conservation threats and challenges in the UK and ways to overcome them.