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Funding Opportunities

  • Big Lottery Funding

    The Big Lottery give grants from £300 to over £50,000 to organisations ranging from small local groups to major national charities, for a full list of funding programmes visit the Big Lottery website.

    • 2014 Communities in Scotland
    • Investing in Ideas
    • Investing in Communities
    • Awards for All
    • Lottery Fund

  • Comenius

    Comenius is one of the most popular international education programmes for UK schools, colleges and local authorities. Working with schools across Europe can bring learning alive for pupils and staff alike. Funding is available to support partnerships, in-service training and teaching assistantships.

  • Comic Relief Grants

    • UK Grants Programme
    • International Grants Programme
    • Common Ground Iniative for small & diaspora led organisations

  • Department for International Development (DFID) - Funding

    DFID have a number of funding streams, for a full list grants available from the following funding programmes visit their website.

    • Not-for-Profit
    • Business
    • Countries & Regions
    • Educational Institutions
    • Individuals
    • Local Authorities
    • Media

  • Erasmus

    Erasmus enables higher education students, teachers and institutions in 31 European countries to study for part of their degree in another country.

  • European Commission Funding

  • Global School Partnerships

    Global School Partnerships aims to motivate young people's commitment to a fairer, more sustainable world. DFID supports partnerships that promote global education through the curriculum. Support and guidance is provided to teachers and grants to schools to make the most of a school partnership as a learning tool. Funding is available for visits between partner schools to enable them to develop curriculum projects together based on global themes.

  • Grundtvig

    Grundtvig funds training opportunities for UK adult education organisations, staff & learners. Funding is for any UK organisation involved in non-vocational adult education.

  • International Development Fund: Main Grant Scheme

  • Leonardo

    Leonardo funds opportunities for UK vocational education & training organisations, staff and learners. Funding is for any UK organisation involved in vocational education & training and funds work placements for trainees, workers and staff and supports European partnership projects to improve quality in training.

  • Lifelong Learning Programme

    The Lifelong Learning Programme is the European funding programme which supports education and training across Europe. It provides funding for all stages of lifelong learning; for activities at school, at college, at university, in the workplace and in the community. The LLP is made up of several different programmes offering a variety of opportunities.

  • Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland

    • Henry Duncan Awards
    • Capacity Building Grants

  • Oxfam- Grants

  • The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

    The JRCT makes grants to individuals and to projects seeking the creation of a peaceful world, political equality and social justice generally under one of the following six programmes:

    • Peace
    • Racial Justice
    • Power & Responsibility
    • Quaker Concerns
    • Ireland
    • Soth Africa

  • The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

  • The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust

    Fund political campaigns in the UK to promote democratic reform, civil liberties and social justice.

  • Transversal Study Visits

    Transversal funds opportunities for UK education & training professionals to exchange expertise across Europe.

  • Youth in Action programme

    The Youth in Action Programme (2007-2013) is funded by the European Commission and provides young people with a variety of opportunities for non-formal and informal learning with a European dimension. The objectives of the programme are, the promotion and development of young people’s active citizenship; solidarity and social cohesion; as well as the development and promotion of quality support systems and European-wide cooperation. Specific programme priorities are: European Citizenship; participation of young people; intercultural dialogue; and the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities. The programme is divided into 5 Actions: • Action 1 – Youth for Europe • Action 2 – European Voluntary Service • Action 3 – Youth in the World • Action 4 – Youth Support Systems • Action 5 – Support for European Cooperation