Grant News
Registered charities in Scotland working with young children (under 3) and their parent/families, or with a parent/families expecting a baby can apply for grants of between £3,000 and £25,000 per year for projects lasting up to three years through the Cattanach Charitable Trust.
Projects working with families experiencing deprivation or in crisis will be given priority.
Grants may be for project funding, or for core funding including salaries and general running costs in smaller organisations. The Trustees prefer to fund revenue costs and a grant towards a capital project will usually only be associated with staff costs or some other aspect of revenue funding. The Trust prefers to make a grant which is a sizable contribution to a project and so is unlikely to make a small grant towards a very large project.
Previous projects supported include:
- Home Start, Aberdeen, which received a grant of £10,000 from the Trust to support their core work of training and matching volunteers with families with at least one child under 5.
- The SKY Project (Stuff for Youth and Kids) which received a grant of £7,873 towards the salary of a Children's Worker (especially the work with early primary school aged children) in a deprived area of Kilmarnock. Trustees meet four times a year to consider applications.
Applications can be submitted at any time. Trustees meet 4 times a year, usually in February, May, August and November to consider applications.
Organisations that wish to make an application must first register on the Cattanach Charitable Trust website, with the charity number of their organisation.
Useful Links: