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Your charity must have an income of between £500k and £5M

You cannot apply if you are a newly registered charity operational for less than one year with no accounts lodged at OSCR

You must be a charity registered in Scotland, operational for more than one year.

If you are currently in receipt of a grant from any of our programmes or have not yet returned your Evaluation form for your most recent grant.

Make sure you put the correct charity number on your application.

You cannot apply if you are a charity whose purpose is:

• Political organisation

• Animal welfare

• The promotion of religion

• Medical research

• To make grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals

Make sure your annual accounts are signed by both an independent examiner and a member of the Board. Signatures that are blacked out will not be accepted.

You are a charity that redistributes funding for subsequent grant-making to other organisations and /or individuals.

You must include an A4 page that describes how you plan to spend any funding award and explains how your community will benefit from it.

You are applying for donations to

• individuals

• advertising

• sponsorship

• foreign trips

• overseas projects

Make sure your additional A4 information is no more than one page long.

You cannot apply if you do not have all your regulatory returns up to date at OSCR and Companies House.

Your charities record on OSCR must state ‘It carries out activities itself’.

You cannot apply for multiple grants at the same time, you must choose one programme and await the outcome of that application before applying again.

You must only submit one application for a programme.