Funding Opportunity - ScotRail Foundation Grants

29th September 2013

The ScotRail Foundation has announced that for the period 2013/14 it has committed £100,000 to be distributed to community groups and good causes. Groups and organisations in Scotland can apply for funding through the ScotRail Foundation for community development projects. Specifically for projects that:

Provide support for children and young people
Improve the local environment
Improve local communities general health and wellbeing.
ScotRail would prefer to link projects to some of their own corporate themes (or a local train station but this is not essential. This could include:
Addressing vandalism, particularly at train stations
Respecting the railway and preventing accidents
Improving the local community’s connections with/or awareness of a local train station; etc.

ScotRail has two categories of award. These are:
£250 - £1,000
£1,001 - £5,000.

The next closing date for applications is the 17th January 2014.

http://www.foundationscotland.org.uk/programmes/scotrail.aspx