Yes, provided the branch has its own management committee and accounts.

Yes, provided that the project for which funding is requested does not involve the advancement of religion and would not exclude anyone on the grounds of religion. We will consider this carefully when assessing your application.

Because we do not accept applications from organizations whose income exceeds £250,000 per year, we cannot accept applications from any local authority institutions, including schools. We will consider applications from Parent Teacher Associations, but only for projects which we do not consider to overlap with the local authority's statutory responsibilities.

Unlike the others we run The Fair Share Trust is not an open grants programme. Please read the information about the Fair Share Trust on this website. If your organisation works in one of the neighbourhoods eligible to receive funds from the programme and you are interested in finding out more, then contact us on 0141 225 6670.

No, as long as you are a constituted not-for-profit group with charitable aims, you can apply. By having charitable aims, we mean broadly that your group aims to benefit the community which you are working in.

No. This policy now applies to all our grants programmes.

We look at the income in the last full set of accounts or, if it is a new group, in their projection for the current year.

No. We only take into account the income of the organisation as a whole.

No. We only take into account the income of the organisation as a whole.

No. We will not make grants retrospectively, i.e. for costs already incurred. You cannot apply for help with the costs of any activities that will take place before we give you a decision on your application. Please bear in mind that it can take up to 3 months for a Main Grant (6 weeks for an Express Grant), for us to give you a decision on your application. Please apply in plenty of time to allow your application to be processed before your project takes place.

We only accept applications where the grant requested from us is for at least 25% of a project's total costs. In other words, the grant requested would contribute at least a quarter of the money needed to make the project happen. In effect, since our maximum grant size is £5,000, we will only make grants to projects costing £20,000 or less. For our purposes, the project must be a coherent programme of activity, piece of equipment, facility, development etc. which can stand alone to make a difference for your users or members and is not dependent on other new activities or equipment etc.

You can only apply for one grant from either Community Grants or Women's Fund for Scotland at a time. However, you may also apply for a grant from Sport Relief at the same time, but they should not be for the same project.

If you are applying for either an Express or Main Grant you will need to send us accounts.  If you are a new organisation which does not yet have accounts, you should send us a full projection of your income and expenditure for the year.  For further guidance and information on our new accounts policy then please click here.

To our Glasgow office: Suite 3.4, Turnberry House, 175 West George Street, Glasgow G2 2LB

For Express Grants, up to 6 weeks. For Main Grants, up to 3 months.

It takes up to 6 weeks to give you a decision on an Express Grant application and up to 3 months for a Main Grant. Please bear these timescales in mind before you phone us. We would prefer to spend our time processing people's applications. For more information about what happens to your application see What is the Process?

Just call us on 0141 225 6670 and let us know.

For Main Grants, the person named on the application form will be telephoned for more information. For Express Grants, you should be prepared to be telephoned, but this is not always necessary. In some cases, the assessor will ask you to send us additional information.

Applications from organisations that have previously received grants from the same grants programme may be treated as a lower priority by the Grants Committee if there is a lot of competition for the available funds.

Having received an Express or Main Community Grant, you may not reapply for that type of grant (i.e. Express or Main) again for 8 months. You may only apply for one type of Community Grant at a time. However, groups may apply for both a Express and Main grant during the course of a year and, if successful, may hold one grant of each type at any time. e.g. A group that receives a Main Grant in May of one year, will not be able to apply for another Main Grant until the following May. However, they could still apply for one Express Grant.

Grants from the Women's Fund for Scotland are counted as Community Grants in this respect. i.e. you cannot apply for a Main Grant from the Women's Fund for Scotland if you have received a Main Community Grant within the last 8 months.

In addition, you may apply for a Main grant from the Sport Relief programme at any time. However, if successful you may only hold one Sport Relief grant per year. You may apply for a grant from Sport Relief at the same time as one from Community Grants, but they should not be for the same project.

Yes, if your application was eligible, but was unsuccessful, you can reapply at any time. You can apply for the same project, but please consider any feedback we gave you about why your original application was unsuccessful.

Yes. We will send you a Completion Report with your cheque. You must complete this and send it to us when your project is over. You can also download a copy of the report form from the Current Grant Holders section of this website. You must use the Completion Report form, but we are also happy to receive any other reports, evaluation or photographs from your project.

When you accept our grant offer and return our signed terms and conditions we will post you a cheque. However, in a few cases, we ask you to satisfy certain special conditions before the grant is paid.

You will need to return the money to us. Contact us to discuss this.

Send us a letter stating why there has been an underspend, how much remains unspent and what, if anything, you propose to do with the remaining money. We will contact you to discuss whether or not we require the unspent money to be repaid.

All grants must be spent within 12 months.