Heritage Lottery Fund Scotland Surgery Slots

Posted on June 23, 2016

The Heritage Lottery Fund Scotland team is now offering regular 1 hour surgery slots for any groups interested in one to one funding advice for heritage projects via Skype, or in person in their Edinburgh office.

The process and dates will remain the same as before; groups can contact Heritage Lottery Fund Scotland team to book a tentative time in advance, which will be confirmed on receipt of the Project Enquiry Form, which is available from the Heritage Lottery Fund website.

Dates for upcoming surgeries are as follows:

Thursday 30^th June 2016
Tuesday 26^th July 2016
Thursday 25^th August 2016

To book your slot, please contact the Heritage Lottery Fund Scotland by phone: 0131 2259450, or email Scotland@hlf.org.uk

For further information, please visit the Heritage Lottery Fund website.

Safe and Fun Falkirk Halloween Activities During COVID-19

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Creative Scotland Youth Arts Emergency Funding

Creative Scotland have released new funds to support project activity with children and young people, including the Youth Arts Small Grants Scheme (allows organisations and local authorities to apply for small grants funding of up to £50,000, to distribute £500 – £5,000 to freelance artists and creative practitioners, to deliver youth arts activities; deadline for applications is Monday 2nd November) and the Youth Arts Access Fund (offers grants of £5,000 – £30,000 to those who run youth arts programmes, to support activity from March 2021 onwards. Applications proposing specific actions and partnerships to tackle inequality will be prioritised; deadline for applications is Thursday 12th November).

Weekly Funding Insight Bulletin: w/c Monday 19th October

This week’s Funding Insight Bulletin is now live! The insight bulletin is generated by the Grantsonline Funding Portal, the UK’s most comprehensive and up to date UK grant funding information service.