Active Community funding

Health Lottery Scotland’s Active Communities is a funding programme for small and local projects, genuinely designed and run by local people.

It is currently open for applications from community groups and not-for-profit organisations in Aberdeenshire, Clackmannanshire, Fife, North Lanarkshire, Shetland.

Active Communities is for projects seeking investment of between £5,000 and £40,000 for projects lasting up to two years. Projects need to be designed and led by local people and support their neighbourhood or community to come together to address an issue that is important to them.

Projects will create stronger connections between people by supporting them to meet up regularly. They will benefit people who experience greater social and economic disadvantage than people living in other parts of the country in either:

• small and local communities, for example, involving residents living in a few streets, an estate, a small village or
• communities of interest (a group of people who have shared experiences, characteristics or common interests) who wish to come together to address specific issues.

For full details, visit the People's Health Trust website.

There is a two-stage application process – a short Stage 1 application form must be submitted by 1pm on 2 March.