Funding for resilience projects available

Every year the National Centre for Resilience (NCR) release funding opportunities that help to support academics, practitioners and community organisations to build Scotland’s resilience to natural hazards. 

These calls are designed to offer financial support to groups working on projects that enhance our ability to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate the effects of natural hazards across Scotland’s communities. 

To mark yesterday’s UN International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2024, the NCR launched its latest round of project funding opportunities for the year 25/26.

Applications are invited from projects that work to enhance our ability to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate the effects of natural disasters across Scotland's communities.

The three announced funds are:

• The Knowledge Mobilisation Fund is tailored to help UK academics engage with Scottish communities, transform scientific data into practical solutions, and provide customised tools to empower communities in building resilience.
• The Community Council Fund offers financial support to help Community Councils develop and execute their local resilience plans.
• And, the Third Sector, Community, and Practice Project Fund extends financial support to community groups, practitioners, and the third sector for collaborative projects promoting the use of local community-based approaches to enhance resilience.

The NCR is an academic research hub, using evidence to inform policy and practice. They bridge the gap between academia, policy and practice by promoting cross sector partnerships, encouraging each to learn from the other to improve resilience when planning for, responding to and recovering from natural hazard events.

The NCR utilises existing knowledge and commissions new projects to address real life issues faced by resilience practitioners and communities. Using our networks, we create links for researchers to help them adapt their project outputs into tailored briefings and tools for end users. We help maximise the potential use and impacts of this work by disseminating research outputs beyond the immediate project stakeholder group and into the wider resilience audiences. 

For more information on our grant opportunities, please visit the NCR website.