The Scottish Community Foundation is inviting proposals to its new grants programme, offering grants of between £10,000 and £50,000 (up to £25K/yr for up to 2 years) to support activities relating to three investment areas:

Building Enterprising Communities
Supporting creative and innovative ideas that develop local talents, assets and resources for community benefit.

Connecting Generations
Helping people develop sustainable relationships that span generations, enabling all age groups to participate in and contribute to community life.

Repositioning Organisations
Assisting established organisations to evolve in order to best reflect the changing needs of their communities.

This new Community Investment Programme complements the Foundation’s ongoing small grants programmes and reflects a strategic approach to achieving the Foundation’s vision of strong, successful communities. In keeping with the Foundation’s emphasis on supporting smaller, grass-roots organisations, grants will be made to community groups and charities with an annual income of under £250,000. And to ensure the Foundation’s investment makes a significant impact, requests must be for at least 50% of total project costs.

Grants can support a wide range of costs and activities, but will not fund purely capital projects.

The deadline for receipt of initial proposals is Monday 30th April 2007.

Details and Proposal Forms are available at the, really impressive, web address below:

http://www.scottishcf.org