Opportunities & Events
ScottishPower Foundation - Annual Grants Programme
Location: UK | Start Date: 18th July 2025
Summary:
Applications are now open until 12 noon on Friday 18th July. Please find details on our criteria and how to apply here.
Content:
To be considered, your application must address at least one of the following specific objectives which have been set for the 2026 round of funding to support our overarching strategic aims:
Education, Training and Research
Specific Objectives
STEM: Inspiring young people to pursue qualifications and a career in STEM in order to contribute to energy sustainability
Raising aspirations: Using innovative educational solutions to address society’s needs and challenge the next generation
Biodiversity and Climate Change
Specific Objectives
Environmental protection: Protecting or conserving the environment
Habitat restoration: Contributing to the restoration of habitats and enhancing biodiversity
Knowledge and research: Creating new solutions to the challenge of climate change
Art and Culture
Specific Objectives
Restoration, development and conservation: Safeguarding artistic and cultural heritage
Cultural initiatives: Celebrating diversity and cultural identity through the arts
Social Initiatives
Specific Objectives
Economic security: Supporting social inclusion and reducing poverty, prioritising child and in-work poverty
Economic opportunity: Supporting entrepreneurship and skills development for the most vulnerable groups, in particular women and those living with disability or serious illness.
Applications for funding for building work/land development are not eligible in the categories of Education, Training and Research or Social Initiatives.
In addition to addressing at least one of the above specific objectives, all the following statements must apply to your organisation:
- The bank account into which the funding is to be made is not based in a restricted country (i.e. tax haven, high corruption risk or sanctioned country)
- You have an active board of at least three unrelated trustees
- You have been registered with one of the UK Charity Regulators for at least one full year. We don’t accept applications from exempt charities
- You have at least one year of published accounts covering a 12-month operating period that show as received on the relevant charity regulator website
- Your income in the last set of published accounts was greater than £75,000 but does not exceed £10,000,000