Scotland: National Rural Network
Connecting Rural Scotland - Promoting Rural Growth

Comic Relief have announced that their UK grants programme is now open for applications. Applications are invited from the voluntary and community sector throughout the UK.

Under its UK grant making programme Comic Relief makes grants that address:

• mental health issues
• domestic and sexual abuse
• supports refugee and asylum seeking women
• young people, in particular those that are sexually exploited and trafficked, and those that have alcohol and mental health problems
• project that use sport to support community development
• projects that support local disadvantaged communities.

Comic Relief provides both capital and revenue funding and can pay for up to 100% of projects costs but they encourage applicants to get some of their funding from other sources. There is no minimum or maximum grant in most of the programmes. Their grants on average vary between £25,000 and £40,000 per year, and rarely exceed this upper limit.