Funding in Perth & Kinross

The AI for Social Impact 2021 programme helps purpose-driven ventures in the UK advance their AI solutions to create positive social change. In 2021 they are looking for organisations that support the UK healthcare, manufacturing and resources industries to recover from Covid-19. Successful ventures will participate in a four-month accelerator programme, starting in March 2021 and will benefit from resources, advice, and one-to-one support to help them scale their purpose driven AI initiative.

The Foundation supports a wide range of charities, mostly in Scotland, and principally working in the fields of medical facilities and research, the relief of poverty and assistance to the aged and infirm, education and learning, encouragement of personal development and training of young people and the provision of better opportunities for the less privileged and the vulnerable and the encouragement of music and the arts. They also fund under the headings conservation and environment, disadvantaged and disabled, elderly, homeless and hospices, music, theatre and visual arts, religion and youth.

The Volant Trust’s aim is to support women, children and young people who are at risk and facing social deprivation. It supports Scottish charities and projects, whether national or community-based, which help alleviate social deprivation, particularly supporting women, children and young people at risk. Projects must demonstrate a strong focus on supporting women and children affected by hardship or disadvantage and on tackling the issues they face in order to make a lasting difference to their lives and life chances.

The Trust supports hospitals, charitable institutions and societies within the UK and overseas whose work is likely to benefit the community.

General charitable purposes, typically organisations based in Scotland and within the fields of music, the arts, education, medical research and care etc.

The VocTech Seed fund helps create a pipeline of new learning solutions by supporting innovative and creative projects at an early stage of development, enabling new ideas to reach a point where they can demonstrate their potential to customers or funders and reach the market. This call will support projects that show the potential to have a real impact in the world of vocational learning, and to ultimately make a difference to how people learn and to the number of people gaining new skills. Projects must aim to improve outcomes for learners and improve the quality of vocational teaching and training.