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Useful external funding links

  • Article 6 ESF
    European Social Fund supports innovative actions to assist the development of future policy and programmes by exploring new approaches to the content and/or organisation of employment.
  • Coalfields Regeneration Trust
    The Coalfields Regeneration Trust (the Trust) was established in 1999 and is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people in Britain's coalfield communities.
  • Community Environmental Renewals Scheme (CERS)
    The Community Environmental Renewal Scheme (CERS) offers support for projects that will improve the local environment of communities affected by quarrying.
  • Culture 2000
    The Culture 2000 site is aimed mainly at European cultural operators who want to set up co-operation projects with other European partners.
  • E-Learning Programme
    A programme for the effective integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education and training systems in Europe (2004 – 2006).
  • EQUAL
    The EQUAL Initiative is a laboratory for new ideas to the European Employment Strategy and the Social inclusion process.
  • EQUAL Access Development Partnership
    Following the successful delivery of Round 1, Equal Access is developing new and innovative activities that seek to address the health related barriers to work faced by those furthest from the labour market.
  • European Social Fund/European Regional Development Fund: Scottish ESF Objective 3 Programme
    This website covers both the Objective 3 European Social Fund Programme and the Equal Programme.
  • Forestry Commission
    Forestry Commission Scotland serves as the forestry department of the Scottish Executive, advising on and implementing forestry policy and managing the national forest estate.
  • Grantnet 
    Grantnet is North Lanarkshire Council's free search facility to help you search for funding for any venture or project.
  • Heritage Lottery Fund
    The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) enables communities to celebrate, look after and learn more about our diverse heritage.
  • Landfill Tax Credit Scheme (LTCS)
    The Landfill Tax Credit Scheme (LTCS) encourages and enables landfill operators (LOs) to support a wide range of environmental projects by giving them a 90 per cent tax credit against their donations to Environmental Bodies (EBs).
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    The European Commission's Leonardo da Vinci programme serves as a laboratory of innovation in the field of lifelong learning.
  • LIFE
    LIFE, the Financial Instrument for the Environment, introduced in 1992, is one of the spearheads of the European Union's environmental policy.
  • Scottish Arts Council
    The Scottish Arts Council is the principal channel of public funding for the arts in Scotland.
  • Scottish Communities and Household Renewable Initiative
    SCHRI is a one-stop shop offering grants, advice and project support to assist the development of new community and household renewable schemes in Scotland.
  • Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)
    Scottish Natural Heritage work to protect and improve Scotland's natural heritage and to help people understand, enjoy and care for it. They offer grants to help others to do this as well.
  • Socrates
    European Community Action Programme in the field of education (2000-2006).
  • Sports Scotland
    Sportscotland is the national body for sport development in Scotland.
  • The Big Lottery
    Fund for community transformation, from smaller grants at local level through to big capital projects, intended to regenerate and revitalise communities.
  • The Sixth Framework Programme
    FP6 is the European Community Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration.
  • Town Twinning
    Twinning provides the opportunity to find out more about the daily lives of citizens in other European countries, to talk to them and exchange experiences, and to develop joint projects on issues of common interest, such as local integration, the environment, economic development, and cultural differences.
  • Youth
    The YOUTH programme is the European Union's mobility and non-formal education programme targeting young people aged between 15 and 25 years.
  • Western Scotland Objective 2 Programme
    The two main types of European Funding that Western Scotland receives are:
    • European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
    • European Social Fund (ESF)

These are delivered through the Western Scotland Objective 2 Programme.

 

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