Fife Health Charity community grants
The Charity’s Community Grants Programme is open from 1st September 2026 to 5pm on 30th September 2026.
Background
Fife Health Charity’s Community Grants programme has been developed to help us in our aim to improve the health and wellbeing of people across Fife. Over the five year period (2024 – 2029) we plan to make funding available annually to enable charities working in communities across Fife to help improve people’s mental wellbeing.
In January 2025 10 locally based Fife charities received a grant of up to £5,000 each through our first ever community grants programme supporting children and young people across Fife. These small grants have supported identified unmet needs in their local communities. Their passion and enthusiasm for the work they do is inspiring.
The charities have been creative delivering a range of activities -
- Childcare during the Easter and summer holidays for primary age children
- Adventure play for disabled children, young people and their families
- Structured sports programmes
- Befriending schemes
- Outdoor educational activities and issues based workshops relating to health and wellbeing
- Creation of a sensory room
- Weekly youth cafe for 12-17 year olds – activities which help to support positive mental health
- Kitbag (North East Fife) – to help children to talk about and understand how they feel
In January 2026 14 locally based charities received a grant of up to £6,000 each through the second year of our community grants programme again supporting children and young people across Fife.
We have learned more about the impact that these community grants are making across Fife communities for children and young people:
- Participation in team activities to improve social skills
- Increasing self-esteem, reducing anxiety, building resilience and confidence
- Targeted emotional support to children and young people facing challenges related to school attendance and engagement
- Support for young people who are feeling lonely and isolated due to mental health problems
- Developing personal and life skills
Fife Health Charity’s community grants 2026/27
In 2026, the third year of this programme we are specifically looking to fund work that supports:
- children and young people and
- older adults, generally defined as those aged 65 and above.
Applications may be considered for under 65s where circumstances demonstrate a clear need aligned to the community grant guidance.
The Charity’s Community Grants Programme is open from 1st September 2026 to 5pm on 30th September 2026.
Who can apply?
Our 2026/27 Community Grants programme will be open to organisations that are:
- Charities registered with OSCR the Scottish Charity Regulator;
- Constituted community groups operating in Fife
- Local social enterprise registered with Scottish Enterprise Scotland
- working with young people (age 0-25) and/or families with children in this age range
- working with older adults
- delivering work and operating in Fife; and
- able to provide a bank statement in their organisation’s name.
How much can you apply for?
- Charities can apply for grants up to £5,000
- We encourage, where possible, that you include a 10% overhead cost within the application, up to the grant amount limit
We will fund projects in full up to the maximum grant amount. Where you are seeking match funding, we will only provide funding where all other funding has been secured and our criteria met.
How to apply
Interested organisations should read our programme guidance and download an application form.
The closing date for applications is 5pm on 30th September 2026.
Applications by e-mail should be sent to fife.healthcharitycommunitygrants@nhs.scot
Late applications will not be considered.
