This Fund is being managed by Impact Funding Partners on behalf of The Scottish Government.
The fund supports small to medium-sized third sector organisations across Scotland to recruit additional volunteers for the delivery of a new, or the expansion of an existing, volunteering project.
The aim is to improve how volunteers are supported in their roles. Organisations are encouraged to demonstrate how their project contributes to the Scottish Government’s priority of ending Child Poverty.
About this Fund
The outcomes of the fund are to:
1. Increase the diversity of the third sector’s volunteer pool, especially supporting more volunteers who are from a black and ethnic minority background, disabled or with a long term health condition, or those who would traditionally experience disadvantage or barriers to volunteering;
2. Improve opportunities for skills and personal development through volunteering;
3. Improve the third sector’s capacity to support, train and deploy volunteers;
4. Enhance the services organisations deliver to better meet the needs of the communities they serve;
5. Recruit volunteers with relevant skills to help strengthen the governance (e.g. improving leadership, increasing the number of young people sitting on boards) and financial knowledge of organisations; and
6. Make a positive impact towards ending child poverty.
The maximum grant for the full fund period is £20,000
Year one: maximum grant of £6,000
Year two: maximum grant of £14,000
Timescales for Fund
Fund Opens
11th July 2025
Fund Closes
25th August 2025 at 5pm
Decisions issued from
31st October 2025
Funding period
1st November 2025 to 31st March 2027
Targeted Volunteering Priority Groups
In no particular order:
- People on low incomes
- People with mental health conditions
- People who are physically disabled
- People with additional support needs
- People with long-term medical conditions
- LGBTQIA+ people
- People minoritised by race
- People from other groups experiencing disadvantage or barriers to volunteering
You will be expected to recruit:
Year One: 6 volunteers, 3 of whom experience disadvantage or would traditionally experience barriers to volunteering
Year Two: 15 volunteers, 10 of whom experience disadvantage or would traditionally experience barriers to volunteering
Contacting Impact Funding Partners
Below this section, you will find:
- details to sign up to our online information sessions
- online application form
- fund information document
- application guidance document
- frequently asked questions.
If you still have any questions or wish to discuss something after reading this information, you can get in touch with us in the following ways:
- email us at vsf@impactfundingpartners.com
- call us on 03303 413 060
Sign up to our fund information sessions
Thursday 17th July from 11am to 12:30pm
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Wednesday 23rd from 10am to 11:30am
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Tuesday 29th July afternoon from 3pm to 4:30pm
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