City Centre
The budget for City Centre Community Grants Fund (CGF) in 2025/26 has now been fully allocated. The next round of funding in City Centre will be in March 2026.
You can find the fund guidance and application form below. Please read the guidance before applying.
Download the Community Grants Fund applicant guidance
View City Centre neighbourhood area map
Awards made in 2025/26
- Chabad Lubavitch of Edinburgh: Awarded £500 for a weekly community dinner, providing nutritious meals, social connection and vital support to elderly individuals facing poverty and isolation, fostering inclusion and wellbeing.
- Care Support Scotland: Awarded £1000 for improvements to the Calton Road Community Garden, an inner-city sanctuary for local residents and business staff.
- Edinburgh Old Town Development Trust: Awarded £2,316 for The Arts Club at the Crannie Community Hub, offering free weekly sessions for Edinburgh old town residents, promoting social connection, wellbeing and community engagement through accessible arts and crafts activities.
- Positive Help: Awarded £2,500 to expand the 'Activity Buddies' pilot through the creation of a new volunteer role, to help individuals build confidence to attend groups and activities.
- LGBT Youth Scotland: Awarded £4,000 for 'Edinburgh Pride Youth Space', which will provide a safe, inclusive and fun festival space for LGBTQ+ young people to express themselves, celebrate and come together.
- LINKnet Mentoring Limited: Awarded £1,750.00 as a contrbution towards the 'UK Work Experience - a Must' project, offering voluntary work placements to minority ethnic people who do not have UK work experience, enabling them to gain much needed experience that will help them to secure employment.
- Comhaltas in Britain: Awarded £316.00 for Comhaltas starter packs, to facilitate Irish music education for children.
- Friends of Tollcross Primary School: Awarded £1,805.00 to create an open green oasis in the heart of Tollcross, within the school grounds, which will provide opportunities for nature education and a space for quiet reflection for the wider community.
- Grassmarket Community Project: Awarded £2000 for a year-round therapeutic gardening programme for vulnerable adults, to build confidence, reduce isolation and support biodiversity in Greyfriars Kirkyard’s historic herb garden.
- Simon Community Scotland: Awarded £4,966 for 'Streetreads', an initiative run by Simon Community Scotland that empowers individuals through the development of literacy skills, which in turn have a wide range of positive impacts on their lives.
- Calton Hill Conservation Trust: Awarded £4,948 for a community archaeology project to explore the heritage and archaeology of Calton Hill.