Grant guidance

Below are some useful guidance documents to help you complete your application form and to tell you what we will expect from you if your grant application is successful.

Before you apply, please read the following important documents:

• Project costs  and When we will not give grants   - these documents will tell you what project costs we will and won't fund.
• Our funding priorities and outputs   - this document will tell you what our funding priorities are and the outputs we want to measure.  It will also help you to complete the 'Your project' section of your application form.

To help you prepare, the following documents tell you what we will ask you in our online application forms:

• What you will be asked in your Community Action Grant Application   
• What you will be asked in your Natural Project Grant Proposal 
• What you will be asked in your Natural Project Grant Application 

The following documents will help you to complete the 'Our wider priorities' section of your application form:

• Climate Change guidance for grant applicants 
• Equality and Diversity guidance for grant applicants 
• Gaelic guidance for grant applicants 

The following documents will tell you what we will expect from you if your grant application is successful:

• Standard conditions attached to all grants 
• How to acknowledge our support for your project 
• Financial information and records 
• About our grants 

We will provide guidance on how to report on your project progress and claim your grant funds shortly.

If you are considering applying for a Ranger Service grant, you should check our Ranger Services page for any specific guidance to help you with your application.

We hope you find these guidance documents helpful. If you have any comments on them then we'd like to hear from you. Please see our Feedback page for further information.