Funding, Grants & Programmes

SME Loan Scheme for Renewable or Energy Efficiency Projects

What does this involve?

The SME Loan Scheme offers small and medium-sized enterprises based in Scotland unsecured, interest-free loans of up to £100,000 for renewable or energy efficiency projects. You may be able to get up to £30,000 as cashback. This is on a first come basis. The loan funding is provided by the Scottish Government.

The funding is available to help you pay for energy and carbon-saving upgrades in your business.

This could include:

• heating, ventilation, and air conditioning upgrades
• renewable technologies such as replacing a boiler to one with an air source heat pump
• improving insulation, draught-proofing, double or secondary glazing
• installing wind turbines and wood-burning stoves

Cashback - while funds last:

Through the scheme, SMEs installing eligible equipment could receive a 75% cashback grant up to £10,000 for renewable heat measures and a 75% cashback grant for energy efficiency measures up to £20,000. 

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Fife Council - Culture Grants

Details

Fife Council’s Culture Grants scheme aims to encourage and support creativity in local communities and will support activities in the following areas:

• literature (includes writing, books, storytelling, readings, publishing)
• performance (includes theatre, performance, drama, music and dance)
• heritage (includes museums, libraries, archives and history)
• audio-visual (includes film and video, radio, new media)
• visual arts/crafts (includes art, painting, sculpture, crafts, design, fashion and architecture)

Grants are available to start or develop creative activities within the group, to add to your group’s experience if you already have artistic or cultural aims, or to organise a cultural experience for group members

Fund type

Type of funding: Grant Type of cost: Capital, Revenue

Who can apply

Groups have to be constituted to be able to apply - except for groups of young people who do not need to be constituted but will have to provide a local independent professional referee who supports the application. Individuals can also apply.

When to apply

Please apply 8 weeks prior to the event / course being held.

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Agritourism Investment Scheme (AIS)

The application window opened on 19 January 2026 and will close at midnight on 13 March 2026.

AIS is a capital grant scheme designed to help agritourism businesses in Scotland to be financially sustainable, profitable, and resilient businesses that will play a key role in sustaining the future of Scottish agriculture.

The scheme offers funding to ensure agritourism businesses have access to capital support to allow them to carry out capital investment(s) that will help deliver this.

The scheme’s objectives are:

• to increase the number of farms and crofts offering agritourism or farm retail to 1,000 by 2030.
• to develop Scotland’s agritourism on-farm offering based on food and drink and farm experiences.
• to support new innovative products and services in the agritourism sector.
• to attract, develop and retain a skilled, committed, and diverse workforce, made up of both family employment on farm, and employees.
• to create, develop and promote a thriving and responsible sector.
• to provide quality, unique, and memorable market led experiences.
• to assist businesses to become “Travel Trade Ready” and to attract more international visitors to experience agritourism in Scotland.
• to build financially sustainable, profitable, and resilient businesses and to play a key role in sustaining the future of Scottish agriculture.
• for 50% of agritourism and farm businesses to offer a food and drink experience using their own produce.
• to contribute to strengthening rural communities and/or celebrating local heritage including farm heritage.

Please remember: AIS support can only be used for on-farm agritourism capital investments that will deliver the scheme’s objectives above – and applications that deliver against more objectives are likely to be looked on more favourably.

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