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Membership Benefits

Scottish Grantmakers allows its Members to meet regularly in order to share best practice and, through dialogue, keep up-to-date on matters affecting the grantmaking, charity and voluntary sectors. The forum also provides opportunities for networking, interaction and working together on matters of shared interest.

Each organisation will have principal and secondary contacts with Scottish Grantmakers; but all trustees, staff and volunteers of Scottish Grantmakers’ Member organisations are very welcome to attend events of interest to them. We encourage Members to promote our events internally.

Joining Scottish Grantmakers

Thank you for your interest in joining Scottish Grantmakers as a Member!

Scottish Grantmakers welcomes membership applications throughout the year. Below you can find the eligibility criteria for each category of membership, download an application form and the annual subscription rates agreed by Members. If you have any questions about joining Scottish Grantmakers or your application, please contact scottishgrantmakers@wssociety.co.uk.

Full Member

An organisation which is a recognised funder (where grantmaking is its principal function), which is registered as a charity in Scotland (wherever in the United Kingdom its headquarters may be), with more than 50% of its income from Assured Sources and with the amount of its annual grants awarded being greater than £50K per annum.

Assured Sources are:

  • Interest and dividends on investments

  • Rent from land or property

  • Spending of capital

  • Regular long-term donations, committed for at least 3 years, and/or

  • Well established periodic public appeals

Associate Member

An organisation which is a recognised funder (where grantmaking is its principal function) but where it is not registered as a charity in Scotland, or a distinct entity but not an independent organisation, or a funder where income from Assured Sources (as above) is less than 50%, or it would have qualified for Full Membership but where the amount of its annual grants awarded is less than £50K but more than £10K.

Affiliate Member

An exceptional discretionary category for organisations which administer or act as a trustee for several grantmaking trusts or foundations.