The Foundation supports a wide range of charities, mostly in Scotland, and principally working in the fields of medical facilities and research, the relief of poverty and assistance to the aged and infirm, education and learning, encouragement of personal development and training of young people and the provision of better opportunities for the less privileged and the vulnerable and the encouragement of music and the arts. They also fund under the headings conservation and environment, disadvantaged and disabled, elderly, homeless and hospices, music, theatre and visual arts, religion and youth.

Our Hope Beyond grants programme aims to enable churches and Christian charities to meet changing needs within their communities, helping them and the communities they support to adapt to the challenges and opportunities presented by the Coronavirus pandemic. The funding will address 3 themes: reducing loneliness and isolation; growing community resilience and promoting mental and emotional health and wellbeing; and growing technological capability and resilience.

The Paristamen CIO is a small grantmaking charity. Its operational base is in Dunbar, Scotland. They support national charities where they meet their criteria and local charities based in the Yorkshire region or in Scotland. The Responsive Grant-Making programme is their main programme and the criteria are relatively broad. They make small unrestricted grants likely to make a difference to your operational work.

SSPCK's purpose is to encourage the promotion of Christian knowledge in Scotland and overseas. The objective of the Home Fund is for re-sourcing mission within Scotland, principally in the Highlands and Islands.

The Trust wishes to encourage the playing of organs and has a fund to assist churches in having their organs played more than at present. It is hoped that this will contribute to the "open doors" objective of the Trust and its member churches.

The trustee’s principal aim is to provide financial support to individuals, groups and organisations which operate in Langholm and the surrounding area or for the benefit of its inhabitants although national charities are also supported. In the 2016/17 financial year the trust supported a wide range of charitable causes with the emphasis on education, citizenship and community development, sport, arts, culture, heritage and health.

This trust has general charitable purposes with a preference for Scotland, particularly the West of Scotland and Glasgow. It tends to fund the same charities each year.

The Trustees has two main areas of interest: projects that demonstrate a Christian approach to the practical, educational and spiritual needs of people of all ages; the adaptation of Church (particularly Methodist) properties with a view to providing improved facilities for use by the church and its work in the community in which it is based.

The Trust supports new work with the provision of small short-term grants to initiate projects in Christian action and research. It provides funding for projects that are: essentially Scottish; distinctively new ('Novum'); not readily able to be financed from other sources and short term - normally one year. The Trust focusses on the welfare of young people, the training of lay people or new ways of communicating the Christian faith.

The Trustees can fund a wide range of charitable activity but are particularly interested in supporting those charities or projects connected with community development, environmental, women’s and youth issues with a view to including social inclusion at all levels. In 2018 they funded under the headings citizenship and community development, arts, conservation, health, human rights, relief of poverty, religion and sport.