Making a difference with the Scottish Children's Lottery

We believe that every child deserves the best start in life, whatever their family’s circumstances.

That’s why we’ve made it our mission to make a real difference to the lives of children in Scotland and when you play our lottery, you’re helping us do just that!

Our players have helped us raise over £7.3 million for children in Scotland so far, with funding reaching projects as near as Glasgow and as far as the Western Isles.

Through The Scottish Children’s Lottery Trust, we support a wide variety of charities and good causes who are providing help to children and communities who need it most.

Visit The Scottish Children’s Lottery Trust website to find out more about how your plays benefit young people in Scotland and how your charity can apply for funding.

See below for some of the good causes that have received funding raised by the Scottish Children's Lottery:

Apply for funding

Charities supporting children in Scotland can apply for grants via our charity website:

The Scottish Children’s Lottery Trust (Scottish Charity Number SC046177)

Our charity has a group of trustees that will determine which applications will be successful for funding.

Qualifying criteria include;

• The charity applying should be a registered charity in Scotland with a charity bank account. It should also return annual accounts.
• That the money is for a project delivered in Scotland
• That the charity's accounts are up to date
• That the charity works outside or supplementary to statutory responsibilities
• That the charity can clearly demonstrate positive impacts as it will be required to deliver an end-of-grant impact analysis report
• That the charity has secured funding from another source as we will normally only give funding of up to 50% of any project - any more than this will be at the sole discretion of the trustees
• We will only fund for one year. This is to ensure the charity is not fully reliant on our donation in future years
• The money cannot be used for retrospective or deficit funding or repayment of loans
• The amount of funds available for distribution will depend on the number of tickets sold
• The maximum grant that can be applied for is £15,000
• Grants are normally awarded by our charity trustees quarterly
• Details of successful grants can be found on this page on the list above
• We publish Annual Reports with details of funding in that year which is generally available

For further details about prizes, proceeds and grants, please visit our More Information page.

Scottish Children’s Lottery Trust
- Impact Report 2022
- Making a difference to children and young people in Scotland

The report presents the highlights of The Scottish Children’s Lottery Trust’s activities over the past year ending the 31st of December 2022. Read about, through grant provision to the charities that we support, the difference we are making to the lives of Scotland’s children and young, all made possible through our fantastic players.

To read, or download the Impact Report 2022, please visit The Scottish Children's Lottery Trust site.