Category: Funding

The Taic Freumhan Coimhearsnachd (Community Grants) funding scheme is currently open to applications for projects that will be delivered in 2026-28, but who can apply, what support is available, and how should an application be submitted?

Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s Funding an Projects Manager, Steven Kellow, has organised two open sessions where you can have your questions about the scheme answered. The first session will be delivered in Gaelic only and the second session will be delivered bilingually in Gaelic and English.

Sessions dates:

• Gaelic session – 10.11.25 at 10am
• Bilingual session – 13.11.25 at 2pm

You can find more information about these sessions and register to attend them here, through Eventbrite.

Bòrd na Gàidhlig have opened the Taic Freumhan Coimhearsnachd (Community Grants) scheme for another round of funding, providing support to Gaelic projects in communities across Scotland. There is funding available for up to two years and, for the first time, applications will be accepted from individuals as well as community organisations.

There is up to £10,000 (£5,000 per year) of funding available to projects that promote and support:

• Gaelic events in your community and online
• Projects and opportunities that encourage young people to use Gaelic together outside of school
• Projects that support Gaelic usage among families and between generations
• Adult Gaelic learning in the community
• Colmcille – Building connections between speakers of Gaelic and Irish

Bòrd na Gàidhlig expects a high standard and number of applications, with a total expected budget of £100,000 per year (dependant on confirmation of Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s 2026/27 budget).

Two open sessions will be delivered online, providing an opportunity to applicants to ask any questions they may have regarding the funding scheme or the application process. More information about these can be found on Eventbrite.

More information about the Taic Freumhan Coimhearsnachd funding scheme can be found on the dedicated TFC page on Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s website. You can also get in touch with Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s funding team at  tabhartas@gaidhlig.scot should you like any other information.

You can find more information about Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s other funding schemes on our Funding Schemes page.

Bòrd na Gàidhlig has opened the Gaelic Officers funding scheme to support community-based organisations to employ an officer to undertake Gaelic development work.

This round of the scheme is focussed on creating stronger and more visible impact from posts in supporting Gaelic usage in communities. In particular, we want to support increased partnership working, better assessment of language outcomes and further professional training and support for officers.

Applications are welcomed from registered Scottish charities or community interest companies registered in Scotland who are looking to create a new post, or to extend an existing Gaelic development post.

The scheme is suitable for posts that will:

• Support day-to-day use of Gaelic in communities
• Further develop the rollout and implementation of community Gaelic language plans
• Support Gaelic centres and activity within them
• Engage in partnership working between organisations in delivering Gaelic services

We will be delivering four information sessions to provide an opportunity for those interested in applying for funding to ask any questions you may have and learn more about the scheme. Two of the sessions will be delivered in Gaelic and the other two will be delivered in English.

• Tuesday, 13th May at 2pm (Gaelic)
• Tuesday, 13th May at 7pm (English)
• Monday, 19th May at 11am (Gaelic)
• Monday, 19th May at 7pm (English)

You can register for these information sessions through Eventbrite here.

The deadline for applications is 3pm on Thursday, 5th June 2025. If you would like to speak to us about the scheme or your application, please contact tabhartas@gaidhlig.scot.

More information about the scheme and how to make an application can be found here.

Bòrd na Gàidhlig have confirmed that around £208,000 of funding will be utilised to support 48 Gaelic community projects across Scotland through our Taic Freumhan Coimhearsnachd (Community Grants) scheme this year.  The Community Grants scheme is Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s primary funding scheme for supporting community groups to deliver projects that will promote and encourage Gaelic use and learning at the community level.

Organisations across the country will benefit from the scheme over the next two years with schools, community groups, and voluntary groups among them. As well as the 48 projects receiving support this year, there are 30 projects receiving continued support agreed through last year’s round of funding due to the newly available two-year funding agreements. The result of this is nearly 80 Gaelic community projects supporting Gaelic use and learning in a wide range of communities across the country.

Govanhill Baths Community Trust is the organisation receiving the largest grant – £10,000 over two years. The Trust are planning a project to gather and share information about the history and impact of the Gaelic language and Gaelic speakers in the area. Gaelic speakers have been ever present in the area and the Trust will organise workshops and other sessions to explore the links between these Gaels and their language and the buildings and other people in the area. 

18 organisations will receive between £5,000 and £10,000 to deliver a wide range of projects. Hands Up for Trad are among these and have successfully applied for £5,000 to establish Cailearadh, a project which will provide an opportunity for young people in Uist to work with the RSPB, Comann na Gàidhlig, and Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre to learn more about the island’s indigenous natural landscape and language. Breakish Hall in the Isle of Skye will receive £6,250 to deliver a project encouraging and supporting young people to organise and record interviews with older members of the community to hear, learn and preserve local stories, which will be added to a newly developed archive.

There are a number of groups receiving smaller grants, but who’s projects and work will be no less valuable. Among these are Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann (Edinburgh Gaelic Centre), the Lochaber Fèis, and the Birks Cinema Trust. The groups all have a wide range of aims and targets and plan to deliver projects that will benefit people and communities of all ages and levels of Gaelic fluency.

Màiri MacInnes, Chair, Bòrd na Gàidhlig: “Gaelic use within communities is at the heart of the National Gaelic Language Plan 2023-28 and is a key focus for Bòrd na Gàidhlig. We are very happy to support these projects through the Taic Freumhan Coimhearsanachd scheme at a time where support for Gaelic speakers and community groups is so important.

“Supporting our communities is the means to having an impact on Gaelic use as an organisation and to preserving and developing our language and culture for Gaelic speakers and for the generations who’ll come after us.”

This was a very successful and competitive round of funding and applications were made for over £400,000 of support. While this lead to some very difficult decisions when allocating the available funds, it is also something to be encouraged by. There are a vast number of groups, organisations and people all over Scotland who want to and do deliver Gaelic projects and it’s great to see the ideas they have for work that can be carried out in our communities.

Steven Kellow, Funding and Projects Manager, Bòrd na Gàidhlig: “We are very happy to support these projects and to be able to deliver two years of funding again. The different projects will create valuable and engaging opportunities for people to use Gaelic within their comunities all over the country.

We are looking forward to working with the organisations recieving the support over the next two years as well as working with the groups and organisations who we were unable to support financially to identify other opportunities to bring their projects forward.”

More information about the Community Grants scheme can be found here.

Bòrd na Gàidhlig run various funding schemes at different times throughout the year. If you have a recommendation for a project and you would like to speak to us about it, please email tabhartas@gaidhlig.scot. 

Funding Recipients:

Angus 

• Kingoldrum Village Hall: Gaelic in the Glens – £350 

Argyll 

• Culture, Heritage and Arts Assembly Argyll and Isles (CHARTS): Ceanglan Chaluim Chille  – £7,000 
• Comunn Gàidhealach an Òbain: Mòd Acadamaidh An Òbain – £6,000 
• Air Ghleus: Air Ghleus – £4,500 
• Comann nam Pàrant Chomhghall: A’ Ceangal Cowal – £3,500 
• Comunn Gàidhealach Muile: Sharing Gaelic In The Community Through Young People – £3,000 
• F.A.I.R – Fairness, Acceptance, Inclusion, Respect: Aon Ghuth – £1,000 

Edinburgh 

• Young Scot: Bridging Languages: A Young Scot & Spunout Collaboration In Gaelic And Irish – £6,000 
• Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland: Tha D Airson Dannsa / D Is For Dance – £3,500 
• Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann: Cruinn Còmhla – Làithean Coimhearsnachd Dhùn Èideann – £3,075 
• Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pàirce: A’ Leasachadh Gàidhlig Ann An Dùn Èideann – £2,360 

East Ayrshire 

• East Ayrshire Gaelic Forum: Bringing Gaelic To Life – East Ayrshire – £4,500 

East Dunbartonshire 

• Comann nam Pàrant Bun Sgoil Innis an Uillt: Cnp Meadowburn Events – £2,000 

East Lothian 

• Battle of Prestonpans [1745] Heritage Trust: Celebrating Gaelic Speaking Highlanders Riggonhead Defile March – £3,000 

Glasgow 

• Govanhill Baths Community Trust: Govanhill:100 Years Of Immigration – £10,000
• Music Broth: Dè Thuirt Sibh? – £8,400
• Comhairle nam Pàrant Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghleann Dàil: Coisir Bunsgoil Gaidhlig Ghleann Dail – £7,000
• Lingo Flamingo: Tha Urram San Aois – £5,000
• Hands Up for Trad: Ceilearadh – £5,000
• Cabag: Cèilidh Cabag – £3,375
• Gàidhlig san Dachaigh (Glaschu): Gabbin In Gaelic – £2,500
• Comann Gàidhlig Ghlaschu: Sreath Òraidean – £1,400 

Highland 

• Kyle & Lochalsh Community Trust: Sgeul Agus Seanchas As Ùr – £7,250 
• Comann Eachdraidh na Comraich: Geugan – £7,000 
• Talla Bhreacais: Talla Bhreacais @ 100 – £6,250 
• Eden Court: Prògram Leudachaidh Gàidhlig Aig Eden Court – £5,000 
• Ardgour Area SCIO: Freumh Is Fochann: Gàidhlig An Àird Ghobhar (Roots And Shoots: Gaelic In Ardgour – £4,500 
• Cultarlann Inbhir Nis: Cofaidh, Ceòl Is Cabadaich 2025-2026 – £4,200 
• FC Sonas: Cuach Nan Gàidheal / The Gaels Cup – £4,000 
• Fèis na h-Òige: Club Dihaoine – £3,650 
• West Highland Museum: Gaelic Roots: Community Connections – £3,000 
• Meur Loch Abar: Meur Loch Abar Mod Club – £3,000 
• Fèis Lochabair: Fèis Spors Loch Abar – £2,000 
• Portree and Braes Community Trust: Speak Up For Gaelic/Bruidhinn Gàidhlig! – £1,000 

Na h-Eileanan an Iar 

• Comann Eachdraidh Eirisgeidh: A’ Clàradh Seann Cleachdaidhean Agus Bàrdachd – £7,250 
• Taigh Dhonnchaidh: Co-Òrdanaiche Thachartasan – £7,000 
• Ealain Tìr a’ Mhurain: Co-Òrdanaiche Thachartasan – £6,500 
• Kinloch Historical Society: Ceann A Loch-Ar Cànan ‘S Ar Ceòl – £5,750 
• An Taigh Cèilidh: Bùthan-Obrach – £5,520 
• Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsainn: Misneachadh Gaidhlig Anns A’ Choimhearsnachd – £5,000 
• Urras Coimhearsnachd Bhràdhagair agus Àrnoil: Gàidhlig Aig Grinneabhat – £4,150 
• Taigh Chearsabhagh: Romhainn  – £4,000 
• Sruth-mara: Taigh-Chèilidh Ùige – £4,000 

Perth and Kinross

• Comann nam Pàrant Obair Pheallaidh: Siuthad Gàidhlig! – £3,500 
• The Birks Cinema Trust: Gaelic Culture @ The Birks – £2,500 

Renfrewshire 

• ClannGàidhlig: Expansion Of Gaelic Learning Opportunities – £3,500 

South Ayrshire 

• Friends of the Broadway Prestwick: The Broadway Cinema Phase 0.5 – £750 

South Lanarkshire 

• Clydesdale Community Gaelic Initiative: Gaidhlig Ann An Dail Cluaidh – £6,000 

The Gaelic Plans Fund, formerly the Gaelic Language Act Implementation Fund (GLAIF), is available to help public authorities in the delivery of commitments in their Gaelic Language Plans, and in support of the National Gaelic Language Plan 2023-28. The Gaelic Plans Fund has also been used to assist other public authorities in the delivery of projects ahead of their formal notice to produce a Gaelic Language Plan.

Applications will be accepted for funding up to £25,000 (or up to 80% of project costs) and the fund will be open until 3pm on Tuesday 6 May 2025.

More information can be found on our dedicated page here. If you have any questions or would like to speak to us about your project before submitting your application, please email tabhartas@gaidhlig.scot.

Bòrd na Gàidhlig are running 4 information sessions focusing on the Taic Freumhan Coimhearsnachd(Community Grants) funding scheme, 2 in Gaelic and 2 in English.

Taic Freumhan Coimhearsnachd is Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s primary fund for supporting community organisations in delivering projects to promote and increase the usage and learning of Gaelic at community level (both in-person and online). This year we are bringing the Colmcille scheme together with Taic Freumhan Coimhearsnachd into a single fund to support community Gaelic usage.

The fund offers the opportunity to apply for up to 2 years’ worth of funding, for longer-term projects or those that are recurring annually.

The sessions will run on;

• Wednesday 11 December – 11am-12pm – English session
• Thursday 12 December – 7pm-8pm – Gaelic session
• Monday 16 December – 11am-12pm – Gaelic session
• Monday 16 December – 7pm-8pm – English session

Steven Kellow, Funding and Projects Manager, will be attending the meeting to share information about;

• The rules of the scheme
• Useful information for applications
• Using Fluxx (the system used by BnG to manage applications)
• Questions from attendees

This will be an online session, run using Microsoft Teams. You do not need to have a Teams account to attend the meeting.

You can find more information about the sessions and register to attend here, through Eventbrite.