Upcoming application dates

The Caithness & North Sutherland Fund considers funding applications on a quarterly basis. Please ensure that you submit your initial enquiry form well in advance of the closing dates to allow yourself sufficient time to complete your full application form, which we will provide you with after we receive your initial enquiry form and have concluded our eligibility screening checks.

 

2026 – Round 4

Application form closing date – 30 September 2026.

CNSF Assessment Meeting date – 28 October 2026.

 

2027

tbd

 

Initial Enquiry

Please read our Guidance including our Data Protection Privacy Statement before completing the enquiry form below.

On receiving your enquiry, we will arrange for our Fund Administrator to contact you to discuss your prospective application in more detail.

Please ensure that you submit your initial enquiry form well in advance of the published application form closing dates to allow yourself sufficient time to complete your full application form.

 

Ask yourself the following questions:

  1. Do you need assistance of between £1,000 and £50,000 towards your project to increase the attractiveness of Caithness & North Sutherland as a place to live, work and invest with particular emphasis on achieving environment, social, culture and infrastructure improvements?
  2. Are you a voluntary or community organisation, school parent council or community council?
  3. Do you have a UK based bank or building society account in the name of your organisation that requires at least two people to make payments, sign cheques and make withdrawals?
  4. Can you send us an application at least four months before your project starts?
  5. Is your project in the Dounreay Travel to Work Area and can you explain the requirement for your project and how it will benefit the area?

If you can answer yes to these questions, then Caithness & North Sutherland Fund may be able to assist you.

Enquiry form

Enquiry form 2024

1. Organisation details

What type of organisation are you?
Does your organisation have a website?
Do you have a bank account in the organisation's name?
Does the bank account require two or more unrelated signatories to make payments, sign cheques, and make withdrawals?
Is the organisation constituted?
Does your organisation have a governing document?
Is your organisation VAT registered?
If your organisation is based outwith the Dounreay Travel to Work Area, do you have a local branch?
Has your organisation applied to the Caithness & North Sutherland Fund before?

2. Who is the main contact for this enquiry?

Are you over eighteen?
Do you have the authority to apply for a grant from the Caithness & North Sutherland Fund on behalf of your organisation?

3. About your project

4. Project costs

5. Potential application information

 

Please note: this form is an enquiry form for assessing your organisation and project eligibility.

A member of the team will be in touch with you shortly if your organisation and project are eligible to apply to the Fund.

 

Can an application be submitted at least three months before the project start date?

If you have any issues completing the enquiry form, please get in touch at enquiries@cnsf.org.uk or 01847 500101.