Alcohol and Drugs Fund – Local Support Grants

Local Support Grants are for community-based Third Sector organisations in Scotland, which deliver frontline services to support people affected by alcohol and drugs, people who are in recovery and/or their families.

Local Support Grants are open to Scottish charities, social enterprises, community groups and other Third Sector organisations, with an annual income of up to £750,000. Organisations can apply for up to £60,000 per year, for work up to April 2029.

This fund is intended to help organisations to stabilise or increase capacity, continue services and provide further reach into the community. It aims to facilitate rights-based, relational support for people so that they can easily access the right support at the right time.

Funding rounds will be conducted on a rolling basis. Applications for projects delivering work up to April 2029 are welcomed.

Decision-making panels will meet in July, September, and November 2026 and every two months thereafter.

We expect applicants to be notified of decisions within two months of applying.

To apply, please use the link to complete the Eligibility Checker. If you are eligible for this fund, you will be given instruction for arranging an initial chat with one of our grant advisors. After this, we will provide the link to our online application form if your proposal is good fit for the fund.

Click here for the Eligibility Checker

If you have any difficulty with the Eligibility Checker, please e-mail us on wellbeingteam@corra.scot or call us on 0131 444 4020.

An information session was held on the 10th June 2026. A recording of the session is available below.

Eligibility

To apply for this fund your organisations should:

• Have an income of up to £750,000.
• Be a Scottish charity/SCIO, social enterprise or constituted community/voluntary group operating on a not-for-profit basis.
• There must be at least three unrelated people on your management committee/board and have a bank account in the name of the organisation.

Your organisation must be:

• Delivering support in Scotland to people affected by alcohol and/or drugs, and/or their families.
• Helping to deliver or support the Scottish Government’s and COSLA’s Alcohol and Drug Strategic Plan, ‘Preventing Harm, Promoting Recovery’.
• Working towards embedding the Charter of Rights for people affected by substance use – Charter of Rights for People Affected by Substance Use 2024 – Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland

To find out if you are eligible to apply to this fund, complete our eligibility checker which is available here.

• Grants of up to £60,000 per year, for work to be delivered up to April 2029.
• Funding can be used for existing or new service delivery, general running costs, staffing, equipment, etc.
• Only one application per organisation will be considered unless each application is for work in a different Local Authority area.

If you would like to chat to a member of the team about your application, at any stage of the process, please contact wellbeingteam@corra.scot.

Once we receive your application, the following happens: 

You can expect to hear the outcome of your application within two months of us receiving your application form, unless we notify you otherwise.

We provide written feedback to all applicants and are happy to discuss this further with you once you’ve received your result.

If successful, we will ask you to complete an Evaluation Planning Grid detailing your outcomes and timeline for the project.

We will ask you for an initial report 3 months after the project has commenced. Thereafter we’ll ask you to report annually and at the end of the project.

Reporting templates will be provided which will ask you about your progress against outcomes as identified at the start of the project. Reports should be completed online.

The first round of funds will be launched in June 2026. Details of grants distributed will be published on this webpage once available.