The Enchanted Forest Community Fund launch 2025

Fund now open for appplications

The Enchanted Forest Community Trust, the charitable organisation behind Scotland’s favourite sound and light show, The Enchanted Forest, has opened applications to its 2025 Community Fund.

It's now accepting grant applications from registered charities and community interest companies (CICs) in the Highland Perthshire area for community projects that are looking to support people in need, battle child poverty, increase inclusion, and improve mental health and wellbeing in the region.

The Fund, which is now celebrating its tenth year, was set up to redistribute proceeds from the annual event to the local community in Pitlochry and the wider Highland Perthshire area. Since that time The Enchanted Forest Community Trust has reinvested over £439,000 into the region, making a lasting positive impact that has benefitted more than 185 local community groups, projects, and charities.

Who can apply?

This year the fund is open to registered charities and community interest companies (CICs) who can apply for up to £10,000 to finance projects within Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire via an application form available on The Enchanted Forest website.

The Enchanted Forest Community Trust particularly welcomes applications from local projects that are unable to access funds from other bodies.

The projects should be focused on helping people in need with the cost-of-living crisis in the Highland Perthshire area, help with battling child poverty and focus on child welfare and increase inclusion, enablement, independence, mental health and wellbeing. The Trust will also be looking for projects which increase access to employment, volunteering, learning, culture, sport, and leisure opportunities and aim to improve infrastructure which benefits the community and promotes sustainability through best practices.

Last year 26 organisations in the region benefited from the fund, including Pitlochry First Responders, a charity which assists the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) to provide SAS trained volunteer first responders to get to an emergency scene quickly. Pitlochry First Responders administers vital lifesaving first aid in Pitlochry and the surrounding area, and they received a grant from the Enchanted Forest Community Fund in 2024 to invest in equipment that directly benefits the local community.

Successful applicants will be asked to provide a report to The Enchanted Forest Community Trust on how they have used the money in relation to their request.

Fund timeline

Completed application forms should be returned no later than 28 March 2025 and successful applications will be announced on 25 April 2025.

To read the full release and to download an application form for the Fund go to the Enchanted Forest website.