Wellbeing Fund: analysis of awards

10. Small Grants Fund: Distribution of Funding

In total, 1,543 grants were made, with £4,023,000 distributed. The average grant amount was £2,607. This reflects the fact that while grants were available up to £2,000, some organisations were eligible to request funding twice.

The two figures below show the distribution of Small Grants funding across local authority areas. The first shows the total amount distributed to organisations based in each local authority area, and the second shows the amount of funding received by organisations based in each local authority area per person living in that local authority. It is important to note that this local authority area data may not be wholly reliable as although a single local authority area is given for each organisation, some organisations work across more than one local authority. As such, this data should be taken to be indicative only.

This shows that the organisations based in the council areas of Glasgow City (£524,000) and City of Edinburgh (£305,000) received the largest share of funding. This is to be expected given that these are the two largest centres of population in Scotland. Organisations based in East Renfrewshire (£32,000), Orkney (£56,000) and East Dunbartonshire (£60,000) received the smallest shares of funding. Data is not available to show the differences in application rates between local authority areas.

When weighted for population size, the data show that organisations based in South Ayrshire (£4.19), Na h'-Eileanan Siar (£3.29) and Orkney (£2.51) received the largest share of funding per person living in the local authority area. Organisations in East Renfrewshire (£0.33), Aberdeenshire (£0.32) and Stirling (£0.28) received the least per person living in the local authority area.