Giving back to our community.
The Enchanted Forest Community Fund is the grant-making arm of The Enchanted Forest Community Trust.
We are delighted to have awarded a record number of grants this year through The Enchanted Forest Community Fund, the grant-making arm of The Enchanted Forest Community Trust.
The highest ever figure of £97,815 has been awarded to 26 registered charities operating in Highland Perthshire.
The trust actively sought applicants to use the funds to:
- Help the people in need with the cost of living crisis in the Highland Perthshire area
- Help with battling child poverty and focus on child welfare.
- Increase inclusion, enablement, independence, mental health and wellbeing.
- Increase access to employment, volunteering, learning, culture, sport and leisure opportunities.
- Improve infrastructure that benefits the community.
- Promote sustainability through best practices.
The Enchanted Forest Community Fund was set up in 2015 to redistribute the proceeds from the annual event to the local community in Highland Perthshire. This year the fund was open to registered charities operating within Highland Perthshire who could apply for up to £10,000 from the fund to finance projects. A record number of applications were received this year.
The application process for 2024 is now closed. The 2025 application round will open early 2025.
2024 Community Fund Award Recipients
Discretionary Donations
The Enchanted Forest Community Trust has a limited fund every year through which it makes a number of discretionary donations to local organisations who are not registered charities or community interest groups (CICs). These donations are made at the sole discretion of the trustees and are considered at Board meetings throughout the calendar year as part of their normal agenda.
Since January 2024, the Enchanted Forest Community Trust has already granted discretionary donations worth £6700 to a range of local community groups including Shopmobility, Pitlochry in Bloom, Pitlochry Path Group, Vale of Atholl FC, Highland Perthshire Autoimmune Diseases Support, Blair Atholl Table Tennis Club, Dunkeld Art Exhibition and Pitlochry Winter Lights.
These discretionary donations are separate to the Enchanted Forest Community Fund grants. Any organisation wishing to be considered for a discretionary donation should complete an application form here and email it to info@enchantedforest.org.uk for consideration at the next scheduled board meeting.
Previously Funded Organisations
Since 2016 The Enchanted Forest Community Trust has donated tens of thousands of pounds to local community groups and projects from proceeds generated from ticket sales to the annual event. Due to the coronavirus pandemic the 2020 and 2021 shows did not take place and there were no Community Fund awards in 2021 or 2022.
Community Fund Case Studies
2023 Community Fund recipients.
Checkin Works/Giraffe Trading ~ Upper Tay Anti Poverty Support Group ~ Handam Refill Station ~ Pitlochry Festival Theatre ~ Breadalbane and Strathtay Youth FC ~ Breadalbane Canoe Club ~ Vale of Atholl Pipers Association ~ Pitlochry and Blair Atholl Pipe Band ~ Moulin Kirk Trust ~ Blair Atholl in Bloom ~ Horizon Lunch Club ~ Scottish Youth Film Foundation ~ SiMBA ~ Pegasus Vaulting Group ~ Pitlochry and District Choral Society ~ Dunkeld, Birnam and District Community Development Trust
2020 Community Fund recipients.
Vale of Atholl Pipers Association ~ The Den ~ Aberfeldy Small Business Association ~ Horizon Lunch Club ~ Pitlochry Baptist Church Youth and Children Group ~ Ruth McLaren Consulting ~ Aberfeldy Rugby Football Club ~ Aberfeldy Repair Café ~ Pegasus Vaulting Group ~ Pitlochry and District Choral Society ~ Pitlochry Path Group ~ Dunkeld & District Strathspey & Reel Society ~ Pitlochry and Blair Atholl Pipe Band ~ Soldiers of Killiecrankie ~ Struan Trust ~ Mid Athol Strings and Things ~ Auto-Immune Support Group ~ Rannoch Paths and Open Space Group ~ Blair Atholl Toddler Group ~ Mini Moovers ~ Moulin Hall Committee ~ Pitlochry Bonfire Committee ~ Climate Café Pitlochry ~Loch Tayside CIC ~ Aberfeldy Arts & Crafts Fairs ~ Atholl Centre
2019 Community Fund recipients.
1st Pitlochry Explorers Group ~ 1st Pitlochry Scout Group ~ Abbeyfield Atholl Society ~ Aberfeldy Comm Putting Green ~ Biodynamic Garden Camserney ~ Blair Atholl Nursery ~ Breadalbane Academy ~ Breadalbane Community Football Club ~ Breadalbane’s Men’s Shed ~ Climate Café ~ Corbenic Camphill Community ~ Culture Perth & Kinross ~ Dunkeld Army Cadets ~ Dunkeld Santa Day ~ Edradour Pitlochry and Blair Atholl Pipe Band ~ Highland Perthshire Communities Land Trust ~ March into Pitlochry ~ Pitlochry Adult Education Association ~ Pitlochry Art Walk ~ Pitlochry Baptist Church ~ Pitlochry High School ~ Pitlochry in Bloom ~ Pitlochry Path Group ~ Pitlochry Station Bookshop ~ Rannoch & District Angling Club ~ Rannoch Adult Education Association ~ Rannoch Paths & Open Space Group ~ Roobedo ~ Soldiers of Killiecrankie ~ Tay Valley Timebank ~ The Den ~ The Struan Trust ~ Women’s Institute
2018 Community Fund recipients.
Scottish Canoe Association ~ Pitlochry Town Hall ~ Vale of Atholl FC ~ Soldiers of Killiecrankie ~ Pitlochry Art Walk ~ Vale of Atholl Pipe Band ~ Pitlochry Path Group ~ Pitlochry Baptist Church ~ Royal Highland Education ~ Mid Atholl Strings & Things ~ Struan Trust ~ March Into Pitlochry ~ Women’s Institute ~ Pitlochry Christmas Festival ~ Pitlochry High School Duke of Edinburgh Award Group
2017 Community Fund recipients.
Girl Guiding Dunkeld & Pitlochry ~ Biodynamic Garden at Camserney ~ Pitlochry Christmas Market ~ March into Pitlochry Music Festival ~ Pitlochry Path Group ~ Pitlochry & Blair Atholl Bagpipe Band ~ Pitlochry & District Neighbourhood Watch ~ Highland Mainline Community Rail Partnership ~ The Atholl Centre ~ Pitlochry Baptist Church ~ Pitlochry in Bloom ~ Pitlochry Winter Lights ~ Soldiers of Killiecrankie
2016 Community Fund recipients.
Breadalbane Canoe Club ~ Pitlochry Pavilion Users ~ Pitlochry Station Bookshop ~ Pegasus Vaulting ~ Rannoch & Tummel Tourism Association ~ Moulin Kirk Trust ~ Dunmore Angling Club ~ Soldiers of Killiecrankie ~ Pitlochry in Bloom ~ Loch Tummel Archers ~ Pitlochry High School ~ Grandtully & Strathtay Hall & Park ~ Hielan Hands ~ Vale of Atholl Pipe Band ~ Pitlochry Christmas Festival ~ Blair Atholl Table Tennis Club ~ Welcome All Soup Lunch ~ The Birks Cinema ~ Struan Hall Trust ~ Highland Perthshire Yoga & Wellbeing ~ Royal School of Dunkeld John Muir Award Club ~ Atholl Estates Ranger Services ~ Pitlochry Scouts ~ Friends of Balhousie ~ Pitlochry Cubs