Self Management for Life
Self Management for Life is the 2024 round of the Self Management Fund.
Applications for the Self Management Fund are open from 9 December 2024 until 09.00 AM on 27 January 2025.
Self Management for Life, Round 2 will distribute Scottish Government funds to third sector and community organisations working in Scotland, to support new activities that will encourage new approaches or add to our learning around self management.
Two levels of grant will be available:
- Small grants of up to £15,000 for up to one year
- Large grants of up to £120,000 for up to three years.
In 2025 the Self Management Fund aims to support projects that put people and communities at the centre. Applications must demonstrate their project supports, guides and enables self management in one of the following ways:
- Supporting people at an early stage in their journey with a long term condition, disability or unpaid caring responsibility, to develop their ability to self manage.
- Reducing barriers to accessing health and social care support and services, to enable self management for people living with long term conditions, disabilities and/or unpaid carers.
- Developing the self management capacity of people living with long term conditions, and/or their unpaid carers, while they wait for a specialist health or social care intervention.
While it is possible for a project to meet more than one priority, projects are no more likely to be successful if they meet multiple priorities. Therefore, we are asking applicants to focus their applications on the priority they feel their project demonstrates the strongest fit with. We hope that this change will support applicants to tell a clearer story of the change they hope to make.
How to apply
An online application form is available. You will need to create an account if you do not already have one. You will be able to save your application and come back to it.
If you lack regular internet access or have other reasons for requiring an offline version of the application form, please contact Chris Dempster on 0141 640 0872 to discuss alternatives.
Information sessions will take place on zoom at the following times:
- 12 December 2024 12.00-13.00
- 16 December 2024 18.00-19.00
- 07 January 2025 10.00-11.00 – FULL
- 13 January 2025 14.00-15.00 – FULL
You can watch a recording of the presentation from our Q&A sessions below if you are unable to attend:
Further guidance is available to download at the end of this page.