Briefing and Analysis Fund - Scottish Parliament Elections

Due to recent changes at the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, applications for the Briefing and Analysis Fund – Scottish Parliament Elections should now be sent to programmes@therobertsontrust.org.uk before the deadline (noon on Wednesday 9th July). Any questions about the Fund or your application before the deadline should also be sent to this address.

If you have experienced any delay in submitting your application due to the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust site being temporarily down, please get in touch.

The changes mean that, while the call will continue as planned, we will be leading on this work with support from the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust. This will not affect the overall value of funds available, but we do expect there may be a delay to original timescales and turnaround times. Applicants will be informed of updated timescales for decision making and any knock-on delay to awarding of funds after the deadline closes.

We appreciate that any delay to awards may affect proposed work and will do our best to work with successful award holders to minimise and mitigate the impact of any delays.

Our aim is to honour the call as publicised, and we will continue to use the funding criteria originally set out to assess applications.

You can find a copy of the original criteria here: aFFT-Funding-Guidelines-2025 1.pdf

The outline application can now be found here: Scottish election special round 2025 application