The Fair Share Trust programme aims to target disadvantaged areas within the UK that have not received their fair share of National Lottery Funding.

Limited funds currently available in the following neighbourhoods:
Dundee (Charleston)
Glasgow (Pennilee)
North Lanarkshire (Abronhill, and Brannock)
Renfrewshire (Linwood)
South Lanarkshire (Larkhall, and ‘Rural Areas’ which covers Forth,
Carnwath, Carstairs and Carstairs Junction)

The Fair Share Trust programme is part of the Fair Share Initiative, announced by the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport in 2001.The programme was launched in June 2002 to… “Ensure that a larger share of total Lottery funding is received in the Fair Share areas and that a sustainable impact is made on the lives of disadvantaged people in these areas.”

Three specific aims were identified

1) build capacity and sustainability in local communities

2) build social capital and offering funding for local social developments

3) improve the local environment, enabling communities to make it safer, healthier, greener, and cleaner

The Big Lottery Fund (previously New Opportunities Fund and Community Fund) established the Fair Share Trust in 2003 - a UK-wide investment trust of £50 million that provides an expendable endowment for these areas. All Fair Share Trust grant money must be distributed by 2009.
Check out the website http://www.scottishcf.org/