How is Believe in Scotland funded

Believe in Scotland is predominantly funded by approximately 18,500 individual micro-donations annually. This includes monthly memberships and one-off donations. We have also run five successful crowdfunding campaigns in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Ticket sales from events such as our Creating Scotland Burns Celebration (see image above), along with sales of Scotland the Brief and merchandise to independence-supporting members of the public.

Business for Scotland Ltd, a leading business network uniquely consisting only of supporters of Scottish independence, provides financial support, financial management, strategy and direction for the Believe in Scotland campaign. Business for Scotland Ltd received the highest “A” rating for its financial transparency from Open Democracy’s Who Funds You? project. The Business for Scotland funding page can be viewed here: https://www.businessforscotland.com/who-funds-us/

Historically, Business for Scotland campaigned for a Yes vote, led the business and economic case and was the highest spending Registered Campaign Group (on either side) in the 2014 independence referendum. The Electoral Commission stated that Business for Scotland set the gold-standard for reporting and transparency during that referendum.

Neither Believe in Scotland nor Business for Scotland has ever received, asked for, nor donated to any political party and never will.