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Youth Work Grants & Funding

Looking for funding to support your youth work project? We can help.

This funding directory lists hundreds of charity grants and youth work funds for practitioners, youth clubs, voluntary organisations, community projects and more.

You’ll find information on everything from small local grants for individual practitioners to national funding schemes for large-scale projects. You’ll also find information and guidance on our national funding partnerships here, including the National Voluntary Youth Organisation Support Fund.

We also run a number of National Grants Programmes, designed with and for the youth work sector in Scotland, distributing over £1m each year to youth work organisations across the country. You can contact us if you have any questions about our funding programmes.

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Youth Arts Open Fund
The purpose of the Youth Arts Open Fund is to support freelance artists or organisations seeking small amounts of funding so that they can deliver arts activity for children and young people – primarily those who have traditionally found it hardest to access such opportunities.
  • Status:  Closed

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Global Solidarity Fund
The Scottish Government’s new Global Solidarity Fund (GSF) is open for small Scottish-based organisations, community groups and diaspora-led initiatives involved in international development and global citizenship work.
  • Status:  Open

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The Youth Scotland Rural Activate Fund
The Youth Scotland Rural Activate Fund is a small grant fund supported by sportscotland 2026 Summer of Sport. This fund was created to allow young people in Youth Scotland’s rural member groups to have increased access to safe, fun, inclusive, sport and physical activity opportunities and to be supported on to pathways beyond their youth group.
  • Status:  Closed

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The National Lottery Community Fund (Scotland) - Small Eco Awards
Provides accessible grants of £300 to £20,000 for communities in Scotland to take local, practical action to protect the environment. You don’t have to be an environment organisation to apply. Small Eco Awards is for community groups with practical ideas that can make a positive difference to where they live.
  • Status:  Recurring

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LNER Customer & Community Investment Fund
Supports a wide range of initiatives, including mental health, environmental sustainability, equality, diversity and inclusion, and education and employability. Through this funding, communities are able to improve wellbeing, reduce isolation and access essential skills and resources, helping people feel more connected, resilient and supported. This fund will reopen in summer 2027.
  • Status:  Closed, Recurring

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Career Ready Fund - Henry Smith Foundation
The Henry Smith Foundation are launching the Career Ready Fund to support organisations to deliver high‑quality, job coach‑led careers education in both mainstream and SEND school settings. .
  • Status:  Closed

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The Mackintosh Foundation
Small and large grants are available to UK registered charities working in the UK and/or overseas in the areas of education, schools, the relief of poverty, theatre, music, drama, the refurbishment and restoration of theatres, the environment and general community projects. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Gambling Harm and Mental Health Fund
The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) administers the Gambling Harm and Mental Health Fund, on behalf of the Scottish Government, to support third sector and community-based organisations across Scotland to support community-based activity to further work on mental health and gambling harms, including a focus on suicide.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Welcome for Newcomers Fund
Grants for organisations and partnerships supporting newcomers to the UK to rebuild their lives, feel at home and become active members of their local communities.
  • Status:  Closed

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Henry Duncan Grants
This year’s Henry Duncan Grants will fund community-based support for mental health in very remote rural areas of Scotland. Funding is aimed at organisations who are providing mental health support to people experiencing mental ill health or who are in a mental health crisis.
  • Status:  Closed

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Tesco Fruit and Veg Grants
Schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations supporting children and young people can apply for up to £1,500 for projects that improve access to healthy food. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations
This fund aims to support organisations who seek funding to undertake creative activity such as a specific project or production, a programme of creative work, or a period of research and development. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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