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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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Wooden Spoon
Funds projects that enhance and support the lives of children and young people (under the age of 25) who are disadvantaged physically, mentally or socially. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Open

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Carnegie Dunfermline Trust
Grants are given for projects and activities with social, community, educational, cultural, sporting and recreational purposes that benefit particularly young people within the Dunfermline area.
  • Status:  Open

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Aldi - Scottish Sport Fund
The Aldi Scottish Sport fund is a Scotland-wide community-based sport programme designed to make it easier for children and young people to take part in sports within their local communities by giving clubs the chance to secure funding. Each region has a different deadline. 
  • Status:  Recurring

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Riada Trust
Funding available for the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health; the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science; the advancement of public participation in sport; the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
  • Status:  Open

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Peter Harrison Foundation - Active Lives
An independent grant-making foundation dedicated to empowering individuals with disabilities or significant disadvantages to reach their full potential.
  • Status:  Closed

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Stanley Morrison Trust
Funding for sporting activities in Scotland (which benefit the West Coast of Scotland, and in particular, the Glasgow and Ayrshire area), with a particular emphasis on the encouragement of youth involvement.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Hays Travel Foundation
The focus of the Hays Travel Foundation is on helping young people in the areas where Hays Travel operates. There are no deadlines - apply at any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Barclays Community Sport Fund
The programme’s focus is on increasing access to football, tennis, and cricket for women and girls, as well as engaging people from other underrepresented groups, including racially diverse communities, people with disabilities, and people from the LGBTQ+ community.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Alpkit Foundation
The Alpkit Foundation make small awards to people, groups and schools that work to remove the barriers in getting outdoors and experience wild places. They want to support projects that encourage responsible outdoor activity; have long lasting benefits; introduce new people to get outdoors; demonstrate value for money. Applications will reopen in March.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Cycle Access Fund
Grants are available to organisations working with people that would otherwise be unable to afford the upfront costs of a bike. This fund is now closed until 2027. 
  • Status:  Closed

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Children's Alliance Grant Funding
Get children into water safely to learn, develop and purposefully play for the benefit of children’s physical and mental wellbeing. Children's Alliance is looking to support grassroots initiatives delivering water based projects for disadvantaged children. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Inverclyde Community Fund - Inverclyde Windfarm Fund
The maximum grant under this programme is £2,000 and the trustees are keen to ensure that the grants are directed at small projects which can make a big difference. Priority will be given to organisations which demonstrate good governance and good practice. ICF accepts applications all year round. Trustees generally meet every 4-6 weeks to assess applications.
  • Status:  Recurring

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