Funding

Youth Work Grants & Funding

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

This funding directory lists over a hundred 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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Trefoil - Personal Development Grants
Trefoil offers personal development grants to foster the independence, confidence, and assertiveness of young people under the age of 25 with special needs. Deadline: 9 February 2024
  • Status:  Closed
  • Closing date:  9 February, 2024
Music for All - Community Project Funding
Music for All - Community Project Funding
Music for All is dedicated to changing lives across the UK by improving access to music making. They are a passionate, focused and ambitious UK charity helping disadvantaged music makers experience the joys and far-reaching benefits of making music. Next Deadline is 13th January 2025
  • Status:  Closed
  • Closing date:  13 January, 2025
The Awesome Foundation
The Awesome Foundation
Mini-grants are available under a special round of awards to local projects in Glasgow run by someone or groups of people aged 5 to 25. Next deadline: 15th January.
  • Status:  Closed
  • Closing date:  15 January, 2025
Theatres Trust Small Grants Programme
This scheme provides grants of up to £5,000 for essential works to enable not-for-profit theatres across the UK to be viable and thrive in the future. Deadline: 12 noon on 7 June 2024 and 12 noon on Friday 17 January 2025
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  17 January, 2025
John Watson's Trust
The Trust awards educational grants to the benefit of those aged 21 or under who are in a situation of disadvantage and/or have additional support needs. The next deadline for applications is 24th January 2025.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  24 January, 2025
Dr Guthrie’s Association
Funding is available for not-for-profit organisations that support economically and socially disadvantaged children and young people in Scotland. The next deadline is 25th January.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  25 January, 2025
Souter Charitable Trust
The Trust supports projects directed at the relief of all aspects of human suffering in the UK and overseas with a particular but not exclusive Christian emphasis and ethos. Next deadline: 27th January 2025.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  27 January, 2025
Foyle Foundation Main Grants Scheme
The Main Grants Scheme supports UK based charities which have a core remit of the Arts or Learning. Next deadline: 31st January.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  31 January, 2025
The MSE Charity
Provides grants to UK non profit organisations to deliver activities which make a lasting impact on how people think, behave and manage their money. The next deadline is 31st January.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 January, 2025
Mickel Fund
Mickel Fund grants are distributed twice a year with the sole purpose of improving the lives of others through charitable donations in and around Scotland, and where possible on a global scale, with a focus on five core funding priorities. The next deadline is 3rd February.
  • Status:  Closed, Recurring
  • Closing date:  3 February, 2025
The Baobab Collective Fund
A flexible fund for individuals over the age of 18, groups, collectives, social movements and organisations led by and for Black and Global Majority people working on racial justice. The next deadline is 3rd February.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  3 February, 2025
Agnes Hunter Trust
Agnes Hunter Trust
Following a policy review in 2023, the Trustees have decided to focus on one key area of funding: offering grants to charities that support disabled people in Scotland.The next round of grants is the Spring/Summer 2025 round, which will open at 10am on Thursday 16 January 2025. This round will be open to submissions until 5pm on Thursday 6 February 2025.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  6 February, 2025