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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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Edinburgh Airport Community Fund
The fund will consider applications from Edinburgh, Falkirk, the Lothians and Fife. Priority will be given to applications which reflect the four pillars of the airport’s Greater Good sustainability strategy - Zero Carbon, Enhancing Scotland, Scotland’s Best Business and Trusted Neighbour. The Community Fund is now closed for 2025 and will reopen in January 2026.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Cash for Kids Grants
The charity raises millions of pounds each year and awards grants to help disabled and disadvantaged children aged 0 to 18 who are suffering from abuse or neglect, who are disabled or who simply need extra care and guidance. Grants are also given to children's charities and organisations to help them undertake projects and new initiatives or to ensure that much needed services can continue to provide essential care and support. 
  • Status:  Recurring

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Movement for Good Awards
Movement for Good awards are available to charities that are changing people’s lives for the better. The public can nominate a charity they would like to see receive the money and competition winners will then be drawn at random.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Cash for Kids - Holiday Hunger Grants
Grants are available to organisations and service providers who support children and young people (up to and including 18 years old) that have a genuine need for support, are disadvantaged due to poverty, the increase in the cost of living and face food insecurity.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The National Lottery Community Fund (Scotland) - Strengthening Organisations
This funding is for organisations in Scotland, that the National Lottery Community Fund currently fund. They want to support organisations to try out new ideas and ways of working or want to develop their organisation and improve their current work. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Scottish Building Society Foundation
Aims to invest in the long-term future of communities in Scotland. Grant monies will act as a gateway to a sustainable future for vulnerable individuals and communities alike.
  • Status:  Recurring

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DWF Foundation
The foundation supports homelessness, health and wellbeing, employability, education, environment and sustainability. It particularly helps with initiatives that develop and improve local communities. Applications will be accepted at any time and will be presented at the next committee meeting.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Woodward Charitable Trust - Children's Summer Playscheme Grants
Funding for summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5-16 years. The grant round for 2025 is now closed.
  • 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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Young Changemaker Grants
Supports young people aged 14-25 in the UK with small seed funding grants of up to £1,000 to trial their entrepreneurial ventures, community projects or social enterprise ideas. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Aviva Foundation
The Aviva Foundation aims to help people and communities feel in control and positive about their financial futures. The Foundation funds charitable, non-profit and social enterprises that aim to improve people’s financial resilience - their ability to cope with money problems.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The John Ellerman Foundation
Aims to advance the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world by funding charities for work that has national significance in the arts, environment and social action. For the majority of applications there are no deadlines and you can apply at any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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