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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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The Robertson Trust - Large Grants
Large Grants are for registered charities working in Scotland with an annual income of over £200,000 and up to £2 million, that support people who are experiencing (or are at high risk of experiencing) poverty and trauma.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Robertson Trust - Small Grants
Revenue funding for registered charities with an annual income of between £30,000 and £200,000 who work to address poverty and trauma in Scotland.
  • Status:  Open

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The Allen Lane Foundation
The Foundation's focus is on funding specific groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination and currently make grants through seven funding programmes. For example: children and young people who are vulnerable, socially excluded or marginalised; asylum seekers and refugees; Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities; and people affected by violence or abuse. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Community Learning Exchange Fund
The fund offers small pots of money to build levels of mutual support across the Community Sector through peer to peer learning.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Comic Relief - Every Step of the Way: Safe and Supported Beyond Homelessness
This funding opportunity aims to support organisations that work to empower young people who are at immediate risk of, or experiencing homelessness to access the right support at the right time.
  • Status:  Open

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The Refugee Festival Scotland Small Grants Fund
Aims to help celebrate and highlight the contribution that refugee communities make to life in Scotland, while promoting and strengthening partnerships and connections. You can apply for a small grant to help you run all kinds of events and activities as part of Refugee Festival Scotland (12th-21st June).
  • Status:  Closed

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The Royal Countryside Fund
Provides grants to support community-led projects that are pursuing innovative and strategic solutions to the challenges facing their rural area and improving the long-term viability and resilience of their community.
  • Status:  Recurring

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David William Traill Cargill Fund
The trust supports religious causes, medical charities, help for older people, care of children, youth organisations, community care, and general charitable purposes. A large proportion of the income is given in annual grants.
  • Status:  Recurring

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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.
  • Status:  Closed

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The Nuffield Foundation - Research, Development and Analysis Fund
Grants will advance educational opportunity and social well-being across the UK and will improve the design and operation of social policy, especially in education, welfare and justice. This fund prioritises rigorous and impartial research, development, and analysis projects that bear on one or more of five priority questions. Outline application deadline: April 2027.
  • 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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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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