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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 Ironmongers' Company - Grants to Charities
The Ironmongers’ Company wishes to support projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential. The Ironmongers’ Company wishes to support projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential. Spring 2026 round - The application timetable for this round of funding will be confirmed in due course.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Aberlour Urgent Assistance Fund
Aberlour’s Urgent Assistance Fund can provide immediate relief to families with children (aged 21 and under) who are suffering extreme hardship. Families who are struggling to provide food, heating and clothing for their children. No deadlines.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Skipton Building Society Charitable Foundation
The Charitable Foundation supports registered charities based in the UK where there is clear benefit to the recipients, particularly in areas near the Society's Principal Office or one of its branches. They prefer to support specific tangible items or activities rather than donating to general funds.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Volant Charitable Trust Large Grants Programme
The Volant Charitable Trust prioritises the focus of its awards on charities and organisations who are particularly addressing poverty and deprivation, helping to support vulnerable groups who are most affected, with an emphasis on women, children and young people. Now closed - enquiries will re-open in July 2026.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Whirlwind Charitable Trust
Provides life-enhancing experiences to disadvantaged young people and those with disabilities.  This is principally (but not exclusively) through the challenge and stimulation of maritime and outdoor pursuits including funding for sailing charities. 
  • Status:  Recurring

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Celebrating Renfrewshire Fund
Celebrating Renfrewshire is a fund designed by and for young people, where young people aged 12-25 will have a direct say on which projects are funded in their local area.
  • Status:  Closed

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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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Educational Opportunity Foundation- Main Fund
The Educational Opportunity Foundation supports charitable organisations working to improve access to education or the quality of education for children and young people under the age of 25, both in the UK and internationally.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Persimmon Homes – Community Champions
Each of Persimmon Homes' 30 offices across the UK makes a donation of up to £6,000 every quarter to local organisations. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Growth Impact Fund
A partnership between Big Issue Invest and UnLtd to provide social investment for early stage, growing organisations who are looking to help tackle inequality. Equity and loan finance focusing on diverse-led organisations working to tackle inequality in the UK. No deadline - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Migration Fund
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation envisions a world in which everyone is free to move, and no one is forced to move. The Migration Fund focuses both on how organisations work, and what they seek to achieve. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Societe Generale - Bright Futures Grants
The SG UK Foundation’s new fund, Bright Futures, is investing £1 million over three years to empower and equip people from marginalised groups to access education and employment, driving lasting social and economic impact.
  • Status:  Closed

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