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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 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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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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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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Asda Foundation - Local Community Spaces Fund
ASDA Foundation knows that accessible community spaces can be a lifeline for local people, and many of these spaces require funding to repair, renovate and develop them so that they can continue delivering vital activities and services.
  • 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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Pump House Trust
The Trustees can fund a wide range of charitable activity, but are particularly interested in supporting smaller, community charities based in Scotland and connected with community development, environmental, women’s and youth issues with a view to encouraging social inclusion at all levels. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Essentia Foundation
Financial support to charities and community groups to help achieve the following objectives: Improved health and social welfare of children and young people up to the age of 25 years old; and Increased opportunities for training, enhancing learning, upskilling, and developing career opportunities, and supporting young people up to the age of 25 years old to move towards employment.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Scottish Education And Action For Development - SEAD Fund
Small grants for individuals or groups for positive action where the grant will have the most impact, for example, helping a new campaign to get started, or funding a specific concrete action for a local community. They're particularly interested in applications that focus campaign activity on the following areas: women’s rights, young people and their global rights, climate justice, inequality, poverty and health justice. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • 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.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Shared Care Scotland - Better Breaks
The Better Breaks programme provides 12-month grants to third sector organisations to develop and deliver short breaks projects and services for disabled children and young people (aged 20 and under), and their carers (adult and/or young carers). Opens for applications in September for projects starting in April 2027.
  • Status:  Closed

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