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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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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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Wesleyan Foundation Community Grants
The Community Grants programme supports grassroots charities across the UK to deliver vital community services.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Mushroom Trust
The Trust’s charitable purposes are the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science, the provision of recreational facilities, the advancement of citizenship and community development and the advancement of environmental protection or improvement. You can apply throughout the year. The deadline for annual donations is usually 31st March each year. 
  • Status:  Recurring

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The True Colours Trust - Small Grants Scheme UK
Designed to support excellent local organisations and projects that work with disabled children and young people; children and young people with life-limiting conditions; and their families. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Better Community Business Network
Aims to provide small third-sector grant awards to empower charities and local community projects. This initiative will distribute a one-off grant award of up to £3,000 per charity or to small but credible community projects, which are able to demonstrate their positive impact on the communities they aim to serve. Grant Initiative dates for 2026 to be confirmed.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Family Fund - BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme
BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances, and is delivered by Family Fund Business Services. The programme provides items that meet a child’s most basic needs such as a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal and other items or services critical to a child’s wellbeing.
  • Status:  Recurring

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James Tudor Foundation - Mental Health Programme
The Mental Health programme from the James Tudor Foundation supports UK-registered charities that help children and young people recovering from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and parents affected by ACEs, mental illness, or addiction.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Gosling Foundation
The Gosling Foundation funds organisations that provide positive opportunities and support for disadvantaged and marginalised young people, enabling them to make use of their talents, build self-sufficiency and confidence, as well as providing tangible, long-term outcomes. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Foux Foundation
The foundation is focused on helping in the areas of: health, education, youth opportunity and poverty. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Network Rail Community Fund
Network Rail wishes to develop their relationships with community groups and representatives, building avenues to inform and educate on the safety elements, benefits and opportunities of rail links. The Network Rail Community Fund intends to support community-led projects that produce social value.
  • Status:  Closed

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Creative Communities Scotland
Funded by the Scottish Government and facilitated by Inspiring Scotland, the Creative Communities Scotland fund will support grassroots community-led organisations across Scotland to develop and deliver projects that harness the power of creativity in supporting the wellbeing of people and communities. 
  • Status:  Closed

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The Maple Trust
This small trust supports charities working in Scotland, focusing on children and young people. Two larger grants (max £10,000) and two smaller grants (£2,500) will be awarded every six months.
  • Status:  Recurring

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