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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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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
The Foundation provides 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. Applications will reopen in March.
  • 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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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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