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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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Faithful Welcome Small Grants
Faithful Welcome is a partnership project between Faith in Community Scotland and Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees. The aim is to support Scotland’s faith communities to welcome refugees and asylum seekers and enable them to be an integral part of community life, wherever they are coming from and whatever the reason.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Northwood Charitable Trust
The Trust provides financial support to help enhance people’s lives through a wide range of charitable organisations. Its main funding themes are addressing deprivation, poverty and inequality, advancing educational attainment, progressing physical and mental health and wellbeing and supporting community, heritage and cultural enrichment.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Mrs M A Lascelles Charitable Trust
The Trust makes grants to charities and voluntary organisations in Scotland and the UK, or overseas. They fund a wide range of organisations with a preference for countryside, health, art and young people.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Hugo Burge Foundation
Established in 2024, the Hugo Burge Foundation is a major new charity dedicated to supporting the arts, crafts and creative industries across the UK. The Foundation has three key areas of funding available - creative individuals, creative communities, and creative education.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Nineveh Charitable Trust
The Nineveh Charitable Trust supports a broad range of UK-based projects and activities of benefit to the general public, with an emphasis on promoting a better understanding of the countryside. Apply any time - no deadlines.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Focus Foundation
The Focus Foundation is dedicated to creating meaningful impact for overlooked and underfunded grassroots charities. They primarily support projects that fall under the following themes: Underprivileged children and young people; Mental health charities and initiatives; and Charitable or community projects.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Gilly's Trust
Open to small UK charities working to improve the lives of disadvantaged children, young people, families and adults living in the UK. Opens again in 2026.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Swire Charitable Trust
The Swire Charitable Trust’s core programmes –  Opportunity, Nature and Heritage – are open to applications on a rolling basis, with no deadlines. They prioritise UK charities that are well positioned to meet current challenges, and aim to direct grants to where they are needed most.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Robert Barr's Charitable Trust
The trust supports the relief of poverty, aid for the aged, the infirm and disabled, the advancement of education, the provision of recreational facilities and the preservation of buildings or other items of national or historic interest. The Trustees also tend to favour capital projects rather than running costs. The Trustees meet annually in March to consider all applications received.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Youth Reuse and Sharing Grant
The Youth Reuse and Sharing Grant is a grant of up to £1000 for projects that involve young people aged between 16 to 25 years old, to introduce a more sustainable way of buying and using products through enabling shared access, providing reusable or finding new ways to repurpose unused items.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Forvis Mazars Foundation UK Community Grants
The Foundation's purpose is to support under resourced young people to achieve their potential and feel positive about their future. This is achieved by working across three key focus areas - Closing the Gap; Developing Life Skills; and Improving Access. Applications are now closed until Spring 2026.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Cycle Access Fund
Grants are available to organisations working with people that would otherwise be unable to afford the upfront costs of a bike. This fund is now closed until 2027. 
  • Status:  Closed

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