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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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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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Rosa’s Voices from the Frontline Fund
Rosa’s Voices from the Frontline fund, now in its eighth year of running, offers  grants of up to £10,000 over 18 months to women’s and girls’ organisations to support campaigning and influencing work  that enables women and girls to use their voice to achieve change.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Grants Programme
Kellogg’s has teamed up with Forever Manchester to award grants of £1,000 to school breakfast clubs (secondary schools only), to help them provide breakfast to those children who need it most. No deadline - you can apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Ufi Charitable Trust - VocTech Activate
This fund supports the development of new ideas that use digital tools and approaches to transform how people gain skills for work. Ufi VocTech Trust encourage ideas which have the potential to transform how vocational learning happens, rooted in a real-world understanding of the problems, issues and opportunities in the vocational sector.
  • Status:  Closed

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The Marsh Trust
The Marsh Trust focuses on providing funding ranging from £300 to £2,000 which could help small organisations pay for various running costs, such as volunteer expenses, training days, equipment maintenance and other core outgoings. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Ironmongers' Company - STEM Projects
The Ironmongers’ Foundation wishes to support initiatives that encourage young people to study science subjects at school and go on to pursue STEM-related further education or vocational training, particularly in the area of Materials Science.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Youth Scotland Grassroots Youth Work Fund
Grants of up to £2,000 will support grassroots, community-based youth work groups to create or enhance safe spaces where trusted adults can help young people develop resilience, confidence, and skills for life, and to run a wide range of youth work activities addressing poverty, isolation, anti-social behaviour and mental health challenges.
  • Status:  Closed

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CABWI Awarding Body
CABWI Awarding Body is a registered charity promoting learning and development that enables young people and adults to gain additional skills and confidence to enter the labour market. This fund is now closed and will reopen in January 2027.
  • Status:  Closed

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Sea Changers Scottish Learning Fund
The aim of the new Scottish Learning Fund is to enable early-stage and / or small community-based groups in Scotland who are involved in marine conservation activities to learn, share knowledge, network and develop skills with other groups. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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