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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 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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SWEF Business Grants
SWEF Business Grants are available for young people in Scotland who are struggling to invest in their business venture and/or keen to take the business to the next level.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Women's Fund for Scotland
The Women's Fund for Scotland aims to promote systemic change in Scotland to empower women, and to help overcome the multiple disadvantages and discriminatory practices that females experience throughout their lives.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Forte Charitable Foundation
A grant making foundation giving grants to small and medium sized local organisations in the UK with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts. The foundation's focus is on the most deprived 15% areas only. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Alliance for Youth Organising - Explore Fund
The Alliance for Youth Organising will provide five grants of £15,000 for projects exploring gaps in action or understanding for the youth organising field. These grants will use an action learning approach.
  • Status:  Closed

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Children's Alliance Grant Funding
Get children into water safely to learn, develop and purposefully play for the benefit of children’s physical and mental wellbeing. Children's Alliance is looking to support grassroots initiatives delivering water based projects for disadvantaged children. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Nuffield Foundation - Racial Diversity UK Fund
The Racial Diversity UK programme aims to be broad in its reach, interested in questions of socio-economic equality, senses of place, belonging and identity, barriers to and opportunities for inclusion, demographic trajectories, and the interrelationship between these themes. Applications can be made at any time but shortlisting takes place once a year – in Autumn.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Faith in Community Scotland - Greener Spaces, Fairer Places
This small grants scheme supports the work of faith groups taking small scale local actions which address the link between climate change and poverty. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Three Guineas - Holiday Activity Schemes for Autistic Children and Young People
This scheme provides grants of up to £15,000 for autistic-specific holiday schemes for autistic children and young people, and their siblings, which run in the school holidays. Grants are usually for part of the costs.
  • Status:  Recurring

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