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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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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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The Health Lottery Foundation - Community Choice Grants
Community Choice gives passionate people working with small charities and CICs all over Britain the chance to secure a grant of £1,000 for their organisation. You can nominate if you work with a charity or CIC that has activities that improve health and wellbeing in Scotland. The next round will open in the summer.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Safe Spaces Youth Work Fund
A small grant fund to enable Youth Scotland member youth groups to deliver better youth work to young people who are at risk or who have experienced ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experiences). The deadline for applications is 22nd April.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  22 April, 2026

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The Thomas Wall Trust
The Thomas Wall Trust
Grants to support individuals to undertake education and training, and charities to equip people with necessary skills to secure employment.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  24 April, 2026

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The Gordon & Ena Baxter Foundation
Supports a wide range of causes across the North of Scotland. The Foundation was founded to “spread a little fertiliser” in local communities, and that means supporting good causes across a broad range of themes and activity. The next deadline is 24th April.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  24 April, 2026

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NFU Mutual Charitable Trust
The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust promotes and supports charities in the UK working in agriculture, rural development and insurance. Trustees are particularly interested in the education of young people in rural areas and relief of poverty within rural areas and will focus on providing funding to larger initiatives, which would have a significant impact on the rural community. The next deadline is 24th April.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  24 April, 2026

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