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Youth Work Grants & Funding

Looking for funding to support your youth work project? We can help.

This funding directory lists over a hundred 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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Scottish International Education Trust
Supporting individuals that contribute to the cultural, social or economic wellbeing of Scotland or improve the Scottish environment. No deadlines for applications.
  • Status:  Open

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Scottish Schools Pipe and Drums Trust - Open Grant Fund
This Trust develops sustainable, high quality programmes that include everyone who wants to learn. They provide cash grants usually on a match-funded basis, and work closely with schools, communities and councils to design successful programmes that attract high numbers of pupils and that give them enriching experiences.
  • Status:  Open

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KFC Foundation Community Grants Programme
If you are a small organisation in the UK (income under £400k) who are empowering financially disadvantaged young people aged 11-25 to break the barriers to aspiration, then find out more...  Applications usually open every January for a four week window. 
  • Status:  Recurring

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Leathersellers' Company Small Grants Programme
UK charities that support vulnerable people in high deprivation areas and have an annual income under £200,000 can apply for one-off grants up to a maximum of £5,000. This fund will re-open in September.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Archer Trust
A UK Christian charitable grant-making trust which supports small UK charities for whom a grant of between £250 and £3,000 will make a big difference. Trustees normally meet in March and September.
  • Status:  Open

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BBC Children in Need Project Costs Stream
As part of their ongoing commitment to improving systems and processes, BBC Children in Need are transitioning to a new grantmaking system. This transition will take place throughout 2025 and the new system will be launched by the end of September. During this period there will be some disruption to grant programmes.
  • Status:  Closed

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Leslie Sell Charitable Trust
The Scouting and Guiding movement can receive small grants to help with the cost of making repairs, or purchasing sundry items of equipment. It also assists groups and individuals to make trips. Apply at any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Awards for Young Musicians
Awards for Young Musicians supports outstanding young instrumentalists making music in any genre. No deadline for applications.
  • Status:  Open

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Souter Charitable Trust
The Trust supports projects directed at the relief of all aspects of human suffering in the UK and overseas with a particular but not exclusive Christian emphasis and ethos. Next deadline: rojects directed at the relief of all aspects of human suffering in the UK and overseas with a particular but not exclusive Christian emphasis and ethos.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Birkdale Trust for Hearing Impaired
This charity exists to provide financial support to children and young people who have a hearing impairment and to organisations who provide help to them. No deadlines for applications.
  • Status:  Open

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European Youth Foundation
Provides financial and educational support for young people and European youth activities, that promote the organisation's fundamental values. Deadlines for 2024 are: 15th January and 15th May.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Fat Beehive Foundation
The Foundation provides small grants of up to £2,500 to other small UK charities for websites and digital products.
  • Status:  Closed

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