Funding

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 Lintel Trust Small Grant Programme
The Lintel Trust Small Grant Programme
Provides support for projects helping people to maintain their tenancies, improve their lives and engage and participate fully in community life. The next deadline is 5th February.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  5 February, 2026
The Weir Charitable Trust
This Trust supports services/projects, run by Scottish-based community groups and charities, in the following qualifying categories that address any aspect of the following purposes: Animal welfare, culture, health, recreational facilities and sport. The next deadline is 6th February.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  6 February, 2026
Worshipful Company Of Information Technologists (WCIT)
WCIT's purpose is to use the power of tech for impact through digital inclusion, education, charitable, and public engagement initiatives across the entire UK. Every year, it supports a variety of charities through its grant-making programme and by providing pro bono support to a multitude of organisations. The next deadline is 6th February.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  6 February, 2026
Screwfix Foundation
A grant giving charity with a clear purpose to support projects that improve, repair and maintain homes and community facilities used by those in need throughout the UK. The next deadline is 10th February.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  10 February, 2026
SUEZ Communities Fund
The SUEZ Communities Fund supports community and environmental improvement projects through the Landfill Communities Fund and Scottish Landfill Communities Fund, distributing funds contributed by SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK. The next deadline is 18th February.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  18 February, 2026
Kelly Family Charitable Trust
Interested in funding charities whose activities involve the whole family, in initiatives that seek to tackle issues that face one or more of its members. Next deadline: 1st March.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  1 March, 2026
The Fat Beehive Foundation
The Foundation provides small grants of up to £2,500 to other small UK charities for websites and digital products. The criteria for this quarter is edication. The next deadline is the end of March.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  30 March, 2026
Sea Changers
Sea Changers  enable grassroots, community-led marine conservation to happen all around the UK's shores and coasts, They welcome applications from a variety of groups and entities. The deadline for main grants (£500-£2500) are 31st March and 30th September. The Small Grants Programme is for applications up to £500 and is always open.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  31 March, 2026
The Mushroom Trust
The Trust’s charitable purposes are the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science, the provision of recreational facilities, the advancement of citizenship and community development and the advancement of environmental protection or improvement. The deadline for annual donations is usually 31st March each year.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 March, 2026
Cycle Access Fund
Grants are available to organisations working with people that would otherwise be unable to afford the upfront costs of a bike. The fund will close, either when the funds have all been allocated, or on 31st March, whichever occurs soonest. 
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  31 March, 2026
Sport Facilities Fund
Sport Facilities Fund
This Fund supports capital projects that create or improve places where people can become involved in and participate in sport and physical activity. The next deadline is 1st April.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  1 April, 2026
The Novum Trust
Providing small short-term, one-off grants generally of between £500 and £2,500 to support distinctively new and Scottish projects in Christian action and research. The next deadline is 15th April.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  15 April, 2026