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 Adamson Trust
The Trust provides financial assistance to help finance holidays, including respite care, for physically and mentally disabled children (aged 3 to 17 years), with preference being given to those locally resident in Scotland. The next deadline is 30th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  30 September, 2026
DWF Foundation
The foundation supports homelessness, health and wellbeing, employability, education, environment and sustainability. It particularly helps with initiatives that develop and improve local communities. The next deadline is 30th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  30 September, 2026
Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation
The Charitable Foundation accepts nominations from Yorkshire Building Society members and colleagues. Donations range from £250 to £2,500. It particularly welcomes nominations from charities that are working in areas of deprivation, and charities that have an income turnover of less than £100,000. The next deadline is 30th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  30 September, 2026
Shared Care Scotland - Better Breaks
The Better Breaks programme provides 12-month grants to third sector organisations to develop and deliver short breaks projects and services for disabled children and young people (aged 20 and under), and their carers (adult and/or young carers). The next deadline for applications is 30th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  30 September, 2026
Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
The latest round of funding is for projects that provide therapeutic support, including healthy eating and outdoor activities. To be eligible, a project must focus exclusively on unpaid adult (18 or over) carers as its beneficiaries, without extending services to other groups. Round 4 opens on 1st September and closes on 30th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  30 September, 2026
The Britford Bridge Trust
A charity supporting the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health or the saving of lives; and the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage, or science. Applicants must have national or international reach. The next deadline is 30th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  30 September, 2026
The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation
Trustees welcome applications for grants towards projects that support group music-making, especially those that involve young people in the process of composing and the development of creative ideas. The next deadline is 30th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  30 September, 2026
People’s Postcode Trust
People's Postcode Trust supports smaller charities and good causes in Scotland to make a difference to their community for the benefit of people and planet. The funding offered is unrestricted and therefore flexible. It can be used however it is most needed. The next round opens on 24th September and closes on 1st October.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  1 October, 2026
The Gannochy Trust
The Gannochy Trust provides funding to registered charities, primarily working in Perth and Kinross, but also to inspire and develop young people (from age 11 to 21 inclusive) throughout Scotland. The next deadline is 12pm on 2nd October.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  2 October, 2026
The Nuffield Foundation - Research, Development and Analysis Fund
Grants will advance educational opportunity and social well-being across the UK and will improve the design and operation of social policy, especially in education, welfare and justice. This fund prioritises rigorous and impartial research, development, and analysis projects that bear on one or more of five priority questions. The next deadline for applications 5th October.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  5 October, 2026
Aviva Foundation - Financial Futures Fund
Funding for initiatives that aim to address the drivers of financial resilience and promote lasting change. Whether it’s improving access to financial services, building financial capability, or tackling systemic barriers, Aviva is committed to supporting work that makes a real difference in people’s lives. The next deadline is 7th October.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  7 October, 2026
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 reopens on 8th October.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  8 October, 2026
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