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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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Ponton House Trust
Welcomes applications from locally-based charities focused on delivering activities in the Edinburgh and Lothian area that help vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people, and where a grant from the Trust will make a significant difference. The next deadline is 10th July.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  10 July, 2026

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The MSE Charity
Provides grants to UK non profit organisations to deliver activities which make a lasting impact on how people think, behave and manage their money. The outline for proposals for the next round opens on 6th July and closes on 13th July.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  13 July, 2026

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New Park Educational Trust
The Trust operates by giving grants to organisations and, less frequently, to individuals. The charitable object is the advancement of education for the public benefit. Priority has been given to North East Fife and surrounding areas, but projects have been helped throughout Scotland. The next deadline is 14th July.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  14 July, 2026

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The National Lottery Community Fund (Scotland) - Supporting Change - Carers
This funding is for projects that will improve the health of unpaid carers by supporting work that both reduces the unfair and avoidable differences in health for unpaid carers and addresses the root cause of the long-term problems, not just the symptoms. The deadline for stage one applications is 15th July.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  15 July, 2026

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The Awesome Foundation
The Awesome Foundation
Mini-grants are available under a special round of awards to local projects in Glasgow run by someone or groups of people aged 5 to 25. The next deadline is 29th July.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  29 July, 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 31st July.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 July, 2026

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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 31st July.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 July, 2026

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The Radcliffe Trust Music Grants
The Radcliffe Trust supports classical music performance and training, especially chamber music, composition and music education. The next application window opens on 1st May and closes on 31st July.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 July, 2026

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Music for All - Community Project Funding
Supports projects and initiatives taking place throughout the UK that aim to bring music to their community and would benefit from a “helping hand” to fulfil their potential in becoming truly sustainable music programmes. The next deadline is 31st July.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 July, 2026

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The Meikle Foundation
The Meikle Foundation (previously the Martin Connell Charitable Trust) has supported a wide range of charitable activities including medical, youth, aged and cultural. The Trustees tend to support charities which are predominantly based in Scotland (with a particular interest in initiatives in Aberdeen and Fife).
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 July, 2026

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A B Charitable Trust Open Programme
This Trust is focused on supporting the most marginalised and excluded groups in the UK, who are often from communities experiencing poverty and racial injustice. They support work that promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of the most marginalised and excluded people. The next deadline is 31st July.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 July, 2026

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Shackleton Foundation
Provides seed funding and support to early-stage social ventures with a primary focus on benefiting young people in the UK. A single grant of up to £15,000 is available to support leaders with innovative social ideas aimed at generating positive social change for disadvantaged and socially marginalised young people. The next deadline is 3rd August.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  3 August, 2026

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