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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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The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust - Rights and Justice
JRCT is committed to the creation of a world that guarantees equal treatment for all people. Funding priorities are: Protection and promotion of equality and human rights and their enforcement in the UK, and promoting rights and justice for minorities who face the most severe forms of racism. The next deadline is Wednesday 2nd September (Account registration must be completed by 19th August).
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  19 August, 2026

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Welcome for Newcomers Fund
Grants for organisations and partnerships supporting newcomers to the UK to rebuild their lives, feel at home and become active members of their local communities. The deadline for expressions of interest is 26th August.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  26 August, 2026

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SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund
Designed to provide small grants (£5,000) to projects enhancing communities across Scotland. This fund supports a wide range of projects from enhancing play areas to planting trees, and from providing isolated individuals with social opportunities and helping young people prepare for work. The next deadline is 28th August.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  28 August, 2026

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Maths Week Scotland Small Grants Fund
Maths Week Scotland 2026 will take place from 19th to 27th September and will focus on the theme ‘Maths Matters’. This Fund provides awards of either exactly £250 or £500 and is open to organisations, partnerships and individuals that require support to participate in, or to lead the development of activity for Maths Week Scotland 2026 at local, regional and national level. Round 2 will be open for applications from 15th to 30th August.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  30 August, 2026

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Emerton-Christie Charity
The Emerton-Christie charity is a grant-making trust donating to other UK-registered charities. While the trustees may select beneficiaries at their discretion, they tend to focus on the following: Education/training; The Advancement of health; Disability; Arts and culture; and Environment and conservation. The next deadline is 31st August.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 August, 2026

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James Tudor Foundation - Mental Health Programme
The Mental Health programme from the James Tudor Foundation supports UK-registered charities that help children and young people recovering from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and parents affected by ACEs, mental illness, or addiction. The next deadline is 31st August.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 August, 2026

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The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
The fund aids research into learning disability aids the care and relief of those affected by learning disability. Their priorities are learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities) and autism and they will consider projects for children or adults. The next deadline is 31st August.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  31 August, 2026

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Kelly Family Charitable Trust
This trust is 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, and whose aims include the strengthening of family bonds by helping all elements of the family unit to grow together and support each other. The next deadline is 1st September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  1 September, 2026

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Sport Facilities Fund
Sport Facilities Fund
The Sport Facilities Fund provides investment in capital projects that create new or improved places for clubs and communities to participate in sport and physical activity. sportscotland will prioritise their investment into projects that deliver the greatest impact against clear local outcomes. The next deadline is 1st September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  1 September, 2026

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You’re Only Young Once Fund
The You’re Only Young Once (YOYO) Fund offers grants of up to £10,000 to organisations supporting children, young people, and families affected by drugs and alcohol. The fund has been designed by the young people from the ‘Be Different to Make a Difference Advisory Group’  as part of the Way Forward for Families Partnership Fund.  The next deadline is 1st September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  1 September, 2026

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RS Macdonald Charitable Trust
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust
This fund supports chrities under the following themes: tackling child abuse and neglect; visual impairment; neurological conditions; animal welfare; and medical research. Apply any time for a small grant (up to £20,000) or apply by 2nd September (over £20,000) for a main grant.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  2 September, 2026

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Career Ready Fund - Henry Smith Foundation
The Henry Smith Foundation are launching the Career Ready Fund to support organisations to deliver high‑quality, job coach‑led careers education in both mainstream and SEND school settings. Applications open on 22nd July 2026.
  • Closing date:  2 September, 2026

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