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 Idlewild Trust
Supporting charities that encourage excellence in the performing arts, and the preservation of buildings and sites of historical interest for the benefit of the public. The next deadline for applications is 4th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  4 September, 2026
Benefact Group Movement for Good Awards
Movement for Good awards are available to charities that are changing people’s lives for the better. The public can nominate a charity they would like to see receive the money and competition winners will then be drawn at random. Nominations for £1000 draws open from 7th to 11th September. Nominations for £5000 draws open from 5th to 18th October.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  6 September, 2026
Creative Scotland - Youth Music Initiative: Strengthening Youth Music
The YMI Strengthening Youth Music Fund supports freelance individuals and organisations working in the youth music sector to deliver activities that will improve, develop and strengthen the sector, and the services offered to benefit children and young people across the country. The next deadline is 9th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  9 September, 2026
Creative Scotland - Youth Music Initiative: Access to Music Making
The YMI Access to Music Making Fund supports individuals and organisations working in the youth music sector to create and deliver high-quality music making opportunities for children and young people across Scotland that address inequity. The next deadline is 9th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  9 September, 2026
The Thomas Wall Trust
The Thomas Wall Trust
Grants to support individuals to undertake education and training, and charities to equip people with necessary skills to secure employment. The grants programme for individuals is normally open all year round and is awarded on a first come first serve basis. The deadline for first stage applications from charities is noon on Friday 11th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  11 September, 2026
Grants for Good Fund
Direct funding  to small and growing local charities, voluntary groups or social enterprises that are making a big impact on communities, people or the environment. Every three months, five shortlisted projects will be voted for by John Good Group employees. These five charities will all receive a share of £15,000. The next deadline is 15th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  15 September, 2026
Charles Hayward Foundation - Social and Criminal Justice
The overall aims of this funding in the social and criminal justice area are to prevent people entering the criminal justice system and to support those already in the system to move on and rebuild their lives. The next deadline is 18th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  18 September, 2026
West Lothian Development Trust
The West Lothian Development Trust fund distributes money received from windfarm developments in West Lothian. Small grants (up to £2,000) and main grants fund (up to £25,000) available to projects that relieve poverty, advance education or social purposes beneficial to an eligible community or promote and encourage environmental improvement. The next deadline is 23rd September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  23 September, 2026
Youth Music NextGen Fund
The Youth Music NextGen Fund offers emerging creatives grants of up to £3,000 to make their ideas happen. The next deadline is 25th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  25 September, 2026
Dr Guthrie’s Association
Funding is available for not-for-profit organisations that support economically and socially disadvantaged children and young people in Scotland (giving preference to those residing in the Edinburgh area). The next deadline is 25th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  25 September, 2026
Volant Charitable Trust Large Grants Programme
The Volant Charitable Trust prioritises the focus of its awards on charities and organisations who are particularly addressing poverty and deprivation, helping to support vulnerable groups who are most affected, with an emphasis on women, children and young people. The next deadline is 28th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  28 September, 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 September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  30 September, 2026
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