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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; Promoting rights and justice for minorities who face the most severe forms of racism; and Promotion of rights and justice for refugees and other migrants by identifying and tackling root causes, structures and systems that may deny them their rights.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  19 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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The Grocers’ Charity
The Grocers’ Charity awards about £1 million pounds each year to UK-registered charities. For their open grants, they typically provide one-off grants of up to £5,000. The major causes supported include: Relief of hardship, disability, arts, and children and young People. The next deadline for initial enquiries is 1st Setpember 2026..
  • 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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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 round opens on 8th June - the deadline for applications is midday on 5th September.
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  5 September, 2026

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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. The first 100 winning charities will be drawn between The first 100 winning charities will be drawn between 7th to 11th September. 
  • Status:  Recurring
  • Closing date:  6 September, 2026

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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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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:  30 September, 2026

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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

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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 October.
  • Status:  Open
  • Closing date:  15 October, 2026

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