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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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Aberdeenshire Educational Trust
The Trust awards grants to individuals, schools and organisations to help with the cost of school trips, further education and funding for sports clubs and facilities. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Family Recovery Initiative Fund
Offers one-off grants of up to £5000 to groups that support families affected by alcohol and drugs in Scotland. The aim of the fund is to improve the wellbeing of family members affected by someone else’s harmful substance use based on creating opportunities for people to connect with other people through group activities and access to further support. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Vardy Foundation
The Vardy Foundation supports social action and faith based projects with a focus on: Early intervention; Strengthening families; Relief of poverty; Supporting ex-offenders;  and Helping the homeless and those with addictions. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Henry Smith Charity - Proud Homes
The Henry Smith Charity want to fund organisations supporting young people facing or experiencing homelessness. Aimed at rganisations that want to make their services safer and more inclusive for LGBT+ young people.
  • Status:  Closed

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The Swan Mountain Trust
For the next three years the trust will focus on organisations concerned with refugees and asylum seekers, with particular emphasis on the mental health of young people in these categories. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Co-op Local Community Fund
The Co-op Local Community Fund gives money to local causes, helping to bring people together and make a difference. They give preference to projects run by small, local organisations that make a real difference to people in their community.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust
This Trust gives grants to economically disadvantaged young people to develop progress in an existing interest
  • Status:  Open

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Agnes Hunter Trust
Agnes Hunter Trust
Following a policy review, the Trustees have decided to focus on one key area of funding: offering grants to charities that support disabled people in Scotland. The next round of grants will open in early August, with grant award decisions made at the end of November.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Asda Foundation
Supports grassroots organisations in making a real impact, and supports local communities in emergencies, reacting quickly to help people in the immediate hours following a disaster.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Bairdwatson Charitable Trust
The aim of the fund it to support organisations providing services relating to training for employment, employment support and vocational skills. It is particularly interested in employment and skills training for young people who are unemployed and in re-training, and support for unemployed people to get them back into work.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Barcapel Foundation
The Foundation supports charitable work and endeavours in Scotland. The three priority areas of interest for funding are health, heritage, and youth (donations in this area span all aspects of assisting children and young adults, although they are particularly keen to support those from socially and financially disadvantaged backgrounds).
  • Status:  Recurring

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Digital Xtra Fund
The core objective of Digital Xtra is to inspire young people to learn digital technologies skills through high quality, exciting extracurricular activities, thus expanding Scotland’s future talent pipeline. Applications for the 2025/26 academic year are now closed. 
  • Status:  Closed

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