Funding

Youth Work Grants & Funding

Looking for funding to support your youth work project? We can help.

This funding directory lists over a hundred 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 National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has resumed accepting small and medium project funding applications and launched an interest free loans pilot.
  • Status:  Open
Carnegie Dunfermline Trust
Grants are given for projects and activities with social, community, educational, cultural, sporting and recreational purposes that benefit particularly young people within the Dunfermline area.
  • Status:  Open
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.
  • Status:  Recurring
charities.connected
Charities can apply for free mobile connectivity to help and eradicate tackle digital exclusion.
  • Status:  Open
The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland: Young Start Fund
Young Start aims to create opportunities for children and young people aged eight to 24 across Scotland to help them realise their potential.
  • Status:  Open
Clothworkers' Foundation
The Clothworkers’ Foundation improves the lives of people and communities – particularly those facing disadvantage and marginalisation – through grant making. . No deadlines for applications.
  • Status:  Open
Charity Digital Exchange
The Charity Digital Exchange offers donated technology products from partners such as Microsoft, Symantec and Cisco to eligible UK-registered charities. No deadlines for applications.
  • Status:  Open
Variety Youth Club Grants
Supports youth clubs and supplies them with essential equipment through part-funding. No deadlines for applications.
  • Status:  Open
Volant Charitable Trust
In response to the current cost of living crisis, the Volant Charitable Trust is for the foreseeable future prioritising 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.
  • Status:  Recurring
The Outward Bound Trust Adventure Fund
The Outward Bound Adventure Fund provides funding for an Outward Bound summer of adventure. Young people aged 10-22 years old can spend 5, 7, 14 or 19 days of their summer enjoying outdoor challenge, discovery, fun and new friendships. An online application with an immediate decision!
  • Status:  Open
The Robertson Trust Transport Grants
Funding of between £5,000 and £20,000 per year, for 1-3 years available to contribute towards the costs of transport for work supporting people experiencing poverty and trauma. Apply any time - no closing date.
  • Status:  Open
The Outward Bound Annington Challenge
Initiative that offers young people from military families the chance to experience their very own Outward Bound summer camp adventure at one of Outward Bound's locations. his fund is now closed for 2025 but people can register for 2026 from September onwards.
  • Status:  Recurring