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 Stevenston Charitable Trust
Established in 2000 with the particular aim of supporting the arts, and particularly the art of music, in the Lothians and Borders regions of Scotland.
  • Status:  Open, Recurring
The National Lottery Community Fund - Awards for All
A quick way to apply for funding between £300 and £10,000 to support what matters to people and communities.
  • Status:  Open
Youth Music Initiative CPD Fund
Funding is available for organisations and individuals resident in Scotland who are dedicated to strengthening youth music in Scotland.
  • Status:  Open, Recurring
National Lottery Good Causes Portal
Search for funding programmes supporting good causes across the UK.
  • Status:  Open
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Provides grants to small and medium sized local organisations in the UK with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts. No deadlines for applications.
  • Status:  Open
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund's vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future. They can fund heritage projects from £10,000 up to £10million. No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring
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
NFU Mutual Charitable Trust
The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust promotes and supports charities in the United Kingdom working in agriculture, rural development and insurance. Trustees are particularly interested in initiatives in the areas of education of young people in rural areas and relief of poverty within rural areas and will focus on providing funding to larger initiatives, which would have a significant impact on the rural community. Trustees meet twice a year to consider applications received. These meetings are currently held in June and December with deadlines in May and October.
  • Status:  Recurring
charities.connected
Vodafone are providing free mobile connectivity to support charities in the UK tackle digital exclusion. If you're a charity that needs support for digital inclusion programmes, you can apply for free Vodafone SIMs, each loaded with 40GB data/month for 6 months, plus unlimited calls and texts. You can use these however you like - for example, to help stay in touch with service users, or deliver training to people in need.
  • Status:  Recurring
Clothworkers' Foundation
The Clothworkers’ Foundation improves the lives of people and communities – particularly those facing disadvantage and marginalisation – through grant making. Take the eligibility quiz on the Foundation's website where you will be directed to the correct application form (Main or Small grants programme). No deadlines - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring
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