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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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Bells Nautical Trust
The Trust funds maritime education in Leith or elsewhere in Scotland, especially recognised training, like Sea Cadets, Sea Scouts, Sail Training Associations and yacht and boat clubs. Grants will not be given to bodies whose finances are generally met from public monies, except in exceptional circumstances.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Mickel Fund
Mickel Fund grants are distributed twice a year with the sole purpose of improving the lives of others through charitable donations in and around Scotland, and where possible on a global scale, with a focus on five core funding priorities. The next deadline is 3rd February.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Henry Duncan Grants
Corra’s Henry Duncan Grants 2024 is for women led organisations that support women and girls within their local communities. This fund will provide grants of £40,000 across five years (£8,000 per year) to charities and registered not for profit organisations with a yearly income of up to £250,000 whose work supports women and girls.
  • Status:  Closed

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RS Macdonald Charitable Trust
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust
In every part of Scotland RS Macdonald Trust awards are helping charities to make an impact by giving support and help to those who need it most. The research is helping to create better futures for children and adults who are facing multiple challenges. The next deadline for your application depends on the theme of your work
  • Status:  Recurring

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Women in Forestry Practical Training Fund
The Women in Forestry Practical Training Fund has been established to support the personal development of women (over 16 years old), providing them with additional skills to progress their careers and employment opportunities in forestry beyond their current role.
  • Status:  Open

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The Meikle Foundation
The Meikle Foundation (previously the Martin Connell Charitable Trust) has supported a wide range of charitable activities including medical, youth, aged and cultural. The Trustees tend to support charities which are predominantly based in Scotland (with a particular interest in initiatives in Aberdeen and Fife).
  • Status:  Recurring

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Riada Trust
Funding available for the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health; the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science; the advancement of public participation in sport; the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
  • Status:  Open

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The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund
Grants up to £80,000 over two years are available for established community and voluntary organisations run by and for young women and girls. Funding is to support young women and girls who have been in the criminal justice system or who are at high risk of entering it. This fund will reopen in Spring 2025.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Arnold Clark Community Fund: Cost-of-Living Support
Supporting projects which help those within communities currently experiencing hardship as a result of the rising cost of living.
  • Status:  Open

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Cruden Foundation
A private charitable funder for charities operating and benefitting people living in Scotland. As part of their wider social commitment the Cruden Foundation believes in re-investing for all of our futures. The Board meets three times a year (normally November, February and June).
  • Status:  Open

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ArtRoots Small Grants for Community Led Projects on the National Cycle Network
A community fund for art projects along traffic-free National Cycle Network routes in Scotland. Now closed to applications, reopening in spring 2025. 
  • Status:  Closed

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The Delamere Dairy Foundation
Open to charities and other organisations in England, Scotland and Wales whose work benefits local communities and whose purpose fits with one or more of the Foundation’s objects (including advancement in life of young people by developing their capabilities).
  • Status:  Recurring

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