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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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Volunteering Matters - Action Earth Awards
In 2024, Volunteering Matters Action Earth will be offering grants to help urban communities to respond to our nature and climate crises. Projects must be completed by January 31st 2025.
  • Status:  Closed

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Tesco Stronger Starts Grants
Stronger Starts supports thousands of local community projects and good causes across the UK. The scheme is open to all schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, with priority given to projects that provide food and support to young people. It provides grants of up to £1500 to local projects from across the whole of Scotland.
  • Status:  Open

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The Alec Dickson Trust
The Alec Dickson Trust
The Trust supports young people who are able to demonstrate that through volunteering or community service they can enhance the lives of others, particularly those most marginalised by society. They especially welcome the opportunity to support innovative projects.
  • Status:  Recurring

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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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Rural Action Fund
The Youth Scotland Rural Action Fund is a micro-grant fund supported by The Gannochy Trust. This fund was created in response to the challenges which rural youth groups are facing in funding the delivery of community-based universal youth work. It will make small awards to enable youth groups operating in rural communities to provide more and/or better youth work opportunities for young people.
  • 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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King Charles III Charitable Fund - Small Grants
The Fund considers small grant applications from UK registered non-profit organisations supporting grassroots projects in diverse and deprived communities. They will open in August for applications from organisations working across the education and heritage and conservation funding themes. 
  • Status:  Recurring

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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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Corra Foundation: The Way Forward for Families Partnership
Funding to support projects that children, young people and families help to design. It is open to partnerships, led by third sector organisations, and working to deliver Whole Family Approaches and #ThePromise, to keep families safe, healthy and together.
  • Status:  Recurring

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