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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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The Lintel Trust Small Grant Programme
The Lintel Trust Small Grant Programme
Provides support for projects helping people to maintain their tenancies, improve their lives and engage and participate fully in community life. The next round is due to open on 7th January.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Gambling Education & Prevention
Groups of young people aged 12 – 25 in youth groups across Scotland have can apply for a micro grant to turn their ideas into action and create their own gambling education project. Project examples include: social media campaigns, digital board games, and awareness-raising videos or podcasts. No deadline - apply any time.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Corra Foundation Boost Fund
The Boost Fund is for community-led organisations across Scotland supporting local people affected by poverty or disadvantage. It's all about boosting community-led efforts, to ensure people with ideas for positive change are supported.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Aldi - Scottish Sport Fund
The Aldi Scottish Sport fund is a Scotland-wide community-based sport programme designed to make it easier for children and young people to take part in sports within their local communities by giving clubs the chance to secure funding. Each region has a different deadline. 
  • Status:  Recurring

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Culture and Business Scotland
The C&BS Fund enables culture and business organisations to come together and build effective, sustainable partnerships, bringing creative projects – large and small – vividly to life.
  • Status:  Open

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Leathersellers' Company ACEs Main Grants Programme
Leathersellers' Company Main Grants Programme are now open to receive expressions of interest from charities with the core focus of preventing or tackling the occurrence of and/or reduce the likelihood of long-term negative consequences of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). This programme will reopen in 2026.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Volunteering Matters - Action Earth Awards
In 2025, Volunteering Matters Action Earth will offer grants to help urban communities to respond to our nature and climate crises. These nature grants support volunteers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities in practical outdoor activities in Scotland’s cities, towns and villages. Projects must complete and submit feedback by 28th February 2026.
  • Status:  Recurring

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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. Due to open for applications on 19th September.
  • Status:  Recurring

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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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