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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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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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The Ethnic Minority Development Fund
Organisations can apply for between £500-£15,000 for their project idea which aims to bring ethnic minority people together and build strong relationships across communities and improve places/spaces that matter to ethnic minority communities. Organisations can apply for between £500-£15,000 for their project idea which aims to bring ethnic minority people together and build strong relationships across communities and improve places/spaces that matter to ethnic minority communities.
  • Status:  Recurring

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OneCity Trust Main Grant Funding Programme 2025
Supports activities which bring people who are impacted by poverty and social isolation together in ways which are creative, impactful and have the potential to have a lasting legacy. This programme is now closed and will reopen in 2026.
  • Status:  Recurring

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The Thomas Wall Trust
The Thomas Wall Trust
Grants to support individuals to undertake education and training, and charities to equip people with necessary skills to secure employment.
  • Status:  Recurring

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Creative Breaks Fund
Twelve-month grants for third sector organisations to develop and deliver short breaks projects and services for carers of adults (aged 21 years and over), and young carers (caring for children or adults), and the people that they care for. Creative Breaks opens each year for applications in April and closes on May
  • Status:  Recurring

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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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Peter Harrison Foundation - Active Lives
An independent grant-making foundation dedicated to empowering individuals with disabilities or significant disadvantages to reach their full potential.
  • Status:  Closed

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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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Hillcrest Foundation
The Foundation supports projects that help improve the lives of individuals and communities experiencing disadvantage all across Scotland. Their support can be split into three areas: reducing isolation, reducing inequalities, and improving health and wellbeing.
  • Status:  Closed

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