Surrey County Council currently spends £448,000 a year on "neighbourhood local prevention" projects - commissioning five youth organisations to deliver community youth work, mobile bus projects, and targeted group programmes across the county.
But the council has said it intends to decommission the grants, with funding set to cease on 31 August. The move will save the council £250,000 during 2017/18, rising to a cumulative total of £450,000 in 2018/19.
A report on the proposals states that the council set aside £8.1m for externally commissioned early help youth services in September 2014 to cover the five-year period from 2015 to 2020.
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