Deadline: 31-Jul-2025
The Radcliffe Trust’s Music Grant Programme offers support for classical music performance and training, with a focus on chamber music, composition, and music education.
Within music education, the programme has particular interest in supporting children and adults with special needs, youth orchestras, and initiatives at the secondary and higher education levels, including academic research.
Grants typically range from £2,500 to £5,000. Funding must be used for a specific project rather than general appeals or endowment funds.
To be eligible, applicants must represent a UK-based charity, not-for-profit, or exempt organisation. Applications must be for a defined project. Bursaries and support fees are usually paid directly to the training provider. Applicants who have previously received funding must wait at least a year before applying again. If an organisation has received three years of funding (not necessarily consecutively), it must observe a one-year break before reapplying.
Applications are reviewed under eight categories: composition and contemporary music (composer must be named for commissions), bursaries for UK-based students attending courses or summer schools, music therapy or special needs projects, academic research, youth orchestras, performance projects, educational projects (not including individual mainstream primary and secondary schools), and miscellaneous.
Certain applications are not accepted. The Trust does not award retrospective grants for projects that begin before the trustee meeting. It does not fund general appeals or endowments, and applications from individuals are ineligible. Multi-year grants are generally not offered, except in rare cases.
For more information, visit The Radcliffe Trust.
