Deadline: 22-Nov-2024
The Youth Music Trailblazer fund offers grants to organisations in England to run projects for children and young people (25 or under) to make, learn and earn in music.
Youth Music believes that every young person should have the chance to change their life through music. Yet their research shows that many can’t because of who they are, where they’re from or what they’re going through.
Theme
- Your work must meet one of their themes:
- Early years
- Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people
- Youth justice system
- Young people facing barriers
- Young adults
- Organisations and the workforce
Funding Information
- Grant sizes are between £2,000 and £30,000.
- Length: Projects last between 6 and 24 months.
Eligible Costs
- Delivery costs
- Salaries or freelance fees of staff working directly on the project (e.g. Music Leaders, Youth Workers, Project Manager).
- Youth voice activities (e.g. consultation, youth forum etc.)
- Marketing.
- Planning and project management.
- Monitoring, reflection, and evaluation.
- Staff induction and training.
- Capital costs such as musical instruments, and computer equipment.
- Software.
- Room and venue hire.
- Food, travel, and other access related costs.
- You can include contingency costs of up to 10% of your Youth Music grant to cover unexpected events or activities.
- Core costs
- Salaries (staff who aren’t working directly on the project).
- Organisational development (e.g. to develop your approach to safeguarding; inclusion, diversity, equity and access; and/or environmental responsibility).
- Communications.
- Operations (rent and utilities).
- Governance (audit, legal advice, preparation of annual accounts).
- Income generation.
- Training.
- IT costs.
Target Organisations
- Small organisations who support children and young people to make, learn or earn in music.
- Those who work with children and young people facing barriers who want to trial a new music offer.
- Established organisations that want to test a new way of working or disrupt the status quo.
Eligibility Criteria
- You must be able to answer yes to all the statements in this section before you make an application.
- You are a constituted UK based organisation.
- Sole traders, and individuals, can’t apply to this fund.
- If you are a voluntary group not registered with Companies House or the Charity Commission, you must have a constitution and management committee.
- You must be legally constituted before you submit your application.
- You are not a school or academy.
- Schools and academies can’t apply to this fund. This includes primary, secondary, PRUs, and special schools.
- You have a bank account in the name of the organisation.
- They can only pay grants into the bank account of the organisation that submitted the application. You’ll need to give evidence of this if you’re offered a grant.
- You have a set of recent accounts.
- They expect to see accounts that:
- Show your total income and expenditure for the last financial year (often called a profit and loss or a statement of financial activities).
- A summary of your assets and liabilities at the end of the year (often called a balance sheet).
- These should be less than 18 months old.
- You’ll need to upload these with your application.
- They expect to see accounts that:
- You have the correct insurance in place and comply with all relevant statutory legislation.
- Correct insurance includes employers’ and public liability as a minimum. Copies of your insurance must be available on request.
- Statutory legislation includes things such as company and charity law, the Data Protection Act, and the Equality Act.
For more information, visit Youth Music.
