Deadline: 13-Jan-2025
Music for All is pleased to announce the Round 4 of the Community Projects Grant Programme.
Areas
Funding Round 4 offers instrument awards in five areas for community groups/projects:
- Learning and cognitive challenges
- This award is for community-based groups providing opportunities to make music to those with learning and cognitive challenges. These include but are not limited to autism, aphasia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, attention deficit and memory loss. They welcome applications from groups operating in caring and educational settings.
- Applicants should be mindful that the assessors will be looking for applications which demonstrate ways in which the individuals you are working with will be engaging with music-making, as opposed to experiencing others’ performances.
- For groups working with those facing financial hardship
- This award is open to community group applicants, providing music-making opportunities to those facing financial hardship of any age group and background. Applicants should be able to demonstrate ways in which they nurture musical talent through their work.
- Would welcome applications from traditionally underrepresented groups here. Financial hardship is defined as significant difficulty or inability to meet cost of living payment from disposable income.
- Working with children in early years age group 0-4
- This award is open to community group applicants, providing music-making opportunities to young-people aged between 0-4. They welcome applications from groups operating in caring as well as more formal educational settings.
- Applicants should be able to demonstrate ways in which they nurture underprivileged young talent through their work.
- Physical mobility or accessibility needs
- This award is open to community groups providing music making opportunities to those with physical mobility, coordination and/or accessibility needs.
- Applicants for this award will need to demonstrate how music is used within their project work and where possible, be able to illustrate previous examples of their work as well as illustrate how funds will be used to remove barriers to support music-making for the group.
- This award is for community-based groups providing choral singing opportunities. They welcome applications from groups operating in caring, community and formal educational settings.
- Applicants should be able to demonstrate ways in which they nurture underprivileged individuals through their choral singing work.
Funding Information
- Learning and cognitive challenges
- A grant of up to £2000 is available for this award.
- For groups working with those facing financial hardship
- A grant of up to £2000 is available for this award.
- Working with children in early years age group 0-4
- A grant of up to £2000 is available for this award.
- Physical mobility or accessibility needs
- A grant of up to £2000 is available for this award.
Eligibility Criteria
- They only support applications within the UK
- You are not eligible to apply if you are only in the UK for study purposes
- You will require the support of an independent referee
- They do not fund retrospectively
- They prioritise applications to those most in need
- You will receive notification approximately three months after receipt of application
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