Deadline: 11-Apr-25
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.
The Youth Music Trailblazer fund offers grants to organisations who want to:
- Trial work or test a new way of working;
- Sustain a grassroots programme; or
- Disrupt the status quo.
Funding Information
- Amount: Grant sizes are between £2,000 and £30,000.
- Length: Projects last between 6 and 24 months.
Funding Themes
- Your work must meet one or more of the themes:
- Early years
- Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people
- Youth justice system
- Young people facing barriers
- Young adults
- Organisations and the workforce
Who can apply?
- 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.
- If your set-up date is less than one year before the application deadline, you can apply for a maximum of £15,000.
- 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); and
- 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
- Safeguarding is an essential part of your culture and ways of working, and you meet the minimum safeguarding standards
- You are committed to improving inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA) in your organisation (this includes youth voice and participation)
- You are keen to develop your organization.
For more information, visit Youth Music.