The PPL Momentum Music Fund offers grants of £5k-£15k for UK based artists/bands to break through to the next level of their careers. Activities eligible for support include recording, touring and marketing.
Previous recipients include Little Simz, Sam Fender, Kae Tempest, Knucks, Hannah Peel, Big Joanie, Shygirl, Anna Meredith, K-Trap and many more.
This fund has 4 openings throughout the year. The first open call deadline is 3 February 2025 at 6pm.
The Tune into Nature prize is open for musicians aged 18-30 whose work demonstrates a true collaboration with nature.
The Nature Connectedness Research Group at the University of Derby has teamed up with Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Conservation Foundation, EarthPercent and Sounds Right to recognise the value of nature. They are offering a £500 prize for original music that celebrates, collaborates and connects with nature.
Factory Sounds is an annual programme designed to support and raise the profile of the music industry in Greater Manchester.
Do you need help to make or complete a recording? Perhaps you’re a label wanting to promote some new releases or you’re looking for support to present a gig or live event. Perhaps a little financial support will go a long way towards giving you the headspace to make new music. Or maybe you just want to buy some equipment. Factory Sounds can provide the support you need.
Successful applicant wills receive:
– Peer to peer support through regular meetings with the Factory Sounds cohort and specialist members of the Factory International team, who will help support your artistic development
– Three mentorship sessions with an industry member
– £1000 to support your creative development
– Tailored workshops and other creative opportunities
– Access to a bespoke space for developing music
– The opportunity to perform in the Social as part of our public programme
In Motion is an artist development programme that supports any composers working with music and sound in the UK. Anyone who creates new work using music or sound is eligible, whether you perform it yourself or write for others — and whether you work with software, use notation, improvise, or in other ways.
Selected artists will receive:
The Youth Music Trailblazer fund offers grants of £2,000 to £30,000 to organisations in England to run projects for children and young people (25 or under) to make, learn and earn in music. The project should trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three!).
Your work must meet one of their themes:
Trailblazer Round 8
Deadline: 22 November 2024
Notification: 21 March 2025
For projects starting between: April and June 2025
The GMCA Inspire Fund provides grants of £500 – £2,000 for freelance and independent artists, and small organisations across Greater Manchester.
You may be a musician who would benefit from a new instrument, a small group who needs funds to expand your wardrobe or replace costumes, or a freelance artist who wishes to upskill via a training course.
The GMCA Culture Fund: Inspire is designed to support Greater Manchester-based:
The annual Creative Access Career Development Bursary is now open for applications, aiming to reduce financial barriers artists face while advancing their careers in the creative economy.
This bursary supports talent from under-represented communities looking to start or grow their creative careers. It covers essential career development costs, including:
It does not cover academic courses, debts, employer-paid costs, or past expenses.
Eligibility: Applicants must be 18+, eligible to work in the UK, and have a UK bank account. They must also:
Further details are available on the Creative Access FAQs page.
What is Changing Gear?
Changing Gear is YSWN’s new programme offering emerging music creators based in Yorkshire and the Humber commissions, equipment and support to develop and perform exciting new works.
In the first year, three women and minority gender creators working across a range of genres will be selected to compose and perform new music inspired by electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of her birth in 2025.
What support is offered?
If selected, you will receive a fee of £1,400 for your participation in the programme – including time developing, composing and performing your piece, as well as receiving mentoring. Accommodation and travel costs may also be covered where needed for two performance dates.
What is involved?
If you are selected, you will be commissioned to create a new piece of electronic (or primarily electronic but featuring vocals and/or other instruments) music that takes inspiration from the life, work and legacy of Daphne Oram. This might involve exploring the sonic technology that she used and developed, her achievements with the BBC Radiophonic workshop and as a solo composer, her ideas around how humans interact with sound – or any other angle that sparks your creativity.
We have partnered with the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and each creator will be invited to discover items in the collections relating to sound technology which could be used as a source of inspiration (although as they are museum objects you won’t be able to actually play them). We will also offer an opportunity to access and experiment with vintage sound equipment – for example analogue synthesisers, tape machines and effects units – and are excited to see how kit from decades past might interact with your present-day artistic voice.
We picture the new work being around 10-20 minutes in length (or in total, if made up of shorter parts or songs). You will perform the new work twice in spring 2025: first at an event at the National Science and Media Museum after it has opened following refurbishment and coinciding with the Bradford City of Culture 2025 programme, and then at an event in the Calder Valley which will coincide with a tour date for the Oram Awards’ own celebrations of Daphne Oram’s centenary.
Amplify is a talent development programme for early to mid-career musicians and people working in the music sector in the Bradford district.
Through Amplify, successful applicants will receive:
Through this programme, Amplify aim to:
This programme is generously supported by the PRS Foundation and PPL Talent Development Network.
Jazz North’s latest support scheme welcomes applications from grassroots and independent promoters working in jazz. The bursaries will support fees and costs for northern emerging artists and support acts.
New Northern is Jazz North’s promoter bursary to support live emerging talent. It supports promoters to programme emerging northern artists by underwriting risk and helping pay essential costs.
Designed both to support emerging artists in the north and give an injection of cash to promoters who need it, this easy-access scheme offers a quick intervention to northern grassroots promoters facing difficult financial circumstances.
Ni Maxine, on behalf of Wombat Jazz Club:
“As an early-career promoter with artist experience at the heart, producing grassroots events, receiving this support not only gave us the confidence that we were doing something right, but also opened us up to new audiences and a network of similar promoters, which has been really insightful.“
New Northern is open for applications until midday on Monday 2nd September.
Interested applicants can sign up to an ‘Applying to New Northern’ workshop on Tuesday 6th August, 4.30-5.30PM or receive the video recording.