Sound and Music - Essentials Fund
The Sound and Music Essentials Fund is a new grant scheme open to any composers, music creators or artists working creatively with music and sound, to purchase essentials for their practice.
Deadline: Next Deadline - Monday 8th December 2025
Help Musicians - UK Rap Award with Tiffany Calver
12-month career accelerator for musicians creating UK Rap music
Deadline: Friday 2nd January 2026
Help Musicians - Fast Track Awards
If you're a working musician, Fast Track is a flexible fund designed to support you in developing your career, and we are accepting applications now!
Support of up to £500 to help you seize an opportunity!
Deadline: Rolling Submission Deadlines
Help Musicians - Next Level Awards
If you’re a musician with a strong track record but lacking the resources to embark on larger and longer-term projects, then our Next Level award might help.
Deadline: Currently Closed
Help Musicians - Record and Release
Help Musicians can support you to create new music and share it with the world. Whether it’s studio time, mastering, or promotion around a release, we can help you to record and release your music.
Deadline: Rolling deadline
Help Musicians - MOBO Help Musicians Amplified
If you’re a musician creating music of Black origin and ready to take the next step in your career, MOBO Help Musicians Amplified could be for you.
Deadline: Currently Closed
Arts Council Wales - Creative Steps
The aim of this programme is to support individuals and organisations who have experienced barriers to accessing funding.
Deadline: Rolling deadline
PRS Foundation: International Showcase Fund
The International Showcase Fund (ISF) offers vital export support for UK-based artists, bands, songwriters and producers who have been invited to perform or create new music at international showcasing festivals or conferences.
Deadline: Rolling deadline
BBC Horizons Launchpad Fund
The Launchpad Fund aims to help talented artists or bands in Wales to further their music careers by providing them with vital access to finance. Eligible artists, bands or labels can apply.
Deadline: Next deadline - October 2026
Tŷ Cerdd Lottery Funding
Tŷ Cerdd distributes Lottery funds on behalf of Arts Council of Wales, to help organisations develop music-making of all genres in communities around Wales. Apply now for Create, Engage & Inspire strands.
Deadline: 5pm 21 January 2026
Youth Music - NextGen Fund
Applications open!
The Youth Music NextGen Fund offers young creatives grants of up to £3,000 to make their ideas happen.
It's open to 18–25-year-olds (and up to 30-year-olds who identify as d/Deaf, neurodivergent or Disabled) who live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
Youth Music want to support the future of the music industries. Singers, Rappers, Songwriters, Producers, DJs, A&Rs, Managers and Agents, right through to roles that have yet to be defined.
Deadline: Next deadline - Friday 6th February 2026
FAC - Step Up
The Step Up Fund provides financial support and a broader package of benefits for projects of up to ten upcoming artists.
Step Up aims to boost the development of talented artists, acknowledging the financial and structural challenges they face at this particular stage of their careers.
Deadline: Next Round in Spring 2026
PPL Wales Momentum Accelerator Fund
The PPL Momentum Accelerator Fund offers grants of up to £5k for Wales based artists/bands to break through to the next level of their careers.
Deadline: Currently Closed
Ballantine’s True Music Fund x shesaid.so
Do you have a dream music project that is stuck on pause & needs help?
Ballantine’s True Music Fund ‘25 powered by shesaid.so is here to unlock that part of you and help you push play.
Whatever your passion for music is… whether you want to start a club night or bring back a radio station, we want to help you make it happen. Any proposal is possible as long as you’re ‘Staying True’ to your calling.
Deadline: Open for applications
Sound & Music - In Motion
In Motion is a new up to 18-month artist-led programme, which will create a space for 10 composers to design and embark on their own creative and professional journey.
Deadline: Currently Closed
Saunders Lewis Memorial Fund
Are you passionate about Welsh literature, theatre, politics, drama, film, or fine arts?
Up to £10,000 over two years for individuals to study drama, film, political systems, literary/fine arts including music on the European continent, or research Saunders Lewis’s contribution to Welsh literature, theatre, or politics. Priority for applicants under 35. Applications close 30 June 2025. Interviews 12 July in Aberystwyth.
Deadline: Currently Closed
Finzi Trust Young Musicians Fund
The Young Musicians’ Fund is SOLELY for the benefit of individuals aged 25 and below who are in need of funds to further their participation in, study or practice of music.
Deadline: Deadlines for submission are 1 February and 1 September.