PRS Foundation - Keychange Leadership Programme
Do you love to inspire change and guide others towards a better future?
The Keychange Talent Leadership Programme (TLP) is a six-month training for women and gender-diverse individuals ready to lead change in the music industry. This programme equips future leaders with the tools to drive diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility (DIEA). Through workshops, mentoring, and hands-on projects, participants gain practical skills, fresh insights, and the confidence to inspire change locally and globally.
Deadline: 10pm 12th November 2025
Forté Project
Do you create original music in Wales? Are you aged between 16-30? Are you looking to develop yourself as an artist or band?
Applications for Forté Project are now OPEN.
Deadline: 1st December 2025 11:59pm
Help Musicians - UK Rap Award with Tiffany Calver
12-month career accelerator for musicians creating UK Rap music
Deadline: Friday 2nd January 2026
Tape Music - Sound Waves
Dive into the world of sound with “Sound Waves” - a FREE music and audio project tailored for young talents aged 8-18!
Deadline: Regular Sessions
UPLIFT SINGING SESSION
Weekly community well-being singing sessions based in Brecon.
Deadline: Weekly event
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 - Support your studies
Receive financial support for your postgraduate or, in some cases, undergraduate studies.
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
Sound and Music - In the Making
In the Making is the UK's only year-long artist development programme for talented young music creators and composers aged 14–18. It supports those passionate about making music in any form and is open to all, regardless of instrument, musical interests, creative goals, background, or location.
Deadline: Next Round in 2026
Help Musicians - MOBO Fund
Support towards creating and promoting music of Black origin. You can apply for up to £3,000 towards recording music, and everything that goes around getting it out there into the world.
Deadline: Rolling Deadline
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 - September 2025
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
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 Round in 2026
RPS Thea Musgrave Grants for Composition and Performance
The Royal Philharmonic Society is offering two Thea Musgrave Grants - one for composition and one for performance.
Deadline: Currently Closed
Escape Records: Opportunities
Escape Records have a whole range of job opportunities available.
Deadline: Rolling deadline
How to prioritise self-care when working in music
Free, guided self-care sessions to provide techniques to help with challenging times.
Deadline: Regular Sessions
Night Out - Performance Opportunities
Night Out works across Wales with community volunteer promoters in village halls, community venues and a few small unfunded theatres.
Deadline: Rolling Deadline
Sound Progression
Sound Progression offers mostly free of charge programmes for young people to develop their musical skills.
Deadline: Regular Sessions