Youth Music - NextGen Fund 2025
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: 5pm Friday, 7th February, 2025
Britten Pears - Young Artist Programme
Applications for the 2025–26 Young Artist Programme are now open!
Britten Pears continues to offer early career professional musicians high-level performance training from some of the world’s finest performers, teachers and creatives. The programme takes place through courses and residencies at our creative campus, set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in rural Suffolk.
Deadline: 1pm, Monday 17th February, 2025
Community Music Wales - From Silence to Sound: Creating Your Own Soundscape
Join Living Levels and Community Music Wales for an online talk as part of our Sound Levels x Aber i Aber series, to explore the fascinating world of soundscapes.
The word "Aber" refers to culturally significant areas in Wales where water meets land, and this project invites local communities to creatively share their experiences of living near estuaries on the Welsh coastline, including Mor Hafren.
Deadline: 6:30pm - 7:45pm, Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Help Musicians - Next Level Award
Designed to support musicians ready to pursue a career-changing opportunity
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: Friday 28 February 2025, 5pm
Ysgol Roc Pesda
Do you Sing, play Guitar, Bass, Piano or Drums?
Would you like the opportunity to play in a band and meet other young musicians in your area? Join our ‘Rock School’ in Neuadd Ogwen and learn with a team of professional musicians
Deadline: 16 / 01 / 2025 - 13 / 03 / 2025
Immersed Skills Development Programme
Get immersed in this training programme this March!
Creative Wales, Immersed Festival and University of South Wales present a series of free workshops delivered by experts to support the live event sector in Wales.
Deadline: Thursday 6th March - Saturday 29th March 2025
Community Music Wales - Music & Mental Health Course
Join Community Music Wales in a Mental Health Settings Tutor Training Course!
This comprehensive training course is designed to equip you with the skills to be able to deliver music sessions that benefit communities.
Deadline: March 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th, 19th & 20th, 2025
Rest Salon
An online space for Black Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent professional and music creatives
Deadline: 26/03/25
YMa - Ransack Music Club
Come along to these fun and engaging music sessions with Dan and Maddie.
Learn how to play, write and get creative and develop your skills with opportunities to join the Ransack Summer School
This is an inclusive club - all abilities welcome!
Starting back on Wednesday, January 15th
- Age 8 - 10 years - 4:00 - 5:00pm
- Age 11-16 years - 5:00 - 6:00pm
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
Ukulele with Mei Gwynedd
Ukulele with Mei Gwynedd - 10 week course at Chapter, Cardiff
Deadline: Regular Sessions
UPLIFT SINGING SESSION
Weekly community well-being singing sessions based in Brecon.
Deadline: Weekly event
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 - Touring and Live
Support towards taking your performance to the stage and bringing it on tour.
Deadline: Rolling Deadline
Help Musicians - Skills and professional development
Support to grow through training, mentorship or other learning opportunities.
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
Escape Records: Opportunities
Escape Records have a whole range of job opportunities available.
Deadline: Rolling deadline
Welsh National Opera: Work Experience
Each year WNO offers work experience, placements and shadowing opportunities in different departments across the organisation dependent on availability and company schedules.
Deadline: Rolling deadline
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
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