Sound and Music - Essentials Fund 2024

The Essentials Fund is a small grant of between £250-£400 to support your work through paying for self-learning projects, equipment, mentoring, and other direct costs for a project or to support your artistic development in other ways. Sound and Music will be running a number of rounds every year.

Below is an example, not an exhaustive list, of the types of activities this Fund can support:  

- an online course

- a programme of coaching or mentoring sessions

- acquiring and learning new software or hardware packages

- acquiring technical equipment integral to the creation of a specified new work or livestreaming opportunity (e.g., LED lighting panels or camera)

- a self-directed composition project that would benefit from a period of rehearsal, workshopping or collaboration with musician(s), - ensemble or other artistic collaborator (e.g., visual artist, other performing artist)  

- undertaking a recording of existing work with one or more musicians

The Essentials Fund is open to any composer, music creator or artist working creatively with music and sound. To be eligible you must:

- Be based in the UK

- Be aged 18 or over

- Not be in full or part-time education (in any subject) at the point of applying

- Not be on one of our artist-development programmes (New Voices, Seed Award, In Motion, In the Making, or an active commission) at the time of applying

- Not have received one of our grants, commissions, awards, or participated on an artist development programme by Sound and Music in the last six months

Learn more about the Sound and Music Essentials Fund here.

Apply for the Sound and music Essentials Fund here.

Deadline for the fund is: Thursday 7 November 2024 at 23:59 GMT