ELEV8 Project open for applications
ELEV8 is the launchpad for emerging Welsh MOBO artists aged 18-25. Push your sound to the next level, gain industry insights, and join a creative community that supports your journey.
Deadline: 19th January 2026
Music Theatre Wales - Street Art Opera Call Out
MTW is inviting Welsh artists, and artists developing their practice in Wales, to pitch bold ideas for two brand-new Street Art Operas for public showings in Autumn 2026.
Deadline: 30th January 2026
ALLBWN / OUTPUT Scheme now open
Cardiff’s music scene is set to get another boost in 2026 as Cardiff Council’s ALLBWN / OUTPUT funding scheme returns, following a successful pilot earlier this year, with an expanded remit to support new and emerging electronic artists and DJs, as well as gigs.
Deadline: Friday 6th February 2026
Chapter - Neo Soul Jazz Jams
Calling all musicians, vocalists, producers, and music lovers!
Experience the ultimate Neo Soul Jazz Jam, where creativity and improvisation come alive. Join Chapter, every fourth Sunday of the month for a night of music, connection, and collaboration in the heart of Cardiff.
Whether you're jamming, networking, or soaking up the vibes, this is where Cardiff’s music scene thrives.
Deadline: 26 January 2025 — 23 August 2026
Sound Progression - Open Access Sessions
FREE Open Access Sessions for musicians aged 14-25! Whether you're polishing your sound, jamming with your crew, or looking to lay down your tracks, this is your chance to take your music to the next level.
Deadline: Regular Sessions
New Era Talent
New Era Talent is based in Cardiff and supports artists with mentoring & support providing safe spaces in studios & workshops to develop as artists.
Deadline: Regular Sessions
Open Jam Nights - The Foundry Brecon
Are you a musician in the Bannau Brycheiniog? Every Thursday night The Foundry Brecon host their Open Mic and Jam night.
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
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
Help Musicians - UK Rap Award with Tiffany Calver
12-month career accelerator for musicians creating UK Rap music
Deadline: 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
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 closed.
Deadline: Currently Closed - Next applications autumn 2026
Beacons Cymru Birthplace Fund
In aim of supporting the current and next generation of original music-makers across Wales, The Birthplace Fund offers grants of up to £2,500 each, to ten successful applicants.
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
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 - 2026
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.
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
Ivors Academy - CO-PILOT: THE MUSICIANS’ MENTORING NETWORK
Ivors Academy Co-Pilot: the Musicians’ Mentoring Network empowers songwriters, composers and musicians to develop their careers with support from an experienced mentor.
Deadline: Rolling deadlines
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
Composition: Wales 2026
BBC National Orchestra of Wales is passionate about supporting and showcasing the work and talent of Composers across Wales. Composition: Wales offers the opportunity to a selection of composers to have their music workshopped, performed and recorded by BBC NOW at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff Bay.
Deadline: Currently Closed / Concert in February 2026
Glastonbury - Emerging Talent Competition
Glastonbury Festival are pleased to announce details of our 2025 Emerging Talent Competition, which is once again supported by PRS for Music and PRS Foundation.
The competition gives new UK and Ireland-based acts of any musical genre the chance to compete for a slot on one of the main stages at this year’s Festival.
Deadline: Currently Closed