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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

Difftonez

 FREE Sunday Sessions exclusively for bands 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

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

Come Play At CWRW - Carmathen

Host your own event for free at CWRW.

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

BBC Music Introducing...

Making music? Get yourself heard on the BBC.

Deadline: Rolling Deadline

Sound Progression

Sound Progression offers mostly free of charge programmes for young people to develop their musical skills.

Deadline: Regular Sessions