Youth Music Trailblazer Fund
Deadline for applications: 20/11/2026
Amount available
£30,000.00
Criteria
The Youth Music Trailblazer fund offers grants to organisations in England to run projects for children and young people (25 or under) to make, learn and earn in music.
The project should trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three!).
Your work must meet one of Youth Music’s themes:
- Early years
- Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people
- Youth justice system
- Young people facing barriers
- Young adults
- Organisations and the workforce.
A Trailblazer project could be:
- A new CIC testing out different ways of supporting nurseries to embed music-making into their day-to-day activities.
- A small grassroots music organisation that wants to sustain a successful programme of music-making.
- A Music Education Hub that wants to disrupt the status quo of their local music scene by setting up a Youth Board that has budget & power to make decisions about how the hub is run.
- An established youth centre trialling a programme of music activities for the first time
Grant amount: between £2,000 and £30,000
Deadline(s): Round 12 opens 13 March, closes 10 April 2026
Round 13 opens 31 July, closes 28 August 2026
Round 14 opens 23 October, closes 20 November 2026
