Arts Derbyshire

18.07.2025

Grant Funding: Youth Music Trailblazer Fund is Offering £2,000 – £30,000 for Charities and Organisations to Run Projects for Children to Make Learn and Earn in Music!

The Youth Music Trailblazer fund offers grants of £2,000 to £30,000 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 these 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

    Check out their Trailblazer Fund project examples for more information.

Trailblazer Round 10
Round Opens: 01 August 2025
Deadline:  5pm 29 August 2025
Notification:  12 December 2025
For projects starting between: January and March 2026

Trailblazer Round 11
Round Opens: 24 October 2025
Deadline:  5pm 21 November 2025
Notification:  20 March 2026
For projects starting between: April and June 2026

Deadline: 29 August and 21 November

Grants/Funds up to: £30,000

How to apply: https://www.youthmusic.org.uk/funding/i-need-funding/trailblazer-fund

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