Grant Funding: The Open Fund for Music Creators is Awarding Up To £5,000

The Open Fund for Music Creators

The Open Fund for Music Creators supports the development of outstanding music creators of all genres and backgrounds at different stages of their career with grants of up to £5000.

Previous recipients include Young Fathers, Afrodeutsche, Jasdeep Singh and Ruth Lyon

In order to be eligible Music Creators’ projects must fulfil all three of their funding priorities:

• To support the creation, performance and promotion of outstanding new music in any genre

They are particularly interested in the quality of the music

• To enable the UK’s most talented music creators to realise their potential

They are interested in how your project will develop the music creators involved. You will need to tell them why this particular activity is so crucial to your creative or professional development. If you are a small performance group commissioning others, you will need to explain why your project is so important to the music creators you are working with. They are committed to supporting UK based songwriters and composers of all backgrounds

• To reach audiences

You will be asked to outline who you are reaching and how this will benefit the music creators in your application. This includes audiences at a local, regional, national or international level

Eligibility

• Be based in the UK, applications can be made on behalf of UK based music creators by their representatives such as a manager, record label, publisher etc.
• Aged 18 or over, unless represented by an adult with a valid DBS check
• Applicants must have a track record of over 18 months
• Music Creators can not be previous recipients of The PPL Momentum Fund, The Writer Producer Fund, Hitmaker or The Composers Fund
• Music Creators not signed to major record label
• Music Creators cannot be in full-time education, unless an exception is made by the Grants Team
• Music Creators must either be a member of PRS or in a position to join.

Deadline: 29 September
Grants/Funds up to: £5,000
How to apply: https://prsfoundation.com/the-open-fund-for-music-creators-guidance-faqs/