We are proud members of PRS Foundation, Talent Development Network (TDN) 2025. One of the many ways we are using this support is to produce a regular news item for UK music creators specifically designed to signpost the most significant national and international opportunities.
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BURSARY & GRANTS
Deadline: May 12, 2025.
The PPL Momentum Music Fund offers grants of £5k-£15k for UK based artists/bands to break through to the next level of their careers. Activities eligible for support include recording, touring and marketing. Previous recipients include Big Joanie and Little Simz.
PRS: Early Career Promoter Fund
Deadline: May 15, 2025.
Grants of up to £3,500 for independent promotors to support with –
- The booking, programming and promotion of gigs, concerts, club nights, showcases, tours
- Costs associated with those activities (eg venue hire, production, artist and/or DJ fees)
- Capacity building (including mentoring, coaching, shadowing, workshops etc)
- Other expenditure
Arts Council: Developing your Creative Practice
Deadline: May 22, 2025.
£2,000-£12,000
Supporting individual creative and cultural practitioners to focus on their development and take them to the next stage of their practice.
- building new networks
- experimenting with new collaborators or partners
- international travel to explore your practice
- professional development activities, such as training or working with mentors
- research and development time to explore your practice and take risks
PRS Foundation: The Open Fund for Music Creators
Deadline: September 1, 2025.
Supporting the development of music creators with grants of up to £5000.
Projects must fulfill all of the following: support the creation, performance and promotion of outstanding new music in any genre, enable the UK’s most talented music creators to realise their potential and reach audiences.
The White Pube: The Creatives Grant
Monthly.
One-off £500 grant to be given out to a different working class creative practitioner based in the UK once every month.
To support creatives of all ages who are early in their careers and would benefit from this no-strings attached financial support to help them in whatever they like – be that money to cover time to make, or money to fund materials, equipment, research, subscriptions, development, travel, or even rent and bills.
The grant is open to anybody who makes stuff, this can be art, writing, performance, sound, music, craft, comedy, games etc
Creative Debuts: Black Artists Grant
Monthly.
One-off £500 grant to be given to black artists every month.
A no-strings attached grant for black artists to be spent making new work, buying equipment or materials, travel, research, visiting exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses.
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
Deadline: April 28, 2025.
A 3 year programme that aims to promote bold cross-genre collaborations and break down the barriers that women face in creating innovative, genre-defying music.
- Working with Girl Grind UK and Women in Jazz to provide performance platforms for women.
- Provide work placement opportunities for women in technical and production
- Provide 6 open workshops for women wishing to pursue careers in the music industry, based on general themes of: self-employment; self-promotion & contracts; events management; how to make venue spaces (performance, recording, practice, etc) as safe as possible
- To create a network of women who will encourage, inspire & support each other.
Sound and Music: In the Making
Deadline: May 5, 2025.
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.
The programme brings together 50 young music creators from across the UK for a week-long residential at the University of Huddersfield where they will create, record and perform their own original new music and access a wealth of workshops, learning sessions and career development.
They are guided by artists, top composers, industry professionals and tutors throughout the week and then during their subsequent 12-month virtual journey, transforming their composing and performing skills while building their confidence, experience, and creative ambition.
Means-tested bursaries are available, which can cover up to 100% of the fee and in some cases can also contribute to travel costs.
Diaphonique – Franco – British – Irish Fund for Contemporary Music
Deadline: May 15, 2025.
Franco-British-Irish fund for classical and contemporary music, is pleased to announce the opening of its 2025 call for projects. Diaphonique supports artistic collaborations between France, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, helping musicians, composers, and institutions bring ambitious joint projects to life.
Open to ensembles, institutions, and creators wishing to develop original projects between the three countries. It aims to encourage contemporary creation, the dissemination of repertoire, and the establishment of long-term partnerships in classical and contemporary music.
China Plate: The Optimists Summer Course 2025
Deadline: May 23, 2025.
Unique training opportunity for emerging artists, creative practitioners or aspiring producers hoping to develop your professional producing skills in the subsidised arts sector.
Drawing on China Plate’s extensive experience and real examples in theatre producing, the training course provides knowledge and insight on the practicalities of making, funding, touring, and promoting your work.
Sessions will take place in-person between 14 June and 2 August at venues across the West Midlands.
Bursaries are available, covering the full cost of the course.
Culture Central – Various Programmes
INCLUDING:
- Inclusive Network – unites trailblazers, leaders, and creative activists to support, empower, and provide opportunities for traditionally excluded groups within the creative workforce.
- West Midlands Cultural Response Unit 2025/26 – WMCRU meetings will explore key strategic challenges and opportunities that affect the sector and the region. It is aimed at those leading strategic activity in their organisations or networks.
- Grow – a mentoring scheme that works across art forms, skills and experience levels.
- Collective – Culture Central x people make it work x Collective is a three year leadership programme for those traditionally excluded from senior roles in the cultural sector.
