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Youth Music - Trailblazer Fund
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 for the first time, test a new way or working, or disrupt the status quo (or all three!).
Your work must meet one of our themes:
- Early years
- Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people
- Youth justice system
- Young people facing barriers
- Young adults
- Organisations and the workforce.
Please note the next Trailblazer Fund will open in November.
Enterprise Development Programme
The Enterprise Development Programme piloted in the homelessness and youth sector in 2018. Following great success, the equality and mental health sector joined the partnership in late 2019. The programme was expanded further in 2021 when the environmental and Black & Minoritised communities strands were added to the partnership.
Support from the programme enables organisations to grow financial resilience and impact by providing a mixture of grant and learning support to help get enterprise ideas off the ground.
Income from trading is vitally important to organisations. It generates unrestricted funding that can cover core costs and provides greater financial freedom and flexibility.
If accepted onto the programme, participating organisations work collaboratively with sector leads – the Association of Mental Health Providers, the Centre for Youth Impact, Equally Ours, Groundwork, Homeless Link and the Ubele Initiative – throughout the programme journey to best identify support needs (both learning and grants).
In the coming 12 months we will have multiple application windows for both the environmental and black and minoritized communities elements of the programme. Click here to view the application window for your sector.