Youth Music Trailblazer Grants – Test, Sustain and Disrupt

The Youth Music Trailblazer fundoffers 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 our themes:

• Early years
• Youth justice system
• 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

Trailblazer Round 13

Round Opens:31 July 2026Deadline:28 August 2026, 5pmNotification:11 December 2026For projects starting between:January and March 2027

Trailblazer Round 14

Round Opens:23 October 2026Deadline:20 November 2026, 5pmNotification:19 March 2027For projects starting between:April and June 2027All deadlines are 5pm.

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