Music for All (Round 4, 2024) - Community Projects

Funding Round 4 offers grant awards in five areas for community groups/projects:

1) Learning and cognitive challenges

This award is for community-based groups providing opportunities to make music to those with learning and cognitive challenges. These include but are not limited to autism, aphasia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, attention deficit and memory loss. A grant of up to £2000 is available for this award. We welcome applications from groups operating in caring and educational settings. Applicants should be mindful that our assessors will be looking for applications which demonstrate ways in which the individuals you are working with will be engaging with music-making, as opposed to experiencing others' performances.  

2) For groups working with those facing financial hardship

This award is open to community group applicants, providing music-making opportunities to those facing financial hardship of any age group and background. A grant of up to £2000 is available for this award.  Applicants should be able to demonstrate ways in which they nurture musical talent through their work. We would welcome applications from traditionally underrepresented groups here. Financial hardship is defined as significant difficulty or inability to meet cost of living payment from disposable income.  

3) Working with children in early years age group 0-4

This award is open to community group applicants, providing music-making opportunities to young-people aged between 0-4. We welcome applications from groups operating in caring as well as more formal educational settings. A grant of up to £2000 is available for this award.  Applicants should be able to demonstrate ways in which they nurture underprivileged young talent through their work.
 

4) Physical mobility or accessibility needs

This award is open to community groups providing music making opportunities to those with physical mobility, coordination and/or accessibility needs. Applicants for this award will need to demonstrate how music is used within their project work and where possible, be able to illustrate previous examples of their work as well as illustrate how funds will be used to remove barriers to support music-making for the group.

5) Choral Groups

This award is for community-based groups providing choral singing opportunities. We welcome applications from groups operating in caring, community and formal educational settings. A grant of up to £2000 is available for this award.  Applicants should be able to demonstrate ways in which they nurture underprivileged individuals through their choral singing work.   

Please read the eligibility criteria and instructions carefully before applying. Applications (and witness statement forms) should be received by no later than 8am on Monday 13 January 2025.

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