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The Youth Music NextGen Fund offers young creatives grants of up to £2,500 to make their ideas happen.


The NextGen Fund will help emerging musicians and behind the scenes creatives take a step forward in participating and changing the music industries. 


Built for creatives with a stack of ideas but a lack of finance, the fund is open to 18–25-year-olds (and under-30s who identify as Disabled). Successful applicants will use the money to launch a creative project, idea or business.


We want to support the future of the music industries. Singers, Rappers, Songwriters, Producers, DJs, A&Rs, Managers and Agents, right through to roles that have yet to be defined.


We would especially like to hear from people who have never applied for funding before.


Applicant Guidance


It is essential that you download and read the applicant guidance notes (below) before making your application.  
Guidance Document (PDF Doc)
Guidance Document (Word Doc) 


Application Form


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Application Deadlines


The application deadline for Round 2 is 17:00 on Monday 17 January 2022. Application deadlines are fixed. If your application is submitted after the deadline then it will be considered ineligible.


There will be future application rounds so if you aren’t ready to apply yet, or are trying to rush through your application to meet the deadline, it would be better to wait and give this your best shot. There will be two rounds in 2021 and three in 2022.


Technical issues


If you experience any technical problems with the form please get in touch by email at creatives@youthmusic.org.uk or phone us on 020 7902 1060.





Youth Music NextGen Fund has been made possible thanks to our principal partners TikTok and players of People’s Postcode Lottery, and support from Turtle Bay.

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Eligibility Check

In this section, we are checking to see if you're eligible to apply for the grant. You will only be able to move forward with the application once you have met the criteria.

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About You

Contact Details 







To be eligible you must be aged 18 to 25 at the point of the application deadline. If you identify as Disabled you can be aged 18 to 30.

To be eligible you must be aged 18 to 25 at the point of the application deadline. If you identify as Disabled you can be aged 18 to 30.

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This where you are based within the UK

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Your Work

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Funding



This does not include COVID Relief Funding

What you're doing now


About You and Your Project 

In this section, we want to learn more about you, your journey in music so far, and how you hope this funding will benefit you in your career goals. We recognise that people might want to communicate their ideas in different ways, so you can submit your answers using your preferred method out of the options below.

Overview



Please provide a rough estimate of when you plan to start your project.
It should be on or after May 2022. 

This should be no longer than 12 months after the start date.

Presentation and/or visual documents must not exceed 8 slides or 2 A4 pages and be within 1000 words. Video applications must not exceed 6 mins in total.
If you are uploading a file to answer these questions, please click 'Choose file' below (max. File Size 35MB):

Please use 'unlisted' rather than private YouTube links, and avoid using sites where download links will expire such as WeTransfer.

1. Tell us about the last year or two of your progression as an artist/professional (Max. 250 words)

Please include:

  • What you do and where you are in your career now. 
  • Why is now the right time for you to receive funding.
  • What you've already been doing to work towards your goal(s). We're most interested in what you've already made happen on your own.
  • Any challenges you're facing in your journey in music.

2. What you're going to do, and how you're going to do it. (Max. 500 words)

Please include:
  • A detailed plan of your project including timescales. Be specific and break it down - we want to know how you are going to deliver your project. You can upload a one page timeline or project plan to support this below.
  • We want to fund people who can deliver strong projects that are:
    - Interesting, innovative, or original (for you or your audience).
    - Realistic and deliverable within a year
    - Well planned, timelined and clearly budgeted


3. Tell us what you’d like to achieve over the next year through your project, and how the funding will make a difference (Max. 250 words) 


Please provide a list of up to 4 main goals you would like to achieve with this project.



The hard part's over now! Now we just need your budget, referee and some monitoring information.
Budget

Please detail what you’ll spend on your project. 

  • There is space for you to add each area or item of expenditure, as well as a description on each cost and any additional notes. Please see examples below.

  • Try and include as much detail as possible at this stage of your planning. Consider your network and reaching out to individuals that could support you in planning these costs. 

  • You can add a maximum of 10 budget lines. We expect you to have multiple lines so don't spend all your budget on one thing, e.g. all of your budget going towards social media ads.

  • Your total budget must be between £1000 - £2500 and there are some limits on how much you can spend on certain items. This is because we’d like you to focus the majority of your grant spend on your creative project and making something happen rather than only using it to buy things. 

    • Equipment - max £500 

    • Marketing - max £500

    • Training courses - max £200

    • Travel - max £200




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Hidden Amounts: Budget Categories
/*Admin instructions:*/
  1. Prefill the maximum allowances for each of the budget categories into the left hand column below.
  2. The validation will add up the total amount requested for each of the categories and enter this into the middle (total) field.
  3. If the amount requested is greater than the amount allowed for *any* of the categories, the validation will be triggered, the error message at the bottom of the page will be displayed and the form cannot be submitted. 













Please note:


Some category costs have limits, these are displayed below. Please adjust your costs before you can submit the application


Equipment - Cost should be below £500

Marketing - Cost should be below £500

Training - Costs should be below £200

Travel - Costs should be below £200

Hidden Amounts: Total Budget
/*Admin Instructions*/

Prefill the smallest and largest possible grant amounts into the boxes below. If the total amount requested falls outside this range, then the error message below will display and the form cannot be submitted. 



Your application must be for between £1000 and £2500.

Referee details

Please provide contact details for your referee. This should be a separate professional connection who knows you and your work as a creative. For example, someone you’ve worked with on a previous project or a Music Leader from a course or programme you’ve participated in. We will only contact them if your application is successful.






This must be your referee's email address not your own.

Declaration

By selecting the box below, you confirm that:


  1. You (the main contact named in this application form) have read the eligibility criteria and can confirm that you are eligible to apply to this Youth Music fund.
  2. You understand that if you make any seriously misleading statements (whether deliberate or accidental) at any stage during the application process, or knowingly withhold any information, this could make your application invalid and you could be liable to repay any funds to Youth Music.
  3. You commit to delivering the project described in the application form.
  4. You understand and accept Youth Music's obligations under the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts as set out in our policy and procedures: network.youthmusic.org.uk/Funding/policy-and-procedures.
  5. You will take all necessary and reasonable steps to provide a safe and secure place for anyone who takes part in your project.
  6. You confirm that the activities detailed in your budget are not already paid for by another funder.
  7. You are aware that Youth Music will use your personal information provided in this application to consider the application and, if successful, administer and monitor the grant, and in accordance with its ‘Grantholder and Applicant Privacy Notice’ which can be found here: network.youthmusic.org.uk/grantholder-applicant-privacy-notice.


We're interested in finding out if you have been involved in any of our work before applying to this fund. Your answers will not affect the outcome of your application.

Youth Music Funded Projects



Pre-application Support




Please note: Your application won't be affected by any support that you have or haven't received. 
Stay in touch with Youth Music
Youth Music would like to share with you more creative opportunities that are available for young people across the country. Opportunities can be accessed via our Opportunities board or from receiving our fortnightly NextGen newsletter.

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Equal Opportunities

The following equal opportunities monitoring questions are voluntary. We ask them across our application processes as a charity, including for jobs in our team, for Next Gen opportunities and for trustee recruitment. We do so because it's important that we understand who we're reaching, who is within the group that applies for funding and who is eventually funded. This helps us to make sure we consciously work to be equitable and representative in our approach and our funding decisions.

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Sexual Orientation


Age

Background
As part of our monitoring we ask about people’s social class background. We have based this question on some existing research about social class in the creative industries.  

Ethnicity


Religion and Beliefs


Disability
The Equality Act 2010 defines a person as disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment, which has substantial and long term (i.e. has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months) negative effect on their ability to carry out normal daily activities. 


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We'll be in touch in 8-12 weeks (depending on the volume of applications we receive) to let you know the outcome of your application. 

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