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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation

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Application form

Grants for individuals over 18 to undertake studies or projects in connection with music

Size of Grants: £100 - £600 
Location: Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton	
Closing date: 26th October 2025
Eligible applicants: Individuals


The Dayas Music Scholarship fund was formed after Mrs Hayton (née Dayas), left a sum of money in her will to be used to create a music scholarship. 

Grants are to enable individuals over 18 years of age to undertake studies or projects in connection with composition, conducting, instrumental performance, singing, music in education and musicology. 

The Dayas fund offers grants of £100 - £600 for individuals living in Hampshire, Portsmouth or Southampton. For an exceptional project showing imagination, innovation and enterprise a special award may be offered up to twice the maximum award.

Thank you for submitting your application.

We already have an application from you for this programme. You may not apply more than once for the same programme.

If you believe you are seeing this message in error, please contact us.

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Programme Eligibility

Please read the following notes to see if you can apply for this fund.

Applications to this fund will need to meet the following criteria:

1) Individuals undertaking musical tuition, especially those providing a community benefit.  
2) Individuals must be living in Hampshire, Portsmouth or Southampton.
3) Individuals must be over 18 years of age.

Applications for studies or projects in pianoforte will be prioritised.

Applicants may only receive one grant in a 12 month period. Those awarded may not apply for a further award for 5 years.

Acceptable projects:
- Tuition costs for an individual which will allow them to progress their own music abilities.
- Tuition that will benefit a wider group, e.g. those performing in hospitals, schools or for other community events. 
- Grants can cover tuition for playing an instrument, singing, conducting or composition.
- Grants can cover any genre of music.
- Expenses associated with an individual’s music project, e.g. making a recording, hire of a performance venue.

I have read the information above and consider that this application fully meets the fund requirements.

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If you need help or want to talk to us about your application you can contact us on grantsadmin@hiwcf.com.

This form is automatically word count limited to help guide you to keep your answers focused; we are looking for your answers to be clear, honest and jargon free.

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Your contact details

This set of questions is about you, the person applying for the grant.
Your personal information will be anonymised by the time it reaches the people who make the final decision on your grant.

HIWCF may talk about the number and value of grants we make, but we will not do that in a way that could identify you.

First Name	Last Name
Email	Telephone
Year of birth

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

Town/City

County

Postcode

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You are now moving to the section of the application form where we want you to tell us about yourself and what you will use the grant for.

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What you want the grant for

We want you to tell us a little about yourself, and what you want the grant for. These grants are available to adults who are undertaking a course of music tuition. You must be aged over 18 years to apply.
The funds are intended to help you access music tuition, especially if there would be wider benefit to the community for you to do so (for example if if means you can bring your musical skills to a local group or community you are involved in). Grants won't cover forms of tertiary study (ie College, University or apprenticeships).

What is the course you wish to undertake? Please tell us what (if any ) qualification you will gain; the instrument you will study; the level you will study at; the name of the Institution you will study with.

If you have an offer for a place in for your study, the name of the course and the institution you are studying with (eg "Ashurst Musicologists".)

Will the study help you gain work once complete?

If you are in work now, please tell us what your job is.

Please tell us anything more about the course of study you wish to undertake?

Please give as much information as possible.

Tell us how this course of study will help you? If the course of study may enable you to support your local community once complete, please explain how this will work. (Eg "I plan to deliver free piano singalong sessions in local elderly care homes")

Have you applied for other grants for this? What was the outcome of those applications?

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Impact theme

Please select one impact theme from the list below that you feel most closely matches what the grant will help you with. (We expect most applicants to tick "Tackling Poverty and Inequality" OR "Employability and Skills" OR "Health and Wellbeing".

Please tell us in your own words how the grant will make a difference to your life. What changes do you think the grant will help you make?

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Project Budget

This set of questions is about your budget for the grant. You can apply for between £100 and £600. Please apply only for what you need, up to this amount.

For exceptional applications, we may award up to £1,200.

Guidance:

The following explains what you need to do to complete this section. We have used violin lessons as an example:

1. Select "Core Costs" under the option "Spending category" first.

2. In the "Total project cost" box, put the total cost of the violin lessons.

3. Then in the "Amount requested" box, put the amount you are applying for (£500 or less).

4. Then in the "description of spending" box, describe how many lessons you will receive and the cost of each .

When completing this section, please always select "Core Costs" under "Spending category".

Spending Category

Total Project Cost

£

Amount Requested

£

Description of spending

Total costs for the project

£

Amount you are applying to HIWCF to fund

£

Project balance

£

Your current request from HIWCF is more than the total cost of the project. Please check your figures carefully; we will not fund more than the total project cost.

Where is the balance of funding coming from?

Do you need other funding? Has the funding balance been secured?

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Supporting Documentation

Please provide us with a copy of your own bank statement. We need to see that it is in your name and the full account details. We do not need to see the balance or any transactions. This will be the account we pay the grant into if your application is successful.

If you have any other documentation you think is helpful, please attach it here.

Please do contact us if you have any questions about these, or are having any technical issues uploading documents.

Bank Statement

Please provide a scanned copy of a bank statement for your own account. It should not be more than 3 months old and should include your full name and the full account details (bank name, sort code and account). If you do not have your own bank account, please contact us.

Other documents

Please provide any other documents you think may be helpful. For example copies of quotes or details of the costs of the course of study you wish to undertake.

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Declaration

Please click here to access the Grant Agreement that any funding would be covered by.

I confirm that I have read the criteria for this funding programme and believe I am eligible

If I am successful in getting this grant, I agree to report back on how I used the funding in one year’s time.

I agree that HIWCF may use the information I provide to them in this application to analyse the success of funding, to talk about the issues grantees may face, and to enable them to raise funds from other organisations and philanthropists on an anonymised basis. I understand that HIWCF will not use my personal data in any way that might identify me without my permission.

I agree to allow Hampshire & Isle of Wight Community Foundation to retain on their database the personal data provided within this application form and supporting documents, in accordance with their data privacy policies. This information will be used to help review and assess my application, administer any grant awarded, for the monitoring and evaluation of any grant awarded, for grant award promotion, and any grant-making feedback surveys administered.

Declaration Name

Declaration Position

Tick this box if you are a first time applicant to HIWCF

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