Youth Music’s Catalyser Fund: Make Music Activity More Inclusive

Grants of between £30,001 and £300,000 are available to organisations in England that want to support children and young people facing barriers to make, learn and earn in music. 

The Youth Music’s Catalyser Fund will support organisations that want to make music activity more inclusive, either by sustaining or scaling up their work or changing sector practice. 

Examples of a Catalyser programme could be: 

• An experienced youth charity sustaining its successful youth-led music provision over four years.  
• A CIC who, following the successful delivery of a pilot project, wants to scale-up their programme to reach more young people and work across a wider geographic area. 
• An established music charity wanting to develop an Early Years network. They will up-skill practitioners, and influence sector practice so that more people are delivering child-centred music practice. 

Children and young people should be involved in the planning and development of programmes that must focus on at least one of the following themes: 

• Early years 
• Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people 
• Youth justice system 
• Young people facing barriers 
• Young adults 
• Organisations and the workforce.