Youth Music

This information on this page was last updated on 10 March 2025.

Current Priorities

Current Priorities for Trailblazer Fund and Catalyser Fund

Our Trailblazer Fund and our Catalyser Fund are accepting applications for work that meets any of our six funding themes (Early Years, Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people, Youth Justice System, Young People Facing Barriers, Organisations & the Workforce and Young Adults) and for work taking place in any area of England.

There are some regions and funding themes where we currently receive a relatively low number of applications from and therefore fund less than we would like to. We would like to see more applications from:

Regions: East of England, North East and South East.
Funding Themes: Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people, Early Years and Youth Justice System.

Funding for these areas will still remain competitive.

We currently receive a high number of applications from London and the North West and for work under the 'Young People Facing Barriers' funding themes and for projects working with 18-25 yr olds - so success rates for these areas of work is lower.

Information about our current priorities for our other funds - coming soon.

Find out more about our Trailblazer Fund

Find out more about our Catalyser Fund

Who we fund

You can learn more about the grants Youth Music has made since 2015, on the 360 Giving website where you can also access standardised grants data from many different funders.

And our annual impact reports provide further insight into our funding decisions.

Take a look at this map to see who we currently fund

Update on our recent grant awards

Trailblazer Fund

Trailblazer Fund Round 8

We received 188 applications totalling over £4.5million.
We awarded 36 grants totalling £855,016.
19% of applications were successful, this feel to 9% in London where we received the highest number of applications.
See the full list of successful applicants for Trailblazer Round 8.

Trailblazer Fund/node/1831 Round 7

We received 173 applications totalling over £4.1million.
We awarded 31 grants totalling £805,692.
Less than 20% of applications were successful.
See the list of successful applicants for Trailblazer Round 7.

Trailblazer Fund Round 6

We received 117 applications totalling nearly £2.8million
We awarded 27 grants totalling £708,343.
Under 25% of applications were successful, this fell to 15% in London, where we received the highest number of applications.
See the list of successful applicants for Trailblazer Round 6.