No longer taking applications
We recognise that this is a challenging time for many working within the music industry. Help Musicians have set up the Coronavirus Support Fund in an attempt to alleviate some of the immediate financial pressures that many professional musicians may be facing.
Help Musicians has set aside £5m to tackle some of the short-term financial effects of Coronavirus. Professional musicians will be able to apply online for a one-off grant of £500 towards their household costs. We will only accept one application per professional musician for this temporary hardship fund.
The fund is open to anyone that satisfies our general criteria for support:
- You are a professional working musician (by which we mean performer, composer/creator or directly involved in the production of music, or in work for which the main qualification is a high level of musical training)
- You are self employed or currently unemployed
- You are in need of financial help
- You satisfy our residency requirements
- You are not currently in Further or Higher Education