Micro Grants for professional folk artists
Micro Grants for 2025 are now open.
Thanks to the continued and generous support of Conrad and Jennifer Bailey we are delighted to announce a fifth year of the Micro Grants Programme for Professional Folk Artists who live and work in England.
This year eight grants of £500 each are being offered to folk artists to support anything that will help their professional career development.
This could be:
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Time to develop creative projects
- Support for the production of new albums
- Instrument purchase
- Marketing, PR and/or digital support
- Technical equipment purchase (eg portable sound equipment)
- Other personal training and development activities (including courses)
This list is not exhaustive
We do not fund:
- Under graduate and post graduate university courses (or equivalent)
- The development or delivery of new or continuing education projects/programmes
Applicants can be at any stage of their career but must be working as a professional artist in folk music and/or dance. Applications will be accepted from individuals and groups of artists. The maximum award to each successful application will be £500 regardless of the number of artists involved in the application.
Applicants should complete the accompanying application form or provide a video or audio file which clearly answers all the questions on the application form. Please submit via email to [email protected].
For queries, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].
Closing Date: midnight on Tuesday 5 November 2024
Outcome: Monday 16 December 2024
Bursary projects to be completed by 31 August 2025
Micro Grants Guidelines 2024-2025 (pdf) (pdf) ( (pdf p (pdf) (pdf))))
Previous Award Recipients
2024
- Grace Smith
- Lon Dubh
- Kerry Andrew AKA You Are Wolf
- Jim Causley
- Lady Nade
- Lucy Huzzard and Hazel Thompson
- Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
Please see the news page for more infomation.
2023
- Mishra & Deepa Nair Rasiya
- Nat Brookes
- Georgie Buchanan
- Johnny Campbell
- Madame Ceski
- Archie Churchill-Moss
Please see the news page for more infomation.
2022
- Christina Alden and Alex Patterson
- Germa Adan
- Lambrego
- Finn Collinson
- Miranda Rutter
- Simon Roth
- Richard O’Neill & George Hoyle
- Mike Ruff
Please see the news page for more infomation.
2021
- Kate Griffin
- Jim Ghedi
- Amy Hollinrake
- Harbottle and Jonas
- Matthew Boulter
- Granny’s Attic
- Hazel Askew
- Oliver Cross
- Heather Ferrier
Please see the news page for more infomation.
