Fast Track awards

Sometimes, opportunities will present themselves that can have a lasting, positive impact on your career as a musician.

Whether it’s a short course, investing in new software, or taking opportunities to record, release or perform that help you to fulfil your ambition, our Fast Track support is here to help you take it.

It’s an investment to help you grow or sustain your income from music, or to help you take part in something that could enhance your career.

This financial support can go towards anything from courses, networking opportunities and equipment to costs associated with recording, releasing and performing. See a full list of what you can and can’t spend the grant on here.

Our panel consider each application and review them for opportunity, need and impact. We are particularly looking for applications that show that the support will help you grow your music career and income in the long term. 

A full list of who and what we can support, as well as tips on what we’re looking for in an application, can be found in the application guidance.

• Working musicians who have made at least 40% of their income from music over the past two years. Musicians with a long-term health condition and/​or disability that impacts their ability to work as a musician will just need to show some income from music within the past 2 years. There are more details on this criteria here

• Be aged 18 or over, living in the UK, with the right to live and work in the UK and with a UK bank account

• Not have more than £10,000 savings or access to other capital that could fund your planned activity

Full eligibility criteria can be found here. We strongly recommend you read these before making an application. 

Beyond this, to receive this award you have to: 

• Be able to deliver the activities we’d be supporting you for within 12 months of receiving the funds 

• Have control over one or more aspects of your career, i.e., self-managing, self-releasing or self-producing
  

No. This support is for individual musicians.

No, you can only apply for, and take part in, one creative and career service at a time.

• Monday 27 January — Friday 14 February 2025, 5pm

We try to assess these as quickly as possible and we will let you know within 6 weeks of your complete submission date.