Next Level awards

If you’re a musician with a strong track record but lacking the resources to embark on larger and longer-term projects, then our Next Level award might help.

With a programme of one-to-one business advice and peer support, alongside financial support to help you pursue your opportunity, this is designed to help you take your career to the next level.

• 6 hours of one-to-one business advice from industry experts
  
• Online meet-ups with other awardees and industry guests
• Up to £3,000 towards your own music activity. See what this can be spent on here.
• Invites to online peer drop-in spaces with other musicians (optional)
• Access to a healthy practice session delivered by BAPAM (optional)

• 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. You can find out more about this on our eligibility page.
• 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

This support is categorised as Band 4.

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 3 February — Friday 28 February 2025, 5pm 
• Monday 2 June — Friday 27 June 2025, 5pm 
• Monday 15 September — Friday 10 October 2025, 5pm

We try to assess these as quickly as possible and we will let you know within 12 weeks of submitting your application if you have been successful.