Aims/priorities:
The Energiser Fund aims to celebrate and energise creative practice with 2-4-year-olds. Centring children’s voices, views, and lived experience, the fund will explore co-design and participation in creative projects for early years. The fund will give up to 10 organisations a three-year grant to deliver creative programmes with 2-4-year-olds. Organisations will come together to network and reflect throughout the three years, in a bespoke learning programme.
The Energiser fund will support a range of creative activities and each programme should work across more than one art form. This is Youth Music’s first fund investing in more than music. Research for Arts Council England’s Let’s Create Strategy indicated that children see creativity in broad terms, not limited to specific art forms. They have asked us to respond to that in delivering our National Lottery programme.
Who can apply:
- Constituted UK based organisations who have been set up for at least a year.
- Those experienced at working creatively with 2-4-year-olds who align with our Energiser principles and where co-design is core to their practice.
- The fund will bring together different organisations – with a diversity of organisation type and size, geographic spread, and creative practices.
- We anticipate that, whilst some music-making activities will be supported by the fund, we will be unable to prioritise music-only-focussed projects.
Grant amount: A 3-year grant worth up to £120,000
Application process:
A two-stage application process. Stage one is an application form. Shortlisted applicants will then be invited to an online interview with Youth Music.
To find out how to apply, please visit their website.
Deadline:
The deadline for applications is Friday 05 April 2024 at 5pm. Interviews will take place in May/June 2024. You’ll find out if you have been invited through to interview by the end of April 2024.
Contact information:
Telephone: 020 7902 1060