This Trust supports UK charities and not-for-profit organisations with funding for projects in the areas of music, heritage, and crafts.

Music Grants support classical music performance and training, especially chamber music, composition and music education. Particular interests within music education are music for children and adults with special needs, youth orchestras and projects at secondary and higher levels, including academic research.

Grant awards are usually in the in the region of £2,500 to £5,000.

Applications are considered under eight headings:

• composition and contemporary music
• bursaries for courses and summer schools
• music therapy/special needs
• academic research/projects
• youth orchestras
• performance projects
• educational projects (excluding mainstream primary and secondary schools)
• miscellaneous.

Heritage and Crafts Grants support the development and practice of the skills, knowledge and experience that underpin the UK’s heritage and crafts sector. This includes support for emerging craftspeople of high quality, craft and conservation projects and training, projects demonstrating creative outcomes by designer-makers, projects with potential for capacity building within the sector, and some special needs projects focusing on the therapeutic benefits of skills development.

The Trustees will consider making occasional grants in other areas of cultural creativity related to their concerns for heritage and crafts, including theatre, performance, and literature, especially where projects can be shown to contribute to the promotion and development of high-level skills among early career practitioners and disadvantaged groups.

There are two funding rounds a year for both funds.

For consideration in July, the application window opens on 1 November and closes on the 31 January.

For consideration in December, the application window opens on the 1 May and closes on the 31 July.

For full details and the online application form, visit the Radcliffe Music Trust website.