PRSF: The Open Fund for Music Creators

Overview

The Open Fund for Music Creators offers grants of up to £5,000.

Their funding includes support of

• Creation of new music
• Music Creator fee (to cover your time and work)
• Touring and live performances
• Recording and release
• Creative residency costs
• Fees to creative collaborators
• Promotion and marketing (when there is also an element of creation and/or performance)

*They define ‘commission’ as a music creator or group engaged by a third party to create a new piece of music.

The fund can support projects by songwriters, composers, or artists, bands, producers and performers who are writing their own music or commissioning others.

Music Creators’ projects must fulfill all three of their funding priorities:

1. To support the creation, performance and promotion of outstanding new music in any genre
They are particularly interested in the quality of the music

2. To enable the UK’s most talented music creators to realise their potential
They are interested in how your project will develop the songwriters and composers involved.

If you are a songwriter/composer you will need to tell them why this particular activity is so crucial to your creative or professional development.

If you are a solo performer or small performance group commissioning others, you will need to explain why your project is so important to the songwriter or performer you are working with.

PRSF are committed to supporting UK based songwriters and composers of all backgrounds.

3. To inspire audiences
You will be asked to outline who you are reaching and how. This includes audiences at a local, regional, national or international level.

What is a music creator?

The following are considered by PRS Foundation to be Music Creators:

• songwriters,
• composers, or
• artists, bands, producers and performers who are writing their own music or commissioning other songwriters or composers

Please see their Frequently Asked Questions page for information on Music Creators they consider eligible and ineligible, including advice on restrictions around financial set-up.

The Open Fund supports Music Creators of all genres and backgrounds and at different stages of their career.

Through The Open Fund, they support high quality new music projects and therefore cannot support core organisational costs, salary costs or living costs. They can fund administration costs relating to the project at a maximum of 10% of total budget.