INCUBATOR FUND

1. Title: INCUBATOR FUND2. Awarding Authority: Youth Music, GB. Web: 3. Contract type: Service contract4. Description: The Awarding Authority announces £2m Incubator FundYouth Music has launched a new £2m Incubator Fund, offering grants of up to £30,000 over two years to music industry employers to support the career development of young creatives aged 18-25.5. CPV Code(s): 92370000, 92300000, 790000006. NUTS code(s): UKI, UKI4, UKI45, UKM, UKL7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: England, Scotland, and Wales8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.9. Estimated value of requirement: YouthMusic announces £2m Incubator Fund10. As no deadline date has been specified please contact the awarding authority for further information.11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit:12. Other information: The new fund is expected to run over at least the next two years and is designed to help music industry organisations, particularly micro-businesses and SMEs, to harness the skills and creativity of diverse young talent. Youth Music is inviting employers with interesting ideas on how to incorporate young people into their business, to work with them in partnership to offer sustainable and meaningful career and development pathways. The fund is available to people in England, Scotland, and Wales and has been made possible by support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery.Youth Music has launched a campaign as well as the fund to help pave the way for an alternative future for the music industry with improved diversity. In its new report, A Blueprint for the Future, the charity sets out a plan centred on cultivating the talent, energy, and passion of young people and calls on the industry to follow suit to tackle longstanding inequalities, which have been brought into sharp focus by the Black Lives Matter movement and the coronavirus pandemic.TKR-2020717-EX-1406639# funding opportunity