BRIT Trust grant-giving total goes past the £30 million mark

11 December 2024 - Press release

Charities to benefit from its next round of funding announced

 

The BRIT Trust – the principal charity of The BRIT Awards and of the UK recorded music industry, which works to improve lives through the power of music and the creative arts – today announces that it has distributed more than £30 million in grants since its foundation by UK record labels and the BPI in 1989.

Thanks largely to income generated annually by The BRIT Awards and by the Music Industry Trusts Award (MITS), among other sources, the BRIT Trust has in the course of its 35-year history made nearly 300 grants to a broad range of eligible causes across the UK that promote education and wellbeing. This giving has been led by grants to its long-term beneficiary charities – The BRIT School, the world-renowned, Croydon-based performing and creative arts school that is free to attend, and to Nordoff and Robbins, the UK’s largest music therapy charity.

The £30 million landmark has just been passed thanks to the BRIT Trust’s latest round of annual grant-giving that will see 10 charities benefit in all, funding a breadth of activity ranging from the provision of equipment for the BRIT School’s theatres and training Nordoff and Robbins music therapists, to building sound-proof studios for music students in Scotland and the rehabilitation of young men in UK prisons.

• The BRIT School
• ELAM (East London Arts and Music)
• Key4Life
• Loud ‘n’ Proud
• Music Support
• The Music Works
• Nordoff and Robbins
• Tonetic Records
• UD Music
• WeJam Foundation

 

The  BRIT Trust’s Grants Committee invites and then evaluates the applications received annually via its website from registered charities that are eligible to apply for funding.  A recommendation is made to the Trustees for their November Board Meeting and a final decision is communicated to the successful applicants. Grants are confirmed once due diligence has been completed, as required, and the annual applications process begins again. 

New applications for BRIT Trust funding are now being received until 30^th April 2025, and can be made here.

BRIT Trust Chair, Tony Wadsworth CBE, said: “We know just how tough it is for charities right now – their incomes have barely recovered to pre-pandemic levels, but their costs are spiralling, while demand for their services is rising exponentially also.  So every penny counts, and we hope these grants to a diverse breadth of wonderful charities that support education and wellbeing across our industry will make a meaningful difference to the amazing work they do through the power of music. We congratulate them all and wish them well, and look now forward to receiving next year’s round of applications.”