If your organisation has received an award from Youth Music and is considering another application please read the following guidelines carefully before completing your application.

• You may apply for another grant only when you have submitted your final report, accounts and evaluation for your current Youth Music programme and the grant has been closed.
• You can only apply for one Youth Music programme at any one time. This is because Youth Music wants to distribute the money available as widely as possible.

Your new application must address the following requirements:
• Your current Youth Music programme has been completed and you have submitted the final report, accounts and evaluation within the agreed deadlines.
• Your ‘What Next?’ plan for your current Youth Music programme has been implemented or a suitable alternative sought with good reason (please see the Hot Tips for more information about ‘What Next?’ plans).
• Your application is for work that is 'new and additional' (please see the Hot Tips for a definition).
• Your application is for a completely new programme or demonstrates tangible steps forward for the children and young people you have worked with as well as a proportion of new participants.

It must also include at least two of the following criteria:
• An entirely new group of children and young people.
• Activities that help participants to improve their music-making skills and expand the types of music-making that they have started. At least 25% of your expected participants must be new to this type of music-making. Youth Music will want to know how you intend to assess the motivation, growing self-confidence and the improvement in standards of the continuing participants. This can be built into your monitoring and evaluation plans or the content of music sessions.
• Access to new communities by expanding or changing the geographical area your programme serves.
• Significantly different types of music-making to provide new experiences for the same children.
• Continued support given to a trainee by offering greater responsibility or professional development. You will need to show what the trainee has achieved so far and what their future involvement will bring both to the trainee and the group of children and young people.

Youth Music will look at your previous application's 'What Next?' plan as well as the results of the monitoring and evaluation. We will also look at how efficiently your grant was administered by your organisation. These will have significant bearing when Youth Music considers your new application.