• You may apply to continue your work under the same programme or a different programme only when the current Youth Music programme has been completed and you have submitted your final report, accounts and evaluation.
• 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.
• 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:

• Working with 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.
• Expanding or changing the geographical area that your programme serves in order to reach new communities.
• Significantly changing the types of music-making to provide new experiences for the same children.
• Continuing the 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 his or her future involvement will bring both to the trainee and the group of children and young people.

Youth Music will also look at your previous application's 'What Next?' plan as well as the results of the monitoring and evaluation. These will have significant bearing when Youth Music considers your new application.

Please note that:
Organisations that have already received support from Youth Music will not be given priority. Any new application is judged according to the objectives and criteria for the programme and against the criteria mentioned above.