Youth Music

Youth Music Awards 2026: Nominees and Sponsors Announced

HERE ARE SOME OF OUR PARTNERS

Who We Are

We're the UK's leading charity for equalising access to music, and our partners help make that possible.

Every year, we invest £10 million across 500 music organisations and artists, reaching 100,000 young people facing the biggest barriers to make, earn and learn in music.

Since 1999, that's added up to over 3 million children and young people supported, and it wouldn't happen without partners like ours.

How We Work With Our Partners

Rescue the Roots

In 2025, we launched Rescue the Roots to tackle the funding crisis facing grassroots youth music organisations.

Thanks to our partners and supporters, we raised an extra £2 million supporting at risk youth music projects, reaching an estimated 18,000 young people so far.

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How We Work With Wingstop

In 2 years, Wingstop have quickly become integral partners, being lead supporters of our Rescue the Roots campaign and NextGen through grant funding, community events, artist activations and national food drops.

Wingstop have also become headline sponsors of the Youth Music Awards, celebrating the young people and projects shaping the future of grassroots music.

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How We Partner With Spotify

For over five years, Spotify has supported Youth Music through fundraising campaigns, Pride-focused investment in LGBTQ+ artists, donations from Misfits 2.0 Anti Prom gigs, and the new Open Doors Fund supporting 45 Youth Music organisations nationwide.

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Other than Youth Music, I don't see a stepping stone between this (the Youth Music Awards) and the MOBOs and Brit Awards.

JayaHadADream

NextGen Artist - Youth Music Awards Winner, MOBO nominee

Ways To Get Involved

Shogun Shato on stage at the Youth Music Awards 2025, one arm in the air and smiling to the crowd

Youth Music Awards 2026

The Youth Music Awards 2026 will celebrate the people and projects making sure that future is more diverse, more inclusive and more creative.

Youth Music and Levi's panel event. 4 young people sat in a semi circle around a Youth Music sign, plants in background, with a shelf of magazines behind.

Partner Programme

Invest in the future of music. Become an industry partner of Youth Music and join a community of change makers.

Next Gen

NextGen Community Events

Our NextGen Community events give attendees aged 18-30 the chance to connect with other creatives in their local city, listen to panel discussions from industry experts and watch performances from emerging artists.