The FAC’s UK Artist Touring (UKAT) fund, developed in partnership with the Music Managers Forum and the Musicians’ Union and backed by the LIVE Trust, aims to protect the UK’s cultural infrastructure, deliver renewed vitality in the grassroots, strengthen the pipeline of future talent, and ensure that genre, regional and cultural diversity can flourish while also supporting the development of new and existing audiences, so music can thrive sustainably across the UK.

Phase One of UKAT is designed to: 

• Close financial shortfalls on UK headline tours that would otherwise be loss-making.
• Support fair pay for artists, musicians, managers and crew.
• Reduce unsustainable personal financial risk for artists and their teams.
• Sustain grassroots and mid-level touring across the UK.
• Artists can apply for up to £7,000 or a maximum of 40% of total tour expenditure, whichever is lower.

UKAT is open to artists from all backgrounds, all parts of the UK, all genres and all career stages. UKAT seeks to ensure artists can present their artistic work and vision in the manner in which audiences are intended to experience it.

UKAT is a top‑up fund, and is not intended to fully fund touring activity.

Eligibility:

• You must be a releasing artist (solo or group) with a demonstrable track record of creating and releasing original music.
• You need to have released original music under your artist name in the last three years.
• You have a scheduled UK headline tour, with a minimum of three shows.
• You are an artist whose primary form of performance is DJing.
• You do not have significant personal or external financial backing.

We cannot fund activity that is already fully supported by another source. However, you may apply to us to support unfunded elements or gaps in your tour budget, where this funding would not be duplicative of other confirmed or anticipated support.