Music Infrastructure Fund 2025 - Call for Proposals

Overview

The UK government has set out an ambitious plan for change, focused on 5 national Missions: ambitious, measurable, long-term objectives that provide a driving sense of purpose for the country. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) proactively supports Mission-delivery: pushing power out to communities everywhere, with a focus to kickstart economic growth and promoting opportunities in all parts of the UK. For more information, please visit the UKSPF webpage.

Vibrant and Active City Programme

As part of Birmingham City Council’s UKSPF allocation to Communities and Place, the Vibrant and Active City Programme will support Birmingham’s Cultural spaces and Music sector leading to higher footfall, higher use, higher pride in place and the long-term sustainability of spaces.

The Programme offers three funding streams—Enhancing Cultural Spaces Fund, Music Infrastructure Fund, and Music Development Fund—with grants ranging from £2,000 to £25,000.

The Vibrant and Active City Programme is led by Birmingham City Council Cultural Development Service.

More information about the programme along with applicant information is available on the Cultural Development Service webpages.

All applicants must carefully read the Applicant Information before applying to any of the three funding streams.

Music Infrastructure Fund (Capital grants)

This fund is aimed at improving the sustainability and revenue generation of music spaces by supporting projects to refurbish, enhance or develop spaces for music creators, music performers and music audiences for long-term impact and benefit to the music sector and the people it engages beyond March 2026.

For the purposes of this grant, a 'music space' refers to a physical location that supports music-making, sharing, and preservation. This could include places where people gather to rehearse, perform, record, participate in, or celebrate music. This can include venues which are primarily for music events but have other uses.

Eligible applicants can apply for small capital grants between £5,000 and £25,000.

In total we will distribute £100,000 Music Infrastructure funding. We aim to make up to 5 awards.

The Music Infrastructure Fund is a capital fund. This means that you can only apply for a project focused on the purchasing of equipment or expenditure on physical assets. You cannot apply for projects delivering time-limited activities, programmes and initiatives (revenue activities).

The closing date for all Vibrant and Active City Programme applications is 12 noon on Monday, 01 September 2025.