MUSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND — grant history

Registered charity 228089 · filings on the Charity Commission register · its own accounts analysis · funder finder · deadlines · watch this funder · check a grantee list

extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

• What they don’t fund: Full time students are excluded from applying as a working musician. The funder does not financially support every musician, specifically excluding those who make most of their income outside of music or do not rely on income from music for their living.

Summarised from www.helpmusicians.org.uk · www.helpmusicians.org.uk/eligibility-criteria · www.helpmusicians.org.uk/get-involved/fundraise-for-us on 13/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

• KATHLEEN FERRIER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND “*pianist competing for the Help Musicians UK Accompanist’s Prize”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

What changed: FY2022 → FY2023

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (no individually listed grants). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].