MUSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND — grant history

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Latest income

£5.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

—

Accounts grants total

£9.2m

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.

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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).

Causes funded

Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2022 → FY2023

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2022	FY2023
not listed	The Ivors Academy	£20k	—
not listed	Association of British Orchestras	£7k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Black Lives in Music	FY2023	£50k	Research and report on the experiences of musicians of colour
Black Lives in Music	FY2022	£50k	Research and report on the experiences of musicians of colour
The Ivors Academy	FY2022	£20k	Grant
Association of British Orchestras	FY2022	£7k	Grant

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 and want a correction, contact us.