{"id":2749,"date":"2018-10-25T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:12:26","slug":"do-it-differently-a-new-fund-from-help-musicians-uk-for-all-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/do-it-differently-a-new-fund-from-help-musicians-uk-for-all-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Do It Differently  &#8211; A new fund from Help Musicians UK for all ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/0aafecd5b190\/this-week-at-help-musicians-uk-newsletter?e=26d367836f\">Help Musicians email<\/a>. This year we&#8217;ve been listening to music creators and representatives from across the industry and have gained invaluable insights to inform our thinking about the need for a truly holistic package of support for independent music creators.<\/p>\n<p>We have created the\u00a0brand new Do It Differently Fund, which launched this week and is now open for applications!<\/p>\n<p>The UK-wide fund will award 20 creators in its first round, whether they\u2019re a producer, composer, songwriter, musician, vocalist, DJ, beatboxer or beyond,\u00a0at any stage of their career and in any genre. The fund will offer individuals or bands\/ensembles of six members or less, a grant of up to \u00a33,000 focused on either developing experience in touring or recording.<\/p>\n<p>A further \u00a32,000 is set aside for each successful applicant to go towards business planning and wellbeing services available directly from HMUK and its industry partners.<\/p>\n<p>Do It Differently is open to applications from independently-driven, emerging and professional musicians of all genres and disciplines who are independently controlling one or more aspects of their career, for example, self-managing, self-releasing or self-producing.<\/p>\n<p>Creators may be solo instrumentalists, composers, vocalist, singer songwriters, producers, multidisciplinary artists or bands or ensembles of six members or less.<\/p>\n<p>Applications can be made via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpmusicians.org.uk\/creative-programme\/current-opportunities\/do-it-differently-fund\"><u>the HMUK website<\/u><\/a>. the closing date is November 13. For all enquiries and full guidelines please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpmusicians.org.uk\/\"><u>www.helpmusicians.org.uk<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Help Musicians email. This year we&#8217;ve been listening to music creators and representatives from across the industry and have gained invaluable insights to inform our thinking about the need for a truly holistic package of support for independent music creators. We have created the\u00a0brand new Do It Differently Fund, which launched this week and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-musicians","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}