Primary School Grant Application Form

Please select which grant you are applying for.

It is possible to apply for both or either one by clicking the relevant buttons

PART 1: First Access Grant

How you propose to spend your First Access Grant.
The grant must go towards offsetting the cost of a programme that gives all children in at least one year group the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.

Learning should take place for a minimum of a ten consecutive weeks (notwithstanding staff illness, school closures, trips etc.) in sessions of no less than 40 minutes duration. For the duration of each session, every pupil should have practical use of their own instrument (i.e. not sharing use of an instrument with another pupil, unless appropriate e.g. keyboard).

Please note that copy invoices / statements will need to be provided to show that the total grant given has not exceeded the amount spent by a school.

IMPORTANT - please ensure that you have read the notes above before continuing

Please select from the following options to either make an application for the Progression Grant or alternatively proceed to submit your application for the 1st Access Grant only

PART 2: Progression Grant

How you propose to spend your Progression Grant.

• The Progression Grant is a separate amount of money to the First Access Grant which you have claimed for in Part 1.
• The grant must go towards assisting pupils who took part in a First Access programme and who will be continuing to learn an instrument in 2026-27.
• It can be claimed for a variety of purposes such as Large Group Tuition (up to 15 pupils), an Extra Curricular group or an additional First Access (whole class instrumental tuition) project - if you choose an additional whole class instrumental project, this needs to be for pupils in a different year group from the whole class instrumental project which is already being funded by the First Access grant.
• The Progression Grant can only be spent on provision which a school pays for itself (i.e. its own staff, services purchased by a school from an external provider).
• Please note that copy invoices / statements will need to be provided to show that the total grant given has not exceeded the amount spent by a school.
     

IMPORTANT - please ensure that you have read the notes above before continuing

Instrumental hire for Large Group and Extra-Curricular programmes is charged out at £14 per instrument per term.
For Small Group and Individual Tuition, instrumental hire is £3.50 per month if delivered by a Love Music Trust tutor (rising to £7 per month after 12 months) and £7 per month in other circumstances.

Conditions of Payment

The following are conditions of grant payment, effective upon the release of funding in September 2026:

1. Where schools enter in to a grant funding agreement, it is understood that this constitutes the school working as a partner of the Cheshire and Wirral Music Hub.

2. Please note that copy invoices / statements will need to be provided to show that the total grant given has not exceeded the amount spent by a school.

3. Your school will agree to engage in a process of Quality Assurance for the tuition covered by one or both of these grants. More information about this will be available in due course.

 

Conditions of Payment

Please ensure that you read and understand the conditions of payment laid out on the previous page.

By clicking the check-box below and providing my name and role (section 1) I understand that our school will, by virtue of being in receipt of grant funding, become a partner of the Cheshire and Wirral Music Hub throughout 2026-27. I also understand that, should our plans for how our grant allocation is to be spent change for whatever reason, we are obliged to inform the Love Music Trust of this.