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Music Export Growth Scheme

The Music Export Growth Scheme is a grant of £5,000 to £50,000 for UK-based music businesses, such as music management companies and record labels, that want to sell their music abroad. Open, closes 31 March 2027.

Run by BPI, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

Checked against the official page (bpi.co.uk) on 15 Oct 2026.

The scheme is targeted at artists that have achieved reasonable levels of commercial success in the UK and are now looking to break internationally.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closes 31 March 2027 at midnight

As stated: Closing date: 31 March 2027, 11:59pm (Midnight)

Confirmed on the official page

How much

£5,000 to £50,000

Whole fund: £3,200,000, shared between applicants

You put in: 50 per cent of eligible expenditure

Not confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

UK-based music businesses or organisations trading from the UK that are SMEs (fewer than 250 employees, turnover under €50 million or balance sheet under €43 million), selling from the UK, and not already receiving other public funds for the project. Normally music management companies or record labels.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

Confirmed on the official page

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How to apply

Apply via the website of the MEGS delivery partner, the BPI.

Confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

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Source and last checked

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