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Youth Music opens £2.4 million arts fund addressing industry-wide racial inequity

October 19, 2026

Youth Music opens £2.4 million arts fund addressing industry-wide racial inequity

Youth Music has launched a new £2.4 million arts fund aimed at tackling racial inequity across the music industry. Twenty organisations are set to receive grants of up to £120,000 each, with the money paid out over the coming years. The fund treats the problem as one that runs through the whole industry rather than a single scene or sector.

— Aggregated by DJ Radar. Original report via Mixmag: mixmag.net

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