Music Export Growth Scheme

Who can apply

1. You are a UK* based music business or organisation trading from the UK.2. You are a SME that has fewer than 250 employees and a turnover of less than €50 million or a balance sheet total less than €43 million.3. You have not and you have not received any other contributions from public funds towards the Project.4. You can demonstrate that: i) you are selling from the UK; and ii) you are enhancing the Artist’s competitiveness and providing tangible economic benefit to the UK from this trade development activity.5. You will only promote the business, trading and brand names detailed in your Application unless you obtained express consent from the delivery partner the BPI, DBT and/or the Grants Selection Panel for a Project Change.(*Excluding businesses/organisations based in the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands unless UK registered.)

Key criteria

• You are a SME that has fewer than 250 employees and a turnover of less than €50 million or a balance sheet total less than €43 million.

What it funds

MEGS provides match-funding grant support to representatives of UK-based music acts (normally music management companies or record labels who meet SME criteria) to help deliver high-quality marketing and promotion campaigns linked to international tours to enable these acts to grow their international business. The scheme is targeted at artists that have achieved reasonable levels of commercial impact in the UK and are now looking to break internationally. Successful recipients can claim no more

How to apply

Please apply via the website of the MEGS delivery partner, the BPI, https://www.bpi.co.uk/news-analysis/music-export-growth-scheme.