Applications open Wednesday 11th March 2026 and close on Friday 20th March.

UKAT has been created by the Featured Artists Coalition, in partnership with the Music Managers
Forum and the Musicians’ Union, to address financial pressures facing artists touring in the UK.

UKAT is a top‑up fund, and is not intended to fully fund touring activity.
Phase One of UKAT is designed to:
● Close financial shortfalls on UK headline tours that would otherwise be loss-making
● Support fair pay for artists, musicians, managers and crew
● Reduce unsustainable personal financial risk for artists and their teams
● Sustain grassroots and mid-level touring across the UK

Artists can apply for up to £7,000 or a maximum of 40% of total tour expenditure, whichever is lower.

By plugging genuine shortfalls and de-risking touring, the FAC’s UK Artist Touring (UKAT) fund, developed in partnership with the Music Managers Forum and the Musicians’ Union and backed by the LIVE Trust, aims to protect the UK’s cultural infrastructure, deliver renewed vitality in the grassroots, strengthen the pipeline of future talent, and ensure that genre, regional and cultural diversity can flourish while also supporting the development of new and existing audiences, so music can thrive sustainably across the UK.

UKAT is open to artists from all backgrounds, all parts of the UK, all genres and all career stages. UKAT seeks to ensure artists can present their artistic work and vision in the manner in which audiences are intended to experience it.

Please visit https://thefac.org/ukatfund for more details.