UNIFIED Music Group Announce The UNIFIED Grant Class Of 2024

Australian-owned, globally renowned music company UNIFIED Music Group have today announced the recipients of their annual grant program which is utilised to encourage and celebrate entrepreneurialism and drive effective change within the Australian music industry.

The UNIFIED Grant’s Class of 2024 includes Music Product Stewardship Alliance, convened by Green Music Australia, Little Minds by InTonal, Create Racket, All Men and NoteWorthy: CreateComposeConnect by Gateway Life Solutions.

Since the introduction of the UNIFIED Grant, UNIFIED Music Group has aimed to champion emerging and empowering founders within the music industry who strive for community development and innovation in the Australian music scene. Each recipient receives a $5000 grant and ongoing industry mentorship to help spotlight their creative project.

CEO of UNIFIED Music Group and founder of the UNIFIED Grant Jaddan Comerford said he was thrilled about the recipients of this year’s grant, writing in a press release: “The number of creative, community-driven ideas we receive each year is truly inspiring. Our industry is filled with passionate individuals striving to make the music community more inclusive, sustainable, and innovative. This year’s recipients embody that spirit, and I can’t wait to see how their projects evolve.”

The Grant aligns with projects that best exemplify UNIFIED’s Impact Priorities: Environment, First Nations, Education & Pathways, Health & Wellbeing, and Community Engagement. Last year, the UNIFIED Grant went to Bush Music Fund, a long-term pathway program to support First Nations musicians living in remote parts of Australia, not-for-profit record label supporting refugee and migrant artists Music in Exile, Neurodivergent Artist Meet-Ups program, music tech platform RELEASR and sustainable concert series The Solar Sessions.

Sam Eads and Amy Collett of Little Minds by InTonal – a program that creates therapeutic music designed for children to promote emotional healing – said that the funding “is a gateway to creating music tools that support positive mental health outcomes for young people to develop and heal”. Berish Bilander of the environmentally-conscious music project Music Product Stewardship Alliance said the grant “will allow us to better understand the carbon impact of overseas manufacturing and wastage, and take steps to make eco-friendly records the norm, while the team behind All Men are keen to use the grant to “engage with men on the challenges our industry faces”.

Find out more about the recipients and about UNIFIED Music Group here.