Over the past 20 months we’ve been asking every guest in our Horizon Future Leaders series the same question: are there any specific internships, projects or initiatives you’d recommend to newcomers looking to pursue a similar role?
Below is every resource our Future Leaders mentioned - organisations, communities, conferences, job boards, newsletters and guilds - pulled together in one place and organised by category.
This is in no way exhaustive, and it’s not meant to be a ranking or an endorsement. But what it is is a comprehensive list of the resources that the next generation of music leaders have said actually helped them get where they are today. You can read all of the Horizon Future Leader Features here.
🎓 Education, Training & Courses
- Academy Of Contemporary Music (ACM)
- BBC Sounds’ Audio Lab
- Eventmasters
- MPA’s ‘The Publishing Effect: A 101 Of Music Publishing’
- Sound City LAUNCH Training course
- Tileyard
🏆 Scholarships & Funding
🚀 Accelerators, Mentoring & Leadership Programmes
- BBC Sounds’ Audio Lab
- Common Purpose
- Help Musicians Business Advice Mentoring Network
- Keychange
- Keychange Talent Leadership Programme
- Mentoring schemes at The Ivors Academy
- MMF Accelerator
- Rendezvous Projects
- Tinderbox Music
🌱 Artist Development & Support Organisations
- Brighter Sound
- Cre8ing Vision
- Lila
- Reform Radio
- The Rio Ferdinand Foundation
- The Team Around You
- Tinderbox Music
- UD Music
- Youth Music
- YUAF
🌍 Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Initiatives
- AFEM (Association For Electronic Music)
- Amplify Her
- Attitude Is Everything
- brwn ink
- GENIE
- Hen Hoose
- Jump Global
- Keychange
- Lila
- Saffron
- The F List
- Talent Is Timeless
- Women in CTRL
- Women In Live Music
Women & Non-Binary Networks
- Amplify Her
- Cats Mother
- CPWM
- Hen Hoose
- Ladies Music Pub
- NOWIE
- shesaid.so
- The F List
- Women In CTRL
- Women In Live Music
🤝 Industry Communities & Networks
- Big Team
- Black Ticket Project
- brwn ink
- BIY People & Talent
- Christine Osazuwa on LinkedIn
- Dazed Club
- Hype Drop Club
- Making Moves
- MMF (Music Managers Forum)
- Orbit
- Refuge Worldwide
- shesaid.so
- Small Green Shoots
- The Cats Mother
- The Helping Musicians Podcast
- The Name Game
- Young Adult Music Social (YAMS)
- Young Music Boss
🎪 Conferences & Festivals
- AIF Festival Congress
- AIM Connected
- Brighton Music Conference (BMC)
- Elevate
- FFWD
- Future Independents
- International Live Music Conference (ILMC)
- Ivors Academy Summit
- Liverpool Sound City
- Off The Record
- SWN Festival
- The Great Escape
- Un-Convention