You are able to search the awards database by entering a few pieces of information before submitting your query. This allows you to get tailor made funding information specific to your needs. The site also has information on how lottery funding is distributed. The Fund produces a yearly Handbook of Music Awards and Scholarships. There are many award schemes which the MBF administers these include The Courtland Trust for the Advancement of Music, The Henry and Lily Davis Fund, The Professor Charles Leggett Trust and The Peter Whittingham Fund.
Full details are available at their website.
Information Services on the web are provided free of any subscription charges. Funders Online Funders Online is an initiative of the European Foundation Centre Orpheus Programme. Orpheus, the information and communications programme of the EFC, provides a public record and a public information service on foundations and corporate funders active in Europe. The site has a very useful on-line directory where you can search for specific sources of funding under several search headings. There is an on-line bookshop which contains all the publications produced by the Directory which you can then purchase by contacting them directly.