There are some people getting lottery money for trad folk music events. It's not impossible if you angle it as something educational, getting young people involved in learning traditional arts. Workshops and competitions, that sort of thing.

One reaction I've heard that you face when doing something like that is insistence that it should be multicultural and caters for ethnic minorities. Of course English traditional music in England is the one ethnic minority everybody forgets or doesn't belive exists, so it tends not to get much help.

Anahata