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Business rates for grassroots music venues scrapped for one year
This reduction is largely due to Coronavirus
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London’s famous 100 Club saved
The venue will be offered 100 per cent Business Rate Relief from April 1, 2020
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Business rates for Grassroots Music Venues reduced by 50 per cent
This will see 230 Grassroots Music Venues across England and Wales benefit
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Hackney’s Paper Dress Vintage receives Arts Council England Supporting Grassroots Live Music Fund
The considerable grant which will allow the venue to upgrade its sound, lighting, and accessibility
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One small UK music venue closes every month according to new research
This has been researched and depicted by Insure4Music through an interactive map that shows the UK’s open and closed small music venues
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MVT reveals winner of the 2019 Outstanding Achievement and Contribution to Grassroots Music Venues Award
Members of the Music Venues Alliance nominated potential recipients of the Outstanding Achievement Award and 2018 winner Steve Lamacq made the final choice
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‘Grassroots Venues are still treated as commercial concerns not cultural assets’: The current state of the UK’s Grassroots Music Venues
Rising business rates and property rents have led to a series of small and medium size venue closures in London and elsewhere. But as David Davies discovers, there are plenty of people determined to ensure that the UK doesn’t...
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Tickets on sale and official partners announced for Venues Day 2019
Music Venues Trust's Venues Day is the largest gathering of small venues in the world and a key event for anyone who works in or with the UK's Grassroots Music Venues
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Scottish Parliament urged to protect live music venues
Music Venue Trust, UK Music and Scotland's grassroots music venue sector have united behind a call to Members of the Scottish Parliament to take action to protect Scotland's live music venues in the Planning (Scotland) Bill
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Grassroots London venue The Social saved by crowdfunders
The Social has hit and exceeded its crowdfunding target of £95,000, meaning they are able to take it off the market and plan its future under the control of its original founders
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Senior politicians support UK Music’s fight against venue business rates
Michael Dugher, CEO of UK Music, and Labour's shadow culture minister Kevin Brennan met with chancellor Philip Hammond after some grassroots venues were affected by business rate rises of over 800 per cent, and now senior politicians are joining...
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Grassroots music venues join forces to create festival Fightback Bristol
Established by Music Venue Trust, Fightback Bristol is a two week celebration of Bristol’s grassroots music venues, taking place February 4-18 2019
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UK music industry unites with Music Venue Trust to support grassroots venues
A statement of intent for a pipeline investment fund was launched by Music Venue Trust on Venues Day in October 2018, which is being put into action in early 2019
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Music Venue Trust bursary to provide 50 internships at UK grassroots venues
The partnership between Music Venue Trust and Red Stripe will enable 50 young people to be placed in internships at one of the hundreds of small venues across the UK
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‘UK’s small venues act as a lifeblood to emerging acts’: Johnny Marr supports grassroots music scene
The Smiths guitarists voiced his concerns about the UK's live music venue to Music Week in an exclusive interview
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Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson: ‘Power must be given back to venues’
Watson was one of many politicians, artists and industry leaders to gather outside parliament to support the Agent Of Change Bill
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Music biz leaders head to parliament today in fight to save venues
A raft of artists and industry figureheads will challenge Government to enshrine the Agent Of Change principle in law later this morning
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Senior Ministers urged to back Agent Of Change principle
Senior Ministers urged to back Agent Of Change principle
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EXCLUSIVE: UK Music boss rails against business rates, makes proposals to save studios and venues
EXCLUSIVE: UK Music CEO slams business rate hikes
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‘Woefully unjust’: UK Music boss slams business rates as studios and venues take financial hit
Industry chief warns soaring bills triggered by rates’ revamp could forces venues and studios to shut down
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5 things we learned at Venues Day 2017
The sold-out Music Venue Trust event looked at the challenges facing grassroots music venues across the UK
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Music Venue Trust announces panel line-up for sold-out Venues Day event
Music Venue Trust has announced the final line up of speaker for its sold-out Venues Day 2017, taking place at Ministry of Sound on Tuesday, October 17. Steve Lamacq from BBC6 Music will provide the welcome, with an opening...
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