Business rates for grassroots music venues scrapped for one year
This reduction is largely due to Coronavirus
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This reduction is largely due to Coronavirus
The venue will be offered 100 per cent Business Rate Relief from April 1, 2020
This will see 230 Grassroots Music Venues across England and Wales benefit
The considerable grant which will allow the venue to upgrade its sound, lighting, and accessibility
This has been researched and depicted by Insure4Music through an interactive map that shows the UK’s open and closed small music venues
Members of the Music Venues Alliance nominated potential recipients of the Outstanding Achievement Award and 2018 winner Steve Lamacq made the final choice
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...
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
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
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
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...
Established by Music Venue Trust, Fightback Bristol is a two week celebration of Bristol’s grassroots music venues, taking place February 4-18 2019
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
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
The Smiths guitarists voiced his concerns about the UK's live music venue to Music Week in an exclusive interview
Watson was one of many politicians, artists and industry leaders to gather outside parliament to support the Agent Of Change Bill
A raft of artists and industry figureheads will challenge Government to enshrine the Agent Of Change principle in law later this morning
Senior Ministers urged to back Agent Of Change principle
EXCLUSIVE: UK Music CEO slams business rate hikes
Industry chief warns soaring bills triggered by rates’ revamp could forces venues and studios to shut down
The sold-out Music Venue Trust event looked at the challenges facing grassroots music venues across the UK
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...