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Music Venue Trust call to Action
Music Venue Trust is calling on the music industry, cultural sector and the UK’s most successful musicians to come together to create a £1 million fighting fund to prevent the permanent closure of hundreds of Grassroots Music Venues across the UK.
Despite Government action, over 550 Grassroots Music Venues remain under immediate threat of closure, representing the potential permanent loss of over 5,000 jobs, over 100,000 concerts, over 300,000 performances by musicians, and over 1 million temporary employment opportunities for gig economy workers.
These devastating outcomes for musicians, production and touring crew and everyone who relies on the grassroots sector would be per annum and permanent. Any Grassroots Music Venue permanently closed by this crisis will not be reopened.
MVT needs to raise £1 million from the music industry, cultural sector and high net worth individuals to fully fund this service. With this funding MVT will be able to respond directly and dynamically to every threatened closure and provide emergency financial support when required to prevent the permanent closure of Grassroots Music Venues.
With your help, Music Venue Trust believes they can prevent every closure. They won’t accept that this crisis should result in 500 closures. Or 200. Or even 100. With your help, they can fight every single one.
Music Venue Trust wants to save every single Grassroots Music Venue in the UK so that it can reopen after this crisis and continue to be a home to our musicians and our communities. Please join them.
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