The Music Venue Trust has launched a new campaign, in order to save 30 grassroots music venues, which are still at risk of closure.
The Music Venue Trust represents hundred of music venues around the United Kingdom, providing fundraising and business advice. The trust has announced their ‘Traffic Light’ campaign, to draw attention to a number of venues that are still in crisis.
The new phase of the #SaveOurVenues campaign focuses on securing the future of 30 music venues in the United Kingdom, which have been deemed as ineligible to receive funding from the Cultural Recovery Fund. The campaign will illustrate venues that are considered to be safe until March 31st (Green – 252 venues), those at risk of closure between now and the 31st March without additional support (Amber – 273 venues), and those at imminent danger of permanent closure (Red – 30 venues). Additionally, there are some venues that have not responded to the Trust or have been harder to contact (Blue – 187 venues).
The Trust is now urging individuals who are passionate about live music to write to their local MP, council, local charities, and other people who could potentially demand action to stop the venues from being closed permanently.
The venues currently at risk of immediate closure are:
- The Waiting Room, London
- The Lantern, Halifax
- The Grand Elektra, Hastings
- The Venue, Derby
- Boom, Leeds
- Mundell Music Backstage, Kinross
- The Four Horsemen, Bournemouth
- The Lexington, London
- Hootananny, Inverness
- Beehive Jazz Cafe, Hull
- The Post Bar, Tottenham
- Dryad Works, Sheffield
- Venue38, Ayr
- Gellions, Inverness
- Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
- The Brunswick, Hove
- The 1865, Southhampton
- The Hot Tin, Faversham
- Woolpack Live, Doncaster
- The Windmill, Brixton
- Arden Inn, Accrington
- The Railway Inn, Winchester
- The Rossi Bar, Brighton
- Egg, London
- Alchemy Bar, Croydon
- The Boulevard, Wigan
- Spiritual Bar, Camden
- POP, Hyde
- Plot 22, Sheffield
“What the #saveourvenues campaign has achieved during the last 8 months is truly remarkable. Thanks to the efforts of music fans, local communities, and the wider music sector we have raised over £3m in donations and have unlocked over £80m in government assistance to help stave off the imminent closure of over 400 Grassroots Music Venues.
We are now focusing exclusively on those 30 remaining venues which face immediate permanent closure. If people want these local venues to still be there when this is over there is a very clear call to action: choose a venue, get donating, get writing, get calling, get organised. Save them all. Reopen every venue safely.”
– Mark Davyd, CEO, Music Venue Trust
