A £5 million fund set up for UK musicians struggling during the coronavirus crisis has run out
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nme.com"The government must act with urgency if musicians are to have any hope of surviving financially" A £5 million hardship fund set up for struggling UK musicians, has run out of cash.
The fund – created by the charity Help Musicians and launched on March 25 – is in the process of arranging one-off payments of £500 for 10,000 musicians across the UK in order to help them with household expenses and other living costs.
But the demand from musicians has been so great, that the charity claims it received approximately one month’s worth of calls from musicians asking for help in just one day as the coronavirus continues to spread across the country.
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