the government’s £1.57 billion Cultural Recovery Fund were due to be announced on October 5, with final decisions on funding for grassroots music venues in England, Scotland and Wales to be confirmed by October 16.Now, it’s been revealed that the fund has been delayed by a week.
The Music Venues Trust has been “working with colleagues overnight” at the arts council as they seek to “manage the delay to the decisions on the distribution of the Cultural Recovery Fund.”It comes just days after the MVT described the situation for hundreds of grassroots venues as “critical” as they warned that the fate of hundreds of venues now hung in the balance.
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