coronavirus restrictions.While the recipients of the government’s £1.57 billion Cultural Recovery Fund will be announced on October 5 — and final decisions on funding for grassroots music venues in England, Scotland and Wales confirmed by October 16 — the MVT has declared the situation ‘critical’ today (September 30), warning that the fate of hundreds of venues is now hanging in the balance.
Only a fraction of the venues in need are expected to receive funding, with industry bosses claiming that the government has no plan B.“After six months of struggling to survive, grassroots music venues now face a two-week period of huge uncertainty in which their future will be decided by the outcome of a single government funding announcement,” MVT.
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