the government announced the first 135 venues across England that will receive emergency grants from the £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund.
While this news is welcome among the music community and regarded as a huge “positive step”, around 400 others are not out of the woods yet – with many not eligible for the funding to help them weather the storm of being forced to close due to coronavirus restrictions.
The #SaveOurVenues campaign remains very much active and in need of support.Tunbridge Wells Forum are warning that they won’t know if they’ll receive any money until October – and even then, nothing is certain.“The general public think that all of these venues have been saved,” the Forum’s booking manager Chris Pritchard told NME. “The.
Read more on nme.com