Coronavirus Music Funding

Music venues warn: “There’s no guarantee we’ll all see funding or re-open”

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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.

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