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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Amelia Hill

Charity raises £2.1m to buy and save grassroots music venues in UK

Sign for The Ferret in Preston
The Ferret in Preston, one of the venues MVT is hoping to buy. Photograph: Fotan/Alamy

An audacious plan to create a National Trust for grassroots music venues across the UK will come one step closer to fruition at midnight on Thursday.

When the curtain comes down on the Music Venue Trust’s (MVT) #OwnOurVenues fundraising drive, it is expected to have raised close to £2.2m, a hemi-demi-semiquaver away from the £2.5m that it set out to achieve.

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