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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Roisin O'Connor

Grassroots music venues in middle of ‘full-blown crisis’, Music Venue Trust tells Jeremy Hunt

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The Music Venue Trust has written an urgent letter to the chancellor of the exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, asking him to address the dire state of the UK’s grassroots music venues.

The charitable organisation, which was launched in 2014 to help protect and support the hundreds of venues that play host to Britain’s emerging music talent, warned that the sector is in the middle of a “full-blown crisis”.

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