We're not always very good at recognising the value of something while it's part of our everyday lives. We get used to the things that make life feel good, and because they're familiar, we stop noticing them for what they are.

New episode of MVT's Last Safe Space out now - check out Gary Crosby OBE & Soweto Kinch explore British jazz.

Music Venue Trust welcomes the business rates support announced in today’s Budget. Increasing relief to 35% for eligible live music venues in England...

£3,900 raised for Music Venue Trust by Croakheads! Since November 2025, Croakheads have raised £3,900 to help protect, secure and improve grassroots music venues across the UK.

A huge thank you to Tinie Tempah and his team for once again putting grassroots music venues at the heart of the conversation about protecting the UK's nightlife, this time during an interview with Channel 4 News filmed at Iklectik Lab in Peckham, London.

When an artist like Hayley Williams, who has performed on some of the world's biggest stages, takes a moment during her own show to encourage fans to support smaller gigs and grassroots music venues, it means a lot.

100 packages delivered. One in eight grassroots music venues supported. And we’re only getting started...

Music Venue Trust’s Venue Support Manager Sophie Asquith joined the conversation at Sŵn Connect in Cardiff, discussing Wales’ grassroots music ecosystem and the vital role its venues play in bringing artists, audiences and communities together.

Celebrating a major milestone for grassroots music venue The Bunkhouse Swansea!

A massive thank you to everyone involved in Pulp's takeover of The Rat and Pigeon for supporting Music Venue Trust.

Introducing Hometown Meltdown! We're delighted to announce that we will be partnering with the Southbank Centre to bring its flagship music festival, Meltdown, into grassroots music venues across England, Wales and Scotland for the first time!

Grassroots Music Venues are the foundations of Scotland's music industry. Speaking at the Scottish Parliament, Pauline Stafford MSP highlighted the vital role grassroots venues play in developing new artists, supporting local economies and bringing communities together.

We're incredibly thrilled to share that Everywhere At Once 2026 raised £100,000, with £25,000 donated to each of Help Musicians, Nordoff and Robbins, Teenage Cancer Trust and War Child UK.

We're incredibly thrilled to share that Everywhere At Once 2026 raised £100,000, with £25,000 donated to each of Help Musicians, Nordoff and Robbins, Teenage Cancer Trust and War Child UK.

One week on and we're still buzzing from Grassroots Networking Day 2026. A room full of conversations, new connections, shared ideas and people who care deeply about the future of grassroots music.

Daytime TV have announced their second album, 'Rodeo', alongside a run of intimate shows this month in partnership with the @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social. Listen to their new single, Meditate: tinyurl.com/9nmw7udr

Next week, Music Venue Trust’s COO, Beverley Whitrick is heading to Manchester for Un-Convention 2026. Bev will be joining voices from across the UK music industry for The State of the Nation, opening this year's conference at the brilliant Band on the Wall.

There's something slightly ridiculous about what a gig ticket can buy you. For the price of a takeaway, you can walk into a room with a few hundred strangers and, for the next few hours, become part of something that only exists because all of you are there.

What’s actually being played on Britain’s grassroots stages? For years, Music Venue Trust has challenged the assumption underpinning grassroots venue licensing that 100% of the music performed is registered repertoire.

Today Black Lives in Music publishes the REMEL report, Race Equality in Music Event Licensing.

And yesterday, it happened! Grassroots Networking Day 2026 brought together grassroots music venues, promoters, agents, festivals and music industry professionals from across the UK at 229 London.

Tomorrow, we get in the room. Grassroots Networking Day 2026 is almost here. Tomorrow, venue bookers, festival programmers, promoters and booking agents from across the grassroots music sector come together at 229 London for a day of conversations, connections, ideas and new opportunities.

Grassroots Networking Day 2026 is almost here. 📅 Tuesday 13 October 📍 229 London A day for the people who book and programme grassroots music - bringing venue bookers, festival programmers, promoters and agents together. We'll see you next week!

We asked Kaiser Chiefs why they signed the Artist Pledge. For them, grassroots venues aren’t just part of where their story began. They’re where they learnt how to be a band, and they remain some of their favourite places to experience live music today.

Festivals bring the whole ecosystem together - creating spaces for artists to reach new audiences and for audiences to discover something new.

Three feet isn't very far off the ground, but if you stand on the right stage at the right moment - it can feel like the whole world has changed. Because sometimes finding your voice starts with finding the people who want to hear it.

Agents are the people who help artists find the right opportunities, connecting them with venues, promoters and festivals to build shows and develop careers.

Promoters are the people who bring the different pieces of a live show together - finding the artists, working with venues, building audiences and taking the leap on making a show happen.

For years, the fight for grassroots music venues has been about making sure they are still here, and that fight still matters. But when you spend years fighting for something you love, eventually you want more than to know it survived. You want to see it flourish.

Grassroots music venues are where the shows happen - but making those shows happen takes a whole ecosystem.