All posts belonging to the UK tag can be found in the list below.
Sports attendance across the UK has unsurprisingly plummeted by 80 per cent in 2020 when compared with last year’s record 75.1 million attendances, according to new analysis. The vast majority of...
Tags: Attendance, Covid-19, Sport, Two Circles, UKThe UK Government has today (Thursday) confirmed a £300m (€335.7m/$397.3m) cash injection for “major spectator sports” in England, but elite men’s football and cricket has been excluded. T...
Tags: Funding, sports, Sports Winter Survival Package, UKUK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has today (Thursday) extended the furlough scheme until the end of March 2021, with employees to receive up to 80 per cent of their salaries. The news comes as England goe...
Tags: Covid-19, Funding, Furlough, Night Time Industries Association, UKThe UK music industry has welcomed the government’s increase in its financial support scheme for the self-employed as England goes into its second lockdown, but remains concerned about the level of ...
Tags: Funding, Incorporated Society of Musicians, Musicians' Union, Support, UKTheatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber said that theatres are “at the point of no return” as the sector continues to reel from the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking to the House of Commons Digital, ...
Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Covid-19, LW Theatres, Reopening, UKUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today (Wednesday) pre-event mass testing could be in place by spring with the first pilot to go live in Salford next month for audiences at indoor and outdoor ven...
Tags: Pilot Events, Testing, UKThe Society of London Theatre (SOLT) and UK Theatre has announced the Theatre Artists Fund has raised £3.5m, including a £1m contribution from Arts Council England. Spearheaded by director Sam Me...
Tags: Society of London Theatre, Theatre, Theatre Artists Fund, UK, UK TheatreThe UK government has announced a new tranche of sporting events that will be used to pilot the safe return of spectators with a view to a full reopening for fans in October. The events cover a ran...
Tags: Covid-19, Fans, Pilot Events, sports, UKA new scientific report on COVID-19’s impact on the night time industry, commissioned by Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) and Music Venues Trust, among others, has been presented to the UK g...
Tags: Clubs, Covid-19, NTIA, UK, venuesThe UK theatre industry has seen job losses skyrocket from 3,000 to 5,000 in a month, according to figures from the Bectu trade union. Bectu, which represents workers in the entertainment industrie...
Tags: Bectu, Covid-19, jobs, Theatre, UK
