The Music Venue Trust’s Annual Trust 2025 is due out tomorrow at their event at the V&A and online on Wednesday. Mark Davyd has already highlighted at 2025 was an incredibly hard year for the sector but that there was hope at the end of the tunnel.

So let’s refresh ourselves at some of the figures from the 2024 report:

• There were 200 emergency responses. Which is an increase of nearly 19% on 2023
• There were 810 Grassroots Music Venues
• 19.4 million audience visits
• 162 thousand events
• Nearly 1.5 million individual artists performances
• Nearly 31 thousand people employed
• A value of £525.6 million total value of the sector
• An a whopping 0.48% profit margin
• £162 million total subsidy of live music

I’ll be keeping an eye on the new report to see how much things have change over the course of 2025.