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Music Venue Properties are proud to announce that three more grassroots music venues will officially joined the Own Our Venues campaign.

Northern Guitars, Leeds, Gut Level, Sheffield and Little Buildings, Newcastle.

These venues are deeply rooted in their communities, but like so many others, they’re under immediate threat. All three buildings are currently being offered for sale by their landlords, and the venues operating within them have little or no lease security. Without intervention, they could be lost. That’s why they’ve joined the movement to take grassroots music venues into community ownership, permanently.

To support the inclusion of these three venues, MVP also slightly extended the Own Our Venues campaign deadline to 14 November 2025. This gives them more time to raise capital, welcome new investors, and work closely with these venues’ incredible communities to secure their futures.

The situation facing these three spaces underlines the ongoing risk to grassroots music venues across the UK. All are under immediate threat, and they’re far from alone, more communities are at risk of losing vital cultural infrastructure every day. But these venues also show the strength and diversity of what we stand to protect: three small but critical spaces rooted in their local scenes, serving artists, fans and neighbours alike.

Crucially, they also show the momentum behind this campaign. In each case, it was the venue operators or landlords who came to us, believing that community ownership, and your support, can provide a long-term solution.

These additions bring us to nine venues currently in the campaign pipeline each one a vital part of its region’s musical and cultural life:

• The Croft – Bristol.  
• Esquires – Bedford  
• The Joiners – Southampton
• Peggy’s Skylight – Nottingham  
• The Pipeline – Brighton
• The Sugarmill – Stoke-on-Trent
• Northern Guitars – Leeds
• Gut Level – Sheffield
• Little Buildings – Newcastle

If you want to invest some of your own cash into supporting venues such as this, for as little as £100 then go to the Crowdfunder page HERE.

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