Representatives for the live and night-time sectors have criticised the UK government’s plan for how it will support businesses dealing with surging energy prices from April this year. A temporary energy price cap covering businesses, and subsidised by the government, was introduced in October to help mitigate the impact of those surging prices. However, that cap was […]
The Night Time Industries Association has stressed how damaging the latest rail strikes in the UK will be for bars, clubs, venues and other night-time businesses, coming as they do in the middle of the key Christmas party season. Indeed, NTIA boss Michael Kill says next month’s strike action will be “catastrophic” for bars, clubs […]
The UK’s Night Time Industries Association has called for more British cities to appoint night-time economy advisors, arguing that such appointments provide a tangible boost for the venues, nightclubs and other businesses that make up each local night-time economy, but that the UK has been slow to embrace the concept. The NTIA has seemingly been […]
The live music and night-time sectors have criticised the UK government’s budget statement of Friday which, although announcing plenty of tax cuts, didn’t include the measures that industry representatives say are necessary to safeguard the future of venues, clubs and other live entertainment and hospitality businesses. Ahead of the budget statement last week, groups representing […]
As the live entertainment, night-time and hospitality industries in the UK attempt to recover from all the shutdowns and restrictions that occurred during the COVID pandemic, surging energy prices are now creating a “matter of existential emergency” for businesses in those sectors. Or so say five organisations that together represent venues, clubs, pubs, bars, hotels, […]