{"id":28098,"date":"2023-02-23T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T10:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/02\/23\/bedford-esquires-music-venue-saved-with-5000-charity-grant\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T10:14:35","slug":"bedford-esquires-music-venue-saved-with-5000-charity-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=28098","title":{"rendered":"Bedford Esquires music venue saved with \u00a35,000 charity grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Barber said the fire alarm system had been &#8220;condemned&#8221; and the venue had to raise &#8220;almost \u00a315,000 in a short space of time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He said the &#8220;boiler broke down before Christmas&#8221; and the venue also had to carry out emergency electrical work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;It was a little bit scary again, a little bit touch-and-go, but we are out of the other side of it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The \u00a35,000 was from the Music Venues Trust&#8217;s Pipeline Investment Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mark Davyd, the charity&#8217;s chief executive, said: &#8220;Small amounts of money, sensibly invested, can make a real difference to grassroots music venues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cll305453q3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Mr Barber said the fire alarm system had been &#8220;condemned&#8221; and the venue had to raise &#8220;almost \u00a315,000 in a short space of time&#8221;. He said the &#8220;boiler broke &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}