Harry Types is donating £1 from each ticket bought to his 2026 UK stadium exhibits to LIVE’s levy to guard grassroots music venues.
The pop singer introduced the ‘Collectively, Collectively’ tour final week and as a part of it, he can be taking part in eight nights at London’s Wembley Stadium in June – a run that was prolonged earlier at present (January 26) on account of fashionable demand.
It has since been revealed that for each ticket bought for the Wembley exhibits, £1 can be donated to the LIVE Belief, the organisation striving to guard grassroots music venues within the UK.
This coverage is in step with LIVE’s levy system that may see the cash invested again into the UK’s reside music scene and to assist smaller venues maintain their doorways open amid a time of disaster.
Types joins the likes of Coldplay, Sam Fender, Katy Perry, Pulp and Mumford & Sons in supporting the levy.
The Music Venue Belief celebrated the previous One Route singer’s resolution, writing: “He’s the primary artist this 12 months to announce a significant UK stadium tour with £1 from each ticket going to the LIVE Belief, immediately supporting the UK’s grassroots venues.”
“That £1 may really feel small. However when artists on the prime degree step up, it unlocks severe, long-term assist for the bottom that holds the entire reside music ecosystem collectively. This mannequin works. And it’s rising.”
The Featured Artists Coalition have additionally praised Types. “By donating a portion of every ticket to the Dwell Belief, Harry helps present important assist for artists, promoters and venues navigating among the hardest situations the reside sector has ever confronted,” they’ve stated. “By backing the LIVE Belief this fashion, artists are defending the long run pipeline by enabling programmes such because the FAC’s UK Artist Touring Fund (UKAT).”
Final 12 months, London’s Royal Albert Corridor turned the primary 5,000+ capability venue to decide to the £1 ticket levy, a call that may elevate an estimated £300,000 per 12 months for the LIVE Belief.
It comes after the Music Venue Belief just lately shared their annual report, which confirmed that 30 grassroots venues had completely closed within the UK between July 2024 and July 2025, with 48 different ceasing to function as gig areas.
Of people who survive, a median revenue margin of simply 2.5 per cent noticed a staggering 53.8 per cent of grassroots venues report no revenue within the final 12 months, with a lack of over 6,000 jobs (19 per cent) throughout the 12 months.
Employer Nationwide Insurance coverage will increase had been cited because the principal driver of job losses, whereas the current enhance in enterprise charges has additionally confirmed devastating. The grassroots sector subsidised reside music by £76.6million in 2025, whereas current bigger exhibits at enviornment and stadium degree noticed UK reside music contribute a record-breaking £8billion to the financial system.
The Music Venue Belief argue that if voluntary trade contributions to the levy can’t be confirmed to work by June 2026, then the federal government should legislate and make the Grassroots Levy legislation – one thing their CEO Mark Davyd says can be “justified”. He has praised SJM, Kilimanjaro and AEG for his or her contributions to the levy, however has hit out at Dwell Nation.
“These firms are delivering,” he stated. “Dwell Nation, you understand, and the entire trade is aware of, you aren’t. If the voluntary levy fails, it won’t be the fault of the businesses who’ve already embraced it, or of Music Venue Belief, or of the federal government, or of any will to do it on behalf of people, artists, managers, brokers, audiences or anybody else. It is going to be a direct consequence of the overwhelmingly dominant pressure within the enviornment and stadium market deciding to not ship a voluntary levy. That’s your selection Dwell Nation and everybody within the trade hopes you make the best one.”
Addressing the politicians within the room, David stated: “My message is blunt: Cease mucking about. Cease making speeches that don’t truly transfer issues ahead. Simply get issues finished. These are usually not radical calls for. They’re the minimal required for a sector this vital.
“Individuals who say it can’t be finished ought to get out of the way in which of the individuals doing it,” Davyd ended. “Music Venue Belief is transferring ahead in 2026 and past. We’re not asking if this may be finished. We’re doing it.
“The one remaining query, for everybody on this room and past, is whether or not you will do it with us.”
Go to right here to seek out out extra in regards to the LIVE Belief and the £1 ticket levy.
