Calls for insurance scheme intensify in industry letter
Thursday, 7 January 2021
A number of MPs and live event specialists have signed an open letter to Rishi Sunak in a bid to save summer events and more (Photo: Hanny Naibaho)
UK - The live events industry has launched a fresh appeal for a government-backed COVID-19 insurance scheme with a letter signed by 120 sector representatives and MPs. In the letter, written by the chair of the DCMS committee Julian Knight and addressed to the chancellor Rishi Sunak, the sector - which has largely been shut down since March 2020 - warns that “[w]ithout insurance, the events we know and love simply won’t take place this year - vaccine or no vaccine”. “Sustaining losses like those we’ve seen in 2020 for another year isn’t an option, and hundreds of businesses in the events supply chain have already been forced to fold,” the letter continues. “The Government has backed insurance for the film and television industry to the
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By Insurance Times 2021-01-06T09:02:00+00:00
The music lobby group is working with the government to identify how it can hold live music events safely and reduce the risk of contracting the virus
Industry lobby group UK Music is urging the government to underwrite festival insurance schemes like the support it gave the film and TV industry.
According to the group’s latest report –
Let the Music Play: Save our Summer, it calls on the Department for Digital, Culture, media and Sport Select Committee for help that as insurers are unwilling to provide insurance due to the uncertainty of further Covid-19 restrictions.
A CONSORTIUM comprising several of the Island s leading festival and summer show organisers are more optimistic about 2021 following an encouraging meeting with the government s culture minister and her comments made in the House of Commons. Sarah Moss, event organiser for Jack Up Events, who leads the consortium, is hopeful of government insurance backing as they plan their shows for next year and avoid another financial meltdown as they did this summer, with cancellations, due to Covid-19.
Sarah Moss, event organiser for Jack Up Events. Photo: Jo Monck The consortium includes several of the Island s longest-standing and most respected festivals and summer shows, including Jack Up the Summer, the Garlic Festival and the Chale Show.