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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 21:20:00

In 2019 a music venue on Bristol's Old Market Street became the first in the United Kingdom to be owned by its own community, when several hundred supporters bought shares to take the Exchange into collective ownership. The campaign raised the funds needed to secure the building and protect a grassroots stage that had been operating since 2012. Founded by the people behind the Croft, the venue is built around two performance spaces, a main room holding around two hundred and fifty and an intima...