Corn Exchange, Newport

Opening in March 2024, Corn Exchange on Newport’s High Street will be a 500-capacity live music, community and events space, giving bands and performers a large capacity venue in the city – and providing South East Wales with its first mid-size venue. As a gathering space for people of the city since it was first opened in 1878. In more recent times this cornerstone of Newport’s history has served the city as a nightclub and an office space. Vacant for 3 years now, we plan that from spring 2024 it will once again be a hub for gatherings in the city, bringing a heritage venue back to purpose in Newport’s city centre, while at the same time adding another story to the city’s rich cultural history. Excellently positioned in the city centre, surrounded by well-established places to eat and drink, as well as accommodation and excellent transport links in and out of the city, its previous life as a nightclub lends this space perfectly to a new life as a live music and events venue - a place for the community, and a place for our city, and a new place for visitors and tourists to experience in Newport. Hey, it even already has a mirror ball! The space would also be made commercially available for use for celebrations, corporate events, conferences, and other such large-scale gatherings, offering a new and unique space in the city centre for events of this nature. Over two floors, it also offers space for other amenities and projects, which would feed into a core ethos of promoting and nurturing local culture and talent; keeping Newport’s music scene threaded through the next generations and raising aspirations for young people. Community is at the heart of everything at the Corn Exchange, with every in-house event based on helping us achieve our community objectives- whether that’s to make live music more accessible to young people across the city, to open up the space to community groups, our many wonderful communities, schools and so many more.