The MOBO Awards are set to take a 'gap year' in order to refresh and expand the ceremony for 2019. Founder Kanya Kung has said taking a year off will allow a 'bigger, revamped show' for next year. 

In a statement posted on the MOBO awards official Twitter feed, Kung announced that the break will kick-start 'a brand-new era for MOBO and an exciting new chapter'. She goes on to assure that the changes will 'amplify the exposure of the large pool of exceptional talent celebrated' by the organisation. 

Official Statement from @KanyaKing + MOBO: Today we announce a brand-new era for MOBO and an exciting new chapter for the @MOBOAwards: https://t.co/Nbk9wfREck pic.twitter.com/Ca07wcpJiU

— MOBO (@MOBOAwards) September 25, 2018

Running since 1996, the awards celebrate British urban music and culture, with last year's winners including Stormzy and Stefflon Don. 

Next year MOBO is set to celebrate not only music but disciplines across the arts, introducing 'a series of initiatives and events over the next 12 months in music, film and entrepreneurship'.

The organisation is set to launch a film company, the first project of which has been announced as a feature-length adaptation of Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give.

MOBO is also set to grow in its social outreach, expanding its Help Musicians Fund by investing £40,000 to unsigned artists. 

The MOBO awards will return in November 2019, in their own words, 'bigger and bolder'. You can visit the MOBO website to find out more here.