The Matthews Yard Blog
We are excited for the year ahead and delighted to be shifting focus from survival to expansion by increasing our capacity to support local creatives. We start 2017 with the formal takeover of the Exchange Workspace, giving us more than 12,000 sq ft dedicated to nurturing creative and artistic talent in Croydon. We are borrowing …
We started the year with a full complement of concessions operating out of Matthews Yard. New additions Hoodoo’s Coffee & Eats and Theatre Utopia were finding their feet and building on the solid work of Brgr&Beer, Hoodoo’s Live Room and the Descart.es gallery in continuing to place Matthews Yard at the forefront of not only …
Matthews Yard full Christmas and New Year Opening Times Brgr&Beer – [kitchen opening times] Christmas eve – 12pm – 5pm Christmas day – 3rd January 2017 – CLOSED Brgr&Beer´s bar and kitchen will open as normal from Wednesday 4th January 2017. Brgr&Beer – [bar only opening times] Christmas eve – 12pm – 9pm Christmas Day – Tuesday …
On Saturday 20th August 2016 Matthews Yard launched its latest #crowdfunding drive. MYnd the Gap. For many, it will seem to come out of the blue. Matthews Yard is the busiest it has ever been. We have more events, more visitors and more pounds spent in the premises than ever before. Why then, are we …
MYnd the Gap: Why Matthews Yard is Crowdfunding for survival, again Read More »
An open letter to those “developing” Croydon I didn’t go to the Develop Croydon Conference which was held last Thursday. It’s not that I wasn’t invited, I was. But, like so many other residents, I couldn’t afford the £350 + VAT to attend and discover what great plans are in store for our town centre.
Those of you who have kept up with progress will know our business model and our premises have undergone a huge transformation over the past 9 months. I am confident most of you will agree that it has been for the better. Our new business model has enabled a flurry of new businesses to spring …
We are really pleased to announce that we were recently chosen as one of six London venues shortlisted for a prestigious new “Independent Cultural Venue of the Year” award as part of the Dot London Small Business Awards. We are competing against some amazing venues including Arts Depot in Finchley, Arebyte in Hackney and St …
Its been two months since we publicly announced the very real threat of Matthews Yard going out of business. We have worked tirelessly to try and improve our financial position by restructuring debt, attracting inward investment and increasing revenue under a new business model which carries less risk and has lower operating costs. Its been …
CLICK HERE FOR INFO ON OUR LOAN FUNDThere is no simple solution to saving Matthews Yard and in the interests of transparency I wanted to write this blog post to demonstrate what we have done so far, what we are doing now and what we will do differently in the future. I also thought it …
Matthews Yard is changing so that we can deliver a better service. The aim is to provide more value, variety and choice to our customers while running a sustainable space which focuses on the local creative community.
Leoni Descartes, starts a new series where guest bloggers share what Matthews Yard means to them Over two years in and it’s still refreshing that I get excited and surprised by working at Matthews Yard. It is not just the thousands of people I see every week, or the hundreds you have that brief …
A view from where the front door is now looking through what is now the kitchen to the workspace and studio.[/caption] In the last three years I must have been asked this question hundreds of times and each time I have probably given a different answer. In fairness, the answer isn’t that obvious, or at …