Food market Grub ‘heartbroken’ after month-long festival event cancelled
27.02.2023 - 18:43
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Manchester street food market Grub has said it’s ‘absolutely gutted’ after the cancellation of a month of planned food and culture events due to happen next month. ‘Grub & Friends’ was set to take place all through April at the Kampus development.
It comprised street food events, theatre performances, bottomless brunches, arts workshops and other parties, running right up to the Bank Holiday weekend. However, it’s now revealed that the event won’t be happening.
“We are heartbroken to announce that our one month takeover at Kampus has been cancelled by the landlords there,” said Grub boss Jason Bailey. “To be clear this news came months after it was agreed in writing, weeks after the entire programme was signed off, days after it was announced publicly and hours after we signed our contract.
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“The reason has been confirmed that they have an intended tenant for the space from April to September. They offered us future partnerships and they offered us space in their workspace area which wasn't suitable for any of the events but they didn't offer any compensation, support or an apology.
“The message came from Native Residential who operate Kampus but we assume that this crushing decision was supported by Capital&Centric and Henry Boot Developments. We tried to clarify this but Native refused to elaborate beyond 'key stakeholders'. We await any further communication from anybody at Kampus.”
He said that the event being cancelled has lost £6,000 in ticketing income, food traders have lost £10,000 in potential food income, as well as a potential £15,000 in bar income too.
Bailey added to the Manchester Evening News: “We’re absolutely gutted that