26/10/2025
Outstanding news! 🙌 Huge well done to everyone keeping Club 85 going — what a win for live music and Hitchin🙂🙂🙂
CLUB 85 IS STAYING OPEN!
We've got some great news to share!
The landlords have now offered us a long-term commercial lease on the entire building, and they have agreed that we can stay open and continue bringing you great bands, shows and events while we negotiate the details of the lease.
I'm sure that you will agree that this is amazingly good news as it means that Club 85 will STAY OPEN and keep on serving our local community for the foreseeable future and beyond!
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone that has donated to our 'Battle Fund' over the past 2 years, the response has been humbling to say the least.
We have been using this for all our legal costs, surveys, valuations etc, but we have still got lots more to do so if anyone would like to help us to get there quickly you can still donate here www.gofundme.com/f/club-85s-battle-fund
Very soon we will be launching a huge crowdfunder with lots of goodies to be had, so that we can raise the money needed to buy the lease.
Club 85's future as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company dedicated to bringing the whole community together in a safe space for all, to enjoy music and showcase the best local, touring and international talent, is one huge step closer.
"Wherever you are, buying tickets and going to gigs is the sustainable way to support your local Grassroots Music Venue"
Thank you from bob and the whole team at Club 85 xx