One of Deptford’s most beloved grassroots venues, Matchstick Piehouse, is fighting back against the urgent threat of closure with a huge fundraising push.
The venue shut without warning earlier this month, and later said that the closure was due to being in rent arrears. “We’ve had Covid-related rent arrears for a long time due to a mixture of being unable to trade during lockdown, and mixed trading in the years after,” it wrote in a statement. “We haven’t managed to solve it”.
