The Nightingale (UK) Ltd (07864974): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2024-06-28
- Administrators
- Emma Priest, Glyn Mummery
- Administrators' firm
- FRP Advisory
- Incorporated
- 2011-11-29
- Location
- Brentwood
- Industry
- 56302 Public houses and bars
Why it went into administration
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- COVID-19
- Rising costs / inflation
- Sustained trading losses
- Parent or group failure
- Brexit
From the administrators' statement
The Company was established in 2011 operating as an iconic gay super club based in Birmingham. From humble beginnings, the Company established itself as one of the UK’s best-known nightclubs for the LGBTQ+ community.
The story of the Nightingale began when Laurie Williams and Derek Pemberton provided £600 to purchase the club’s original premises in Camp Hill, a rundown Indian restaurant. The club has occupied 4 different sites over the years from its inception at Camp Hill, to Aston, then to Thorp Street at the back of the Birmingham Hippodrome and then to its current location in Kent Street.
For most of this time it was a single sex private members’ club, requiring guests to be signed in by members. Today, it is a welcoming space to all members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies. Not only has the club far outlived the typical lifespan of a nightclub, but it has transformed itself from a members’ only club, to a club which can now hold over 1500 people.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2024-07-19) · Companies House register