The Step cafe/bar - set to be another huge success for the Bowes and Bounds community? - Forum

The Step was a delightful local cafe and bar in Myddleton Road (no. 101) which ran events, held exhibitions, and was very popular as a community hub. It was forced to close by the building's owners in 2020, who sold it to property developers. The massive opposition to their planning application from the community, however, and a local campaign to buy the building, was so successful that the Save the Step campaign has been awarded a Government Community Ownership Fund grant to go towards the purchase! The other half of the required funds will need to come from individual investors, so do consider pledging support for this venture (it's a community share offer). £177k of £250k has already been pledged!

More about the campaign at https://haringeycommunitypress.co.uk/2022/12/16/taking-the-step-forward/

Pledge to support it at https://savethestep.com/

It looks like this is going to be a repeat of the huge success of locals in the Bowes and Bounds area back in 2015/16 in having The Prince pub (off Bounds Green Road, N22) made an Asset of Community Value, and subsequently persuaded a local micro brewery to take it on. Now very popular, the refurbished pub could not contrast more strongly with the dilapidated Prince of Wales pub (as it was then), lined with maroon flocked wallpaper, that we visited on the day we moved into a flat in Park Avenue, and vowed never to go there again.