When we started our yellow brick road crowdfunding campaign for the brand new Home SW13 in Barnes we had no idea how much support it would get. We set a target of £50k and had sleepless nights about how ambitious it was. But as word spread, an overwhelming number of people have bought bricks and special vouchers and our target has been totally smashed.

We’ve raised an extraordinary £125,000 and we’ve now closed the fundraising campaign as we’ve run out of bricks!

It has really touched both of us. It’s brilliant that lovers of the Putney Home put their hands in their pockets to help us get the Barnes Home off the ground. And in Barnes, customers of the now-closed Church Road restaurant where Alan was GM have shown a huge amount of faith in him by backing the new Home SW13.

Knowing that we’ve sold vouchers worth over £120k means that we have cash flow in advance and can use that to cover the huge costs that opening a new restaurant involves. Just please don’t all use your vouchers in the first month otherwise we will have to go with our emergency Plan B. For legal reasons we can’t reveal what plan B is, but it involves some high street banks and a couple of balaclavas.

We honestly can’t thank you all enough and can’t wait to welcome you to the new Barnes Home at the end of September.

Craig & Alan