20/01/2024
Dear Mill Community,
As a family, we started Summer At The Mill as a ‘pop-up venue’ in our home village of Stillington during the pandemic. What began as a small initiative has grown over the past three years and we have taken great delight in providing an array of different events… music, comedy and theatre, foodie evenings and our Saturday café!
We wish to let you know that we’re now going to press pause. We’d like to explain why, and we’d also like to say a huge THANK YOU.
In order to carry on as a permanent food and entertainment venue, it is required of us to gain planning permission - to change the site from residential to business. We were granted a premises license in our first year, then started the full planning permission process 18 months ago, and we’ve been working with a consultant to help us navigate the best options. The process is lengthy and costly. It is all sensible stuff, and we have no objections at all to what is required. However, all of the surveys and infrastructure we’d need to implement amounts to thousands of pounds. So, as a family, we just need to have a careful think about the levels of investment we can realistically make at this stage.
For 2024 we will not be opening our Saturday Café, or programming evening theatre, music and foodie events. With this comes an amount of sadness, as we know how many people love spending time At The Mill. But we also carry a huge amount of pride and happiness with us. The Mill truly is our happy place. We have built the most wonderful team and we feel so incredibly grateful for everything that we have collectively achieved during the last three years.
The Mill continues to be a family home and an accommodation site. As a group of people, The Mill family and friends will continue to think up ways to create magic within our wonderful village and wider cultural community. Whilst we take stock, we’d like to say the biggest THANK YOU to all who’ve visited, all who’ve been involved, all who’ve supported and encouraged.
All Our Love,
Team Mill
XO
