WHAT’S NEW AT GROW

Open since 2014, this blog traces Grow’s journey from an empty warehouse to a vibrant hub for music, arts, food and drink. This blog documents our ongoing experiment in ethical, sustainable business and cultural offerings.

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An Apple Affair

The Apple Affair is Saturday 17 October 1pm-midnight & bring local producers, artists and gardeners together to celebrate the apple harvest season.

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We Shall Overcome

Join ‪‎Hackney‬ musicians on 2, 3 & 4 OCTOBER 2015 and playing in solidarity with communities all over the UK to take a stand against the politics of austerity. 

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A Village Fete in Hackney Wick

Grow’s first ever Village Fete had workshops, games, stalls for all ages to celebrate being together and help raise funds for local charity, the Better Health Bakery, who help people recover from mental ill-health with training to become artisan bakers.

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Grow Goes Green

Getting the floor ready for Urban Ritual with East London Capoeira in 2 weeks time! There’s going to be a lot of music and dancing in this room.

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London Gig by The Heliocentrics at Grow 2 August 2014

After what appeared an interminable lull, things are now happening fast at Grow.  We have a temporary license for the weekend of 1st, 2nd and 3rd August 2014 where Heliocentrics land for an exclusive London date!

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Stairway to Heaven?

Stairway to Heaven? Possibly not, but it’ll pretty good once it’s ready. Things are coming together. Our stairs that take you straight out to the canal are now almost finished.

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Shedding Some Light On The Matter…

We realised it was time we had some lighting other than fluorescent strip lights.  As electrics is one area where you can’t reuse that much (Health and Safety regs) other than the fittings, we went as simple as possible and industrial. 

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Building the bar!

The early beginnings of the founders building an ethical, sustainable enterprise and business model so we hope to have a functioning bar, kitchen & creative space some day!

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Logo on a Post-It note

It’s May 2014 and we thought it’s time for our first logo so grabbed a pad of post-it notes and 5 seconds later, this if what we came up. Of course, it changed a few months later but we thought it was a good start!

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