FOR SALE
610935
Opened on 8th September 2022, Golden Linings is a Scandi family cafe, play space and children's retail store prominently based in the centre of Brighouse, West Yorkshire and online. Our Scandi style cafe and play space is designed to be a home from home where young families can unwind, connect and enjoy quality time together. Our children's retail business offers beautiful, sustainable, imagination- led toys, clothes and gifts for young children sold in store and on our Shopify website. We hold wholesale retail accounts with desirable and popular children’s brands including Little Dutch, Tender Leaf, Olli Ella, Liewood, Lanka Kade, Imani Collective and have wholesale accounts established on Faire and Ankor Store Marketplaces.
The Golden Linings brand has built an excellent reputation and community with a loyal customer presence in store and online. We currently have 1844 followers on instagram, 926 followers on Facebook, organically grown, with the potential to launch on TikTok. We have excellent reviews on Facebook with 5 star rating and Google with a 4.9 star rating.
The cafe and store is open throughout the week offering a locally sourced menu of light bites and treats, with supplier accounts with Slathwaite/Marsden based Roger’s Bakery and Darkwoods coffee. Our newly renovated cafe and play space occupies the ground floor of our 3 story building, offering free flow dining for up to 20 and play space with access through brand new bi-fold doors to our fully enclosed play and dining courtyard. Our first floor boasts studio space with potential for use fo hire for baby/toddler group sessions, a kitchen and a WC. Our second floor is available as a large open plan office space. As well as our excellent indoor facilities, we also have a spacious and completely contained outdoor courtyard, with seating currently for up to 22 people and a play area. On evenings and Sundays we offer our space for private hire for birthday parties, workshops, book clubs, baby showers etc.
Golden Linings is currently family owned and run with a Saturday member of staff. No other staff are employed.
We are open 5 days a week, currently closing to the public on a Tuesday and Sunday. There is the potential and demand to open 7 days a week with longer opening hours and an extended food menu and retail offering both instore and online. There is also potential to provide more sessions in the studio and be open for evening events and collaborations (e.g. pop up shops, business launches, workshops, and restaurant evenings.)
Included in the sale:
- Full ownership of Golden Linings Brand.
- Transfer of lease with 3 years remaining from 5th April 2024.
- Cafe and Store fixtures - benefiting from a full refurbishment before opening 2022 - including, brand new boiler fitted April 2024, heat integrated built in bench seating, 3 bespoke plywood/iron tables seating 4-5, 1 round play table, indoor/outdoor chairs, bespoke built floor to ceiling plywood retail shelving and storage, bespoke build plywood counter/bar area, drinks and food fridges, fully integrated coffee machine, counter-top Sage oven, sinks, nursery graded non slip flooring, cctv, 6 ikea high chairs with padded inserts and trays.
- Kitchen fixtures - dishwasher, fridge, freezer and brand new recently installed oven.
Crockery - coffee cups (2 sizes), plates, side plates, bowls, childrens crockery, cutlery
- All business assets bought by the company including all play resources, outdoor furniture and equipment.
- Fully branded and integrated EPOS system, card machine and receipt printer contract with Yorkshire Payments (full training and support available).
- External CCTV system with monitor and remote login access.
- Website domain and shopify website including mailing list.
- Transfer of social channels with over 2k followers across channels.
- Transfer of booking system with customer base.
- Transfer of email domain.
- Professionally designed and developed brand assets and graphics created with Picture Smiths.
- Our wonderful community reputation for providing an excellent, clean play and social environment with 5* ratings across Google and Facebook
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The vast majority of these scams involve the transfer of substantial sums of money. We advise all transactions made are through a solicitor to prevent fraudulent activities from occuring.
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