After over 30 years of trading on London’s Northcote Road, in Battersea, prominent card and gift retailers, All Good Gifts is to sadly shut its doors for good in early August, but will be paying all suppliers’ bills in full.
“A combination of a 50% rent increase, extortionate High Street business rates, Brexit (grr), Paperchase (double grr – due to it opening a store almost opposite) and the creep of Amazon and the like has just made running an independent, family-run, local gift shop unsustainable in the current climate,” said Jacqueline and Matt Shearing, the mother and son co-owners of the business in their announcement to suppliers.
They will be surrendering the lease on their shop premises on August 7, after holding a 50% off sale.
As ever, hugely appreciative of the support they have received over the years, Jacqueline and Matt have sent out a “massive thanks” to everyone who has been involved in the business over the last three decades.
While nothing is set in stone, the plan is that they will revamp the All Good Gifts’ website (www.allgoodgifts.co.uk) as well as continue with its own brand cards that were sold by the store as well as in other retailers.
Big community supporters, Matt Shearing was a leading light in organising the impressive Northcote Road Summer Fete as well as being instrumental in the ‘Clean-Up Campaign’ after the destruction caused by riots in Clapham Junction in 2011.
