Run by the innovative New World Trading Company, turnover topped £4m to April 2016, with 33% of revenue driven by events.
Local workers and shoppers can experience free live music, with the outside stage used, on average, 100 days a year. Key events are the four bank holiday Sunday Spinfests, with eight bands on two stages, plus an animal farm to entertain children; Oastoberfest, a two-week festival of German beer with live music; and the huge successful Christmas tepee.
Agency
CEO Chris Hill and the Oast House team work closely with Genre Music Agency, who share their vision for supporting local talent and innovation to provide the best acts and deliver originality.
The company invests heavily in digital marketing and has an in-house design & marketing team, which has built separate websites for their main events, with videos and live streaming online. There are 25,000 active followers on Twitter and good use is made of Facebook Live.
A huge part of the success of the Oast House (and other NWTC venues) is investment in staff training, including the recently launched Tribes project which focuses on team spirit through competitions and events to engage and reward staff.