19/06/2026
**Customer announcement**
This one's tough. We tried, and we just can't keep doing it. Our time here will shortly come to an end. Near enough 2 years to the day of opening the doors at The Bulls Head, we are now having to step away.
Our last food service will be the 21st June. We will be contacting any future bookings over the weekend.
We invite you to join us over the weekend, and especially tomorrow evening as our party will still go ahead. It would be nice to see as many of you as possible to say goodbye to.
Its simple. The costs are now just too high. I have never spouted any political views about running a business, and won't start now, I also never believed that we'd become a statistic, but the reality is, its just not financially viable anymore. Energy has increased, our rent has increased, the price of the b**r is nothing short of ridiculous, the minimum wage increased significantly, NI contributions...just everything.
We have tried and tried to find a solution.
- We put our prices up in line with the increase from our brewery, and it hurt your pockets.
- We changed our menu to make it affordable for everyone.
- We held live music events. Quiz nights, open mic nights. All of which have been extremely quieter than they used to be.
In general, we were far from quiet, and the numbers still didn't add up.
We have ran out of options, and it hurts us just as much as it hurts you.
We are sorry that there isn't more notice, we needed to let our team know before anyone else.
Tim, your amazing quiz host, will hold on to the quiz funds, and the world cup sweepstake money, and will divide it out appropriately.
We thank our wonderful team. We have had some amazing staff, and backing from them. They have been amazing, and I hope that they continue to thrive in whatever they do next.
And then there's you, you know who you are. The ones who really did support us, the ones who came in as often as they could. For the live music, on a cold Wednesday night, having Sunday lunch with us, our Wednesday lunch club, our Friday afternoon couple who were here every week, our daily crowd of drinkers, our weekend drinkers, you all know who you are. We will miss you.
We will of course assist the brewery to get someone in as soon as possible, and ask for you to come and see us, ask us, don't be wondering, or gossiping, just come and see us.
Clipston and the amazing people of it, will always hold a special place in our hearts ❤️
