Sheffield-based music studio saved from closure

Make Noise Studios, a musicians’ hub in Sheffield, has been saved from closure.

Since opening in June last year, the studio space has welcomed up to 70 bands per week and now employs seven staff members and up to 15 workers on a freelance basis. The facility is also used to teach young and neurodivergent people.

Doubt was cast over its future as it faced eviction, with a developer planning to convert the studio’s current home into a car park as part of a residential development.

Over £2,500 was raised to help save the studio. The developer has now agreed to sell Make Noise Studios the building next door to its current premises.

“We are in a much better place knowing where we are going,” Chico Couto, the company’s Business Manager, told the BBC. “[The developers] are really, really good people and they have been really nice to us.”