Malt Cross Charity

“Loving people, serving Nottingham”

The Malt Cross is an exciting and vibrant Christian Charity and Café-Bar on St James’s Street, just off Market Square in the heart of Nottingham.

It was set up in 2003 by a consortium of city centre churches, St John’s College and the University Chaplains to preserve the beautiful Grade II listed former music hall for future generations, and with love and through charitable outreach work it aims to support and serve the people of Nottingham.

The Malt Cross runs a vibrant and much loved café-bar. It’s a place where we hope that relationships and community can be built. It plays host to a diverse and vibrant programme of Arts, Events, Artistic Communities & Live Music. The profits of which are put back into the charity whose aims include.

Arts and Music

Working with young and up and coming musicians and artists to spot, develop and nurture talent, we host live music events and have an art gallery for hire, and our focus is on giving people with talent an opportunity.

Outreach work

In 2010 we started Street Pastors and Safe Space projects led by church volunteers who aim to care for, love and protect anyone using Nottingham’s night life on Friday and Saturday evenings from 10pm-3am.

Preservation of the Grade II listed music hall

There are only 5 music halls left standing in the UK; at one time every city in the UK would have had one! This building is particularly unique as the architect, Edwin Hill, only built one building in his career; the rest of the time he used to build boats (you can probably spot that when you gaze up and look at the roof!) We were the first music hall to host CanCan dancers and Charlie Chaplin and have a fantastic archive in our basement. The Malt Cross Music Hall was built in 1877, and has retained it’s Victorian décor and whimsical features to this day. It is built over four floors, including access to the city’s cave network.

Spiritual Awareness

The Malt Cross aims to be a safe place where people can if they want to explore the Christian faith, and we run various events that help people engage and explore faith and excitingly we have the most central prayer room in the city that can be used at any time whilst the bar is open.

What next?

• You might like to donate money to the work of the Charity.
• Email us to find out about volunteering opportunities at the Malt Cross.