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Wedding Venue gone into liquidation

Yesterday, 9:50 PM

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Hi today i found out, that the company ASPIRE VENUES..... have gone into liquidation. The wedding was to take place on May 17th, at Chewton Place, Aspire Venues, took full payment for the wedding breakfast and the evening buffet, and today we recieve a email saying the company is in liquidation, where do we stand....... We did not have wedding insurance, but we are devastated. They also own two more venues and i have just found out that the contract with one of them ended in November,

Aspire Venues do all types of events, today a christmas party that was due to go ahead tonight at Chewton Place keynsham, was told this morning that it was cancelled...... VIA EMAIL..... Surely, we as consumers have rights... we have paid in full thousands of pounds, and now have nothing for our money, Iam in shock, what can i do.... where do i start to retrieve my money, We saved for years for our only daughters wedding..... and in one EMAIL we have lost it all.......

CAN some one help. What are my rights, i have proof of payment, but i guess this means nothing if the company no longer exists.

I do not have thousands of pounds to book another venue, and only 5 months to the wedding day.

Please help, anyone else had similar circumstances.

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Kim

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I'd post on the wedding board, I bet somebody there will have been in the same boat.

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Yesterday, 9:56 PM

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How did you pay the company - cash, debit card, credit card?

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I hope you paid by credit card? Then you may have a chance (I hope!).

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Sorry if i posted in the wrong section, We paid the depoist of ?750.00 by cheque, and the full balance 8 weeks later also by Cheque. as they contacted us offering us 10% discount if we paid the balance in full. At the time, i thought cheque was best as i had proof of them cashing it. Now after reading all day, i see credit card would of been the best, Also Wedding Insurance, but you never ever think this will happen to you.

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Have you spoken to them? This link from today states that it is another venue and all the others are still ok. - Sorry, i've just double checked and this was from November

I've also checked on Companies House and the company 'Aspire Group Ltd' (company no 06894587) is not listed as being either in Liquidation or Administration.

HTH

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Yesterday, 10:38 PM

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Have you spoken to them? Stroud news from today states that it is another venue and all the others are still ok. - Sorry, i've just double checked and this was from November

I've also checked on Companies House and the company 'Aspire Group Ltd' (company no 06894587) is not listed as being either in Liquidation or Administration.

HTH

WG x

ASPIRE VENUE LTD, and Lorraine Eddleston (the MD)

Yes i did the same, thinking the email was a prank...... but the last time it was updated was november, and when i rang the company, you get a voicemail telling you about the liquidation, and since i have recieved 4 emails, advising me to wait to see if they get bought out..... lets hope they do, and the new owners honour those that have paid in full.

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hun - I am so sorry this has happened! its a pity you paid by cheque, but it cant be helped. I am sorry I cannot be more upbeat - but you will probably have to find another venue and pay for it! unless you took out insurance?
if the venue has gone into liquidation it can take months, if not years, before creditors are repaid. Sorry!

If he business IS taken over by new owners they may honour prior bookings - check with them!

There sure are a lot of laws in this country - but there aint much Justice!!!
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If it's a limited company and it's being wound up because it's insolvent you will in all likelihood join the long list of creditors. Who may receive a few pennies to the pound or whatever depending on what assets there are. A company of that nature won't have any fixed-assets to speak of, it's all about their order book and goodwill.The request to pay the balance for a discount was very obviously and cynically done to improve their cash-flow in an attempt to stave off the liquidation. This is the sort of thing that businesses experience all the time, especially in the current economic climate but that's no comfort to you. Expect to get offers of alternative arrangements from the ex-directors' new company who still have your details and know that you'll need somewhere else now but make sure that you do not give these particular shysters your business. You can be confident that they will have got their wages out before the worst happened. It ruddy stinks, doesn't it? You have my sympathy for what it's worth. i.e. not very much under the circs.