The company behind The Shack 68 on London Road faces a winding-up petition from its rescue-deal supervisor. A court hears it on 13 October; the bar is open.
The company that runs The Shack 68, the bar at 68 London Road in Twickenham, faces a petition to wind it up. A court in Leeds will hear it on Tuesday 13 October at 10am.
The petition was published in The London Gazette on 2 October. The company is The Twickenham Pub Company Limited, trading as The Shack. It was presented on 26 August by Paul Hargreaves of Nexus Corporate Solutions, a Doncaster insolvency firm.
The petitioner is not an unpaid supplier or HMRC. He is the supervisor of the company’s own rescue deal, a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), which has run since January 2024.
What went wrong with the rescue deal
A CVA lets a struggling company keep trading while it pays creditors an agreed sum over several years. The Shack’s was approved at a creditors’ meeting on 26 January 2024.
The supervisor’s latest progress report, dated 13 February 2026 and filed at Companies House, sets out what was promised:
- two lump sums of £10,000 each
- £3,500 a month for the first 12 months
- £4,500 a month after that
In the second year, £54,000 should have come in. The report says £29,000 did, a shortfall of £25,000. In May 2025 HMRC agreed to cut the monthly payment to £3,000 from month 15. Even after that cut, the report says, payments were £10,000 short of what was agreed.
On 2 February 2026 the supervisor issued a notice of breach. The report lists three problems:
- monthly payments £15,500 in arrears
- £1,143.14 owed to HMRC in VAT penalties and late interest since the deal began
- a corporation tax return, due in March 2025, not filed
The company had one month to put this right. If it did not, the report says, the supervisor would instruct a solicitor “to wind-up the Company and terminate the CVA”. It was the third notice of breach; the company had fallen behind twice in the first year and caught up both times.
Who is owed
The main creditor in the deal is HMRC, for unpaid VAT, PAYE and National Insurance. It has received £39,453.74 so far. The original proposal promised HMRC at least 94.8p in the pound. The report now projects 60.84p. Ordinary unsecured creditors were forecast to get nothing.
Is The Shack still open?
Yes, on its own account. On 6 October the bar’s website listed opening hours of Wednesday to Sunday, with Monday and Tuesday closed. It was still advertising rugby hospitality, private hire and happy hours.
A petition is not a winding-up order. At the hearing the court can dismiss the petition, adjourn it, or make an order. A company can avoid an order by paying what is owed or by persuading the court the petition should fail. Anyone wanting to appear at the hearing, to support or oppose it, must tell the petitioner’s solicitor by 4pm on 12 October.
The company has also caught up on some filings. Its micro-company accounts for the year to March 2025 were filed at Companies House on 4 September 2026.
What it means for you
If you have booked The Shack for a party, or for one of the November England matches at the Allianz Stadium (match-day road closures), contact the bar directly to check your booking. Nothing on the public record says it will close.
If The Shack’s company owes your business money, the Gazette notice gives the petitioner’s solicitor: Foreman & Co, reference ETD/33896.
We will report the outcome of the hearing. Elsewhere in Twickenham, the Crane & Tap faces a licensing hearing on 12 October over its match-day drinks rule.
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