MYA Consulting LTD

14/01/2026

MYA are delighted to welcome Alex Thornton to the team as our new Graphic Designer.

Alex joins us after eight years at Great Western Railway, moving from Designer/Artworker into Brand Designer, with a track record that includes brand guidelines, campaign art direction (TV, OOH, B2B), partner toolkits, social assets, publications, logo development, and giving colleagues the kind of design feedback that improves the work rather than just decorating the room.

What we like most is the combination: proper corporate rigour paired with a genuinely creative sensibility, plus an attitude that’s calm, curious, and refreshingly unprecious. He’s also coming home to Hastings, which matters to us. We grow internationally, but we’re serious about building talent and opportunities in our local community.

Welcome aboard, Alex. Plenty to do, and we promise not to waste a single pixel

14/01/2026

We’re very pleased to welcome Sara Clamp to MYA Consulting as a Senior Consultant. Sara brings over 20 years’ leadership experience across hospitality, maritime, and retail environments, with a strong track record in project delivery and operational transformation. She has led complex, large-scale design and investment programmes from early concept through to fit-out and operational readiness, with the calm competence that keeps big projects moving when reality starts to argue back.



Her background includes senior roles with P&O Ferries, Five Guys, Punch Taverns, and Welcome Break, where she consistently bridged creative intent, commercial performance, and operational delivery, often alongside international stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams.



Sara is known for a people-focused approach, a sharp understanding of guest experience, and an ability to translate strategy into practical, buildable, workable outcomes. We’re genuinely pleased to have her on board as our consultancy continues to grow.

09/01/2026

MYA has been working with the Dawoodi Bohras of London, a Muslim community that has lived in the UK since the 1960s, as we help develop a new kitchen for their mosque in Northolt. On major occasions, that kitchen needs to deliver at scale, serving a large amount of meals in a single event.

What’s stood out from day one is that their cooking isn’t “traditional” in the soft-focus sense. It’s technically exacting: large cauldrons, layered cooking, hand-blended spices, flavour developed patiently across the full cooking cycle. The vessel, the heat, the sequence, it all matters, because the method honours centuries of practice.
The mosque leadership team set a proper challenge: could modern equipment match that depth and authenticity, without sanding off what makes it theirs?

On Friday 19th December 2025 , MYA’s Creative Director Benjamin Donaldson joined the mosque leadership team at Jestic Foodservice Solutions to test the community’s signature Bohri biryani using an MKN FlexiChef. The Jestic culinary team had already run multiple trials, keeping the same layered approach applied in a modern context.

The result was a genuine match on taste and character, with significantly reduced cooking time and a better working environment through sealed, controlled cooking. Credit to the Jestic team for meeting the brief with real care and rigour.

As we head back to the drawing board, the direction is clear: a hybrid approach, traditional and modern equipment side by side, chosen to protect what matters while improving delivery at volume.

07/01/2026

With exceptional growth through 2025, MYA enters 2026 with momentum, and we’re scaling the team to match.

We’ve added three new roles, a Senior Consultant, a Graphic Designer, and a Revit Designer, to strengthen delivery across hospitality, catering, housekeeping and FM, from concept and brand through to technical design and mobilisation.

This expansion reflects our expanding client portfolio in both the UK and internationally. It's a clear direction of travel: more capability in-house, faster turnaround, and better continuity from strategy to implementation.

MYA is headquartered in Hastings. It’s one of the UK’s most economically deprived areas, but it’s also packed with creative talent. Our aim is simple: bring global work home, create skilled, purposeful jobs locally, and help build a stronger economy here, in a practical, measurable way.

If you’re a designer, creative, maker, or analyst and you’re looking for work with real standards and real-world complexity, reach out.

Happy New Year.

24/12/2025

The MYA Awards 2025 🏆

Yesterday we celebrated another fantastic year at MYA, with the team at the core of our success! 2025 has been a year of huge change and immense progress, and this is down to all of our exemplar people!

Special recognition to:

Max Curd - winner of the 2025 CEO's Award: Given to the individual who has made a significant contribution to the company and its direction during the year

Benjamin Donaldson - winner of the 2025 Mark Crowson Award: for ‘Grasping the Nettle’ and helping the company to navigate an adverse position through excellent problem solving and application

Martha Titcombe - winner ot the 2025 Exceptional Creativity Award: Given to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional creativity that has tangibly changed the direction of the company

Anthony Erhirhi - winner of the 2025 Outstanding Contribution Award: Voted by colleagues for the individual who has made the greatest impact to the company over 2025

Huge congratulations to you all - you represent MYA impeccably.

Wishing everyone a safe, healthy and happy festive period.

📍 The Royal Horseguards Hotel

20/12/2025

Wishing all of our clients, colleagues, friends and families a safe and happy festive period. Here's a look at a digital version of MYA's 2025 Christmas Card - Happy Holidays to you all, see you in 2026! 🎄

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18/12/2025

Supporting Hastings Foodbank

Today MYA team members Max Curd and Anthony Erhirhi visited Hastings Foodbank, where we made a £500 donation to support the work they do, quietly, relentlessly, and far too often out of the spotlight.

It shouldn’t be “eye-opening” that people are relying on food banks in the UK in 2025, but it is. Demand is rising, and what Hastings Foodbank provides is more than emergency food parcels. It’s a practical safety net delivered with dignity, compassion, and respect.

A big thank you to Sarah for the warm welcome, the tour, and the blunt reality check about what’s needed and why.
If you’d like to help, the “Bank the Food” app shows what’s most needed in real-time. You can also donate via their website:
https://hastings.foodbank.org.uk

Small actions don’t solve big problems, but they do feed people. And right now, that matters.

17/12/2025

Last night, one of our MYA directors attended the menorah lighting ceremony in Hastings.

It was one of those quietly heartening local moments that doesn’t need a grand speech to justify itself: prayers, music, free doughnuts and latkes (both of which we can now confirm are entirely valid ways to build community), and a bit of dancing that managed to be joyful without turning into a spectacle. Most importantly, it all passed peacefully, with warmth and good humour in the air.

Part of the tradition is simple and quietly powerful: you light one more candle each night, and the darkness gets less of a vote.

At MYA we spend a lot of time thinking about hospitality as more than food and logistics. It’s also the act of making space for people, helping them feel safe, welcome, and seen. We’re a team made up of people of different faiths and backgrounds, and we value the communities and traditions that shape the places we work in.

Happy Hanukkah to everyone celebrating, and to all our friends, clients and neighbours of every faith (and none), we wish you a peaceful festive season.

09/12/2025

In a cultural sector where every visitor touchpoint matters, the way food, experience and commercial strategy work together has never been more critical. Jeroen Schuijt, MYA’s Director of International Management Consultancy, advises cultural institutions worldwide on visitor experience and commercial performance. In the piece that follows, he offers a personal view on the changing landscape of the cultural sector and what it takes to build stronger, more sustainable models.

I found myself on the Millennium Bridge today, looking towards Tate Modern, a place that shaped my career and my approach to leading commercial operations in the cultural sector. It reminded me how much can be achieved when purpose and performance work hand in hand.

During my years heading Tate Catering, we embedded sustainability long before it became a sector expectation, and opened the new Tate Modern with a food and beverage strategy built around audience insight, distinctiveness and operational discipline. That experience showed me something vital: cultural venues thrive when their commercial strategy is as bold as their artistic vision.

Today, UK cultural institutions are under more pressure than ever: rising costs, changing visitor patterns, recruitment challenges and the need to diversify revenue without diluting identity. The margin for error is small, but the opportunities for smarter, more resilient models are huge.

Through MYA, I now work with national museums in Wales and cultural venues across the Middle East, and increasingly with partners around the globe, helping teams align visitor experience, food and beverage, and commercial strategy. We’re always looking to build new relationships with cultural institutions and organisations that want to think differently about their commercial offer.

As I’ve moved into consultancy, I’m excited by the chance to support cultural venues as they navigate this moment of change. If your organisation is reworking its visitor journey, sharpening its food and beverage offer or searching for a clearer commercial spine, I can help, drawing on experience as both an operator and a consultant, and a history of turning complex operations into efficient, profitable models.

If this challenges you or sparks a conversation, get in touch. https://www.mya-consulting.co.uk/

27/11/2025

Today at MYA, we’re marking Founders’ Day and remembering Margaret Young (1938–2023).

Margaret believed that good food in education and society should be a basic human right, not a luxury. From her first role as Catering Manager for Norland Nannies in Hungerford, she was a pioneer in educational food; her ideas were formed by her own childhood experience growing up on the edge of the Second World War. Together with her daughter Carla, she built MYA into a consultancy working across the globe on some of the world’s most iconic projects, still driven by her conviction that hospitality can and should serve a better, fairer society.

In Margaret’s name, the team today has donated to our local food bank, recognising both the example she set and the reality that too many people still struggle to meet this most basic need.

Outside work, Margaret was anything but conventional: a committed motorcyclist, a competition glider pilot and a skilled yachtswoman. The image here shows her on her fastback Norton Commando, commuting to Norland on two wheels rather than taking the expected path. Adventurous, determined, entrepreneurial to the end.

Today, we salute Margaret, her legacy, and the values that continue to shape MYA

25/11/2025

At MYA, we’ve been watching the sustainability conversation in the commercial food and beverage equipment sector evolve; often from a distance, observing positive signs but also clear gaps. The industry is discussing carbon reduction, environmental responsibility, and the future of equipment design more than ever before.

So, it’s time we moved from conversation to action.

As consultants working across supply chains, operators, and manufacturers, we see both the ambition and the barriers firsthand. And one thing is quite clear: our approach needs to broaden if we’re to drive genuine progress.

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At MYA, we’ve been watching the sustainability conversation in the commercial food and beverage equipment sector evolve; often from a distance, observing positive signs but also clear gaps. The industry is discussing carbon reduction, environmental responsibility, and the future of equipment desig...

18/11/2025

Backing Local Talent: MYA Supports Scott Griffiths’ Journey to the NFTS

MYA are proud to support Scott Griffiths as he begins Cinematography at the National Film and Television School. Scott has worked with our Non-Exec Director, Richard, for several years, proving himself an exceptional cinematographer: precise, calm under pressure, and gifted with light, framing and story. He is a working-class talent breaking into a tough profession, and he has earned every step.

This is a rare opportunity and it needs real sponsorship to make it possible. Part of our commitment is practical: Scott will continue collaborating with MYA to create short films that showcase our work and the town we call home, building his craft while giving back.

Recent piece: the La Bella Vista video, promoting Hastings hospitality businesses and the people who make them sparkle.
https://scottgriffithsdp.com/commercials/la-bella-vista

We are delighted to see his place at NFTS confirmed and excited for what comes next. If you can help support Scott’s journey, or want to partner on Hastings hospitality storytelling, get in touch with MYA - https://www.mya-consulting.co.uk/