Full list of shop closures for April 2026 including GAME and The Original Factory Shop
Dozens of shops on the British high street are facing closure in April 2026.
Popular retail chains like GAME and The Original Factory Shop are shutting multiple branches, while other retailers like TG Jones are warning of closures.
It’s not just high street shops, however, as bank Santander has announced 13 branch closures, with a total of 44 expected to shut this year, putting almost 300 jobs at risk.
Metro has compiled a list of all the closures and administration announcements for April 2026 so you can check if your local shop is affected.
All of these closures have already been announced by the companies.
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GAME shuts its last remaining stores
Video game retailer GAME announced earlier this year that it had entered administration for the second time and would be shutting its few remaining standalone shops.
The majority of the chain’s shops are now concessions in Sports Direct stores, but at the beginning of the year still had several standalone shops across the nation.
These branches, located in Dudley, Lancaster and Sutton, are now due to close this month.
Despite the shop closures, GAME, which was forced to close 40 branches across the UK in 2020, will continue operating via its website and through its concessions at over 200 Sports Direct stores.
Quiz to close 40 shops
Fashion retailer Quiz has announced that around 40 of its shops may be closed by the end of the month, marking the second time the chain has had to shut stores.
Quiz fell into administration last February. A total of 23 of its stores were shut down, while the remaining branches were bought by subsidiary company Orion.
A rescue plan is being drawn up to save the company, but if no deal is agreed to within the next few weeks, shops will begin to close. The stores that could face closures include:
- Aberdeen
- Basingstoke
- Braehead Shopping Centre, Glasgow
- Bracknell
- Buchanan Galleries Shopping Centre, Glasgow
- Cardiff
- Carlisle
- Castlecourt Shopping Centre, Belfast
- Castleford
- Clydebank
- Craigavon
- Derby
- Dunfermline
- Eastbourne
- Glasgow Fort Shopping Centre, Glasgow
- Hanley
- Hull
- Inverness
- Irvine
- Lakeside Shopping Centre, Thurrock
- Leicester
- Livingston
- Manchester Arndale Shopping Centre, Manchester
- Mansfield
- Merryhill
- Metrocentre Shopping Centre, Gateshead
- Newry
- Newtownabbey
- Northampton
- Norwich
- Portsmouth
- Romford
- Meadowhall Shopping Centre, Sheffield
- St Enoch Shopping Centre, Glasgow
- Stirling
- The Trafford Centre, Manchester
- Telford
- Warrington
- Watford
- White Rose Shopping Centre, Leeds
The Original Factory Shop
The Original Factory Shop fell into administration back in January, and it has since closed dozens of shops.
In March alone, the retail chain closed its Norfolk, Suffolk, Cromer, Gorleston On Sea, Snettisham, Garstang, and Bungay shops.
That was followed by additional closures last week in early April, where the retailer it shut its Redruth, Stanley, Cainscross, and Leominster branches.
Branches that have yet to shut are holding closing down sales with items up to 85% off.
Topps Tiles closures
On April 1, home improvement retailer Topps Tiles announced that it would be closing 23 shops due to a ‘tough’ market and ‘rising costs’.
According to Topps Tiles, eight of its under-performing stores have already closed, with the remaining 17 to shut over the next six months, although the company hasn’t yet revealed which stores would close.
Topps Tiles chief executive Alex Jensen told the BBC the closures are being made to ‘support year-on-year growth and provide a stronger financial platform for 2027 and beyond’.
The chain, which was founded in 1963, bought competitor CTD out of administration in 2024, a buyout that was later probed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) who forced Topps Tiles to sell off a number of branches over concerns about competition.
Similarly, the company in December 2025 bought Fired Earth, another rival, for £3million when it fell into administration in October 2025.
TG Jones ‘at risk’
Around 80 of TG Jones, formerly WH Smith, shops are at risk of closing down due to ‘tough’ trading.
Modella Capital, a private equity firm and the owners of TG Jones, has called on advisors to create a restructuring plan to place the business on ‘more sustainable footing’.
As a result, 80 out of the chain’s 480 stores at risk of closure. Reports claim that no decisions on which stores will be closing have been made.
The news come after Modella put The Original Factory Shop and Claire’s Accessories into administration, both of which have been facing waves of store closures.
Another New Look closure
Over the last several months, fashion retailer New Look has been shutting shops, and another closure has been announced by the chain for this month.
New Look’s branch in Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland is due to shut on April 15, with the store now holding a closing down sale.
No other branches have been announced to close so far, but the latest closure comes after 41 branches were shut in 2025 across the UK.
William Hill to close 200 shops in the coming weeks
Bookmaker William Hill has this week announced that it will be closing 200 of its 1,300 betting shops across the UK, claiming the shops are ‘no longer sustainable’.
According to Evoke, the owner of William Hill, the 200 shops will begin closing in May, although the company has not yet revealed which branches it will be shutting.
Retail workers affected by the closures will be given the company’s ‘full support’, Evoke said, adding that ‘in the face of rising cost pressures we must take action to ensure we can continue to invest in our core retail estate’.
Santander bank closures
As mentioned, the banking giant has announced 13 closures for April 2026, which include:
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland – April 28
- Boston, Lincolnshire – April 28
- Evesham, Worcestershire – April 28
- Mold, Clwyd – April 28
- Ramsgate, Kent – April 28
- Woking, Surrey – April 28
- Bangor, County Down – April 29
- Bridgwater, Somerset – April 29
- Kirkintilloch, Lanarkshire – April 29
- Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire – April 29
- Newbury, Berkshire – April 29
- Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire – April 29
- Tonbridge, Kent – April 29
A further 31 branches are expected to close by 2027, with most shutting in May.
According to Santander, the closures are due to customers increasingly turning to its digital services.
What other Santander branches are shutting?
May 2026
- Bishop Auckland, County Durham – May 5
- Gosport, Hampshire – May 5
- Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire – May 5
- Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire – May 5
- Pontefract, West Yorkshire – May 5
- Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire – May 5
- Glengormley, County Antrim – May 6
- Leyland, Lancashire – May 6
- Mansfield, Nottinghamshire – May 6
- Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan – May 6
- Northallerton, North Yorkshire – May 6
- Ringwood, Hampshire – May 6
- Andover, Hampshire – May 12
- Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan – May 12
- Enniskillen, County Fermanagh – May 12
- Macclesfield, Cheshire – May 12
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire – May 12
- Cwmbran, Gwent – May 13
- Golders Green, London – May 13
- Heswall, Merseyside – May 13
- Redditch, Worcestershire – May 13
- Stranraer, Wigtownshire – May 13
- Newton Abbot, Devon – May 19
- Stafford, Staffordshire – May 19
- Banbridge, County Down – May 19
- Liskeard, Cornwall – May 20
- Shirley, West Midlands – May 20
By the end of January 2027
- Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
- Ormskirk, Lancashire
- Whitehaven, Cumbria
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
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