Matthew Eaves

Premium Escape Room Designer and Owner

My primary expertise is crafting captivating Escape Room games, managing their operation within my businesses, and distributing these games to other enterprises for their own operation.

Every day, I lead an Escape Room company along with its franchise arm, while also providing occasional advice and support to an e-learning and software firm as an Executive Director. Additionally, I serve as a trustee for a charity and volunteer as a Director for a community project I co-founded.

I work hard to set up businesses and learn how to improve them so they don’t take over life. I value time more than money and enjoy detailing how businesses can be run efficiently

I also like to help other businesses and organisations understand how to run more efficiently, better marketing, target quality customers, increase profit, and grow.

I am based in the South West. Married to Justina, Dad to Ryan (12) and Amelia (10). Family come first!

Key skills:

  • Creative writing (I love to write enjoyable Escape Room Games)
  • Business establishment, compliance and growth
  • Effective marketing, increasing sales, and healthy turnover
  • Financial management and fundraising for small businesses and million-pound-plus turnover companies
  • Offshore development teams, planning, communication and management
  • Bid writing and winning grant money (over £500k in grants won for various charities, community groups and third sector)

Above everything, I believe in fair, kind and ethical business.

I am ethically trained.

Companies:

Managing Director of Know Escape Ltd – An Escape Room company with corporate locations across the UK; find out more.

Managing Director of Know Escape Franchise Ltd – This is an Escape Room franchising company with franchises all over the UK and global expansion plans; find out more.

Executive Director of Creative Learning Systems Ltd – Premium eLearning business specialising in learning systems, courses and solutions for business, education, healthcare, government and sport; find out more.

Voluntary Work:

Trustee of InterAct, a charity for young people – InterAct is a charity set up in the 1990s to support people with learning difficulties and disabilities to participate in their communities actively and lead fulfilling lives; go to the Interact Website.

Founding Director of Chelmsford Community Radio C.I.C – the community radio station for Chelmsford, founded in 2013, on FM 104.4 since 2017, run on the values of inclusion and kindness; I’ve raised circa £120k in grants, bids and campaigns for CCR. Go to my page about Chelmsford Community Radio.

Previously involved in:

  • New Media Researcher at Ultralab, The Learning Technology Research centre at Anglia Ruskin University set up by Professor Stephen Heppell; find out more.
  • Executive Director at Hope Footwear, a high street shoe retailer set up by Justina after Faith Footwear went into administration; find out more.
  • Creative Director at Cleveratom, a learning, technology and creativity company set up to make learning more fun using new and emerging technologies; find out more.
  • Advisor to Coffee at the Mill, a community coffee shop, ultimately went out of business due to the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic; find out more.
  • Director at Rolling Stage Hire, a stage rental and event business; find out more.

Worked globally on projects for:

  • BBC (Children’s, Learning, Wales, Northern Ireland)
  • Oracle
  • Apple
  • Microsoft
  • Channel 4
  • V&A
  • British Council
  • British Youth Council
  • RNLI
  • UK Government
  • and many more