Find a shared future
with Catalyst Matchmaking

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Brigid Hayward, founder of Catalyst Matchmaking.
Brigid Hayward, Founder of Catalyst Matchmaking. Photo: Alan Lyall
I agree that love and happiness are paramount and we should make every endeavour to pursue them.
Brian (60s)
I love your passion and kindness!
Julia (40s)
You are seriously a good soul Brigid and I’m so pleased that we have connected.
Anne (40s)
Catalyst Matchmaking

Helping you find a shared future

We believe finding a life partner is the most important decision you will ever make; one which affects everything about you, as well as your family and friends.

For all of life’s other big decisions, we freely seek advice to help us achieve the desired outcomes: we use an estate agent to help us buy our home; we use a travel agent to help us book our dream holiday; we used careers advisors at school to help us find our ideal job.

On the other hand, when it comes to finding love, we are expected to rely upon our intuition, the ambiguous notion of ‘fate’, or the well-intentioned advice of friends and family. So why don’t we enlist professional support to help us find a partner?

There are many benefits to using a matchmaker:

Support and guidance: We have clear heads. We’re not biased with other agendas or emotions; you are our agenda!

Singles network: We know a large number of single people who are free and open to meeting someone, and all of those people have their own networks too. As such, our database is growing all the time.

Feedback: Every time you meet someone through our service, we will get feedback from both parties. By conveying this feedback in a constructive way, we learn more about every client, and that helps us to provide better matches in future.

Continuity: Because you’ll be meeting a number of different matches, you don’t need to place too much importance on every meeting; there will always be another opportunity.

We cover Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. We have matchmakers, photographers and stylists ready to work with you and report back to us.

To find out more about how we help you to find love, have a browse through our website; if you think we might be able to help, why not get in touch with us for a no-obligation chat?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Working with a matchmaker or going on a dinner date is a big step. We completely understand you may be nervous about the idea. You’ll also probably have a lot of questions. The good news is that everybody else feels the same way too! That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the most common questions we get asked about matchmaking and dinner dating events. Have a look through our FAQs to see if your question has been answered already.

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Some of our matchmaking success stories so far…

Kate and John, who were paired up with the help of Brigid's matchmaking skills.
You may remember that you very kindly passed my contact details on to John. Well I am currently sitting on his sofa, as he has just cooked me dinner. We met up for coffee and, as they say, the rest was history. I am so pleased as he is a really lovely person and he seems to be very happy to have met me too!

John and I really are very grateful to you. We both feel incredibly blessed to have met each other. I want to thank you so much for being the catalyst that brought us together nearly three years ago. It has been a very difficult two years for everybody because of covid but we just feel very fortunate to have found each other.
Kate (50s)
Juliette and Howard with their baby.
Brigid was a catalyst for me getting together with Howard. She’s naturally interested in people and loves bringing them together. We have her to thank for us meeting, so it seemed only right she should be the godmother of our first child!
Juliette (30s)

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