Pub is The Hub and Creative Lives are offering rural pubs in Wales the opportunity to get a free creative community box, full of art and drawing materials, to help encourage self-led creative activities in their pubs. The boxes, which are being provided through funding…
Publicans encouraged to ‘Make Space For Music’ to help support community groups
A membership organisation representing leisure-time music groups across the UK is appealing to publicans to help host groups increasingly struggling to find meeting spaces. Making Music, who represent around 4,000 leisure time groups and support people to come together in their communities to make or…
Repair Café helps to build connections at Norfolk pub
The strapline of The Blue Bell Pub & Café in Stoke Ferry, Norfolk is ‘More than a pub – a community hub’ and with its ever-growing range of exciting activities it has become a social and creative hub for local people. Among the successful activities…
Creating connections through creativity at Cornwall’s Trelowarren Arms
Anna and Martin Cavanagh, publicans of community-focused village pub The Trelowarren Arms at Budock Water, Cornwall, use creativity focused events and initiatives to help engage different groups within their local area and bring new people in to the pub. Among key ways the couple, who…
Celebrate your pub’s local area with a Community Nature Trail
Publicans are being encouraged to help create Community Nature Trails in their local areas this summer and beyond. A Community Nature Trail is a local map of public sights, activities, events, and projects that help people connect with nature and each other. If your pub…
Creative activities key to unlocking low season trade
Insights from Norfolk pub The Locks Inn on how they have unlocked the opportunity around welcoming creative groups to the pub...... Community-owned The Locks Inn at Geldeston, www.thelocksinn.com, on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, is a pub that has seen a big benefit from welcoming creative groups…
Congratulations to the King and Queen on their Coronation
Our warmest congratulations to our founder His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty The Queen on their Coronation. Long may they reign and help us to pull a few more local pints together.
Crowd pleaser: bring live performances to locals and add something different to your pub’s entertainment offer this summer with INN CROWD
As pubs and consumers continue to experience the big impacts of these extremely challenging economic times, at arts project INN CROWD, whose work Pub is The Hub helps to support, they are encouraging publicans to help local people continue to be able to afford seeing…