Publican Barrie Walden has opened a new village store in a log cabin at The Ponthir House Inn, in Ponthir near Newport in south Wales, to support local residents. During the previous Covid-19 lockdowns Barrie opened a pop-up village store in the dining area…
A Kent pub has transformed a disused outbuilding into a farm shop and community café, thanks to the expert help and a Community Services Fund grant from Pub is The Hub, the not-for-profit organisation that helps pubs to diversify and provide essential local services. Licensee…
John Longden, chief executive of Pub is The Hub, talks about the importance of diversification and social value. It has been a challenging year for everyone with the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the most positive things to come out of this is how pubs and publicans rose…
Publicans Chris Nilsson and Beverley Cooper have opened a new community café at the White Horse in Corton, Suffolk, to support local residents. The publicans, who have run the pub for five years, rallied to help people in the local area during lockdown by delivering…
Devon publicans Selena and Steve Porter have opened a new farm shop and café at the Shipwright Arms in Shaldon near Teignmouth to help residents stay local for shopping as lockdown eases. The couple took on the pub in December 2019 just months before the…
The social value that pubs and publicans have created by providing local services during the first Covid-19 lockdown has been unveiled by Pub is The Hub in the new evaluation called ‘The Social Value of Pubs and Publicans providing Services in their Communities.’ Key…
Oxfordshire publican Dan Redfern is opening a library and IT hub at his pub The Cherry Tree Inn in Stoke Row to help support local residents as the country moves out of lockdown. Dan Redfern, who runs the Brakspear pub with his partner Natalie Redfern,…
The social value that pubs and publicans created by providing local services during the first Covid-19 lockdown has been unveiled in a new report from Pub is The Hub, the not-for-profit organisation that helps pubs to diversify and provide essential local services. The report called…
