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…
The FitzWalter Arms in Goodnestone near Canterbury has transformed a disused barn into a village shop to support the local community. Licensee Lynn Fisher took over the historic Shepherd Neame pub, which dates back to 1589, last July. She decided to convert the barn after…
Publicans Martin Steele and Laura Cook have opened a village shop at The George Inn at Tiffield with the help and support of local residents and Pub is The Hub, the not-for-profit organisation that helps pubs to diversify and provide essential local services. The couple…
Publicans across the country got involved in our ‘Winter Warmers’ poetry campaign, launched in collaboration with arts project INN CROWD, in a number of creative ways. Read on for some highlights on how the ‘Winter Warmers’ campaign was activated by pubs around the country following…
