Pub is The Hub’s ambassador for loneliness for its new ‘Join Inn – Last Orders for Loneliness’ campaign, Deborah Kemp, together with its regional advisors, offers ideas on how publicans can help keep locals connected through community events and activities during Covid-19 tiers, lockdown and…
There was some amazing work done by wonderful publicans for their local communities during the first lockdown, including many selfless and charitable works. We know that once again, as well as trying to keep their business going in these extremely challenging times, publicans will step…
A shipping container converted into a village shop in a Dorset pub has come to the rescue of its locals. The Rose & Crown in Longburton has opened a village shop called The Larder, in the pub’s car park. It offers a range of essentials…
Working with the INN CROWD, Dan Simpson will take up a unique summer poetry residency at the community owned and run Low House pub in Laxfield, Suffolk. In a scheme designed to bring theatre and literature performances into rural pubs the INN CROWD had to…
The St John Inn near Torpoint in Cornwall has opened a village shop in record time to support its community in lockdown. A standalone shed has been built next to the pub, in the car park, and initially opened with stocks of bakery and dairy…
The community in Harbottle in Northumberland have several reasons to be thankful for the huge effort of their village pub, The Star Inn. Having opened a village shop in the rear of The Star Inn earlier this year, Phil and Karen reacted quickly to the…
Not content with raising the money to buy, refurbish and re-open their much-loved village pub, residents at Marston in Lincolnshire have added a community café to their portfolio with help from Pub is The Hub. The Marston community re-opened The Thorold last November following a…
Some say that Santa’s Elves are busy working around the clock in Santa’s North Pole workshop but they might not be as busy as the members of the Men’s Shed at the back of the Alma Arms! A team of 14 are busy making decorative…