This year's winner of the South Norfolk Community Pub of the Year 2017, the Green Dragon at Wymondham has won £500 towards running a community event as well as the honour of the award. Now in its ninth year, pub goers in South Norfolk are…
New services on the agenda for Staffordshire pubs
A scheme to help rural pubs in Staffordshire to branch out into new local services is to be launched in partnership with Staffordshire County Council on Tuesday 10th October 2017. Pub is The Hub and Staffordshire County Council have arranged a presentation about their Local…
Carleton pub creates a community hub
Paul Selwood and his father Philip who run The Swan Inn at Carleton in Craven, have opened a community hub and coffee shop in the heart of the village that provides a warm and welcoming space from 8.30am to 12 noon, seven days a week. Here,…
Coffee and cake at The Boars bar
A Norfolk pub has opened a new coffee shop and family area in an old laundry room with support from the Community Services Fund. When the owners of The Boars pub in Spooner Row, Russell and Clare Evans took over the pub last April they immediately…
Pub field of dreams
Provide it and they will come! A pub in Breage near Helston in Cornwall is starting a monthly farmer’s market in the pub’s adjacent field along with a community allotment with the help of Pub is The Hub. The first one will take place at…
New pub restaurant gives fresh start to youngsters
The community owned and run pub, the Dog Inn at Belthorn in Lancashire, is opening its brand-new restaurant this weekend with five youngsters who were not in education, employment or training as front of house and kitchen staff. The restaurant is the latest development for…
Beer and buns – village café relocates to the pub
When the village café in Lingwood near Norwich closed recently, the owner and licensee of the King’s Head, Terry Holt, stepped in to relocate it to his pub. Now the King’s Head boasts a café with improved disabled access to the café, the beer garden…
Ploughing new services back into the community
Tim and Jodie Newman opened a new reading room and library for the community at The Peldon Plough this week thanks to the Community Services Fund. They are also making an appeal for book donations to add to the book exchange style library. In a…