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…
Shrew boosts confidence post-Covid
The community-owned pub, the Shrewsbury Arms in Kingstone, has re-opened with some new confidence-boosting initiatives supported by the Community Services Fund. As well as re-opening again for its usual pub food and drink business, Kingstone Community Society has created a workshop space for crafts and…
Pub’s new café serves up its sustainable credentials
A new café at The Stag pub at Maidwell in Northants is serving up hot drinks, tasty snacks and meals for its local community and visitors with a sustainable conscience. Furniture in the café and outside on the patio has been rescued from a skip…
Red Lion ramps up its community offer
The Red Lion at Needham, near Harleston has opened a new accessible café in the pub with support from rural pub champions, Pub is The Hub. Owners of the pub, Sue and Joe Massey have created a new social hub for their rural community to…
Dorset pub creates community cider
The Gaggle of Geese at Buckland Newton in Dorset is creating its own cider and apple juice in a village-wide community venture with support from rural pub champions, Pub is The Hub. Simon and Sarah Colquhoun who own and run the Gaggle of Geese pub…
We’re getting chatty
Pub is The Hub is supporting the Chatty Café scheme that asks venues to set aside a Chatter and Natter table where customers can sit if they are happy to talk to other customers and will pay the first year’s membership for pubs with cafes.…
Live pub theatre awarded national funding
Inn Crowd, the live theatre in pubs initiative started in 2016, has been awarded £525,000 funding from Arts Council England to cover the next four years up to August 2022. Inn Crowd is a partnership project with Pub is The Hub from Applause Rural Touring,…
Dragon deli delights
Community-owned pub, the Green Dragon at Exelby near Bedale has opened its brand-new shop and café, employing three new local people. The creation of the delicatessen shop and café is the latest development since the Green Dragon was taken over by the community and re-opened…