A membership organisation representing leisure-time music groups across the UK is appealing to publicans to help host groups increasingly struggling to find meeting spaces. Making Music, who represent around 4,000 leisure time groups and support people to come together in their communities to make or…
Repair Café helps to build connections at Norfolk pub
The strapline of The Blue Bell Pub & Café in Stoke Ferry, Norfolk is ‘More than a pub – a community hub’ and with its ever-growing range of exciting activities it has become a social and creative hub for local people. Among the successful activities…
Creating connections through creativity at Cornwall’s Trelowarren Arms
Anna and Martin Cavanagh, publicans of community-focused village pub The Trelowarren Arms at Budock Water, Cornwall, use creativity focused events and initiatives to help engage different groups within their local area and bring new people in to the pub. Among key ways the couple, who…
Celebrate your pub’s local area with a Community Nature Trail
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…
Creative activities key to unlocking low season trade
Insights from Norfolk pub The Locks Inn on how they have unlocked the opportunity around welcoming creative groups to the pub...... Community-owned The Locks Inn at Geldeston, www.thelocksinn.com, on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, is a pub that has seen a big benefit from welcoming creative groups…
Publicans get behind ‘Pubs Welcoming Creativity’ initiative – video update
A growing number of publicans are getting behind the 'Pubs Welcoming Creativity' campaign from Creative Lives, which is being supported by Pub is The Hub and CAMRA. Kerry Ford, publican of The Pipemakers Arms, in Broseley, Shropshire, who opened the pub in October, says: “I think the ‘Pubs Welcoming Creativity’ campaign is…
Box clever with self-led crafting idea
Publicans looking for new ways to increase engagement with people living in their local community, help connect people with others and keep customers entertained can take inspiration from a ‘Creative Community Boxes’ initiative that has been successfully trialled at a range of Welsh venues. …
Crafty idea: how a West Yorkshire pub’s warm welcome to creative groups is helping local crafters and the pub
Publicans Eileen and Jock Geater and daughter Jess Harvey have worked hard to establish a pub at the heart of its local community since taking over The George, at Birkenshaw near Bradford, after lockdown in April 2021. Examples of the strong community spirit the trio…