Pub is The Hub partnered with the organisers of Thank You Day 2024, which took place on Sunday 7 July, to help encourage pubs across the UK to help recognise and give thanks for the significant contribution volunteers make to local communities. Thank You Day,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
