A Padstow pub has installed a community play area for local children with the support of Pub is The Hub's Community Services Fund. Award-winning tenants at the St Austell Brewery-owned Farmer's Arms, Dan Martland and Lisa Clarke have been running the pub three miles outside…
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…
A Clovenfords hotel saves the village shop
A Clovenfords hotel has opened a village shop and café on the premises to maintain the essential rural service and to save locals from having to make an eight-mile round trip to the nearest town of Galashiels. Roy and Theresa McIntosh of the award-winning Clovenfords…
Krombacher’s Kofler completes mountain challenge
Germany’s Krombacher Brewery has continued to support UK pubs after Sales & Marketing Director Stephan Kofler recently completed the SÜDTIROL SKYRACE for Pub is The Hub's Community Services Fund. Raising over £1,000 in the process, the extreme running and walking race took place in the Northern…
Jake Berry MP has a ‘pizza’ the pub action
The Community Pubs Minister, Jake Berry MP called in at the New Inn at Tholthorpe in North Yorkshire to see the how the recent addition of a shop being run in a pub has improved local services - and to try his hand at making…
Planning expert offers free support
Pub is The Hub has teamed up with an historic buildings and planning consultant to provide some help, free of charge, about heritage or planning questions to community groups and licensees. Dale Ingram MSc FRSA has specialist expertise in the conservation (alteration and repair) of historic pubs, both listed and…
Raising awareness for life-threatening allergy
Pub is The Hub has produced some posters in conjunction with the Anaphylaxis Campaign to raise awareness among pub owners and operators about severe allergic reactions and what to do if an emergency presents itself. Long-time supporter and friend of Pub is The Hub, Dick…