Oxfordshire publican Dan Redfern is opening a library and IT hub at his pub The Cherry Tree Inn in Stoke Row to help support local residents as the country moves out of lockdown. Dan Redfern, who runs the Brakspear pub with his partner Natalie Redfern,…
Pub is The Hub: New research highlights the social value publicans and pubs create by providing local services
The social value that pubs and publicans created by providing local services during the first Covid-19 lockdown has been unveiled in a new report from Pub is The Hub, the not-for-profit organisation that helps pubs to diversify and provide essential local services. The report called…
Month of Community: Get people involved with The Big Lunch’s new campaign and help those in need of connection
Publicans have a great opportunity this June to encourage people in their local area, to realise the benefit of making connections with others, by taking part in events and activities at their pub or online as part of The Big Lunch’s Month of Community, www.thebiglunch.com.…
Winter Warmers campaign highlights – by numbers….
Highlights of our poetry campaign about pubs, in collaboration with arts project INN CROWD, which ran from January to late March, bringing some cheer to publicans, their staff and people in their pub’s local area during these challenging times 6 – weeks – the number…
HRH The Prince of Wales shares message of support for industry
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, who initiated Pub is The Hub in 2001, has shown his support and gratitude to those working in the hospitality sector, including publicans, in a video message first shared at a Master Innnholders' online event called 'Battered Not…
Historic pub transforms disused barn into popular village shop
The FitzWalter Arms in Goodnestone near Canterbury has transformed a disused barn into a village shop to support the local community. Licensee Lynn Fisher took over the historic Shepherd Neame pub, which dates back to 1589, last July. She decided to convert the barn after…
Local residents back new village shop for Northamptonshire pub
Publicans Martin Steele and Laura Cook have opened a village shop at The George Inn at Tiffield with the help and support of local residents and Pub is The Hub, the not-for-profit organisation that helps pubs to diversify and provide essential local services. The couple…
Winter Warmers: how publicans shared some cheer with their locals through our poetry campaign
Publicans across the country got involved in our ‘Winter Warmers’ poetry campaign, launched in collaboration with arts project INN CROWD, in a number of creative ways. Read on for some highlights on how the ‘Winter Warmers’ campaign was activated by pubs around the country following…