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…
When the School Boy met Dainty Doris
The School Boy Inn pub at Norton, near Doncaster officially opened their new café and gift shop at the weekend called ‘Dainty Doris’. With a grant of £3000 from the Pub is The Hub’s Community Services Fund, Andy and Kirsty, owners of the freehouse for the last five years, have converted…
OBE opens pub deli…and tearoom!
Philip Hall OBE officially opened the new tearoom and deli 'Foodie Bouquet' along with other essential community services at The Wheatsheaf at West Beckham in Norfolk. Pub is The Hub’s programme of funding for rural pubs has helped to bring Daniella and Stephen Moorby’s vision…
Pub field of dreams
Provide it and they will come! A pub in Breage near Helston in Cornwall is starting a monthly farmer’s market in the pub’s adjacent field along with a community allotment with the help of Pub is The Hub. The first one will take place at…