Pub is The Hub is supporting the Chatty Café scheme that asks venues to set aside a Chatter and Natter table where customers can sit if they are happy to talk to other customers and will pay the first year’s membership for pubs with cafes.…
Happy 10th birthday to the Raven
This weekend, The Raven Inn in Llanarmon-yn-Ial, Denbighshire, North Wales will celebrate its 10th year as a community leased and run pub by holding a mini festival, including family fun day, live music and barbeque. In 2009 it was closed and facing re-development so it…
New guide supports rural survival
The Prince’s Countryside Fund – a charity founded by HRH The Prince of Wales to help the British countryside to flourish – has launched their Village Survival Guide, a vibrant manual filled with tips and advice on how to build a strong community. This colourful…
Live pub theatre awarded national funding
Inn Crowd, the live theatre in pubs initiative started in 2016, has been awarded £525,000 funding from Arts Council England to cover the next four years up to August 2022. Inn Crowd is a partnership project with Pub is The Hub from Applause Rural Touring,…
Community’s triple boost to services
A community in Beeston in north west Norfolk have not only re-opened the local pub using their own cash to buy shares, they have added a shop and café in a triple boost to their local services. The Ploughshare at Beeston had been closed for…
Shop bell rings again with team effort
The Bell Inn at Lower Broadheath near Worcester now boasts a shop and post office in its garden, courtesy of the Lower Broadheath community, the National Lottery, The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation, The Plunkett Foundation, Ei Group and Pub is The Hub. Local MP Harriett…
Norfolk pub gallops ahead with community appeal
The Horse and Groom at Tunstead officially opened its new café and games room this week as part of the pub's ongoing revival as a community hub. Situated in the adjacent barn the games room offers traditional pub games alongside a café area linking the…
Dragon deli delights
Community-owned pub, the Green Dragon at Exelby near Bedale has opened its brand-new shop and café, employing three new local people. The creation of the delicatessen shop and café is the latest development since the Green Dragon was taken over by the community and re-opened…