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…
The opening of a new coffee shop at the Three Horseshoes in Fordham, Essex, is helping members of the local community get together. The pub was purchased by Moira Edwards just before the third Covid lockdown in 2020. Moira and her team like many pubs…
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…
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. …
Insights from publicans who are offering warm spaces to help support people in their local areas this winter The number of publicans offering their pubs as warm spaces and warm rooms, to help support people in their local areas in these challenging economic times, continues…
Pub-inspired songs, the power of welcoming creative groups to your pub and a poetry were all featured when Pub is The Hub featured in a ‘takeover’ of the Jon Wright show on BBC Radio Suffolk and BBC Radio Norfolk. PiTH’s regional advisor for East Anglia…
A weekly craft group being hosted at the community café at The Blue Bell The Blue Bell at Stoke Ferry, in Norfolk, is benefiting both the local creative community and this community-owned pub. The pub, which reopened in June (22) after being purchased by over…
Pub is The Hub is supporting a new national initiative from Creative Lives, an organisation that champions voluntary-led creative activity, to encourage publicans to welcome creative activities into their pubs. The ‘Pubs Welcoming Creativity’ campaign, which is also being championed by CAMRA, aims to encourage…
