A community café at the Fishers Arms in Horncliffe, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, is bringing local people and groups together to help combat loneliness and isolation. Expert help and a Community Services Fund grant from Pub is The Hub, the not-for-profit organisation that helps pubs…
Repair Café helps to build connections at Norfolk pub
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…
Fordham pub opens new coffee shop to provide meeting place for the local community
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…
Creative activities key to unlocking low season trade
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…
Box clever with self-led crafting idea
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. …
Community hot-spots
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 is The Hub ‘takeover’ BBC Radio Show
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…
Crafty idea at pub’s community café benefiting both locals and pub
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…