The Blue Bell in Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, has opened a community café to provide a place for locals to meet up, socialise and help combat loneliness. The pub, which reopened in June, after being purchased by over 400 members of the community in June 2021,…
A new grocery store and coffee shop at the Marquis of Granby in Granby, Nottinghamshire, is proving a popular lifeline for local residents. The pub is owned by wife and husband team Sara Barton and Sean McArdle, who also run the Brewster’s Brewery at Grantham,…
Yorkshire publicans Sharon and Martin Hincks have opened a community café at the Bosville Arms in Rudston, near Bridlington, to provide a place for locals to meet up and socialise. As well as offering a place for local people to get together it also appeals…
The Locks Inn in Geldeston, Norfolk has opened a new community café area to help create a social hub for local residents. A warm welcome will be given at the café to everyone in the local community, with the aim of encouraging people who may…
A Kent pub has transformed a disused outbuilding into a farm shop and community café, thanks to the expert help and a Community Services Fund grant from Pub is The Hub, the not-for-profit organisation that helps pubs to diversify and provide essential local services. Licensee…
Publicans Chris Nilsson and Beverley Cooper have opened a new community café at the White Horse in Corton, Suffolk, to support local residents. The publicans, who have run the pub for five years, rallied to help people in the local area during lockdown by delivering…
Devon publicans Selena and Steve Porter have opened a new farm shop and café at the Shipwright Arms in Shaldon near Teignmouth to help residents stay local for shopping as lockdown eases. The couple took on the pub in December 2019 just months before the…
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…
