The Gaggle of Geese at Buckland Newton in Dorset is creating its own cider and apple juice in a village-wide community venture with support from rural pub champions, Pub is The Hub. Simon and Sarah Colquhoun who own and run the Gaggle of Geese pub…
Calling last orders for loneliness
Pub is The Hub has launched Join Inn – Last Orders for Loneliness to combat loneliness and isolation through services and activities provided by pubs in a £100,000 two-year pilot programme that is being funded by HEINEKEN UK. The initiative was inspired by the Jo…
White Horse gallops to the rescue
A new shop at the White Horse at Corton in Suffolk was officially opened by village resident and pub-goer, 91-year-old David Williams, returning an essential service to the community. The village lost its shop over 18 months ago so Beverley Cooper and her partner Chris…
We’re getting chatty
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.…
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…
Greene King increases its support
Greene King has increased its annual support for Pub is The Hub's advisory activities and Community Services Fund to £25,000. This is the sixth year of Greene King’s support, now totalling £100,000. Pub is The Hub provides a range of free advice to licensees, communities…
Bird in Bush leads community services revival
The Bird in Bush pub is leading a community services revival in Elsdon in Northumberland thanks to its enthusiastic owners, a community determined to keep its pub and support from Pub is The Hub, The Prince's Countryside Fund and The People's Postcode Lottery. The pub…