Not content with raising the money to buy, refurbish and re-open their much-loved village pub, residents at Marston in Lincolnshire have added a community café to their portfolio with help from Pub is The Hub. The Marston community re-opened The Thorold last November following a…
A new café at The Stag pub at Maidwell in Northants is serving up hot drinks, tasty snacks and meals for its local community and visitors with a sustainable conscience. Furniture in the café and outside on the patio has been rescued from a skip…
The Government’s Communities Secretary, Robert Jenrick, has announced renewed support for Pub is The Hub’s work with a £500,000 funding boost this weekend. This additional funding will enable a range of projects providing new, pub-based community services - from post offices and shops to libraries…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
