This year's winner of the South Norfolk Community Pub of the Year 2017, the Green Dragon at Wymondham has won £500 towards running a community event as well as the honour of the award. Now in its ninth year, pub goers in South Norfolk are…
Farmer’s Arms embraces community’s kids
A Padstow pub has installed a community play area for local children with the support of Pub is The Hub's Community Services Fund. Award-winning tenants at the St Austell Brewery-owned Farmer's Arms, Dan Martland and Lisa Clarke have been running the pub three miles outside…
Carleton pub creates a community hub
Paul Selwood and his father Philip who run The Swan Inn at Carleton in Craven, have opened a community hub and coffee shop in the heart of the village that provides a warm and welcoming space from 8.30am to 12 noon, seven days a week. Here,…
A Clovenfords hotel saves the village shop
A Clovenfords hotel has opened a village shop and café on the premises to maintain the essential rural service and to save locals from having to make an eight-mile round trip to the nearest town of Galashiels. Roy and Theresa McIntosh of the award-winning Clovenfords…
Planning expert offers free support
Pub is The Hub has teamed up with an historic buildings and planning consultant to provide some help, free of charge, about heritage or planning questions to community groups and licensees. Dale Ingram MSc FRSA has specialist expertise in the conservation (alteration and repair) of historic pubs, both listed and…
Raising awareness for life-threatening allergy
Pub is The Hub has produced some posters in conjunction with the Anaphylaxis Campaign to raise awareness among pub owners and operators about severe allergic reactions and what to do if an emergency presents itself. Long-time supporter and friend of Pub is The Hub, Dick…
When the School Boy met Dainty Doris
The School Boy Inn pub at Norton, near Doncaster officially opened their new café and gift shop at the weekend called ‘Dainty Doris’. With a grant of £3000 from the Pub is The Hub’s Community Services Fund, Andy and Kirsty, owners of the freehouse for the last five years, have converted…
OBE opens pub deli…and tearoom!
Philip Hall OBE officially opened the new tearoom and deli 'Foodie Bouquet' along with other essential community services at The Wheatsheaf at West Beckham in Norfolk. Pub is The Hub’s programme of funding for rural pubs has helped to bring Daniella and Stephen Moorby’s vision…