Feedback

Community Feedback Many pub schemes benefit the vulnerable, elderly or isolated residents in rural areas who are now given a reason to get out of their house to visit the pub’s post office, pick up some cash, watch a classic film, meet friends at the pub’s coffee shop or learn how to get online and…

Supporting Act

Pub is The Hub celebrates support of successful project that helped bring live performances to rural pubs. Pub is The Hub is delighted to have provided support to arts project INN CROWD to help bring quality live literature and spoken word performances to thousands of people living in rural areas in England. Its funding support…

Kent pub opens community café as meeting place to support locals

The opening of a new community café at The George in Bethersden, Kent, is helping to bring local people together, creating new ways for them to connect and bringing new meaning to the phrase ‘popping to the local’. The George Café, which launched a month after the pub reopened as a community enterprise, provides an…

Cumbrian pub opens village store to help local residents

Publicans Rebecca and Joseph Richards have come to the rescue of local residents by opening a new village store at The Royal Oak Hotel in Beckermet, Cumbria. The village store was opened with the expert help and a Community Services Fund grant from Pub is The Hub, the not-for-profit organisation that helps pubs to diversify…

Seeding connections: publicans encouraged to get local people involved in national #BillionSeedChallenge

Together Coalition, www.together.org.uk, an organisation that brings individuals, community groups/organisations and businesses together to help build kinder, more connected communities, is calling on publicans to bring their customers together behind its new #BillionSeedChallenge, using the pub as a hub for planting initiatives in their local area. Inspired by how much local people relied upon and…