Category: Community Services

Meet the Regional Advisor: insights from Nigel Williams PiTH advisor for Derbyshire and the North

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Pub is The Hub’s wonderful team of regional advisors continue to help great publicans to diversify and provide local services. In the third in our regular series putting a spotlight on our advisors, we learn more about advisor Nigel’s industry background, his experiences with pub diversification projects,…

Crafty idea at pub’s community café benefiting both locals and pub

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A weekly craft group being hosted at the community café at The Blue Bell The Blue Bell at Stoke Ferry, in Norfolk, is benefiting both the local creative community and this community-owned pub. The pub, which reopened in June (22) after being purchased by over…

Pubs highlighted as ‘incredible force for good’ by HRH in CAMRA’s ‘Good Beer Guide 2023

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The importance of the role of pubs and publicans in their local areas, and the work of Pub is The Hub in helping to support this, has been recognised by HRH King Charles in the foreword for the 50th edition of CAMRA’s ‘Good Beer Guide’.…

New community café at Norfolk pub helps connect locals, tackle food poverty and rural isolation

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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,…

Pub is The Hub to support Welsh pubs to offer new essential services after being awarded new £25K grant 

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Pub is The Hub will be supporting diversification projects for Welsh pubs after receiving a grant of £25,000 from The Prince’s Countryside Fund. Pub is The Hub is a not-for-profit organisation which offers independent specialist advice to publicans on rural services diversification so they can…

Meet the team: Nicky Harris, Pub is The Hub’s Community Services Fund administrator

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  Nicky shares insights on the work and achievements of the Community Services Fund, including tips to publicans looking to diversify their pub’s services   Getting involved with PiTH: Our chief executive John Longden heard I  had a background in administration, having worked in independent …