Great British Bake Off winner Candice Brown has hosted a Thank You BBQ at her pub to celebrate local legends and help inspire other pubs to get involved ahead of thank You Day on Sunday, 7 July. Candice was joined at The Green Man in…
Give thanks: Publicans encouraged to help celebrate the contribution of volunteers to their local areas this Thank You Day
Pubs across the UK are being invited to get involved in this year’s Thank You Day, https://thankyouday.org.uk, on Sunday, 7 July to help recognise the volunteers and people in their communities who make a real difference to the lives of local people. Since 2021, Thank…
Box clever: publicans running rural pubs in Wales invited to apply for free craft boxes to help locals get creative
Pub is The Hub and Creative Lives are offering rural pubs in Wales the opportunity to get a free creative community box, full of art and drawing materials, to help encourage self-led creative activities in their pubs. The boxes, which are being provided through funding…
Publicans encouraged to ‘Make Space For Music’ to help support community groups
A membership organisation representing leisure-time music groups across the UK is appealing to publicans to help host groups increasingly struggling to find meeting spaces. Making Music, who represent around 4,000 leisure time groups and support people to come together in their communities to make or…
Repair Café helps to build connections at Norfolk pub
The strapline of The Blue Bell Pub & Café in Stoke Ferry, Norfolk is ‘More than a pub – a community hub’ and with its ever-growing range of exciting activities it has become a social and creative hub for local people. Among the successful activities…
Creating connections through creativity at Cornwall’s Trelowarren Arms
Anna and Martin Cavanagh, publicans of community-focused village pub The Trelowarren Arms at Budock Water, Cornwall, use creativity focused events and initiatives to help engage different groups within their local area and bring new people in to the pub. Among key ways the couple, who…
Creative activities key to unlocking low season trade
Insights from Norfolk pub The Locks Inn on how they have unlocked the opportunity around welcoming creative groups to the pub...... Community-owned The Locks Inn at Geldeston, www.thelocksinn.com, on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, is a pub that has seen a big benefit from welcoming creative groups…
Crafty idea: how a West Yorkshire pub’s warm welcome to creative groups is helping local crafters and the pub
Publicans Eileen and Jock Geater and daughter Jess Harvey have worked hard to establish a pub at the heart of its local community since taking over The George, at Birkenshaw near Bradford, after lockdown in April 2021. Examples of the strong community spirit the trio…