John and Lesley Berry from the Cholmeley Arms, Burton le Coggles near Grantham feature in a brand new pub industry campaign to celebrate Britain’s passion for pubs. The It’s Better Down The Pub campaign will encourage pub goers to share their experiences and highlight why they love…
The licensees of one of the Pub is The Hub diversification projects in Yorkshire has picked up a prestigious award in which their efforts to provide additional services to support their local community were cited. Ye Old Sun Inn licensees Kelly and Ashley McCarthy have…
Following the announcement last December that the Department for Communities and Local Government would contribute £150,000 to the appeal for a fund, with a further £50,000 kindly donated by Diageo PLC, the Community Services Grant is now live. The first four projects for the Pub…
Pub is The Hub won the award for the Best Industry Initiative for Local Community Services Champions at the prestigious annual awards for the pub industry – The Publican Awards. Held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 11th March 2013 and hosted by the…
Pub is The Hub partners, GreatCountryPubs.com has seen visits double since June 2012. The website, launched in November 2011 by Tourism South East, features hand-picked country pubs and inns and is benefitting a big boost in traffic after a strong consumer PR campaign. Number have continued to…
Pub is The Hub is set to expand its activities promoting community pubs with the help of a donation from CAMRA in December last year. The Campaign has made a donation of £18,000 to the organisation which helps licensees diversify into new business building activities.…
New community services fund boost for British pubs The rural pub services and community champions, Pub is The Hub, has today announced the launch of The New Community Services Fund to help UK pubs to diversify into new services provision for their own communities. John Longden, the…
Six months into the £1.3m local services initiative for Welsh pubs launched in March 2012 and the response has been encouraging. 52 pubs have expressed an interest in diversification with 38 pubs having more than one visit to discuss ideas. This has led to a…