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Greene King aim to build Nest to last

26-Mar-2024 By Ed Bedington

As Greene King launch its first Nest franchise site, the MA caught up with franchise operations director Penny Baldwin to find out more.

The Lock In Podcast

Snowball anyone? Anyone?

18-Dec-2023 By Ed Bedington

The Lock In team take a look at Christmas, from how to handle the irregular customers (Doreen from Accounts, we're looking at you) through to nostalgic tipples!

Community hero gets £10,000 boost

16-Nov-2023 By Ed Bedington

Community events at an award winning pub have been given a £10,000 boost from Coca-Cola, following its success at the Great British Pub Awards.

Pubs community role needs recognising

13-Nov-2023 By Ed Bedington

The Government needs to recognise and support the important role pubs play in the community, according to the chief executive of a leading family brewer.

£90,000 raised to help tackle loneliness

08-Nov-2023 By Ed Bedington

A charity to help solve the challenges of loneliness has been given a £90,000 boost thanks to a glittering gala ball hosted by Heineken UK.

The Lock In Podcast

Giving pubs a sporting chance

09-May-2023 By Ed Bedington

Sport and pubs often go hand in hand, but are we making enough of the opportunity sporting events provide? Despite a total lack of understanding or interest in sports, the Lock In team take a look at the topic, with a little expert help from special guests.

‘The more you give back, the more they support you’

21-Oct-2022 By Ed Bedington

The Morning Advertiser's Ed Bedington caught up with award winning operator Adrian Emmett of The Lion Treorchy to hear his take on the week's news which has seen yet another Prime Minister brought step down.

'We are part of the community, and that's what we're at risk of losing'

19-Aug-2022 By Ed Bedington

The Morning Advertiser's Ed Bedington catches up with Isle of Wight operator Gav Young to discuss some of the key issues of the week from tax rebalancing, to price hikes and soaring energy costs.

Great British Pub Awards

GBPA Best Community finalists spend donation

16-Mar-2022 By The Morning Advertiser

Following being named finalists at last year’s Great British Pub Awards in the Best Community Pub category, we’ve revealed how a number of the pubs spent funding provided to them to support local causes.

Micropubs ‘bring communities back together’

08-Dec-2021 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Micropubs strip pubs back to traditional values of “friendship” and “conversation” and “bring communities back together” said the founder of the world’s first micropub Martyn Hillier.

GBPA Community Hero: The Last Post & Remembrance Bar

29-Sep-2021 By Ed Bedington

Community operations have really come to the fore during the coronavirus crisis and one pub certainly stood out, taking home the title of Community Hero in the Great British Pub Awards 2021.

Coca-Cola community cash for Great British Pub Awards category

11-Jun-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

Pubs entering the Great British Pub Awards Community Hero category are in with the chance of scooping a £10,000 bonus for a registered charity or good cause of their choice.

New report highlights social value of pubs to communities

13-May-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

New research has revealed the social value of pubs to their communities through providing local services.

Publican Awards 2021

Best Community Pub Operator - Greene King

31-Mar-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

Suffolk-based Greene King bagged a hat-trick at this year’s Publican Awards, including the prize for Best Community Pub Operator.

13 community-owned pubs opened in 2020

31-Mar-2021 By Stuart Stone

A new report from community business charity The Plunkett Foundation has uncovered increased demand for support to help communities regain control of essential local services over the past year.

Publican Awards 2021

Meet the finalists: Best Community Pub Operator

26-Mar-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

There are four finalists in the Best Community Pub Operator category, sponsored by Britvic, at the 2021 Publican Awards.

Spring Budget 2021

Communities can bid for £250k to save local pub

04-Mar-2021 By Emily Hawkins

Brits will be able to use a £150m fund to help them take ownership of pubs and other community venues at risk of closure.

Pub staff skills 'vital in fight against loneliness and isolation'

02-Feb-2021 By Emily Hawkins

A new survey has highlighted the devastating impact of pub closures on communities and isolated individuals.

Pubs provide lockdown meals to those struggling

21-Jan-2021 By Emily Hawkins

Pubs have stepped up to help their communities amid a tough third lockdown in England.

Pubs' stories needed to help with report to Government

06-Jan-2021 By Ed Bedington

Pubs that have stepped up to help their local community are being urged to get involved with a report to celebrate the sector and showcase their role to Government.

Tier 2 ‘not fair on customers or owners’ of wet-led pubs

01-Dec-2020 By Emily Hawkins

One tier two operator has described his disappointment over being unable to reopen his "proper locals' pub" after lockdown.

Property round-up

Portobello Brewery acquires 13 Antic sites, Hackney Brewery launches brewery and taproom crowdfund

25-Nov-2020 By Stuart Stone

In addition to news of the revival of dormant pubs in Cambridgeshire and Herefordshire, Portobello Brewery, Hackney Brewery and Rosewell Estates have provided updates on the future of their trading estates.

Opinion

Destroying our nation's heritage

05-Nov-2020 By Steve Alton

We are a nation of pub lovers. To us they represent more than just places to eat and drink, they are the places that we connect as people.

Meet the GBPA Pub Heroes finalists – Community Services

17-Aug-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

One positive thing that came out of the coronavirus lockdown was the incredible community spirit people across the nation showed and pubs highlighted how important they are, even when their doors were closed.

Meet the GBPA Pub Heroes finalists - Community Mindfulness

17-Aug-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Pubs stepped in to ensure the mental wellbeing of their communities as the coronavirus pandemic brought with it unprecedented challenges for people in all walks of life.

Birthplace of world's second oldest football club saved after community campaign

05-Aug-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Supporters of a historic football pub in Sheffield have welcomed the news that city councillors have kicked proposals to demolish it into touch.

Great British Pub Awards

Are you a GBPA Hero? Community Services

23-Jul-2020 By Ed Bedington

The corona crisis saw pubs come into their own within their local communities, stepping up to ensure vulnerable people were looked after.

Pubs continue loneliness schemes amid coronavirus fears

11-Mar-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Pubs are continuing outreach schemes that help the most isolated members of their communities despite the nation’s fears over coronavirus.

MA500

Give more reasons to visit a pub, says Fugitive Motel boss

13-Feb-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Pubs must adapt to the needs of modern communities to stay relevant, according to David Burgess, co-founder of Fugitive Motel.

Community pubs plea for recognition in election

25-Nov-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Many community pubs act as a lifeline for residents of rural areas with little else around them. Ahead of the general election on 12 December, The Morning Advertiser asked the volunteers and publicans behind the bar at these sites what they would say...

Pubs ‘thinking pink’ for stem cell drive

28-May-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Pub operators will help a charity recruit stem cell and bone marrow donors this summer, with businesses including Fuller’s, Yummy Pubs and Cirrus Inns set to rally customers.

Pubco Beerhouses celebrates 25 years with events series

20-May-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Northern pub group Beerhouses is celebrating a quarter of a century in business with a series of charity events.

Pint of Science festival returns for 7th year

15-Apr-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Operators are set to welcome scientists into their pubs next month as the Pint of Science festival enters its seventh year.

Community-bought pub opens after village effort

22-Mar-2019 By Emily Hawkins

The new licensees at a pub saved by its community say they are delighted to see the site back in business.

Community fights to save Merseyside pub from development

25-Jan-2019 By Emily Hawkins

The proposed residential development of a Merseyside pub has been opposed by a community campaign which wants the pub to reopen and host a dementia café.

Pubs are helping customers use the Internet

08-Nov-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Pubs are opening their doors to punters who need help getting online and providing digital support, as local libraries face closures. The Morning Advertiser spoke to one licensee about how to set up a technology hub.

Council to buy 'derelict' pub after community campaign

29-Oct-2018 By Emily Hawkins

The Forest of Dean District Council has voted to buy a derelict pub in order to secure the improvement of the well-being of a village community.

Herefordshire villagers bid to buy 'only pub for miles'

02-Aug-2018 By Emily Hawkins

A community in Herefordshire has banded together in a bid to save their only village pub as it is put up for auction by the Ei Group.

Pubco Punch unveils Urban Oasis bar concept in Bath

27-Apr-2018 By James Wallin, MCA

Punch, the Patron Capital-backed pubco, is to launch its Urban Oasis high street bar format in Bath with plans for further openings, MCA understands.

Community Pubs Minister praises Pub is The Hub for helping North Yorkshire local

05-Sep-2017 By Georgina Townshend

A Yorkshire pub that has opened a village shop and a bakery in its bar, thanks to Pub is The Hub, has been hailed by Jake Berry MP because it has enabled him to buy an Italian aubergine – "possibly one of the most unusual items to be found in a pub...

Carling unveils community campaign

03-Apr-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Carling has launched a campaign to give something back to communities and customers across the UK.

Percy pledges Government support for community pubs

16-Jan-2017 By Liam Coleman

Pubs minister Andrew Percy has called on UK pub companies and drinks manufacturers to support community pub movements, such as Pub is the Hub.

Legislation

CAMRA calls for permanent measures to help pubs avoid closing

04-Jan-2017 By Sara Hussein

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has called for permanent measures for pubs registered as assets of community value (ACV). 

Legislation

‘Targeted by supermarkets’: Save the Pub Group could protect pubs under amended planning law

13-Dec-2016 By Sara Hussein

The Parliamentary Save the Pub Group has put forward an amendment to planning proposals that would give more protection to pubs. 

Camden publican bars 'hypocrites in cardigans' following ACV nomination against his will

13-Nov-2015 By Emily Sutherland

A Camden pub owner angered by his pubs asset of community value listing has branded the community group who nominated it ‘hypocrites in cardigans’ and barred them from the venue.

Community Pubs

Pubs minister checks out a book with his pint

28-Sep-2015 By Mike Berry

Pubs minister Marcus Jones popped into the Star Inn at Vogue near Redruth to look at the pub’s library on a recent trip to Cornwall.

Pub is the Hub secures £100k funding

23-Mar-2015 By Ellie Bothwell

Pub is the Hub has secured a £100,000 injection of funding from the Government for its Community Services Fund that will go directly to pubs that are looking to diversify.

Rural pubs worth up to £120k to community

13-Oct-2014 By James Wallin

The first scientific study of the impact of pubs on rural communities has proved they are “a vital service the countryside cannot afford to lose”.

A new sense of hope and purpose around pubs

10-Sep-2014 By Pete Brown

Pete Brown looks at why pubs being valued as community assets gives reasons to be both concerned and optimistic.

Marston’s chief blames politicians for piling financial pressures on to marginal pubs

20-Aug-2014 By James Wallin

The chief executive of Marston’s has written to a campaigner trying to save one of the brewer’s pubs from closure to say the actions of politicians have hit community locals hard.