Community Pub

Brighton pub serves award winning meals on wheels to community

20-Oct-2021 By Rebecca Weller

The UK’s only community owned pub on a housing estate, The Bevy, Brighton, has won the prestigious NACC award for Meals on Wheels services.

Britain’s most remote pub saved by local community

13-Oct-2021 By Rebecca Weller

The Old Forge in Inverie, listed as the Guinness World Records most remote pub in mainland Britain, has received £508,000 through the Scottish Land Fund (SLF) after months of fundraising.

Community pub opens cinema in time for tonight’s England game

03-Jul-2018 By Claire Churchard

The recently restored Boot Inn at Freston, Suffolk, has opened a community cinema and will screen England’s World Cup match against Columbia tonight (Tuesday 3 July).

Neil Morrissey to open second pub

07-Jun-2018 By MCA and MA staff

Actor Neil Morrissey has secured a second site for his fledgling pub company, MA's sister title MCA understands.

Pub is the Hub showcases Cornish community pubs to MPs

04-Jun-2018 By Claire Churchard

Pub is the Hub showcased the work of pubs that are diversifying their offer in Cornwall by inviting MPs Mike Wood and Steve Double to see how it supports pubs in providing community services in rural and remote parts of the country.

Pubs hit by flash floods as storms lash UK

30-May-2018 By Claire Churchard

A pub in Gravesend was flooded for the second time in three days after thunderstorms battered the UK.

Pub saved from closure named Britain's best by CAMRA

28-Feb-2018 By Stuart Stone

The Cricketers Arms in St Helens, Merseyside, has won the Campaign to Save Real Ale Pub of the Year award just five years after it was boarded up for closure.

'This pub is my world' claims licensee of Community Pub of the Year

15-Nov-2016 By Liam Coleman

Simon Delaney from the Firbank in Manchester, who won Community Pub of the Year at this year's Great British Pub Awards, talks about the secrets of running a true community local.

Pub Awards: Best Community Pub – Chapins & The Cellar Bar, Boscombe

10-Sep-2015 By PMA

A community pub can mean many things to many people, but when it comes to a pub like Chaplin’s, there’s no doubting that not only is it at the heart of its community, the community is at the heart of everything they do as well.

Sawday’s Pub Awards 2015: the winners

27-Jul-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

The latest edition of Sawday’s Special Places: Pubs & Inns will hit bookshelves on August 3, featuring a comprehensive guide to over 1,000 of the country’s pubs as well as the winners of Sawday’s Pub Awards 2015/16.

Awards

Surrey pub honoured for turnaround following blaze

02-Jul-2015 By Oli Gross

A Surrey pub which was devastated by a fire last year has been crowned Pub of the Year in the annual Shepherd Neame Pub Awards.

Video: ITV's Tonight programme on survival of British pub

18-Dec-2014 By Jo Bruce

ITV’s ‘Tonight’ programme, screened on ITV last night (Thursday, 18 December), focused on the threat to the British pub.

Kings Head crowned Pride of Hooky

07-May-2013 By Noli Dinkovski

A Warwickshire pub has scooped the top honour at an annual awards run by an Oxfordshire brewer.

Excellence prevails, in spite of the economy

15-Sep-2011 By The PMA Team

Adversity often brings out the best in people. This has more than been revealed in this year’s Great British Pub Awards (GBPA).

Marston's names pub of the year

30-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit

The Mustard Pot in Leeds has been crowned Marston's Pub of the Year 2010. The Chapel Allerton pub also scooped the top award in the entreprenuerial...

Horse & Hound: home turf

22-Jul-2010 By Robyn Black

Lucy Agnew, licensee of the Horse & Hound tells Robyn Black why coming out of retirement to rejuvenate a community pub was the right move.

Pub celebrates 30th charity walk

08-May-2009

An award winning pub is celebrating the 30th anniversary of a charity walk that has raised £450,000 for good causes.More than 300 people are...

Pub sends its Love to local troops

01-Oct-2008

A community pub is demonstrating its support for troops in Afghanistan and Iraq by sending them Boxes of Love.The Dragon in Werrington, near...

Seven million new people will visit the pub after the smoking ban, says new research

20-Feb-2007

Seven millions people will go the pub when the smoking ban is introduced, says a new survey by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). In its survey of...

Pub rewarded for its outdoor space

18-Oct-2006

The Royal Oak in Worcestershire was named the pub in the Union Pub Company estate which is making the best use of its outdoor space at the pubco's...

Managed pubcos drive food sales growth

28-Feb-2006

Managed pub operators are reaping the benefits of investment in growing food sales across their community pub estates in anticipation of the smoking...