Cooperative

Government launches scheme to encourage residents to buy shares in local pub

09-Oct-2012 By Gurjit Degun

The Government is helping to save local pubs by launching a new scheme to help residents claim a stake and become part-owners of local assets.

Community bids to save York pub under Cooperative Enterprise Hub scheme

04-Jul-2012 By Gurjit Degun

The Golden Ball in York is the latest pub to be saved from closure as part of the Co-operative Enterprise Hub, which aims to help communities form a co-operative to save local businesses.

Pub co-operatives: creating a dream team

25-Oct-2010 By Phil Mellows

Pub co-operatives are one way of saving community locals under threat. Phil Mellows investigates the effectiveness of the business model. There can...

Plunkett Foundation: we'll help pub co-ops

13-Sep-2010 By John Harrington

A support package has been promised to help communities that want to buy their local pubs, after the Government pulled the plug on funding.

William Hague joins pub co-op

14-Apr-2010

Former Tory leader William Hague has teamed-up with 150 members of his constituency to re-open a pub. Hague, MP for Richmond in Yorkshire, is part...

Healey starts with a pub crawl

18-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team

The newly-appointed pubs minister John Healey was on his rounds last week visiting pubs in his Wentworth constituency.