National Lottery

Industry welcomes £250m fund to help save community assets including pubs

07-Jun-2013 By Helen Gilbert

The industry has welcomed plans to award local communities £250m in grants and loans to help them buy pubs, shops and community centres.

New Heritage Lottery Fund to put pubs under the spotlight

19-Feb-2013 By Adam Pescod

Pubs could benefit from a new funding programme aimed at helping people across the UK explore, conserve and share the history and character of their local area.

Pub is the Hub launches new fund to help pubs diversify

06-Dec-2012 By Michelle Perrett

Pub is the Hub has announced the launch of the New Community Services Fund to help UK pubs to diversify into new services for their own communities.

Second Community Champions programme launched

26-Jul-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Pub is the Hub has launched its 2nd Community Champions programme in Suffolk — it aims to help pubs become local service champions.

TV show for grant-aided pub rescue

23-Jun-2011 By Gurjit Degun

Village pubs doomed for closure are set to receive an extra boost this summer as a BBC television series follows a Wiltshire community group that...

Community pub plan launched

31-Mar-2011 By Graham Ridout

Pub is the Hub has officially launched its Community Champions programme, which aims to help pubs become local community service champions. Director...

'Lottery funding can help pubs diversify'

30-Mar-2011 By Graham Ridout

Licensees of rural pubs have been urged to look at the opportunities to improve their businesses via lottery funding. The call was made by Ed...

Lottery grant will help pub diversification

18-May-2010 By John Harrington

A new training programme to help communities unite to diversify pubs is to be launched in 10 regions of the country. It's thanks to a £470,000 Big...

Pub is the Hub gets half a million pounds of lottery money

18-May-2010 By James Wilmore

Pub is the Hub - the not-for-profit group that helps pubs diversify - is set to expand thanks to a grant of nearly half a million pounds from the Big...

Fruit and quiz machines need advertising, new research reveals

23-Jan-2008

New research suggests quiz and fruit machine companies need to use advertising to change customers' perceptions and increase returns for...

Lifting lid on unclaimed lottery prizes

25-Sep-2003

I am sure you are as surprised as I am when you read that a major prize in the National Lottery has not been claimed for months, especially if they...

That's entertainment

29-Apr-2003

Organising games and events can attract new customers to keep them coming back. Phil Mellows reports.There are plenty of different kinds of events to...