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03 Nov 2025

The Lion Roars For Community Connection

The Lion at Ickleton, near Saffron Walden, Cambridgeshire, has opened a community café to provide a safe space to help people connect and socialise. The pub, which was reopened in...

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20 Oct 2025

Funding Boost To Help Village Pubs Serve Communities

Rural pubs to receive funding to help broaden their services  As part of the Plan for Change, projects include community cafes, village stores and play areas  For every £1 invested...

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14 Apr 2025

Pub Is The Hub Highlights Its Local Services Work To Mps At BBPA’s House Of Commons Event

Pub is The Hub’s chief executive John Longden and Reg Clarke and Roger Walker of PiTH’s advisory team attended the BBPA’s Lease and Tenanted Showcase at the House of Commons...

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18 Feb 2025

Pubs can be the solution to rural challenges

Publicans and their pubs can be the solution to many of the problems faced in rural areas, Pub is The Hub chief executive John Longden OBE has said. The statement...

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02 Oct 2023

RSN backs calls for more support for village pubs

A new report from the independent, not-for-profit think tank, Localis reveals the true social and economic value pubs bring to communities across England.  Inn-valuable has looked at both first-hand evidence and...

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27 Mar 2023

Pub is The Hub helps pubs to diversify and provide essential local services

Pub is The Hub is a not-for-profit organisation, which offers independent specialist advice to publicans on rural services diversification or the options for the community ownership of pubs, so they...

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13 Feb 2023

Researching the adapting rural economy

Seven new research projects to examine how rural enterprises are adapting to the major challenges affecting the economy are to be undertaken. The National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE)...

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13 Feb 2023

Owners of rural pubs say their industry is ‘at risk’ due to rising costs

ITV news reports that owners of rural pubs and restaurants have been saying their industry is “at risk” because of the cost-of-living crisis One landlord near Taunton has seen numerous...

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04 Apr 2022

Rural pubs rescued with levelling up funds

The Government has announced they will use their levelling up fund to support pubs in rural communities across England Pubs serving remote communities in England saved by government intervention that...

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