Committee Meeting 31 March 2022 Agenda Feedback on lessons from our visits Architects plans so far Creating our vision. Next steps AOB The Steering Group met to review the lessons we had learned which could be summarised by the following The more you involve the community the better However rules need to be established early. …
Another interesting meeting with the board of The Holly Bush Seighford http://www.thehollybushinseighford.co.uk/ last night. Again an example of a community purchasing a pub themselves and making it a success. They had initially utilised the services of Titanic to manage the pub for them but after a few years, they had mutually agreed that the wet-led …
Report of Meeting with Sam Hughes From the Royal Oak Phil, Alan, Gary, Stave and myself met with Sam Hughes Chair of THE RUSHTON OAK COMMUNITY PUB LTD on Tuesday 15th March. They are a Co-operative Society for Community Benefit of about 150 members that have bought the Royal Oak, Rushton Spencer to “reverse its …
Last night 28 Feb 2022, we managed to visit The White Hart at Alton for another “How was it for you?” session. Phil, Alan, Simon Evans and myself met with Tom and John from Alton. It was clear that they had tried many different things and learned much. The key learning that they gave was:- …
As part of the factfinding and information gathering process, the Steering Committee visited The Auctioneers Arms at Caverswall. This is a community-owned pub that was threatened by demolition before it was taken into community ownership. This is so that we will be able to recommend an appropriate, long term, the business model for The Holly …
At the committee meeting held at the Village Hall at 7.30pm members elected Philip Berrisford as Chairman, Nigel Owen as Treasurer, and Peter Turner as Secretary. The group started to discuss how they were going to come up with a prospectus so that the CIC would be able to be formed. It was agreed that …
Following the appeal in the Parish News for people to come forward to form a steering group, 13 people joined the group. Their first task is to develop a strategy that will eventually lead to the long term retention of the village pub and once and for all remove any threat to its future. Members …