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Pub Saving and Heritage Awards

The Pub Saving Award recognises people that have come together to save a pub that would have otherwise been demolished or converted to another use. It aims to secure publicity for pub-saving campaigns to encourage others to save their local.

Nominate a Pub for the Pub Saving Award

Nominations are now open and will close on 12 November 2024. Use the forms below to share your story.

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Pub Saving Award

Eligibility and Success Criteria

Groups who are eligible for the Pub Saving Award must have carried out campaigning activity that has directly led to the prevention of a pub or pubs being closed during the year ending 1 November 2024.

The judges will consider the following factors when deliberating the winner of the award, which you may wish to reference when writing your nomination:

  • How the campaign was established, how it set its objectives and how it planned to achieve them.

  • How the campaign gathered evidence and information relevant to its campaign.

  • How the campaign engaged with the community and with pub users.

  • How the campaign achieved publicity for its aims and objectives.

  • How the campaign went about lobbying and influencing decision-makers.

  • The successes the campaign achieved.

If the nature of the campaign was more general than saving a specific pub, some of these factors will have more weight than others. For example, if the campaign managed to influence decision makers, this will be viewed as a major element.

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2024 Winner

Old Horn Inn – Old Horn Community Pub Society

The Old Horn Inn, a pub over 200 years old, closed suddenly in 2022 with planning application submitted to convert it into housing. As a vital community hub for the people of Spennithorne and Harmby, plus surrounding areas of North Yorkshire, villagers banded together to form the Old Horn Community Group to protect the pub from this fate.

An epic campaign began to bring the Old Horn into community ownership, raising £180,000 from over 140 investors in under two months. On 16th June 2023 the community became the proud owners of the Old Horn.

What followed was a mammoth renovation effort, enlisting a team of volunteers, ranging from teenagers to pensioners. The pub reopened to the public 21 May 2024, putting the heart back into the village, providing a community hub to combat social exclusion.

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Pub Saving Awards 2024 Winner
Pub Saving Awards 2024 Runner-up

2024 Runner-up

Chequers Inn - Roxwell Chequers Community Benefit Society

The Chequers Inn in Roxwell, Essex, had been closed since January 2020. With the pub under threat of being converted to housing, the Roxwell Chequers Community Benefit Society (RCCBS) was formed, with the aim to raise the funds to buy and refurbish the Chequers Inn, re-establishing it as a homely, traditional country pub.

The two-year project generated great enthusiasm and commitment from the village of Roxwell and surrounding area, with public meetings regularly attracting over 150 people. The campaign even drew supporters from as far as Australia and the USA.

In 2024, the parish of 1,100 people managed to raise a total of £675k from shareholders and grant funding to buy and renovate the Chequers Inn, with ownership being transferred to the community in April. This was made possible through the amazing £400k share issue in March 2024, the successful Community Ownership application and an array of local funding activities.

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