29 Market Street, Tamworth, B79 7LR
Albion Road, Marden, TN12 9DT
Riviera Centre, Torquay
11-13 April 2025
23 Haltwhistle Road, South Woodham Ferrers, CM3 5ZA
Unit 11, Valley Point Industrial Estate, Beddington Farm Road, Beddington, CR0 4WP
Argyle Place, Love Road, Lowestoft, NR32 2NZ
116, Foregate Street, Chester, Chester, CH1 2HH
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.
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.
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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