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Pub Saving Award

The Pub Saving Awards 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.

2025 Winner

New Clarence

The New Clarence is Hull's first community-owned pub and is the first city centre pub to win CAMRA’s Pub Saving Awards. The high land value of high streets and city centres makes pubs an enticing target for greedy developers, and as a result, much harder for campaigners to save than their rural counterparts. The judges were incredibly impressed with the group’s achievement of saving the New Clarence.

The Pub Saving Awards celebrate communities who have rallied together to fight for their local, saving the pub from a grim fate of conversion or even demolition. The awards put these campaigns in the spotlight, inspiring others to investigate community ownership for their local.

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Pub Saving Awards 2025 Winner
Pub Saving Awards 2025 Runner-up

2025 Runner-up

Golden Lion

The only pub in the village of Ashton Hayes was at risk of being turned into private housing when the previous owner of the 300-year-old building closed it in early 2013 and neglected the pub for 12 years.

The local community applied for the pub to be registered as an Asset of Community Value (ACV) and have spent over a decade campaigning to save it. By raising almost £250,000, including share offers from as far as Australia, and a £360,000 grant from the now discontinued Community Ownership Fund, the local community completed the purchase of the Golden Lion in June 2024.

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2025 Runner-up

The George

The last remaining pub in the village of Wickham Market, the George, is a 500-year-old Grade II listed pub which was devastated by a fire in 2013. Despite the destruction, the burnt-out pub was in danger of being demolished by a private developer with the intention to develop the site, beginning an epic 12-year campaign to restore and reopen it as a community-owned pub.

450 shareholders investing over £400,000 and the Lottery Heritage Fund awarding the campaign £1.5m, alongside other grants such as the now discontinued Community Ownership Fund, meant the restoration project was given the go-ahead in July 2023.

(photo is by Alex Seinet)

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Pub Saving Awards 2025 Runner-up

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