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Newsletter May 2015

Happy Start of Summer!

It does not seem two minutes since we were wishing you all Happy New Year and now with the cricket starting at Lords this week we usher in what hopefully will be a glorious summer. Over the last four months the committee have been busy working on your behalf to find some new tenants to take over the pub. You would have thought that this would have been easy! Well we underestimated the work it would take.

The economic climate has changed greatly in the four years since we last tried to recruit and the number of people showing interest in our type of venture appeared to have dwindled. We have run a significant advertising campaign and have sent information to hundreds of pub landlords to make people aware of the opportunity that we have to offer.

After a very poor start, thankfully our efforts paid off and over 25 people from around the area and as far as the Isle of Skye showed interest. Showing interest is one thing, but then translating that into actual applications is another. After speaking to people and sending them detailed information we received applications from seven candidates who were shortlisted to four, all of whom we asked to develop full business plans so that we could see how they would manage the business, and most importantly, run the Foresters as we would like it to be run.

Newsletter January 2015

Happy New Year!

May we be the last to wish you and your families a Happy New Year. Under normal circumstances there would be no need for us to contact you at this time of the year as business normally ticks over with our pub as we all settle into January, with the only real thing on the horizon being the need for the male contingent to remember to book a table and rose for the valentines evening!

However, we have some significant news about something that has emerged last week that we need to share with you and therefore in writing this newsletter we also thought we would take the opportunity to bring you up to date with the position of our membership.

At Christmas we reflected on how quickly four years had passed and that it did not seem two minutes since we were all lobbying the National Parks authority to overturn the planning application to save the building, to then doing all of the renovation and recruiting Kimberley and Allan and their family as the tenants of our new venture.

Newsletter December 2014

Merry Christmas!

As we enter this month of Christmas cheer it is time again for us look back and give thanks to all of the hard work and support that everyone has given and continues to give our community pub. Four years has passed real quickly as it does not seem two minutes since we were all lobbying the National Parks authority to overturn the planning application to save the building, to then doing all of the renovation and to welcoming Alan and Kimberley and their family as landlords of our new venture.

So much water has now gone under the bridge, many happy memories, many good and some difficult times which we have all come through as a community and our dreams of a quintessentially English country pub we had all hoped for now goes from strength to strength.