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Newsletter No.9 - April 2012

What lies beyond the opening!

First of all we would like to thank all of you, the supporters of the Coverdale Community Pub, for all of your generous help and support over the last year.  We set out a year ago to rescue the Foresters Arms, secure it for us all for the future and create a quintessentially English country pub offering a warm welcome, good food and serving local beer. We think, through everyone’s hard work, that we have achieved what we set out to do.  We should all be proud of what we have accomplished, a beautiful country pub, saved by the people, owned by the people and used by the people.

So what’s next you might ask?

The pub is now fully operational with the bar, kitchen, tenant accommodation and three letting rooms complete. In order now to ensure that we have enough funds to operate and maintain the building and the Society we have left the books open for people to continue to become members.  We do not believe that this opportunity will remain open for long after which people will then go onto a waiting list of future society members.

Newsletter No.8 - January 2012

Happy New Year!

What a way to start the New Year, over a pint in the bar.  As most of you will know we were successful in our promise to re-open the Foresters Arms by Christmas, with the doors being opened and the first pints being pulled on Christmas Eve.

Since then many people have taken the opportunity to sample the friendly atmosphere created by Kimberley and Allan over a pint and admire the results of all our hard work, including the fully refurbished bar, snug and toilets…. and yes for the first time in living memory, “it’s even warm in the toilets!”.

Newsletter No.7 - October 2011

We have our Tenants!

Our recruitment process for the tenants has now been completed. From a total of 14 applicants we have narrowed the field down through a series of interviews and business plan presentations to a final choice, taken last Wednesday evening. With a unanimous vote from the management committee we are proud to announce that Allan and Kimberley Brereton, from Doncaster, have accepted our offer of the tenancy of the Foresters Arms.