Hospitality Grant Scheme

This week the Hospitality Grant Scheme has launched and is open for applications. 

£10 million is available over a 3-year period.

It is targeted towards village pubs, family-run restaurants, and neighbourhood cafés.

Applications can be made where the funds would help get new hospitality ventures off the ground, bring vacant premises back into use, or support training programmes, The training is categorised as “programmes that help people develop the skills, confidence and work ethic to open doors to future careers.” 

£3m of the grant funding has been specifically earmarked to support Pub is The Hub 

Pub is The Hub Chief Executive, John Longden OBE said,

Access to this new support from the Hospitality Grant Scheme is warmly welcomed as it will help inspire local publicans to diversify to create much needed local services and activities in their rural, remote or deprived areas.

BIST, together with the Treasury, has recognised the vital role that publicans and pubs play as essential small local businesses, that make positive contributions to local communities. The scheme will also encourage the leveraging of other match private and public funding to support these small businesses. 

 This funding will help give long-term certainty to publicans to create new services and activities in their pubs which will deliver a wider social value and create a foundation for well-being in their local areas. 

 Pub is The Hub has been very thankful of the support and donations from within the pub and hospitality industry over the past 25 years and looks forward to working in collaboration with the BIST and the sector moving forward.”