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Pick your community pub of the year!
Released on 29 April 2009
South Norfolk's pubs are in line for a new council-inspired award celebrating their community credentials.
The South Norfolk Community Pub of the Year Awards are being launched on Friday this week.
It is all part of the council's bigger fight to save pubs from closure, a campaign which has taken it from meetings in Long Stratton to the corridors of power in Parliament.
Now the council is determined to celebrate what makes a pub the hub of its local community.
John Hyde, publican at the Half Moon in Rushall is backing the awards. He said:
"Local villages need their pubs more than ever now. With so many pubs closing, due to Government increases in taxes on beers and spirits, the pub is the hub of communities, and always has been.
"It is where people get a chance to meet other neighbours from their own and also from surrounding villages which have already lost their pubs."
South Norfolk Council Chairman, Councillor Margaret Dewsbury agrees with John, and says the awards will bring local pubs and their communities much closer together.
She said:
"Celebrating community pubs means we can pass on the secrets of their success. That draws more local people in, while getting the local more involved with its people.
"It will help save pubs in these difficult times and bring the community closer together."
The competition is launched this Friday 1st May in time for the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. It will run through the summer with an overall winner announced this autumn.
There will also be winners in each of the five South Norfolk neighbourhoods of the South Norfolk district.
Every winner gets a “South Norfolk Community Pub of the Year Award” plaque, while the overall winner gets the services of the council's top tourism and leisure team to run a tailor-made fun event at their pub in summer 2010.
Competition beer mats will promote the awards and show how to nominate a favourite pub. Pubs only need one nomination and will then get a simple application to complete.
From Friday 1 May, you can nominate online at www.south-norfolk.gov.uk or text the word PUB to 80010 and tell the council which pub should win and why. This is charged at standard network rate.
Nominations must be received by 30th June 2009.
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