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£4,105
raised of £3,000 target by 170 supporters

    Iʼve raised £4,105 to help save the Miners Arms, Nenthead.

    Nenthead
    Funded on Wednesday, 7th February 2024

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    The Miners Arms in Nenthead, Cumbria has been at the heart of our village for generations. The village is situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty and is one of the highest villages in England. It has the highest church and primary school (where the pupils learn with altitude) and is popular with cyclists and walkers. The Miners Arms pub closed its doors in 2020* and has not reopened, it is now up for sale. The Miners Arms Community Association (MACA) was formed to try and achieve a community buy out of the Miners Arms.

    Our first aim was to raise £3,000 to cover the initial costs of trying to buy the Miners Arms. This alllowed us to establish a website, becoming a community benefit society, start to set up a share offer, and pay for specialist advisors. The share offer when launched will allow the public to buy shares in the Miners Arms and help bring it back to its former position at the heart of the community. We have launched a pledge in principle page on our website www.minersarmsnenthead.com where we are basically asking you how many shares you think you may be willing to buy. Each share costs £1 and the minimum amount of shares you can purchase is 100. There is no commitment at this stage it is just to understand the extent of the support for our plans.

    We are hoping to encourage previous visitors to our beautiful village and those that are passionate about saving the Miners Arms to donate to the pub the price of a pint. If you can stretch to a round or the equivalent of a pub lunch that would be fantastic and greatly appreciated.

    As a community we are passionate about saving the Miners Arms, a recent survey carried out by MACA resulted in over 97% of responders saying that a pub was a vital part of the community that they wanted to see reopened. The Miners Arms will not just be a pub though it will be a community pub by the community for the community.

    Every donation will go towards saving the Miners Arms, by paying for upfront project costs. If there is a surplus it will go into the pot to buy the pub for the benefit of all. If we are not successful in buying the Miners Arms anything left over will be donated to other Nenthead community projects.

    Visit and join our facebook group Miners Arms Nenthead or our website www.minersarmsnenthead for all the latest news.

    *although the pub closed its doors the present owner operates an Airb&b from the premises.

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    • Miners Arms  Nenthead5 months ago
      Miners Arms  Nenthead

      Miners Arms Nenthead

      5 months ago

      Our share offer is now live, visit www.minersarmsnenthead.com for more information. Thank you for your support.

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    • Miners Arms  Nenthead5 months ago
      Miners Arms  Nenthead

      Miners Arms Nenthead

      5 months ago

      We have been working hard developing the business plan and an application to the Government’s Community Ownership Fund (COF) for a grant of over £360,000 which was submitted 08/04/2024 with the result expected in May. The next step is to launch the community share offer on 04/05/2024 to raise our minimum target of £95,000 which is required to match the COF grant to be able to buy, refurbish, reopen and operate the Miners Arms. See our website for more information www.minersarmsnenthead.com Once again many thanks for your continued support

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    • Miners Arms  Nenthead6 months ago
      Miners Arms  Nenthead

      Miners Arms Nenthead

      6 months ago

      The business plan and share offer document are now available on our website and you are encouraged to read these before you consider investing. The application form to buy shares will be available on the website from Saturday 4th May 2024. Don’t forget the drop in question and answer session on Saturday 4th May between 11:00 and 13:00 at the Hive. www.minersarmsnenthead.com Cheers 🍻

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    170

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      Jan 25, 2024

      Good luck!I look forward to popping in some time in the future.

      £25.00

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      Jan 23, 2024

      Looking forward to visiting when you are open

    • vantheman

      vantheman

      Jan 23, 2024

      Looking forward to visiting when you're open

      £10.00

    • Richard Taylor

      Richard Taylor

      Jan 21, 2024

      Belatedly saw you mentioned by Jay Rayner in the Observer, and thought the least I could do was buy a pint. Watching this project with interest from Darlington!

      £5.00

    • Tony

      Tony

      Jan 6, 2024

      £25.00

    • Caroline

      Caroline

      Dec 22, 2023

      My grandfather used this pub. It is an essential part of the fabric of this village and should belong to the village. Keep the dream alive!

      £10.00

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      Dec 5, 2023

      Good luck!

      £10.00

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