Fu Ming wrote:Shame the lease is not being renewed, but given the current circumstances perhaps a wise financial decision, with no money coming in.
Hopefully when pubs reopen and the footie has crowds and it is still available then we can take up a new license

Quite.

I would have thought that nobody would want to rent the premises at the moment. I would have tried to negotiate with the landlord, whoever they are, to say we would renew the lease when restrictions are lifted. Perhaps that's what did happen. Although it isn't what is being said.

Fu Ming wrote:Shame the lease is not being renewed, but given the current circumstances perhaps a wise financial decision, with no money coming in.
Hopefully when pubs reopen and the footie has crowds and it is still available then we can take up a new license

Yes a wise financial decision and the kind of approach that many companies will take when considering their sponsorship budget whilst having to make employees redundant.

Alan G Bryant wrote:

Fu Ming wrote:Shame the lease is not being renewed, but given the current circumstances perhaps a wise financial decision, with no money coming in.
Hopefully when pubs reopen and the footie has crowds and it is still available then we can take up a new license

Yes a wise financial decision and the kind of approach that many companies will take when considering their sponsorship budget whilst having to make employees redundant.

Alan, help me.

If Bar Amber was turning in a profit, would it not have been a better decision to have sought a delay in the renewal of the lease?

Alan G Bryant wrote:

Fu Ming wrote:Shame the lease is not being renewed, but given the current circumstances perhaps a wise financial decision, with no money coming in.
Hopefully when pubs reopen and the footie has crowds and it is still available then we can take up a new license

Yes a wise financial decision and the kind of approach that many companies will take when considering their sponsorship budget whilst having to make employees redundant.

You may be correct there.
With the new improved openness to us owners (pause for chuckle) we will be informed in due course of the savings made here.
Sure the costs of this desirable establishment would of been pretty high with the landlord having a queue of interested parties once we get back to some sort of normality.

My Great Great Uncle Horace formed The Plunkett Foundation in 1919 which helps like minded people to set up community shops.This could be farmers setting up to sell dairy products in their village or running the local post office etc.The club is looking into that possibility as an option to keep the pub.

A sad but fully understandable at this time, thats just hope we can do it again some time in the future.

Percy plunkett wrote:My Great Great Uncle Horace formed The Plunkett Foundation in 1919 which helps like minded people to set up community shops.This could be farmers setting up to sell dairy products in their village or running the local post office etc.The club is looking into that possibility as an option to keep the pub.

Hopefully such a venture would attract social investment tax relief, which may persuade some to make a donation.

Is this the same as when a village pub is registered as a community asset?

I've never been inside, but when passing it looks like a difficult layout for social distancing when pubs do reopen.

Never been in there as I like my Saturday routine but think it would be a shame if it wasn’t associated with the club after the hard work that people have put in