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With the addition of the new Activities Space, and staff and volunteer training, the vision is to make The George More Than […]

Work on the George restoration is now well underway – let’s celebrate Join us for a fun evening of traditional pub games, […]

The George Community Pub launches its  You are all invited to join the George Community Pub 200 Club and help our ‘Gilding the Building’ […]

News Headlines – July 5th We’ve done it! The National Lottery Heritage Fund have been in touch to say that we have […]

The fight to save the pub continues Anyone listening to Radio Suffolk this morning would have heard about Ipswich Town’s fantastic win […]

April update –  more funding secured but there’s still a gap Two weeks ago we explained that, having provisionally secured full funding […]

March update – Higher Costs but a Fantastic New Grant In our Christmas message we reported that invitations to tender had been sent […]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you from The George Management Team! It’s been a whole year since we were […]

New date set for the opening of the exhibition – 1st October at 10am During the summer term Wickham Market Primary School […]

We have just had a very encouraging Progress Meeting with The National Lottery Heritage Fund – our major funders. Although we have […]

George Quiz Night, 22 July 2022 Shunning the rival minor attraction of Latitude, over seventy quizzers filled Wickham Market Village Hall on […]

Following Permission to Start (PTS) by the Heritage Fund on 23rd February, the Professional Team were mobilised and started a 16-week period […]

The George Management Team have been delighted with the response received from our share offer to date. Share investments received are approaching […]

A great party night was held in the Village Hall on 11th March in celebration of the National Heritage Fund Grant Award. […]

Following our exciting grant award of £988,200 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, restoration of the historic George Pub is now within […]

Thankyou to everyone who volunteered to become a member of the George User Group.  Everyone who has volunteered is being welcomed to […]

Join The George User Group and play a vital part in how The George Pub will look and feel. We have been […]

We are fantastically pleased to announce that our application to The National Lottery Heritage Fund for a Heritage Enterprise Delivery Phase Grant has […]

Following our successful planning application we want to clarify the type of pub The George will be, what makes a community pub […]

What a day! Remember this date the 29th June 2021. England beat Germany in the Euro’s but the biggest winners were here […]

The George Community Pub planning application (DC/21/1942/FUL and DC/21/1943/LBC) was submitted to East Suffolk Council on 21st April with comments on the […]

April 2021 Report on The George project presented at the Annual Parish Meeting The George Management Committee were pleased to be invited […]

There has been much support for the George Community Pub in Wickham Market but none more so than from Alexander Nicoll our […]

In April 2020 we decided to carry out a survey of what people wanted in terms of food offerings, beer choices, how […]

We are almost there – just one last push! We are within reach of being able to restore Wickham Market’s historic George […]

How would you like to see your pub? The results of the Christmas Card questionnaire are in, including colour preferences for the […]

A Christmas Card designed by George Hering and Bill Wolff-Evans from our team, was distributed to all households in Wickham Market prior […]

Good progress has been made recently with appointments of key consultants to the project team including an Acoustician, Structural Engineer, Mechanical & […]

A post on our FB page today to say thankyou Huge thanks to Heritage Fund, National Lottery players, our supporters, shareholders, and […]

Exciting plans for fire-hit Suffolk pub spelled out, seven years after blaze Click here to read the article in the EADT of […]

September 2020 – Concept Designs have been completed An important milestone has been achieved with the completion of the Concept Designs for […]

Annual Progress Report A year of adjustment, celebration and key appointments – not forgetting a virus! Despite everything the year saw major […]

The George presses on We hope that all our friends and supporters are keeping well and safe. Although the current circumstances have […]

An inaugural meeting was held between the Management Committee and the Greenwood Projects team on the 24th February and work has now […]

The Management  Committee would firstly like to wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. We are very pleased to […]

We are pleased to announce that our MP, Dr Dan Poulter, will be at the Party on the 26th and will be […]

By George, we’ve got it! We are fantastically pleased to announce that our application to The National Lottery Heritage Fund for a […]

After many hours of hard work by Committee members, we submitted our new Heritage Enterprise application, for the major part of funds […]

We’re going again! The result of the recent ballot of shareholders was an overwhelming yes to apply again to the National Lottery […]

As most of you will be aware The George Community Pub (Wickham Market) Ltd now own the Grade11 listed George Pub and […]

In September we received news from the Heritage Lottery Fund that our grant application for funding had been unsuccessful. We will now […]

You may have noticed that work to tidy up and make secure the site of the Grade 11 listed George Pub has […]

On the 30 July the George Management Committee initiated our option to buy the George Pub from the current owner. The date […]

The threshold of £100k which enables us to purchase the pub has now been reached and we are well on our way […]

The Share Offer remains open but the decision to buy the pub or abandon the project must be made no later than […]

IMPORTANT SHARE INFORMATION We are pleased to inform you that we are now over halfway to reaching our minimum share target of […]

Please join us for our Pop up Pub on 2nd June with guest speaker Bernard Lee. See details below

Please see rhe  EADT article about the share launch on 12th May which was a huge success. Great publicity for the project.

 SHARE LAUNCH SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 on the Hill. Please join us for 20 minutes at midday, Saturday 12 May on the […]

It has been announced in the EADT that Nicholas Jacob Architects, who have prepared the conceptual designs for the new George based […]

One of the reasons why the share offer has been unavoidably delayed has been that Committee members Bill, Colin, George, Mike and […]

Come join us in the Village Hall for the next Pop Up Pub on April 28th when we are thrilled to  be […]

The launch date for The George share issue has been delayed until after Easter. We’re really sorry about this but it is […]

The vital last funding to enable us to launch our share issue and prepare our application for the major grant from the […]

More than 130 local residents attended a presentation held by the George Community Pub team on the afternoon of Saturday 10th February. […]

The George Quiz Night Gather your team, and join us on Friday 23rd March in Wickham Market Village Hall. 6.30pm for 7pm […]

Do you want answers to the following questions? Can we buy the Pub, and if so what will we be paying? Can […]