10 days left to buy shares in The Chequer Inn before we close our Share Offer. We now have only £100k to raise and would prefer to have a few more people involved to minimise any loans taken out.
Join over 200 investors in the village and have your say by purchasing shares from £100. Please share and join Ash’s community project to Save The Chequer Inn! Full details on our share offer page.
BBC Radio Kent Dominic King chats to one of the original campaigners who is hoping the community will buy back the Chequer Inn. With £320k accounted for, only £100k is left to be found by villagers. Listen here…
Drivetime's Dominic King chats to Matt Titterton about saving …
BBC Radio Kent Dominic King chats to one of the original campaigners who is hoping the community will buy back the Chequer Inn. With £320k accounted for, only £100k is left to be found by villagers. Listen here…
Posted by Save The Chequer Inn, Ash on Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Penny Bernard joins Anna Cookson on the Breakfast show on BBC Radio Kent to discuss why she got involved as a shareholder to save the Chequer Inn pub. Listen here…
Penny Bernard joins Anna Cookson on the Breakfast show on BBC Radio Kent to discuss why she got involved as a shareholder to save the Chequer Inn pub. Listen here….
Posted by Save The Chequer Inn, Ash on Wednesday, 12 July 2017
This morning, Jane Greaves from our Chequer Inn Action Society joined Jo Burn on BBC Radio Kent to chat about the future of our community pub. Listen here…
Saving The Chequer Inn on BBC Radio Kent
This morning, Jane Greaves from our Chequer Inn Action Society joined Jo Burn on BBC Radio Kent to chat about the future of our community pub. Listen here…
Posted by Save The Chequer Inn, Ash on Tuesday, 11 July 2017
A great article in this weeks East Kent Mercury. With £212,000 raised by over 200 residents of Ash, we now only have £118,000 to reach our target to buy back the Chequers as a community hub. Thanks to Plunkett Foundation supporting our request of an additional £50,000 grant as well through their More Than A Pub programme. Our share scheme is now open again until the end of July as many people have since requested to invest.
MORE GOOD NEWS!!!!
Letter received from the Plunkett Foundation today :-
“I’m pleased to be able to confirm that, following the recent Loan and Grant panel, your application was successful and the panel have agreed a conditional offer for your group. ”
A grant of £50,000 has been granted subject to our completing the loan process for an additional £50,000.
This is a fabulous endorsement and welcome boost to all the local people who have supported and believe that this campaign can and will be successful.
We are reopening the share offer this week until the end of July to help us get the final amount needed as it was clear at the shareholders meeting last week that several people missed our last deadline. Please watch this space!!!
Thank you to all shareholders that attended our meeting on Monday. Due to some very generous additional share applications by our shareholders, we now raised an additional £60k in one week, and now have £208,150 in share applications!! Well done to all for a great effort by our village.
This means we have now gone over the threshold to allow us to get grants and loans from official organisations and we have well exceeded the total that the pub was bought by the developer.
Watch this space for some more news next week!!!