We Are Now The Owners of The Chequer Inn!!
After a long two and a half year campaign to Save The Chequer Inn from conversion to a private house, we are pleased to announce that on 11th April 2018 our solicitors completed the deal and we are now the owners of The Chequer Inn, Ash!THANK YOU to all Shareholders,...
BBC Radio Kent talks about getting ready to purchase The Chequer Inn
Thanks to BBC Radio Kent for featuring The Chequer Inn, Ash on the Saturday Breakfast show. Pat Marsh introduces a report from Jo Burn, and talks to Shareholders who voted to purchase the pub for the community. This programme was broadcast on 24th March 2018....
Members of the Chequer Inn Ash Society vote to purchase pub
A meeting of members of the Chequer Inn Ash, Society was held in St Nicholas’ Church on Sunday 18th February to vote on the Committee’s resolution that it should proceed to purchase the pub for the community. This video tells the outcome of the day!...
The story of a successful community pub
BBC Breakfast this morning were covering #CommunityPubs and featured The Spotted Cow, Holbrook. They were the same situation as us, and their village like ours have bought the pub which is now very successful. Fantastic inspiration to us all. Another £2000 of shares...
10 days left before our Community Share offer closes
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...
Support from BBC Radio Kent
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... Penny Bernard joins Anna Cookson on the...
We are in the Kent Online paper
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...
Loan and Grant application accepted!
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...
We have made the 200k mark!
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...
Special Book Offer! in Support of “Save the Chequer Inn Ash”
£5 will be donated for every copy of Andrew Sargent's latest book Drinking in Deal: Beer, Pubs and Temperance in an East Kent Town, 1830 - 1914 bought direct from the author. Contact Andrew at asargent164@btinternet.com and mention your support for the Chequer Inn....
We reached the 150 K mark! Thank you!
A great big thank-you to a recent big investor who has got on-board with us to bring our total now over £152,000. Fantastic amount for a community to raise. We are looking forward to meeting all investors next Monday at our first internal meeting to discuss future...
What is a Community Share Offer?
This quick video will explain what are community shares and what to expect when you buy them through a share offer.