tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3006414867737504422024-03-13T07:27:10.826+00:00THE PEOPLE'S PUB PARTNERSHIPTHE ETHICAL PUB COMPANYJ Mark Doddshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11800542445712331202noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300641486773750442.post-6128711980603822732015-10-24T23:04:00.000+01:002015-10-26T08:36:03.624+00:00Get the beers in for christmas its a Majestic thing to do<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Robert Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11742902353663475515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300641486773750442.post-48080072489912056342014-01-09T12:23:00.001+00:002014-01-09T12:23:06.862+00:00Can Goth Pubs Help Scotland Sober Up?<a href="http://caledonianmercury.com/2014/01/08/can-goth-pubs-can-help-scotland-sober-up/0044082">Good article in Caledonian Mercury about the background to some long standing community pubs set up on principles that should be exemplary for the way the pub sector must evolve</a><br /><br />Our contribution:<br /><br /><div>
Great article. Pubs are important part of social fabric that's been worn away by irresponsible management of a pub sector determined to take all profit out of pubs and put it into paying interest on the gargantuan debts pubco's raised to buy 'OUR' pubs in the first place, then into the pockets of shareholders and bondholders who don't need the money anyway. It's wrong!<br /><br />The People's Pub Partnership, the crowd funded, ethical pub company, is launching soon. Its founding constitution is based on tenets exemplified by the Gothenburg Principles. The launch of the crowd fund will give all people the chance to invest in the future of Britain's pubs and to engage in their development by having a say in what kind of products they should serve, what kind things they should be doing socially, what level of amenity and community engagement they should be getting up to... PPP will put pubs at the heart of their communities.<br /><br />Get involved now and begin shaping the future of pubs in Britain! Tell us what you want to see in pubs and why. The website and social media sites will soon be integrated into one space. In the meantime please do engage as below,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.peoplespubpartnership.org/">www.peoplespubpartnership.org</a> <br /><a href="http://thepeoplespubpartnership.blogspot.co.uk/">http://thepeoplespubpartnershi...</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/peoplespubptshp">https://twitter.com/peoplespub...</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThePeoplesPubPartnership">https://www.facebook.com/ThePe...</a><br /><div>
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J Mark Doddshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11800542445712331202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300641486773750442.post-47161183586900952772013-12-10T02:59:00.001+00:002013-12-10T02:59:00.556+00:00<span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">Dear Mike Harding (and friends) Keith Sutcliffe pointed me to your post... Absolutely Spot On! </span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[1]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[2]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]">From early next year publicans are going to be taking our pubs back from accountants and running them for the people they were always meant to serve: YOU!</span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[4]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[5]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[6]">The People's Pub Partnership, the Ethical Pub Company, is going to be crowd funded from Spring 2014.</span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[7]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[8]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[9]">People have stopped going to pubs because pubs have become horrible places to go to - as Mike says above either carbon copy blandness or run into the ground and stinky from decades of being asset stripped by the same companies who make their other pubs bland and rubbish.</span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[10]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[11]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[12]">Pubs, broadly, are:</span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[13]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[14]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[15]">Either owned by pub companies and leased to individual publicans who have their profits stolen from them through excessive rent and beer prices set by the accountants who run the pubco; the profits are used to throw into interest instalments on the gargantuan loans they raised to buy the pubs in the first place. These zombie companies keep going to pay the accountants £millions of take home and bonuses - awarded for ruining, closing, then flogging off their pubs to Tesco and Paddy Power or be converted to speculative housing developments that blight our landscape for generations while robbing the people who used the pubs of vital social hubs and the focus of many communities...</span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[16]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[17]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[18]">Or owned by pub companies who directly run them under the eye of accountants who compete against their rivals to make sure it's impossible for customers to distinguish one pub from another - from Land's End to John O'Groats thses pubs are all the same - their 'brands' are boring shiny soulless identikit carbon copies rolled off mood boards drawn on computers by designers who'll never set foot in the pubs they imagine other people like. They sell dull food from menus that are the same all over the country which is served by bored staff to a script to customers looking good value and quality and struggle to find it in the run down knackered tied pubs as above...</span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[19]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[20]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[21]">If you love pubs none of this makes sense at all. But if you're a bean counting wine loving accountant who's passion is for anodyne 'unbranded brand concepts' that rake it in, like this: </span><a class="" data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[22]" href="http://www.scotsman.com/business/food-drink-agriculture/m-b-cheers-city-as-consumers-warm-to-top-brands-1-3209510" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.scotsman.com/.../m-b-cheers-city-as-consumers...</a><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[23]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[24]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[25]">The People's Pub Partnership will be launching in Spring 2014. We're going to take pubs back from the accountants and put publicans in the driving seat to run pubs for people!</span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[26]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[27]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[28]">Pubs for All; All for Pubs!</span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[29]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[30]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[31]">We're going to raise £millions in small amounts from thousands of people and change the face of the British pub sector for good? If you'd like to help cure the rot in the UK pub sector please go to our holding website and sign up to our mailing list - or to the facebook page and ask one of us to get in touch with you and we'll tell you more... You will be able to put in as little as £100 in £20 instalments or as much as £200K in one go. Everyone will be treated the same and all the money will go to buy bricks and mortar and turn trashed pubs into treasures!</span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[32]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[33]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[34]">The People's Pub Partnership; Run by publicans who know what they are doing for people who know what they want! The Ethical Pub Company, putting pubs at the heart of the community and the accountants back in the office where they belong!</span><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[35]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[36]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[37]">website: </span><a class="" data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[38]" href="http://www.peoplespubpartnership.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.peoplespubpartnership.org/</a><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[39]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[40]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[41]">facebook: </span><a class="" data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[42]" href="https://www.facebook.com/ThePeoplesPubPartnership" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ThePeoplesPubPartnership</a><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[43]" /><br data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[44]" /><span data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[45]">twitter: </span><a class="" data-reactid=".r[4xl9q].[1][3][1]{comment10152134690943383_31841950}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[46]" href="https://twitter.com/PeoplesPubPtshp" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/PeoplesPubPtshp</a></span></span>J Mark Doddshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11800542445712331202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300641486773750442.post-5501232121868540972013-10-19T01:07:00.001+01:002013-10-24T18:38:15.995+01:00DO YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR PUBS FUTURE? 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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">How will your community cope when your local pub has gone forever? Around 20
pubs close forever in the UK every week and this national tragedy is deepening!
Britain's pubs have become run down, dilapidated, and are now being abandoned
en masse, because of decades of chronic </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px; line-height: 21.81818199157715px;">under investment</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> by giant private equity
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Good Pubs are like glue to good communities… good pubs provide a sense of
belonging, a strong and sustained community. They are places to meet, to make
friends. Good pubs are about people, about neighbourhood and about people's
very way of life. Without good pubs communities are diminished and once they're
gone, they've gone forever.</span></span><br />
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Good pubs have never been about excessive short-term profits. Good pubs are for
the long term. Like any business, pubs must be profitable and continually
re-invested in if they are to thrive. But, first and foremost in order to
thrive, pubs must be about people, and for too long they have been used only to
extract profit and pass it to remote private equity owners who don't give a
hoot about people, community or sustainability.</span></span><br />
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In 2013 PPP will launch the world's largest ever crowd funding exercise. We'll
raise £ millions of community capital and hit the ground running as the
strongest, hippest, most savvy and fastest growing people owned social
enterprise in the UK.</span></span><br />
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If you want to help save Britain's pubs from pubco oblivion you can be part of
the People's Pub Partnership and be part of the dynamic force for change this
country so desperately needs to save our pubs for generations to come. Together
we can, quite simply, radically change what's happening to pubs all over the
UK. It's not rocket science... pubs need investment. And together we, thousands
of us, can provide that.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Two responses to a smoker/drinker who no longer uses pubs and knows pretty much everything<br /><br /><br /><br />Regarding your ingenious suggestion of a rent strike, please can you tell your interested readers how exactly all those pubco lessees - 20,000 of them - get together and close their pubs for a week at the same time? How would they co-ordinate such an action.<br /><br />Do you think it has not been proposed before? And how would closing for a week benefit them when losing a week's cash flow will shut many of their pubs permanently?<br /><br />Can you suggest how all those tenants could manage that? Please?<br /><br />It would be useful if you could use your insight to point me and my moaning ilk, like SteveDC who, it's manifestly clear from his post is well informed about the pub sector, in the right direction.<br /><br />Thank you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">There are many issues at play affecting the pub sector </span></h2>
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J Mark Doddshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11800542445712331202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300641486773750442.post-829532294369861852013-01-28T15:25:00.001+00:002013-10-19T00:52:47.444+01:00Broken Pubs. Broken People. Broken Communities.<br />
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We need to assess the social damage created by a landscape of broken pubs.</h3>
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A significant number of good people - thousands - have lost their shirt through sinking everything they've ever saved and owned into setting up business in a pubco lease following being attracted by the pubco dream, low cost entry, a great opportunity to make something of their lives after whatever they were doing before... A pubco lease was a dream and the beginning of a new, successful career where they could consolidate their experience and skills into a business where they were in control, where their efforts, hard work and absolute commitment would be rewarded, grow and develop into a profitable venture that would set them up for the rest of their natural...<br />
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These are the invisible, voiceless, majority. There's loads of them out there, downtrodden, beaten, rebuilding their lives following financial ruin; the last thing they want to do is campaign for a fair deal anymore. What they need to do is forget and get on with forgetting what they went through. They need to recover from the SHAME of failure.<br />
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It would be good to find these people. Some of them will probably have a few boxes full of evidence they never had a chance to put to use.J Mark Doddshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11800542445712331202noreply@blogger.com0