A Hampshire pub dedicated to offering local facilities and going the extra mile for the community has won The Calor Rural Pub In The Community Award 2006.
The Calor Rural Pub in the Community Award, supported by Business in the Community and its Pub is the Hub campaign, celebrates pubs that have diversified their businesses to offer their local community a wider range of services.
Pauline Davey and her partner Tim Smith purchased the Master Robert Inn, Buriton, in January 2005 and quickly made the pub their own. As the village had lost its post office and shop, the function room at the back of the pub was transformed to bring back the much needed facilities. But unusually for a village stores and indeed a pub, Pauline and Tim take phone orders from the elderly or house-bound in the village and deliver their goods personally.
Pauline was left speechless when the Master Robert was announced as the overall winner over three other finalists. After the ceremony she said: “It’s a real team effort and winning this award will mean as much to all of our staff as it does to me and Tim. It just makes all the hard work seem worth it.”.
The three other finalists, given highly commended honours were The True Lovers Knot, Tarrant Keynston, Dorset, The Fighting Cocks, Stottesdon, Shropshire and The Fox Inn, Honington, Suffolk.
Sabrina Jackson, Calor’s commercial market manager said: “This is the first year we have introduced the award, which is part of the established Calor Village of the Year® competition. The response to the award has been outstanding and we have even received entries from members of the public who believe their local pub deserves recognition for the good work they are doing.”
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CRPITC Winner The Master Robert Inn-1 – Pictured (l-r) are award judge John Rudden, of the Master Robert Inn Tim Smith and Pauline Davey and Calor Managing Director Alex Davis.
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