This coming Friday I will be joining Don Foster MP and many other members of the Widcombe Community at the Green Park Tavern to launch the 3rd Proud of Pubs week in Bath.

Speaking about the campaign, Don commented, “I am delighted to be able to support ‘Proud of Pubs Week’ by visiting the Green Park Tavern. The local pub is an important part of any local community, and it is vital that we do all we can to promote and protect them. At the moment, pubs are closing at the rate of 50 a week, and many have closed recently here in Bath. That is why I have voted against rises in beer duty in parliament, a tax which unfairly hits the local pub, while doing nothing to combat binge drinking.”

The Green Park Tavern has recently raised £1200 for Cancer Research. Pubs play an important role in local communities and many raise money for charities. 

Landlord Myles Gallagher said, “Pubs are not just part of the local community, in many ways they are the local community.  In the last two years over 40,000 jobs have been lost in the pub sector, but yet we continue to get little help from government.  Alistair Darling is a very unpopular man among pub landlords! I am pleased that as our local MP, Don is supporting ‘Proud of Pubs Week’ by visiting The Green Park Tavern.”

If you have not been in your local pub recently give it a try this week. We are losing too many community assets.