Horse & Jockey Selston

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13/10/2020

This is the response and my original letter to Lee Anderson MP regarding pup closures and threat to jobs

Dear Brian,

Thank you for contacting me about support for pubs during the pandemic.

I share your concern about the future of pubs and the hardship caused by the coronavirus outbreak. This is a very difficult time and I know just how worried people are, not just about their health, but their livelihoods as well. Pubs are important to our culture and communities and it has been good to see that many have reopened.

Many people have expressed serious concerns for what lies ahead for pubs. I share these concerns and I know my ministerial colleagues do too. That is why I welcome the Chancellor's Winter Economy Plan which puts in place further support to help tackle the challenges businesses like pubs now face. The Job Support Scheme will help participating business ensure employees on reduced hours earn a minimum of 77 per cent of their normal wages, helping keep people across the country paid and employed.

It is also good news for pubs that the temporary reduction of VAT to 5 per cent is being extended by a further three months to the end of March 2021. The Chancellor will also defer VAT repayments through a new scheme until March 2022. Businesses are also being given more time to access crucial loans alongside a more flexible repayment scheme for existing ones.

I should also mention that these new measures follow a robust package of support introduced since the start of the pandemic. No pub or other business in the hospitality sector will be required to pay business rates this year. HMRC has made it easier to claim back the duty on any beer thrown away as a result of pub closures. The Business and Planning Act made it easier to serve customers outdoors through temporary changes to planning procedures and licensing. The unprecedented Job Retention Scheme has rightly protected over 9 million jobs through the most difficult period of the pandemic, which I am sure has been a relief and comfort to many.

I recognise that businesses would prefer to not have restrictions in place, but I do believe these are necessary in order to help our country and communities prevent further coronavirus outbreaks. Pubs and other businesses selling food and drink must now be closed from 10pm to 5am. In both indoor and outdoor licensed premises, food and drink must be ordered from and served at a table. Both staff and customers must wear a face covering when visiting a pub, except when seated at a table to eat or drink.

As pubs play a huge role in British society, I will continue to support the measures introduced to relieve the financial burden they are facing at this time. I have been assured that the Government will continue to look at how to adjust support in a way that ensures people can get back to work, protecting both the UK economy and the livelihoods of people across the country.

Thank you again for taking the time to contact me.

Best wishes
Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Helliwell
Sent: 12 October 2020 18:08
To: ANDERSON, Lee B
Subject: 10,000 pubs could be lost forever - they need your help

Dear Mr Lee Anderson MP,

I am writing as one of your constituents about the crisis facing our community pubs in our area and across the country.

Pubs, their staff and pub-goers are doing everything they can to make sure they are used safely and responsibly – but current restrictions being imposed are devastating pubs and brewers.

Pubs feel that they have become the scapegoat for the pandemic.

The support announced by the Chancellor last week for pubs that are being forced to close temporarily is welcome and necessary – but we must face facts that this announcement isn’t going to be enough, on its own, to save our pubs from extinction.

Pubs that remain open face a severely reduced trade as a result of measures like the curfew which are damaging consumer confidence. As a result, nearly a quarter of all hospitality businesses say they won’t last another three months without support. That’s nearly 10,000 pubs and 290,000 jobs at risk.

These pubs desperately need financial support.

Without bespoke help for pubs, communities like ours will lose a key part our social fabric, with people missing out on the wellbeing and mental health benefits of enjoying a pint with friends and family.

If this continues without any action, I could lose my local pub, and publicans will lose their livelihoods.

That’s why CAMRA’s Save Our Pubs campaign is calling for a proper support package for all pubs and brewers including:

·Jobs support for all pubs and breweries – including those allowed to remain open but aren’t viable due to the current restrictions
·New hospitality grants to support all pubs and brewers through the next six months of restrictions.
·Cancellation of the business rates for another year
·Action to tackle the rents crisis facing the sector

Will you act now to save our local pubs, clubs and breweries?

As my MP please will you write to the Chancellor, and ask him a Parliamentary Question if you are able, to urge him to announce a proper support package for pubs and brewers – before it is too late and they are lost forever.

Thanks in advance for your help and I look forward to hearing from you.

With best wishes,

Mr. Brian Helliwell,
2 Homecroft Drive
Selston
NG16 6EZ

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18/08/2020

It is with great sadness that our good friend Barry “Baz” has passed away.
He is now with his beloved Marion.
Rest in peace Baz. We will all raise a glass for you once we are open. Xx

13/05/2020

07/05/2020

A glimpse into the future !

06/05/2020

04/05/2020

Ok so you can`t come to the Jockey at the moment.
So you have time on your hands.

Why not tell us about your first visit to the Jockey - How did you find out about it? Why did you come? Who did you come with? What were your first impressions?

I will start us off:-
I first came to the Jockey in 1974. I had moved up here from where I had been living as a student in Cheltenham. I was with a friend of mine Pete Spencer (He was a teacher at Matthew Holland School. ) He said to me Do you want to have a pint in the best pub round here? Of course I said yes. He lived in Pinxton just down from the Sun Inn. We left his house - ignored the Greyhound and the Sun, - walked past the Horseshoes, - past the Railway (I wondered at this point where we were going and when we would get there - we turned right up Church Lane and found the Jockey. When we opened the door - what a shock (there was no porch then you just lifted the latch on the old door and straight in.) There was only a single 25 watt bulb in the centre of the beam but a roaring coal fire in the fireplace. The pub was full of old men, playing dominoes and smoking. It was like Dantes Inferno. The smoke and the red glow from the fire. We went to the serving hatch (No bar then) and ordered a couple of pints.(Although it was a free house, only Shipstones and Home Bitter was available). Before I had been in the pub 10 minutes Mary Lindley (The landlady) knew my whole life story. Mrs Cutts (No-one dared call her anything else) flitted through the pub like a ghost, wearing her white dress. The friendly reception I got that night and the great beer - remember I had come from Cheltenham where the only beer you could get was Courage, and Watneys - meant that I have come in the Jockey nearly every night since, except of course when Shaun Closed it for much needed refurbishment.

01/05/2020

29/04/2020

It should be music night at 8:30 tonight........... so here is one from a few years ago.

24/04/2020

23/04/2020

This sad time in our lives as come to test,

So stay at home, stay safe and rest,

We’ll use this time to not ever neglect,

But to come back strong and to care and respect,

Let’s all remember, be grateful for life,

Forget all those worries, your old troubles and strife,

Be sure that once this time is through,

We will be opening our doors and welcoming you.

Horse and Jockey Selston X 🍺

14/04/2020

We hope all of our customers and local community are staying safe and contributing to the guidelines given to us.
Together we can help our NHS and save lives whilst doing our part to help rid us all of this horrible virus. We all long to get back to some normality.

Together we can beat this.

An update on the pub itself:
Contrary to certain rumours and questions .. the Horse and Jockey will be open for business as soon as this nightmare is over, so rest assured and put your worries to rest.. will will continue “as we were” but hopefully even busier than previously!
We hope to see all our customers both of old and new very soon!.
Stay safe and look after one another.
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