MAKE IT YOURS BEFORE IT DIES!

COMMUNITY BUSINESSES IN BRITAIN

Make it yours before it dies! It turns out that running a pub is a tough business in times of economic downturn, smoking ban, cheap supermarket booze and all the rest of it. But it also turns out that local communities don’t care about the number crunching. And with 40 or so pubs closing every week, locals are determined to fight back to preserve their regular hang-out. They gather together in community companies to buy their pub and run it themselves. All over the country, locals take over not only their pubs, but also post offices, petrol stations and shops.
Do you think there is hope that individuality in businesses is on the rise? Could more and more places be able to escape from the big multinationals and their global marketing concepts which make so many places look and feel the same?

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www.guardian.co.uk

www.dorsetecho.co.uk

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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