News & Updates

The Drewe Arms holds record for largest Crowdfunder raise ever for a community pub!

The Drewe Arms Community Owned Pub is now officially open!

It’s with great excitement that we can announce the reopening of the Drewe Arms as a Community Pub. On Saturday 16th March we’ll be celebrating this big occasion with a grand opening party.

ITV Westcountry have paid us another visit to film a news item. And this time it's even better!

The Drewe Arms is now, officially, a community owned pub!

A phenomenal community achievement means we can buy the pub!

Yesterday we were visited by ITV news team to do a feature on The Drewe!

The campaign story has been picked up by Metro.

Since we launched the share offer campaign to turn The Drewe into a community pub we've had an PHENOMENAL response. So far, 261 people have stepped up and invested over £452,000, which is AMAZING!

Simon Reeve, BBC TV presenter, author and globe-trotter is currently on his sold-out UK tour, but heard about our campaign and sent us this wonderful message of support, which was thrilling:

On Friday 29th September we're launching The Drewe Arms Share Offer. Join us for the launch party!

Mel Stride, the Secretary of State and Local MP has given his support to our campaign

Members of the Steering Group have been hard at work trying to source grant funding and boost our funds for buying and refurbishing the Drewe

We are thrilled to announce that our offer to buy The Drewe Arms has been accepted by the owners Stonegate. This represents a major milestone in our journey to turn the Drewe Arms into a Community Pub.

Read the latest update on the campaign to turn the Drewe Arms into a Community Pub from Toby Rubbra who leads the Steering Group.

We're capturing some of the amazing stories people have about their experiences at The Drewe over the years

We're going to publish a timeline of the history of The Drewe on this website. While we pull together the final design, here's a taster of what's to come!

We've just received the fantastic news that the Drewe Arms has been successfully nominated as an Asset of Community Value by West Devon Borough Council.

The FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) has approved our application to set up the Drewsteignton Community Society Limited

Over 150 people attended our first consultation to set out initial plans to buy the Drewe Arms