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Save The Forester!

101 Comments

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Roger Thomas Verified
5 hr ago

The beating heart of any community; when that goes it's more than a loss of a building.

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Sarah Pickford Verified
3 days ago

I believe the pub would be an invaluable and very important asset for this rural community. It would help to foster community relations which is so important currently and as a meeting point to give people feeling isolated a place to make contacts.

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Supporter Verified
11 days ago

I've enjoyed a few meals at The Foresters; I appreciate its special hospitality; cosy rooms, log fires, dog friendly (I always met such nicer dogs there!). Rural village pubs are special; they're not commodities to be abandoned, they take centuries to acquire their characters; they speak to history, to a time of tight and mutually-supporting communities through thick and thin.

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Mike Masterson Verified
11 days ago

Pubs are the lifeblood of villages in the uk

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Alexander MB Verified
14 days ago

For the Community to meet, chat, socialise

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Richard Eaton Verified
14 days ago

The Forester is pivotal to village life. More than a pub it’s been the focus of the village.

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Polly Tye Verified
14 days ago

Please don’t let our pub be turned into a house. We have raised enough to purchase it and as a village we can’t wait for it to reopen as a place to meet, drink and eat, but also a village hub, perhaps a self service shop as we cannot walk to one, I hope both my children will be able to have summer jobs there that they can walk to. It would be such a shame to lose it especially with so much well organised support and funds behind the campaign.

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Nick Doble Verified
15 days ago

It's important to keep public houses like The Forester open. A great hub for the local community and brings revenue to the area from vistors

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Charles Mason Verified
15 days ago

The fortester has been a popular pub that would otherwise be sorely missed

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Martin Hobbs Verified
16 days ago

I believe the Forester can survive with the right ownership AND serve the community.

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Joe Camel Verified
16 days ago

Pubs need to know the cavalry is coming - Andy Burnham, British Prime Minister

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Suzie Gooch Verified
16 days ago

I was brought up in Donhead St. Andrew and still like to go to support the Forester when I visit my family from Suffolk where I now live.

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Susan Morris Verified
17 days ago

To save an important part of our village life and a vital community hub for the future.

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Kevin Peters Verified
17 days ago

To preserve rural amenities.

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CATHY AGNEW Verified
17 days ago

A decent pub is vital for a thriving community

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Philippa Blanshard Verified
18 days ago

We need our pub back

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Jerry Goodenow Verified
18 days ago

My ancestors we're from Don Head St Andrews. Edmund Goodenow.

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Mark Butler Verified
19 days ago

It is the only public space remaining where we can meet and socialise.

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Janet Elson Verified
19 days ago

Historically, this pub has been a place for villagers to meet up and socialise. This is still true today.

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Henry Fuller Verified
20 days ago

Village pubs make a village