Steve Double, Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay has congratulated the Victoria Inn in Roche for its successful bid for some of £100,000 of funding from the Prince’s Countryside Fund.
The Prince’s Countryside Fund has announced the award of four major grants to Pub is The Hub pub diversification projects in partnership with the People’s Postcode Lottery.
Each of the four pubs has been awarded £25,000 in direct grants to support major capital projects that will serve to benefit their surrounding rural communities with much needed services.
The grant for the Victoria Inn supports the cost of providing a meeting room equipped with IT facilities and WiFi, a community kitchen and a community events square. The community kitchen will work closely with Cornwall College and St Austell Brewery as a satellite apprentice assessment centre and will help to train ten apprentices a year to meet the need of qualified chefs in Cornwall.
Commenting, Steve said:
“It is great to see the Victoria Inn’s successful bid from the Pub is the Hub scheme.”
“Diversifying what is available in our local pubs is a great way to support both the pubs themselves as well as the communities they support.”
“The Victoria Inn’s scheme, which includes the potential to grow and develop young people on apprenticeship schemes from Roche and the surrounding area, is a particularly innovative one, and I look forward to seeing the plans progress.”