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The Hayloft

Nottinghamshire, NG16 2GB
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About The Hayloft

The Hayloft is a Greene King franchise pub in the heart of Giltbrook, Nottinghamshire – but to our customers, it is much more than just a pub.

We pride ourselves on being a true community hub with something for everyone. From family dining and live sport to music, entertainment, charity events and community fundraising, The Hayloft brings people together.

What makes us unique is the variety of people who call The Hayloft “their pub”. Families, football fans, young adults, older generations and local groups all share the same space and feel part of it.

Our team are part of the community too. We know our customers, we listen to local people and, when our community needs support, we try to be there.

We believe The Hayloft is the Heart of our Community because we are much more than somewhere to eat and drink – we’re somewhere people belong.

About the Local Community

Supporting local groups is a huge part of what being a community pub means to us.

Five mornings every week, we provide our function and meeting space completely free of charge to local senior and U3A groups. This gives them a regular, welcoming place to meet, socialise, learn and stay connected without having to worry about the cost of hiring a venue.

We also support grassroots sport by sponsoring local community football teams, helping with the costs involved in keeping local teams playing and giving young people opportunities to participate in sport.

For us, community support isn’t always about raising money. Sometimes the most valuable thing we can offer is our space, our facilities and our support.

If The Hayloft can help a local group thrive, bring people together or help someone feel less isolated, then our pub is doing exactly what we believe a community pub should do.

Last Christmas, our local community was badly affected by flooding, leaving a number of families facing an incredibly difficult Christmas.

We wanted to do something practical, so we used our Facebook community to help identify local families who had been particularly badly affected. We then provided four families with a complete Christmas dinner, completely free of charge, so that whatever else they were dealing with, Christmas dinner was one thing they didn’t have to worry about.

Alongside this, we offered affordable Christmas Day takeaway dinners for local seniors. For some, cooking a full Christmas dinner for one or two people can be expensive and a huge task, so we wanted to make Christmas Day that little bit easier.

Neither initiative was about generating business – it was simply about looking at what was happening around us and asking, “How can our pub help?”

That’s what being at the heart of a community means to us.

About Local Businesses

We believe a strong community needs strong local businesses, so wherever we can, we try to support the people and businesses around us.

We work with local tradespeople and businesses for services, maintenance and events, and our entertainment programme provides regular paid opportunities for local DJs, musicians and performers.

We also use our social media reach to support and promote local organisations, events and good causes, helping them reach an audience they may not otherwise have access to.

Just as importantly, The Hayloft brings people into Giltbrook. Our sport, food and entertainment attract customers to the area, creating additional footfall that benefits the wider local economy.

For us, community isn’t just about our customers – it’s about supporting the network of local people, businesses and organisations that make the area thrive.

Our relationships with local suppliers are built on trust, loyalty and supporting each other.

Wherever possible, we use local tradespeople, contractors, entertainers and service providers. Over time, these relationships become much more than simply placing an order or booking a job – they get to know our pub, our team and what we need, while we provide them with regular, reliable business.

We also believe in recommending and promoting the people we work with. If a local business does a great job for us, we’re happy to shout about it and recommend them to others.

The relationship works both ways. When we need something urgently, having trusted local people who understand our business is invaluable, and in return The Hayloft provides income and opportunities that support other local livelihoods.

If our pub disappeared, the impact wouldn’t stop with our employees. Local contractors, musicians, DJs and other suppliers would all lose regular work and income.

That’s why we see every pound we can keep within our local economy as another small investment in the community around us.

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About Staff at The Hayloft

Our team are one of our greatest assets, and we firmly believe that investing in our people is also an investment in our local community.

Wherever possible, we recruit locally and give people the opportunity to build skills, confidence and a career within hospitality. We offer apprenticeships, structured training and genuine opportunities for progression, encouraging team members to develop from entry-level positions into supervisory and management roles.

We don’t want The Hayloft to simply provide local jobs – we want those jobs to create opportunities.

By investing time, training and support into our team, we’re helping local people gain qualifications, develop transferable skills and build careers within an industry that can offer fantastic progression.

About Charity Work at The Hayloft

Fundraising is a big part of life at The Hayloft, and we believe our position at the heart of the community gives us a fantastic opportunity to bring people together for good causes.

Two charities particularly close to us are Macmillan Cancer Support and the East Midlands Air Ambulance.

We use our events, entertainment and busy trading days as opportunities to raise both money and awareness. From dedicated fundraising events and collection buckets to encouraging donations during some of our biggest weekends, we make fundraising part of what is already happening at the pub.

Macmillan has been a major focus for us, with our team and customers getting behind fundraising together. We also proudly support the East Midlands Air Ambulance, recognising the vital, lifesaving service it provides to communities across our region.

The most important part is that we don’t fundraise alone. Our team, customers, entertainers and wider community all get involved.

The Hayloft provides the venue and the platform – but it’s our community that makes the difference.

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