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Notwithstanding that restrictions are continuing to bite as Covid-19 continues to spread and we find ourselves unable to mix with friends and family as we would like, the Management Team wish every HJCP member a very Happy New Year.

The arrival of the vaccines gives us all fresh hope that, as the warmer weather approaches, we may all get our normal lives back on track. Time to be strong, to stay healthy and safe. So, having batted 2020 into the past, here’s to a better and brighter 2021!

Have you visited our Facebook Page recently? The ‘Henry Jenkins Community pub’?

On the 9th December 2020 we launched (Trumpets and Drum Roll!…) the Henry Jenkins Q & A Sessions.

Initially the Q’s and the A’s will be presented by the HJCP but it is hoped that residents and visitors will feel free to start contributing questions of their own. Every question submitted will be answered in full by the Management Team.

We want our entire campaign to be as transparent as possible and feel this will be a much more efficient and user-friendly way of providing information about our aims and ambitions than any amount of leaflets and posters. It will also be a vehicle to counteract the misinformation and speculation which is ‘out there’ when people are not in full possession of the true facts.

Please do submit questions and ideas of your own.

On the 19th October the HJCP Ltd achieved their Community Shares sales total of £230,000!

Well done to all our friends and supporters! perhaps the launch of our Associate Membership scheme on the 8th October gave us that little additional impetus to push us over the line?

The latest total, as on the 1st December 2020 is now a glorious £236,500.00!

The Share Issue will remain open and we will continue to sell Community Shares and recruit new members. We may have covered the cost of our intended purchase of the Henry Jenkins but any additional funds will go towards the repair and refurbishment of the property, thus reducing the amounts we require from grants and loans.

One more time – Well Done! (But let’s keep on pushin’!)

Peta (pronounced as in Peter) Hudson has started corresponding with the HJCP, from where she lives in Ireland.. Her dad, Gary Hudson, bought the Henry Jenkins from the Kitching family in 1971 and fully refurbished and modernised the pub, installing the restaurant and kitchen and relocating the toilets, turning it into the pub we all knew until it sadly closed. Peta has some fantastic childhood memories of her time in Kirkby Malzeard and obviously has a wonderful memory for people and places. She has sent a series of old photos of the pub as it was then and how her lovely dad’s labours brought it into the modern world.   If anyone remembers Peta and would like to re-establish contact or would just like to have copies of the old photos please contact HJCPLtd@gmail.com.