Welcome

Welcome to the website for the Stoke St Mary Community Benefit Society (please note: not a formal society at this stage). We are a group of concerned residents who are exploring the opportunity of setting up a Community Benefit Society that could raise the funds to buy the Half Moon Inn pub and take control of the future of what we believe is a hugely valuable asset of community value.

Our aim is to secure the future of the pub as a key part of village life for the residents of Stoke St Mary and others that visit.

We will be adding more information to this website as and when we have information to pass on but for now the key task is for us to understand what the residents of Stoke St Mary think and feel about the Half Moon Inn in terms of:

1) How much they value it as a community asset

2) How they think it should serve the community

3) Whether they’d be willing to support the development of a community benefit society to buy the pub.

If you have received a consultation document through your letterbox (they could arrive anytime between 30/9/21 and 5/10/21) then to fill in the consultation online please use the website address stated, or fill in the printed form and return it to the address stated.