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Oct 2020
Pub champion backs campaign to save Kirkby Malzeard inn
A campaign to save a historic village pub received a boost when Greg Mulholland, founder of the All-party Parliamentary Group Save the Pub, visited the site this week.
Mr Mulholland, the former Liberal Democrat MP for Leeds North West, visited the disused Henry Jenkins Inn in Kirkby Malzeard on Sunday to help launch a new associate membership scheme.
Locals are purchasing community shares to buy the inn, which is named after a farm worker and butler who died in 1669, reputedly at the age of 169.
The associate membership scheme allows those unable to buy shares to contribute in other ways, such as by fundraising or doing refurbishment.
So far 180 villagers have raised £210,250 from share pledges towards the £230,000 target to buy and refurbish the inn.
Mr Mulholland, who is also campaign director for Campaign to Pubs, said:
The Henry Jenkins Community Pub Ltd has had four offers to buy the pub rejected by the owner, who would prefer to sell it for housing.
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Campaign for Pubs is lobbying for a change in the law so that no historic pub can be demolished or converted when a group or individual is prepared to buy it as a pub at the independently assessed value.
Dave Robinson, chairman of the Henry Jenkins Community Pub Ltd, said:
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