'Save The Swan Sherington'
The Swan, 10 High Street, Sherington, Buckinghamshire, MK16 9NB.

**Website Updated 26th November 2009**

The Save The Swan Sherington Campaign Team are pleased to announce that The Swan Inn will be opening 'Under New Management' and it has been fully refurbished.
The pubs official website will soon be found at www.swanninnsherington.com .
It will be opening it's door's for the re-opening from 1pm on Friday 4th December 2009.
Weekend Offer 4th-6th December 2009
ALL PINTS £2.00
SELECTED BOTTLE DRINKS £1.50
I'm sure that the campaign team and local villagers would like to wish the new management all the very best of luck in the future !

Thank you to everyone who submitted a response to The Swan Survey Questionnaire. I am pleased to say that we had 25% return from villagers. The dead line for for responses has now past.
The overall results have been collated and have been sent to the brewery and Parish Council. If you would like to see the overall results of the survey please click the button below. 

'A Local Campaign'

This website was created following the disgraceful closure of The Swan in Sherington on Sunday 8th February 2009 by the Charles Wells Brewery.

Sadly, Charles Wells Brewery did not even have the courtesy of producing a formal notification to their customers of this information prior to it's closure.

On hearing the news, some of the local villagers have got together and decided to start a campaign to prevent the closure of our village pub.

We urge all locals who wish to keep The Swan open to join our campaign in publicising this poorly judged decision. A decision that appears to have been taken without any care for the villagers or impact that it will have on it's loyal customers.

If you support the campaign, then we urge you to add your name to the guestbook (at bottom of this page) as a petition to prevent it's closure.

We also urge you to contact the Charles Wells Brewery and our local MP (Mark Lancaster) to inform them of your feelings on this matter.

Kind Regards,

William 'Griff' Griffiths

(CAMPAIGN MANAGER)

'Save The Swan Sherington Campaign Team'

The Swan public house in Sherington has been closed, with effect from

Friday 6th February 2009.

This decision was taken, with regret, by owners Charles Wells Pub

Company in response to the difficult trading environment currently

facing the licensed trade.

Despite the hard work and enthusiasm of licensees at the pub and the

support of the local community it hasn't been possible to maintain The

Swan as a viable and sustainable business.  As well as having a duty to

provide a great pub experience for consumers, we have a responsibility

to the licensee who operates the pub as their own business.  We don't

believe the pub offers a realistic commercial proposition for a licensee

and it's therefore been closed until further notice, and we're now

reviewing the long-term future of the site.

We always welcome feedback and a number of local residents have

contacted us since the pub closed.  We're interested in exploring all

the options available to us and are therefore organising an open meeting

to discuss the villagers' thoughts and possible solutions - which may

even include them running the pub themselves as a collective operation.

Details of this meeting will be notified to those expressing an interest

within the next week.

Kate Hempsall

Recruitment Marketing & PR Manager

Charles Wells Pub Company