The pub was taken over by a community group in the spring of 2012 to save the pub from closing and potentially being lost forever. With the assistance of the previous landlord and the owners of the building the Heneage family, the community group were able to open the pub and work on building up the trade to ensure the long term survival of the pub.

In November 2022, we became a commercial venture and therefore are no longer a community pub. We have retained some staff from the community run pub and have gained some new faces too. Our new manager is Matt Horsefield.