ePetition - Discretionary Business rates for The Bevy and other community businesses

The Bevy is the only co-operative community-owned pub in Brighton and is owned via a Community Benefit Society with a statutory asset lock guaranteeing the not-for-profit status of the pub, and so meeting the criteria of section 47B of the 1988 Local Government Finance Act.

We recognise the Council faces challenging times in terms of managing its finances whist discharging its responsibilities. We feel it need to see enterprise like the Bevy - rooted in communities, owned by them and responsive to them with legally-binding not-for-profit status - as partners in navigating this landscape, and so work with us to help us ensure that the people of the city are best protected and able to access the services traditionally provided by the Council.

The Bevy is so much more than just a pub and delivers services way beyond what pubs commonly do, including some that the council are no longer able too. Seventy different groups used the Bevy last year - from the weekly seniors lunch club, United Churches of Moulsecoomb Christmas Carols, tenants associations and scouts groups, monthly art and craft group to Little Green Pig delivering storytelling workshops to Moulsecoomb Primary pupils. Health Checks to teaching children to cook, garden shows to energy advice cafe.

This ePetition ran from 22/02/2017 to 03/05/2017 and has now finished.

595 people signed this ePetition.