A pub can feel like your family,
not a family you want to invite around for Christmas dinner,
but people who know each other and can help each other out.
You take away those spaces in areas where there's less money,
where do people meet, how would you meet your neighbours?
The levelling up fund and all that flannel should be about putting community spaces back.
This is a community centre where you can get pissed basically.
Oh, there you go.
That's how quickly it can change.
Some glass of water for the little one.
Yeah.
Friday's lunch club and that's basically older people come along
for £5 get food, free tea and coffee, a pudding
and a bit of bingo.
So Pat is a regular.
I worked for myself for 50 years of my life,
put a bit away for a rainy day which at the moment I'm having to pay for my wife,
for who knows how long.
One of her careers recommended me to come up here
for Friday Friends, she said you'll enjoy it.
She said: ‘Well, it’s Moulsecoomb’, I said: ‘Well, so it’s Moulsecoomb – a lot of places get bad names'.
It's a friendly place.
I mean everybody walks in, everybody knows everybody.
Thank you.
Did Dave make that?
He did.
Yes.
They spat in Pat's one though.
Well I got to go and –
You're disgusting, you are.
So this is our community part,
so we have some arts clubs going on and we also have some acupuncture.
That's Raj that's doing that.
Hi boys so you're playing a game of Jenga, so who's winning?
I am at the moment.
Oh okay there we go.
But it's good, it's ...
You can see it, it's at the moment.
I can see it's making me nervous.
This is John, hi John.
John's our job club man.
There's a generation out there that have missed out on the email, everything really,
but now everything's online.
But I've just had another gentleman about five minutes ago he's coming down to try
and learn how to do applications online.
Hi Neville, how are you?
I'm alright, thank you.
Yeah, are you well?
Yes I am well.
Neville is one of our regulars.
Yes.
Neville joins the community part and also the pub part
and you started about a year ago wasn't it Neville that you ...
Yes it must have been, yeah.
I think it was about a year ago and Neville was new to the place, you know,
he was really, he came into Friday Friends I remember.
Yes, that's right, I did.
You were very, you know, he was on his own, he was very quiet, you know
and that was it, you know, within the second week, you know, he was, you know,
he had his group of friends.
Yeah.
You know, he was happy.
I feel a lot better.
I'm so glad.
I feel a lot more confident.
Good.
I try not to swear so much.
And that's always a plus.
But I can't stand people who continually use the f word.
Oh okay.
I mean did you see The Legend of the Krays ...
We've got sleigh and two reindeers it looks like.
Yeah, that's good.
Yeah.
Perfect.
We've tried cutting back, as much as we can,
so we don't open the pub on a Monday at all now,
because we just can't afford the gas and electric bills at all.
If this goes then, you know, it's going to affect so many people.
We're one of the few estates that have got a pub now,
I heard this thing they’re closing the estate pubs because of trouble.
On a Friday I'll come up here, meet up with my mates
talk about the gardening and talk about what's happening in the week
and that's how it should be.
They should always be open so people can come in for a cup of tea and a natter.
Don't have to drink beer.
We moved here 45 years ago.
A lot of us bought our own houses.
And as some people got older and moved on,
the first lot that was sold, all went to students.
HMOs,
house of multiple occupancy.
Basically they rent it out the four or five rooms, make a lot of money,
and not give a shit about anyone, because they're not part of the community.
Excuse me everyone it's Ross' birthday and Michael's birthday next week,
so we forgot to get you cards because we're cutting back, cost of living and all that,
but we got you a cake, you two.
Unfortunately Ross they got nuts in, so you can't eat them.
When I was a kid I used to to eat the Ferrero Rochers.
We have different disability, charity centres here
and different agencies send people here.
Usually kids that struggle at school actually are really hands-on and stuff so
and then yeah, adults with learning disabilities,
as all their services are closed down, they sort of come here.
Our annual general meeting is in the Bevy,
so that was about a month ago which was lively.
Karaoke, curry-oke
Karaoke.
Any more teas, anyone want teas?
I think communities coming together
makes a massive difference to people's well-being and having a laugh
and to me the Bevy is just another extension of what we're trying to do here.
How much is it?
You know there's a lot of advocacy that goes on here,
you know they can help people out if they're struggling with bills
or if they don't understand something.
I think change only happens in working class areas or working class estates.
You're not sat at home where those problems just escalate,
you're meeting with people and you can chat to people
and go well I can help you with that.
Anyway, let's go and have a beer.
No one should be cold.
You know, like it's just bullshit isn't it?
The whole thing of it and there will be loads of people falling through the cracks
that we don't know, that don't put the heating on, that don't talk to their neighbours,
that don't have children at school, that don't come to the church.
That's something that the Bevy and other organisations need to do is
to be knocking on doors and finding those people.
I was going to get that, because I'm gonna get that sign
and stick it on the Bevy social media.
Okay.
Brilliant.
Ab do you want a glass babe?
No.
That's on our tab and all?
That's on your tab as well.
Never, never even been in a pub, I don't drink alcohol
so never, I don't drink alcohol, so no.
The community part that's where my heart lies, that's them, it's the community
and here you know my regulars like help, like the elderly men that come in, you know,
they'll walk them home or, you know, everybody chips in to make it what it is.
Thank you.
He refuses me all the time.
I wonder why.
I just feel fortunate to be able to say, you know, at least I've got a job
at least I'm still in employment and I can can afford to have a pint at the pub.
How people manage on a pension is beyond me.
No, I mean like my dad's struggling, absolutely struggling.
I could have retired two years ago and there's no way I could have afforded to do it.
I had the heating on this morning because it's bloody freezing.
And we will go home and we will turn it on again,
because what can they do to me, they can't crucify me, they can do what they like.
We are not dying of freezing.
If people's extra money is taken up
by their bills then they ain't going to come to the pub.
So it's a total disaster, but we will find ways around it
well we'll have to, there ain't no choice is there.
Got a good deal for the Christmas tree because we're the Bevy,
They delivered it for free.