Reviving a Kenton Pub and Community Hub

Save our Devon Pub by helping us create a community hub in the heart of our beautiful village, Kenton.

Pubs and community spaces are places to connect, congratulate, and commiserate; to share love, joy, music, quizzing, community meetings, reunions of old friends, making new ones, even a feast on a carvery. For over 200 years, Kenton has been home to warm memories of pubs, but in 2025 our community finds ourselves without one!

Not only are we looking to revive a historic cultural necessity, but want to develop a modernised community space which could include a place to eat, hold meetings, have coffee and cake, swap books and to have a space to connect with others.

Thanks to conversation with inspiring folks at community pubs The Drewe Arms, Drewsteignton, and the Tally Ho! in Littlehempston, and with the might & support of the Plunkett Foundation, we have the enthusiasm, the expertise, and the community behind us, to viably return a Pub to the heart of Kenton.

And we need your help!

With your support, we want to follow in the footsteps of successful historic pubs in Kenton, to create a welcoming space for all in the heart of the community.

The Dolphin Inn (c.1850 - 2020)

The Devon Arms (c.1830)

The Castle Inn (dates lost to the mists of time)

Having lost the last standing pub, the Dolphin Inn in 2020, we now have the opportunity to bring a community space back to life for our residents past and present. Will you help us?

Your donations will be bedrock of our project. Through your generosity we will be able to:

Whatever you wish to donate, it will help us establish a Great British Pub in a Great Devon Village once again!

Please note: The current target is to cover the initial costs of purchasing the pub - we will need to raise more through shares to purchase the property for the community.

If you wish to help donate a considerable amount and potentially buy shares in the property please do get in touch!!

Thank you!!