Making life peachy is the common purpose of Peach Pub Company, a nineteen-strong chain of gastro pubs located in market towns and villages across the heart of England. Founded in 2002 by Lee Cash and Hamish Stoddart with their first pub, The Rose & Crown in Warwick, the chain's success has been built on teamwork and continuous development.

The founders believe in progressing Peach people and supporting those who want to rise through the ranks, or who even plan to start their own hospitality business in the future. Hosting each service as if it was their own dinner party is a driving force for pub employees, and Peach fosters a close-knit family feel among teams – who all get Christmas Day off to spend with their own nearest and dearest.

When the first lockdown forced Peach Pub Company chefs to down tools and close their kitchens, the firm acted fast to keep teams and their suppliers busy and with a purpose, pivoting from serving guests their gastro pub fare to delivering an entirely new social enterprise, YourHub. Peach began serving communities in a new way, by making food that was missing from shops and takeaways and by becoming a cooking hub for the NHS, homeless charities and care homes.

The eateries sold classic dishes as takeaways and created at-home dining boxes for online order while 56 volunteers cooked, served and delivered meals to frontline health workers and those in need. YourHub operated for 80 days, during which time volunteer chefs made 10,750 and 1,000 local online orders were processed.