Bristol Beer Factory raise over half a million pounds for local causes!

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A Bristol brewery has raised more than half a million pounds for community projects across the city—by simply selling beer. Bristol Beer Factory launched its Brewed to Give initiative last year, promising 2% of every sale to local causes.

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00:00and there's an awful lot of pressure on pubs at the moment um so the more we can do in that

00:05category around caspia and it's beer in its purest form and its natural form um so that's

00:12a big focus for us as a business in bristol community groups such as talk club who help

00:17to fund mental fitness initiatives and co-exist community kitchen who support marginalized

00:22communities through cooking are working tirelessly the community spirit of offering a helping hand

00:28to one another is something we have come to know and love about the city but tough times for all can

00:35bring with them unprecedented challenges seeing what is happening around them bristol beer factory

00:42decided it was their time to give back to the community we met up with their team to hear about

00:47the difference they hope to make the support includes cash donations cost price beer free

00:54venue hire and hands-on help with fundraising from school raffles to mental health program

00:59so back in 2023 bristol beer factory launched brew to give and in a nutshell it's a self-imposed

01:07community tax it's our way of giving back to bristol who made us who we are who have supported us the

01:15whole way and it's our way to really recognize that without bristol without our community

01:21um we can't thrive and likewise bristol needs us right now so we give two percent of every brewery sale

01:28back to bristol and enable communities community groups charities good causes to effectively flip our

01:37donation which is beer uh into cash which they can do at fundraising events could bear be a viable

01:45funding model for local charities in bristol it already is the brood to give initiative by bristol

01:51beer factory has generated over half a million pounds for organizations in just over two years but it's

01:59not just about writing checks it's a model that's flipping how corporate social responsibility can look

02:05and promoting bigger questions about what local businesses can do when they put community at the

02:11center of their projects two years you have raised over half a million pounds for local charities

02:19what what is this doing for for the smaller charities who perhaps would not have had that opportunity

02:24otherwise well we're really hoping we make an incredible difference um this is why we're doing

02:30brew to give to give those charities a chance to survive and to thrive and do what they do well

02:35it's a shame there are any charities in the world really isn't it we shouldn't need them in a

02:39country as wealthy as we are but that isn't the case um as you know it's a fragile climate

02:46we need to support it we're going to continue to support it our pledge is two percent of our previous

02:51year's turnover that will not change we will deliver continue to deliver to support the communities of our

02:57city

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