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DECEASED PUB IN TINY TOWN ACHIEVES GLOBAL FIRST

Posted on August 14th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
In a world-first for ‘crowd-funding’ campaigns, the “heart” of a tiny Victorian town will be reborn. A fire destroyed Buchan’s Caves Hotel on 8 April, 2014, leaving the town of just 400 people without its meeting place and best reason

CALLING BUSINESSES: CHIP IN FOR CHARITY GOLF DAY

Posted on August 10th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
[caption id="attachment_3302" align="alignright" width="403"] Chip In For Calvary Committee Members (L to R): Bill Spurr, Jenny Hurley, Paul Ellery, Mark Ricciuto, Tim Boylen, Mathew Roberts (CUB), Melanie Cooper (Coopers) and Les Burdett (Lion)[/caption] Sponsor businesses and Hurley Hotel Group are

INDUSTRY BACKS PROGRAM GETTING PATRONS “HOME SAFE”

Posted on August 7th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Industry has come out in support of Victoria’s “Homesafe” scheme that promises public transport throughout the night across weekends. Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan and Police Minister Wade Noonan announced the Homesafe timetables would begin new year’s day, providing train,

SHORTS BRING WALLABIES TO LUNCH FOR GIDGET

Posted on July 31st, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Marty Short and W.Short Hotel Group are bringing Wallabies to The Rocks to raise money and awareness for the close-to-home Gidget Foundation. [caption id="attachment_3206" align="alignright" width="199"] Nick McArdle, Fox Sports[/caption] Next Wednesday (5 August) Fox Sports’ Nick McArdle will host

ALCHEMY PUB TO MAKE MIRACULOUS RETURN

Posted on July 24th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Wandsworth Council has ordered a developer to (re)turn an eponymous pile of rubble into gold. Council for UK’s Battersea conservation area has “roundly rejected” a retrospective building proposal by the developer that bulldozed St Johns’ Hill’s The Alchemist pub last

THE LORD GLADSTONE GIVETH

Posted on May 20th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
The newly opened Lord Gladstone Hotel has launched charity initiative #Goodkeg to raise money for a succession of causes. Every Friday, Paddy Coughlan and Ned Kelly’s new pub the Lord Gladstone, in Chippendale, is asking patrons to donate to worthy

COURTY HOTEL DONS ‘SINN’ SHIRTS FOR CHARITY

Posted on May 15th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Sydney pub group Solotel is continuing its Good Samaritan work, with further fundraising for Nepal and the Cancer Council. The uber-trendy ‘Courty’ (Courthouse Hotel) is expecting delivery of its second batch of artisan t-shirts created through a collaboration with beer

PUBS PUSH MORE HELP FOR NEPAL EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

Posted on May 1st, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
More pubs are bringing help to victims of the Nepal earthquake as two of Surry Hills’ beer meccas* give away top craft beers in support of fundraising. [caption id="attachment_2236" align="alignright" width="404"] K&B team: Devendra Sherchan, Anjan Prajapati, Shirish Shrestha[/caption] Tonight

KARMA KEGS FOR NEPAL ROLL OUT OF 16 SOLOTEL PUBS

Posted on April 29th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Hospitality group Solotel and beer giant Carlton & United Breweries are hosting a series of fundraisers to send money and clothing, after the massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal on the weekend. The quake created a lot of innocent

KINGS CROSS’ WORLD – CHAMPION TO COMMUNITY

Posted on March 30th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Kings Cross stalwart World Bar is on the front foot in the fight against public perception, sustaining a continued focus on charity and community through ongoing events. Refusing to sink into obscurity amid the loss of trade cause by crippling