crowd-funding

LOCKDOWN-DEFYING PASTORAL PUB SEEKS $25k TO PAY FINES

Posted on July 30th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Defiant Victorian publican Trevor Andrews has reopened his Echuca pub, and is seeking help with the massive fines he got for doing so last week. The Pastoral Hotel in Echuca, in regional Victoria, made news around the country by blatantly

WEST WINDS GIN SETS SAIL INTO CROWD-FUNDING

Posted on May 21st, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Bolstered by the Australian ‘gin revolution’ and constant offers to invest, West Winds Gin has kick-started a crowd-funding campaign to allow fans to literally put their money where their mouth is. Based in Western Australia, West Winds began in 2010,

LITTLE TOWN THAT COULD OPENING WORLD-FIRST PUB

Posted on December 7th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Two and half years after the town of Buchan lost its only pub, the new and world’s first crowd-funded Caves Hotel will be reborn tomorrow. A fire razed the landmark local pub on the night of 8 April, 2014. The

BIG DREAMS FOR NEW OWNERS OF HISTORIC SMALL-TOWN PUB

Posted on February 8th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
In the true spirit of community, a determined family of patrons have banded together to save their local pub – by buying it. As the weary owners of the almost one-hundred-year-old Bolgart Hotel seek a graceful retirement from the rigours

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