Homelessness

Chefs to cook up soup recipes to help the homeless

18-Nov-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Recruitment charity Only A Pavement Away (OAPA) has launched new campaign SOS: Serve Our Soup to support its Hospitality Against Homelessness initiative.

Young’s helps homeless with laptop initiative

04-Mar-2020 By Alice Leader

Young’s brewery and pubco is helping homeless people “get back on their feet” by donating old laptops that can help them reconnect with the community.

Licensee to serve Christmas dinner to homeless for sixth year in a row

18-Dec-2019 By Alice Leader

Two publicans are preparing to feed the homeless a hearty dinner this Christmas – a project one of the duo began in 2014.

Pop-up taproom to raise money for rough sleepers

10-Dec-2019 By Emily Hawkins

A brewery has opened a pop-up taproom to raise cash for the homeless in central London this week.

Hospitality volunteers donate £37k to homeless

02-Dec-2019 By Alice Leader

Volunteers across the hospitality sector have offered a helping hand to support Only A Pavement Away (OAPA) charity distribute ‘Winter Warmth’ kits to rough sleepers across the UK.

Brewery offers its address so homeless people can vote

26-Nov-2019 By Alice Leader

A brewery in Bristol is giving homeless people their voice back by offering them the chance to register for the general election using its address on registration forms.

Hospitality jobs charity to launch on World Homeless Day

09-Oct-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Only A Pavement Away (OAPA) will act as a conduit between hospitality employers and homeless individuals, following its official launch on World Homeless Day (Wednesday 10 October 2018).

Revolution Bars Group announces charity partnership with Shelter

02-May-2018 By Stuart Stone

The operator behind 73 cocktail bars and restaurants, Revolution Bars Group, has announced a partnership with the UK homelessness charity, Shelter.

Birmingham pub to offer free Christmas meals to the homeless

18-Dec-2017 By Stuart Stone

The Old Crown in Digbeth, Birmingham, will offer free meals to the homeless and those in need this Christmas Eve.

Pubs partner with Crisis homeless charity to offer jobs

05-Sep-2017 By Phil Mellows

Pub operators and charity workers are meeting later this month to explore routes to employment in the industry for Britain’s growing homeless population.

Leicester pub to give 300 free Christmas meals to the homeless

25-Nov-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

A Leicester licensee plans to give out free Christmas meals to the city’s homeless population.

Brewdog

BrewDog 'smash crowdfunding world record with a monster truck'

01-Oct-2015 By Emily Sutherland

BrewDog have broken the world record for the most amount of money made through crowdfunding, raising £10m in the latest round of fundraising for Equity for Punks.

Big Issue founder wants super-strength lager tax hike

10-Mar-2008 By James Wilmore

Big Issue founder John Bird has echoed calls for a tax hike on super strength lager in this week's Budget. Bird, along with homelessness charity...

Bottled Lager: Staying cool

29-Aug-2007

A LANCASHIRE pub that has set out its stall to pour 'the perfect pint' is applying the same levels of perfectionism to bottled lager.The Oak Tree Inn...

New menu for Litten Tree

23-Sep-2004

The SFI Group is launching a new menu in its Litten Tree pubs as part of a multi-million pound refurbishment and re-branding programme of its 59...