Charity begins at the pub: London bar seeks 'most ethical' title

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Charity begins at the pub: London bar seeks 'most ethical' title

 

Randy Rampersand, founder of the Green Vic, serves drinks at a pub in London aiming to be the world's most ethical pub, in Shoreditch, London, Britain July 5, 2019. Picture taken July 5, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Employing the homeless and offering beer brewed from leftover bread, "The Green Vic" in London's trendy Shoreditch district is aiming to be the world's most ethical pub.

 

Open for an initial three months, founder Randy Rampersad has secured enough funding to buy second-hand furniture, soap made by the blind, toilet rolls from recycled paper and drinks supplied by social enterprises that donate to charity.

 

He launched the project hoping to enable the average pub-goer to give to charity without having to change their daily routine. The pub employs the homeless and those with disabilities. Food is all plant-based and it avoids sending anything to landfill by recycling and composting.

 

"Every single drink you buy goes towards a different charity," Rampersad, 35, told Reuters. "The soap in the toilets, the toilet paper, the staff uniform, all of them help either the homeless or give money back to charity as well."

 

The drinks menu has ties to over 40 different charities.

 

For instance, a Brewgooder craft lager, for 4.90 pounds ($6.14), is produced by a non-profit organisation that donates all its money to clean water projects in Africa. The Toast Ale, at 5.50 pounds, is brewed with fresh surplus bread.

 

Adopting the industrial chic interior design popular with many other bars in east London, the Green Vic is hoping to secure enough funding for a permanent location.

 

It has so far had success in attracting customers keen to try out an alternative approach, in a neighbourhood catering to students, artists and tourists.

"I've never been to an ethical pub before and I was interested to see what it was like," said John Rampton, 49.

 

"I thought it sounded a good place to go."

 

($1 = 0.7987 pounds)

 

(Reporting by Bella Barber; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-07-09

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[bluesofa]

The Green Vic! What a good play on worms words there.

[Phuketshrew]

Good to know there's a pub I can go to and get ethically bladdered....

[PETERTHEEATER]

....... beer brewed from leftover bread,

 

........The Toast Ale, at 5.50 pounds, is brewed with fresh surplus bread.

 

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[phantomfiddler]

Five and a half quid for a beer ! Bejazus, it was one and tuppence when I left those fair shores ???? I still cannot justify a rise in price whereby a beer now costs 94 times it,s old price in 66. Here in Thailand, in the last 38 years, prices are about 3 times what they were in 81. Why the disparity ? ????

[Lannathaijohn]

1 hour ago, phantomfiddler said:

Five and a half quid for a beer ! Bejazus, it was one and tuppence when I left those fair shores ???? I still cannot justify a rise in price whereby a beer now costs 94 times it,s old price in 66. Here in Thailand, in the last 38 years, prices are about 3 times what they were in 81. Why the disparity ? ????

High Inflation in the 1970’s is the main reason for the disparity - around 1976 it was 25% in the U.K. Taking  a base from 1981 you will find similar increases between the U.K. and Thailand.

Not all beer in the U.K. is over £5 a pint , average is around £ 4 outside of London

[Baerboxer]

5 hours ago, Lannathaijohn said:

High Inflation in the 1970’s is the main reason for the disparity - around 1976 it was 25% in the U.K. Taking  a base from 1981 you will find similar increases between the U.K. and Thailand.

Not all beer in the U.K. is over £5 a pint , average is around £ 4 outside of London

 

When I started drinking it was 12p a pint for mild, 13p for bitter and 15p for lager. (Ironic that lager was actually cheapest to produce but marketed well!).

 

The Bexiters on here get all frothy about John Smiths being 1.99 per pint in Weatherspoons which means all's well in the world. 

 

Tag some thing as a 'craft" beer and the price shoots up.

[sanemax]

7 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

Five and a half quid for a beer ! Bejazus, it was one and tuppence when I left those fair shores ???? I still cannot justify a rise in price whereby a beer now costs 94 times it,s old price in 66. Here in Thailand, in the last 38 years, prices are about 3 times what they were in 81. Why the disparity ? ????

Beers were about a Pound a pint in 1981 , these days they are between 2-50 to a fiver a pint 

[joecoolfrog]

1 hour ago, sanemax said:

Beers were about a Pound a pint in 1981 , these days they are between 2-50 to a fiver a pint 

My local in Chislehurst has a monday special , all cask ales £2.49 , nice beer garden as well.