From buying costumes for pantomimes to helping provide prizes for raffles, Dark Star wants to help pubs raise cash for well-deserving causes.
The company, which launched the Dark Star Foundation in 2012 to help charities, fund community projects and support fundraising in pubs, has reopened funding applications for 2018.
The closing date for pubs to apply is 26 January 2018 with funds being distributed in February next year.
Previous history
The Dark Star Foundation has supported charities such as children’s charity the Dame Vera Lynn Trust, Team Margot, a charity set up in memory of Margot Martini, Age UK and, local Sussex cause, St Catherine’s Hospice.
Funds are raised through the sale of certain lines in the brewery shop including bespoke merchandise as well as through donations made by people attending brewery tours at the company’s headquarters in Partridge Green, West Sussex.
Additionally, the team at Dark Star will be running a series of fundraising events including HopFest, a three-day beer and music event which ran in October, alongside a series of other events to be announced throughout 2018.
Pubs are crucial to their communities and providing a helping hand is something that Dark Star is more than happy to do, according to managing director James Cuthbertson.
Community integration
He said: “As well as supporting charities and helping community projects, we are looking to help pubs in their fundraising efforts.
“For example, if a pub needs to buy or hire a marquee so it can run outside charity functions, then we want to hear from them.
“The pub element of our foundation is to help pubs raise more money and further integrate them into their communities.
“UK pubs raise more than £100m for charity every year and our foundation is designed to help them in that cause.”