Some background information about the Hall and Woodhouse brewary founded in 1777 and their aims for raising money for local charities
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00:00 I'm really proud to be able to say that our teams and our pubs, some of the general managers who are here tonight,
00:07 have raised an astonishing £650,000 towards that target.
00:13 And that's what we want to do every year.
00:16 So that's our purpose. We've set ourselves these goals, as I say,
00:23 and we want to deliver a million pounds to local good causes by 2020.
00:28 So there are a few other good ones in there, I think.
00:31 Carbon neutral will probably be quite a challenge, but we're working hard towards that and various other business goals.
00:40 We're very much a values-led organisation, and we live and breathe our values.
00:48 And we want to be cherished by our teams, and we also want to be cherished by our communities.
00:55 I don't believe that any organisation, however good, can survive without the help and support of its local community.
01:04 So, you know, we're very much a values-led business.
01:09 We have two parts to our business.
01:14 The first one is a drinks business, and this is where we brew beer and we sell it to pubs and to supermarkets.
01:24 So I think last year we brewed something like 22 million pints, and we sold about 19 million bottles and cans into the supermarkets.
01:33 We do that mostly for ourselves, but also, as you can see, we sell some Timothy Taylor's.
01:39 Our friends from Yorkshire, we sell their beers into supermarkets as well.
01:46 We have a fabulous brewery which we built back in 2012.
01:52 It's very much a state-of-the-art brewery that is built on our tradition of brewing and will hopefully keep us going for another hundred years.
02:03 And they brew our fabulous badger beers, and you'll have a good chance to sample them in a minute once we've finished with the presentations.
02:16 So a good range of cast, keg and bottle beers.
02:21 The second part of our business is hospitality, or rather pub business, and this is where we are spread.
02:32 You can see pretty much across the south of England except Kent and Cornwall, and we're in the middle here, somewhere down the bottom, I think.
02:45 And we've got some fabulous sites which I'd like to show you.
02:53 Here are some of our business partnerships.
02:56 These are the ones we run under franchise.
02:59 So we've got the Crab Tree, which is the nearest one to here at Lower Beading, which I'm sure some of you know well.
03:07 Then we've got the old inn down in Devon, famous for Uncle Tom Copley and all, and Widdicombe, and then a couple of lovely pubs in Dorset.