The Joseph Holt brewery has brought in all of its 127 pubs together to launch a campaign to help the homeless of Manchester. The 173-year-old family-run pub chain and brewery has joined with charities Lifeshare and Barnabus to collect clothes and other supplies to see those living on the streets through the winter.
It’s using its pubs to act as collection points for everything from sleeping bags and coats to socks, gloves and sweaters. The estate-wide campaign has been inspired by two of its pubs, The Red Lion in Prestwich and the Fairway Inn in New Moston, which kicked off their own collection drives.
“It’s fantastic that this is happening across the entire Holt estate as we`ve had the most amazing response, “ says Val Coyle, landlady of the Fairway Inn. “Since December we`ve had 60 bags of donations so I’m thrilled so many other pubs will now be following suit. A Joseph Holt pub is at the heart of the community so I know my colleagues will all be so keen to help.
