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The Stockport Beer and Cider Festival, which took place at Edgeley Park on 16th-18th June, saw nearly £6,000 raised for local sight and hearing loss charity, Walthew House.
More than 60 charity volunteers worked shifts across the three days of the festival, pulling pints of beer that had been donated to them by local breweries, that had also been sponsored by Stockport-based businesses.
The charity bar was accessible to visitors with sight loss, with both large print and Braille beer lists available, and customers were taught simple British Sign Language (BSL) phrases via posters across the festival site.
Through bucket collections, raffles and selling beer on the charity bar, Walthew House raised £5,931 from the event to support services they provide to people living with hearing and/or sight loss in Stockport. Services include social and sports groups, a youth club, sight loss counselling, and a hospital information service at Stepping Hill Hospital.
Sarah Mollitt, Funding Manager at Walthew House, said:
“It was wonderful to be able to hold face-to-face events again, enabling us to return to community fundraising after the enforced break caused by the pandemic. In order to continue providing our services, events such as the beer festival are vital to us, and we are so grateful to everybody who made the event such a success – from our dedicated team of volunteers to everyone who purchased a pint from our bar!”
The Stockport Beer and Cider Festival, organised by the Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale), now in its 34th year, ran from 16th-18th June at Stockport County’s Edgeley Park grounds.
Image: Walthew House volunteers on the charity bar with Stockport MP, Navendu Mishra. L-R Shannon Gorman, Sandra Knott, Navendu Mishra MP and Colin Knott.