{"id":6064,"date":"2016-09-27T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T11:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2016-09-27T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T11:27:54","slug":"ginerosity-worlds-first-social-enterprise-gin-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/ginerosity-worlds-first-social-enterprise-gin-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"GINEROSITY: World’s First Social Enterprise Gin Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pickering\u2019s Gin<\/a> founders Marcus Pickering and Matt Gammell have teamed up with social enterprise experts to produce the Ginerosity spirit, the profits of which will be poured into good causes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Together they have formed a new company, Good Spirits (Scotland) CIC, in partnership with social enterprise entrepreneur Chris Thewlis, Dave Mullen of marketing agency Story, and drinks industry and export specialist David Moore. The team of philanthropists launched the gin at Pickering\u2019s distillery<\/a> in Edinburgh\u2019s Summerhall.<\/p>\n

The new company said it would invest profits from sales of Ginerosity into projects that will help and support under-privileged or disadvantaged young people.<\/p>\n

Mr Pickering<\/a> said: \u201cSupporting good causes is something that\u2019s very close to our hearts, and something we\u2019ve been involved in for many years. But for a while we\u2019ve wanted to do something more formal with our gin company. Producing this unique gin is the perfect way to achieve that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr Pickering said he was \u201cfuriously passionate about giving something back to the community\u201d, adding: \u201cThis is all about turning young people\u2019s fortunes around, and I\u2019m exceptionally proud that we\u2019re the first to do it. We want to support disadvantaged and disenfranchised young people in the UK, as well as give opportunities to young people and children in other countries.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He added: \u201cBy bringing in Chris Thewlis, Dave Mullen and David Moore, we\u2019ve put together a superb team of industry leaders, experts in their field, who bring their own knowledge and skills, as well as their contacts, to make this unique project happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Pickering\u2019s co-founder Mr Gammell added: \u201cWe\u2019ve established the company, we\u2019ve created a gin that looks and tastes beautiful, and we\u2019ve got a super cause to support: helping young people build themselves a better future. Now we\u2019ve just got to get this gin into the market so people can start buying the product and help give these deserving young people a step up.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ginerosity will be available in bars, good off licences and online. Mr Gammell said the gin recipe itself had been developed to be both accessible but complex, and had made using responsibly sourced botanicals, while the brand and look had been developed by Dave Mullen and his creative team at Story.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIn the creation of Ginerosity we wanted to produce a gin that was both traditional in style while being smooth and refreshing as a gin and tonic. We have taken a range of 10 botanicals from the traditional juniper, lemon, lime and Angelica to the more unusual lemon myrtle and heather to create a superb gin of real character, which combines fresh citrus flavours with a gentle modern twist.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The new company said its profits would go towards enabling young people to develop life skills that would help them find work and build a stable, positive future. The social enterprise is now recruiting an independent panel whose members would decide on the direction of the funding.<\/p>\n

Mr Thewlis, who also runs the social enterprise bar group Beer for Good, said: \u201cGinerosity is a perfect example of a social enterprise being used to help the community, and shows how a private business, a brilliant idea and some big-hearted individuals can come together and make a meaningful difference to people\u2019s lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSocial enterprise is all about profit share for good, and I’m especially delighted that we’re going to be using this business model for a bespoke gin. We’re not asking anyone to make a sacrifice – this is a bloody great gin! – we’re just asking people to buy Ginerosity so they can make a positive difference to the public good from the profits made.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Pickering\u2019s Gin founders Marcus Pickering and Matt Gammell have teamed up with social enterprise experts to produce the Ginerosity spirit, the profits of which will be poured into good causes. \u00a0 Together they have formed a new company, Good Spirits (Scotland) CIC, in partnership with social enterprise entrepreneur Chris Thewlis, Dave Mullen of marketing agency Story, and drinks industry and export specialist David Moore. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[434],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}