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Whether you have worked in the licensed drinks trade for 3 days or 30 years, you are eligible for emotional support, financial guidance and practical advice from our helpline team.
For financial grants, you or an immediate family member (living in the same household) must have worked in the licensed drinks trade for a total of 5 years or more, in one or more jobs. All applications are means-tested and awarded based on individual circumstances. Please note that we cannot provide financial assistance for items already paid for.
Who LTC Can Help…
If you work, or have worked, for the following companies or organisations, or fulfil the job roles mentioned:
- Licensees of Pubs, Bars, Licensed Private Members Clubs and Breweries and their employees, including Head Office staff.
- Pubs with letting rooms/restaurant/multi-faceted offers.
- Businesses that have been acquired by the above (i.e. Greene King’s acquisition of Hickory’s).
- Everyone employed by those above in roles that could be as diverse as cleaners, draymen, central services, property managers, plus employees who are based in foreign countries but whose parent company is UK based (such as Wells & Co and their French pubs), or who might be registered abroad (such as Stonegate) but whose main operations are UK based.
- Scottish Licensees/employees of Pubs, Bars, Breweries.
- Competitive Socialising venues which are more recent entrants to the licensed trade (such as Flight Club, The Oche, Clays).
- Low & no alcohol focused pubs, bars and manufacturers who have supported the charity’s fundraising such as Lucky Saint (as these remain pubs in the main).
- Manufacturers of alcoholic drinks that are sold in pubs, bars, and breweries, in effect those who work in the supply chain to the Licenced Trade.
- Sports clubs/Golf clubs – where the job role is specific to licensed operations in those businesses.
- Those whose role it is to service the cellars and beer lines of how alcohol is dispensed in pubs, bars, and breweries but who are not direct employees of the qualifying companies.
- Employees of trade associations (BII, BBPA etc) who operate in the licensed trade sector.
Who LTC Can’t Help…
Where the consumption of alcohol is not the predominant part of the on-trade sales mix or reason to visit:
- Corner shops.
- Off licences.
- Casinos.
- Restaurant and Hotel businesses (where support is more likely from Hospitality Action).
- Supermarket drinks category buyers.
- License holders for non-hospitality venues e.g. supermarkets, kebab shops, takeaways
- Casual Dining groups (who are not a division of a diversified pub company).
- Importers of alcoholic drinks.
- Agency employees (when agencies supply pub casual workers, but HMRC states the name of the agency but not the role or industry).
From time to time there are occasions when a beneficiary falls into a grey area. These are considered on a case-by-case bases e.g…
- Employees of wines and spirits businesses such as Diageo, Warners Gin, Pernod Ricardo, who would more naturally be supported by the Drinks Trust charity.
- Logistic company employees (not breweries) whose main operations are transporting alcohol such as LWC.
Call our helpline, open 24/7 and free of charge, at 0808 801 0550. We are here to listen and discuss how we can help you.
If we cannot assist you directly, we will do our best to provide you with the contact details of someone who can.
