2026 – Back raising money for St Leonard’s Hospice
2026 here – time to smell the fresh air, sip some delicious whisky and be generous!
After raising £6,315 for St Leonard’s Hospice (inc GiftAid) with Dream Drams and some penguin antics, we weren’t going to stop there. We’ve upped our target to £10k + GiftAid in total and it’s time to line up the exciting whisky-based fundraising!
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2025 – Total raised: £3,461.63
£6,315 raised for St Leonard’s Hospice so far
In 2025, we continued to support York-based St Leonard’s Hospice who provide care and support for terminally ill people, and people with life-limiting illnesses. With the ‘Dream Drams’ section of our Summer Festival, giveaways throughout the year, and of course Dream Drams III, we repeated our fundraising level of 2024 to bring the grand total raised to over £6k.
2024- Total raised: £3,403.37
£550 raised for Blameless
When we teamed up with Scotch Whisky Auctions to put on an Autumn tasting, we saw an opportunity to start putting our charity impact plans into action. We were able to raise £550 for Blameless, their nominated charity, and one which provides fun times, happy memories and a vision of hope for the future for children and families affected by alcoholism and addiction.
£2,853.37 raised for St Leonard’s Hospice
We wanted to go further and decided to devote our Christmas tasting, Dream Drams II to raising money for York-based St Leonard’s Hospice who provide care and support for terminally ill people, and people with life-limiting illnesses.
We first ran Dream Drams in 2023 – a tasting designed to introduce people to whisky that they’d be unlikely to get hold of such as sold-out first releases, old and rare or exclusive, expensive and limited editions that end up being hoarded by collectors. Everyone loved it – we presented 7 whiskies with a combined retail cost of 3 times the ticket revenue and it was our quickest ever sellout.
Thanks to the generosity of Caskshare, Woodrow’s of Edinburgh, Cooper King, The Whisky Exchange, Thompson Bros at Dornoch Distillery, The Whisky Lounge, The Spirit of Yorkshire and The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, plus the UNBELIEVABLE generosity of all attendees, we managed to raise OVER £2000 for this worthy cause, through ticket sales, auctioning the remaining spirit and some fun but at times confusing in-tasting side quests.
With GiftAid, a social media tasting set promotion and one of the York Whisky Club hosts, Jasper, donning a penguin outfit for a freezing boxing day dip in Whitby, we added more contributions eventually topping out the year with a total of £2,853.37 raised for the charity.
