00:00hey it's lovely to see you today now we've just finished the christmas and new year period and
00:07they are quite trying times for pubs how was the festive season for you here at the good intent
00:12yes i think we had a really successful december and november um it's it's always difficult for
00:19us being in the arcade but once the christmas lights are up and the general markets go in it
00:23it really helps us so we get a lot of footfall because of it now your pub is a little bit
00:27different in that it's quite focused on community and charity why is it so important for you to
00:33factor this into your business model for me personally um pubs are always built around a
00:37community growing up they are in sort of villages and things like that um pubs where everyone goes
00:43to so i've tried to sort of create that atmosphere within the city center and having a non-for-profit
00:49pub that gives its money to charity it's profit to charity um it kind of brings that sense of
00:54community and it feels like people are making a difference when they when they buy a drink
00:57now running a pub in general can be quite challenging everyone knows how the struggles
01:02for pubs and bars at the minute um obviously tax going up alcohol tax um breweries uh putting the
01:09costs up insurance rates and everything's up and everything's against us uh so it was a bit of a
01:14challenging year and we've seen in birmingham especially a few pubs have closed down
01:17us but again with a different model um we're trying to try to do it differently so by putting
01:23that back on the community it kind of it helps us and we have obviously we're still we're still go
01:29we're still still running so that's the first hurdle out of the way um and i think going into
01:342026 we have to find new new ways and new initiatives uh within charities and stuff um to
01:40to do that you're based in the city center and pubs are often known for having regular customers have
01:46you managed to tap into that we rely heavily on office office-based customs so lunch times and the peak
01:52times just after office hours are really big for us and i personally try and remember as many faces
01:57many names as many drinks as i can um i think that's really important um not only personally
02:02but i think customers enjoy that as well and in general for the pub industry what do you think of
02:09the challenges for 2026 surviving um i think that's always the the first the first struggle um i think
02:16once we get over that sort of that hurdle and like i say we have a few things planned with
02:22charities uh me and my assistant manager planning a skydive for charity um and we're trying to look
02:28at different charities to work with to give money away each month we can say if you're booking upstairs
02:32we can put that money that you spend here back to your charity that you're working with which is
02:36again it's another idea that we're trying to push that's lovely hey it's been lovely talking to you
02:41thank you very much thanks for coming well this unique venture the uk's first not-for-profit pub
02:47has already donated to a number of charities including birmingham hospice love brum and thrive
02:53for birmingham further community initiatives are planned by the venue for the year ahead
