# London pub pop-up aims to be world’s most ethical

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/06/25/london-pub-pop-up-aims-to-be-worlds-most-ethical/
- Published: 2019-06-25T11:07:56+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**An ethical pub has just launched in London’s Shoreditch that aims to ensure that****
everything you can buy and use there has a positive environmental and social impact.**
Launched by [The Better World Group](https://betterworld.love/), The Green Vic only
uses ethical suppliers, mainly nonprofits and social enterprises, for everything
from the beer it serves, to the cleaning materials used and the food on offer. It
is starting as a three-month pop-up on Great Eastern Street with the goal of gaining
investment to open a permanent site early next year. The bar stocks drinks that 
support over 40 individual non-profit charities with the menus listing key information
on each organisation and their work. Examples include [Brewgooder](https://www.brewgooder.com/)**,**
which donates its profits to clean water projects in Africa via The One Foundation,
and [Ginerosity](https://www.ginerosity.com/), which supports disadvantaged young
adults worldwide.

 The food is also important, with The Green Vic partnering with vegan chefs ​[The Green Gril​l](https://www.thegreengrill.com/)​.

   The Green Vic is open seven days a week from midday until midnight**,** and will
also host charity events throughout the week. Every Tuesday, for example, a local
charity will have the opportunity to hold free fundraising activities at the pub
and to put a special cocktail on the menu for the week that will see a pound from
each one sold donated back to it. Every Saturday the pub will also hold a ‘Better
World Brunch’ where five pounds from every ticket sale will go to charity.  The 
Green Vic is also aiming to be an ethical employer with 1 in 4 staff from a vulnerable
or disadvantaged background. It has partnered with [Unity Kitchen](https://www.unitykitchen.co.uk/),
a social enterprise that trains people with disabilities to get a career in the 
food and beverage industry, and [Change Please](https://www.changeplease.org/), 
a social enterprise that trains and supports homeless people to become competition
level baristas. Once people have passed their training, The Green Vic will employ
them to give them work experience to help with their future employment.  Founder
Randy Rampersad (pictured) said:

> “I wanted to create a business that made the world a better place, where people
> can contribute to charity without changing their normal daily routine, has the
> capability to expand across the UK and combined my passion for partying so a social
> enterprise pub was the natural fit. One of the drinks brands I work with, ‘Toast
> Ale’ has a famous quote that sums up my vision perfectly; ‘if you want to change
> the world, you have to throw a better party than the ones destroying it’, that’s
> exactly what I am trying to do – make a difference and have fun at the same time.”

    

 * **[Social enterprise funding available in Ireland](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/02/26/social-enterprise-funding-available-in-ireland/)**(
   26 February 2020)
 * **[7 ideas for impact funds win development funding](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/04/26/7-ideas-for-impact-funds-win-development-funding/)**(
   26 April 2021)
 * **[Beam wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/04/29/beam-wins-queens-award-for-enterprise/)**(
   29 April 2021)

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