Cheltenham Gin and Tea Bar to launch a “Pay it Forward” Crowdfunder

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Nicky Godding

Cheltenham’s Memsahib Gin and Tea Bar is launching a “Pay it Forward” style Crowdfunder campaign, aiming to raise £10,000 in forward sales. The campaign is being launched to help the business develop new initiatives and bounce back from lockdown even stronger.

Litu Mohiuddin co-owner of the Memsahib Gin and Tea Bar explained the rationale for the campaign:

“We have steered ourselves through an unprecedented challenging period. Thanks in part to Government support we have been able to retain all our staff. Revenues have been cut dramatically though and in the latest lockdown our activities have been limited to just Hamper Sales as the nature of our kitchen and location, made take-away and home delivery unviable.

“Despite all of this we are looking forward to the future with confidence with some exciting new plans, including our first cookbook and expanding our programme of events. All of this and our survival will be made eminently more possible with support from this pay it forward crowdfunding appeal and we very much hope that our customers and the wider Cheltenham population will want to get involved”.

The Crowdfunder will run for six weeks finishing on Friday 16 April. The campaign has an initial target of £10,000 and a stretch target of £15,000.

Believed to have been the world's first Gin and Tea bar, Memsahib Gin & Tea Bar is located in the heart of Cheltenham.

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.