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10th May 2018 |
The Cotswolds
Distillery awarded £145,000 Rural
Development Grant towards construction
of a new visitors’ centre.
 The Cotswolds Distillery, located in
Stourton, Shipston-on-Stour, has just
had a massive boost to its fundraising
for the construction of a new visitors’
centre at their site in the North
Cotswolds. The distillery has just been
awarded a lucrative grant from the Rural
Development Programme for England.
The distillery fought off fierce
competition to secure the grant of
£145,000. Awarded through the European
Agricultural Fund for Rural Development,
the grant is presented to businesses
which create jobs and growth in the
rural tourism sector.
The remaining cost
of the build will be met through the
distillery’s current equity crowdfunding
round on Crowdcube, which opened last
week and aims to raise £2 million, which
will go to building the brand and
expanding the sales and distribution
networks. The new visitors’ centre is a
central part of the brand building
strategy and the distillery hope to open
the new facilities in Spring 2019. More
details can be found at
www.crowdcube.com/cotswoldsdistillery
In addition to serving as the new Brand
Home, it is hoped that the new visitor
centre will allow the distillery to
diversify its tour offering with a wider
range of experiences available to
visitors including tastings and evening
events.
The new visitor centre will house
tasting rooms, an expanded shop, an
exhibition space and a café. Currently
the distillery welcomes nearly 30,000
visitors a year running three tours a
day, seven days a week. The new centre
will have interactive exhibition spaces
and a viewing area, allowing drop-in
visitors a glimpse of the distillery
when tours are fully booked meaning they
can still learn about the work of the
distillery and see production in action.
Dan
Szor, Founder and CEO of the Cotswolds
Distillery said, "We are thrilled with
this marvellous vote of confidence from
the UK government, which will allow us
to enhance our award-winning visitor
offering. We’re looking forward to
completing our visitors’ centre project
and really creating a destination that
brings people to the area, showcasing
this stunning region that’s so dear to
us.
"This grant really shows that the
Government fully back our vision and
recognise the far-reaching benefits that
this kind of investment can have on the
wider rural economy of the North
Cotswolds."
The
Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky Inaugural
Release was
released at the end of 2017 and has
long since sold out but they have also
released a limited number of bottles of
their Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky since
then, it is
non-chill filtered and has been bottled at
46% ABV, it has a RRP of £44.95 and will be available from specialist whisky shops such as
The Whisky Exchange and
Master of
Malt
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