Our first charity event was a success with a great turn out! We walked from The Fitzherbert Arms and The Mainwaring Arms and explored some beautiful Staffordshire countryside along the way., It was so lovely to have the team and the local community join us, even though it was bright and early on a Sunday morning. The weather held off and we were accompanied by many dogs who and our fabulous Assistant Manager of The Mainwaring Arms, Sophie, lead the way in style!
We raised money from our two chosen charities; Hospitality Action and Action Against Hunger, through cash donations and our Just Giving pages. If you would like to donate too, please visit https://bit.ly/3ugWc2p and https://bit.ly/3y1Ju8M
Next up we have a walk across the beautiful Cheshire country visiting our three Mobberley pubs of The Bulls’ Head, The Roebuck Inn and The Church Inn on Sunday 31st July from 10am. To register your interest email jennifer@cheshirecatpubsandbars.co.uk or ask a member of the team at any one of our pubs
There’s plenty of events planned over the summer, keep your eyes posted on your emails, our website, social media and in our pubs for more information!
From Friday 1st July Cheshire Cat are fundraising for Hospitality Action and Action Against Hunger – two charities very close to our hearts. We’re getting each of our 7 pubs to track their team’s daily steps to see if we can travel the circumference of earth over the next 80 days
SO THAT’S 93,890 per pub, per day – CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
How can you get involved?
There will be lots of fun activities and fundraising events for customers to get involved in throughout the summer, across at all our pubs. Join us for fun walks, bike rides, five-a-side football and much more! Keep up to date on social media and our websites and
for information about how you can get involved please ask a team member.
Our chosen charities:
Hospitality Action Hospitality is a stressful industry, with long hours, high pressure environments and physically demanding work. Injuries, mental health problems and addiction are sadly a feature of modern life in the hospitality trade. That’s where Hospitality Action steps in. They work to provide hospitality workers with financial, physical and psychological support to help them overcome adversity and get back to work as quickly as possible
Action Against Hunger We have enough food to feed everyone on earth yet 3 billion people can’t get the food they need. Poverty, conflict and inequality keep life-giving food out of reach. Action Against Hunger are dedicated to providing children with the nutrition they need to fulfil their potential and make a lasting change in their community. They do this by detecting, treating and preventing malnutrition in children so they can regain their health and build a better future.
How can you donate?
Please spread the word to friends, family and customers. Visit our Just Giving Pages on Hospitality Action https://bit.ly/3ugWc2p
and Action Against Hunger https://bit.ly/3y1Ju8M
Alternatively, there will be donation boxes across all the pubs and at our fundraising events to drop off cash
The Roebuck Inn in Mobberley, has donated £1,000 to the local village church after being shortlisted in the Community Hero category at the 2021/22 Great British Pub Awards.
The funding has come from category sponsor Coca-Cola, which has given money to all six shortlisted pubs, to help them continue with the community work that got them to the final.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Roebuck Inn owners Tim Bird and his wife and business partner Mary McLaughlin, wanted to help their local community, so they set up the Mobberley Pub Hub, with two team members, to provide a safe haven where people could come and collect takeaway food and much more.
The service was extremely popular and grew from grocery boxes and freshly prepared meals to heat at home, to a ‘shrub hub’ selling plants and the creation of a ‘Hub’ shop, that featured local produce and wine, which still exists today.
Now restrictions have eased, the Roebuck Inn team are looking for new ways to keep helping the community. Attention has turned to Mobberley Parish Church, St. Wilfrid’s, which has also played a crucial role in keeping people connected throughout the pandemic.
In 2021 the church purchased a property in the village centre to provide a safe space for local people to come together. The property, now called The Beacon, recently opened to the public.
There are plans to install a community café and run a parents and tots group, a dementia choir, a homework club, a men’s mental health group and a youth drop-in facility.
Tim Bird, Co-Owner of The Roebuck Inn commented: “We are immensely grateful for the recognition we have received through the Great British Pub Awards and from Coca-Cola. Our team work tirelessly for the good of the Roebuck and our local community, and we could not be prouder of them.
“The donation from Coca-Cola will go to our beloved Mobberley Parish Church and its Reverend, Ian Blay. The church plays a big part in our community, and we are pleased that the donation will be able to support the new Beacon facility.”
Holly Firmin, Senior Community Partnerships Manager at Coca-Cola added: “It’s been so inspiring to see how pubs and their customers have stepped up to support local people during the pandemic – despite many facing real challenges themselves.
“We’re thrilled to be able to help the team at The Roebuck Inn continue their support for people of Mobberley. Funding this donation is our way of saying a huge well done and thank you!”
On Sunday 13th October at 8.30am sharp, 18 cyclists braved the weather and took to the country roads that link our six wonderful pubs. They left from the Church Inn in Mobberley after registration.
With all the rain we did think we would have a poor showing, but to get 18 cyclists was amazing! In front of them was a one hundred mile challenge, taking them in to Staffordshire, to our Fitzherbert Arms pub via our Cholmondeley Arms and Three Greyhounds Inn before returning to Mobberley to pick off the Roebck Inn and Bulls Head. With the rain falling it was a gruelling, yet rewarding trip. Every rider had to collect a tiddlywink at each pub until they had the six. A Burger and a pint or three were waiting!!
Everyone completed the Cheshire Cat 6 other than three who missed out the Fitzherbert Arms, but did do the ‘Cheshire 5’ instead. The photos tell the story of how delighted everyone was to have risen to the challenge.
All the riders arrived back safely to the Bulls Head in Mobberley with the exception of three riders who had started at the Fitzherbert Arms and circled round to finish there rather than the Bulls Head.
All enjoyed a drink and a burger ‘on the house’ before they took part in (Cheshire Cat owner) Tim’s cycling ‘Tim-bola’ which raised a few more pounds for our company charity ‘Action Against Hunger’. On the day we raised £315.00 for the charity! Which is a really great result. Despite the weather, the cyclists loved it and most importantly loved our pubs!!
We would like to thank cycling enthusiast Sam, from our bank HSBC, for supporting the event and for supplying the British Cycling Jerseys and books as prizes in the ‘Tim-bola’.
Bigger thanks have to go to Adam from our wine merchants Boutinot. Adam is a very keen cyclist too and made all the arrangements for the event with the help of Tim and the pubs too. Adam also helped with the wines for the ‘Tim-bola’ and cycled the 100 miles for good measure!
This is the first time we have held the ‘Safari’ and it will now be an annual feature on the Cheshire Cat calendar! Thank you to all the cyclists who took part, including Rory who travelled from London to have a go!
See you all next year!
