Brewery garden reports record visitor numbers for charity opening

A Yorkshire coast brewery garden reported unprecedented visitor numbers at its annual Open Weekend.

Wold Top Brewery, based at the National Garden Scheme ‘Yellow Book' garden, Hunmanby Grange, welcomed 724 visitors and raised over £4,000 for National Garden Scheme charities when it opened its award-winning brewery and garden to the public on 4^thand 5^thJune.

Brewery owner, trained horticulturalist and National Garden Schemeassistant county organiser for North Yorkshire, Gill Mellor said:

"We are always delighted to welcome people to Hunmanby Grange and to raise money for the National Garden Scheme, St Cuthbert's Church at Burton Fleming and Kidney Research UK.

"Everybody enjoyed the gardens, the great food provided by Field and Forage and the ladies of the church, tours of the brewery and, of course, the beer!"

Hunmanby Grange is also the home of Muddy Souls Events and has opened its garden for 24 consecutive years under the National Garden Scheme. A special event is being planned to celebrate Hunmanby Grange's 25^thNational Garden Scheme Anniversary on festival weekend, 2^ndand 3^rdJune 2018.

The National Garden Scheme is the most significant charitable funder of nursing charities in the country, donating over £50 million since its inception in 1927. For more information, please visitwww.ngs.org.uk. Last year, Hunmanby Grange's open weekend raised over £3,000 for National Garden Scheme charities.

For more information and directions to the farm that houses the gardens and the brewery, please visitwww.woldtopbrewery.co.ukor call Gill Mellor on 01723 891636.

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Photo caption; Hunmanby Grange Gardens

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Notes to editors

1. For more information about Wold Top Brewery, please visitwww.woldtopbrewery.co.uk

2. For more information about NGS, please visitwww.ngs.org.uk

3. For more information about Muddy Souls Events, please visitwww.muddysoulsevents.co.uk

4. The Mellor family have farmed 600 acres high on the Wolds for generations and the farm diversification brewery project began in 2003 when they required another form of income from the farm.

5. The Wold Top Brewery range includes Wold Top Beer, Wold Gold blonde beer, Headland Red, Anglers Reward, Scarborough Fair IPA, Wold Top Against the Grain and Scarborough Fair gluten free beer. More information on the range of beers can be found herehttp://www.woldtopbrewery.co.uk/beers/

6. Please call the brewery on 01723 892222 for an up-to-date list of retailers.