Eileen Rae from International Beverage in pink with St Andrew’s Hospice staff

International Beverage announces Scottish Charities set to benefit from £25,000 ‘Spirit of Our Community Awards’ fund

One of Scotland’s leading spirits producers, International Beverage, has unveiled the three top recipients of this year’s Spirit of Our Community Awards.

£20,000 has been donated by the Airdrie-based premium spirits business and will be allocated amongst the three deserving charities, which were chosen from a raft of applications. They are:

• Airdrie’s St Andrew’s Hospice, for the charity’s child bereavement services that offer support in Lanarkshire.
• Moray Rape Crisis, an organisation that provides invaluable support for people who have been affected by sexual violence and abuse.
• Pulteneytown People’s Project, a community-led centre that supports the local population in Wick and the wider Caithness area.

A further £5,000 donation will be split amongst the following seven runners up: Lanarkshire Cancer Care Trust, Glenboig Development Trust, James Support Group, Elgin Youth Development Group, Wick Community Hub, Grampian Society for the Blind and Dornoch Beach Wheelchairs.

The International Beverage Spirit of Our Community Awards were launched in 2022 to celebrate and reward the people and organisations working hard to make a difference to others in the community surrounding the company’s head office in Airdrie.

In 2023 the initiative was extended to communities close to the company’s five Scottish distilleries, where separate awards funds were allocated.

Judged by a mix of International Beverage employees and external associates, the competition was open to any charity or not for profit organisation based near the business’s key distilleries.

• Zone 1 the ML5 and ML6 Airdrie and Coatbridge region;

• Zone 2 within a 35-mile radius of Aberdeenshire’s Knockdhu Distillery and Speyside-based Speyburn and Balmenach Distilleries;

• Zone 3 within a 35-mile radius of Pulteney Distillery in Wick and Balblair Distillery in Tain.

Spirit of Our Community Awards organiser, International Beverage Business Support Manager Eileen Rae commented: ‘We received our biggest number of awards entries to date this year and our judges really had a difficult task when it came to selecting our top recipients. The standard of entries was extremely high as so many deserving charities applied with a host of community initiatives that really touched our hearts.

We are delighted to announce our 2025 winners and runners up and look forward to hearing more on how their projects develop over the months ahead.”

The scheme is International Beverage’s biggest charity commitment to date. To learn more about the awards, please click HERE 

International Beverage is the international arm of Thai Beverage Public Limited Company. The premium spirits company’s portfolio is led by a range of high-quality brands including Old Pulteney single malt Scotch whisky, Hankey Bannister blended Scotch whisky, Caorunn and The Source Gins, PRAKAAN single malt whisky and Phraya Rum from Thailand, Larsen Cognac, The Cardrona Single Malt Whisky, The Reid Single Malt Vodka, and Rose Rabbit Liqueur.

A certified Great Place to Work, International Beverage’s success is shaped by its 700-strong team based across the business’ network of nine global sites spanning the UK, France, New Zealand, and Greater China following the company’s recent acquisition of Asiaeuro International Beverage (AIB). For more information, please visit www.interbevgroup.com/.