The Exchange Hotel at Hamilton is getting ready to support our struggling local farmers with Schooners for Singleton - a drought charity night complete with live music, raffles and the hotel's first ever Bachelor Auction featuring the University of Newcastle Seahorse Rugby Club players. The community fundraiser will be held from 9pm on Saturday, 30 November and aims to raise money for drought-stricken farming families in Singleton and Merriwa. “Coming into summer we really wa

This weekend, hotels across Newcastle and the Hunter are banding together to raise money for drought-stricken farmers and rural communities across NSW, by donating $1 from every meal sold to community organisation Rural Aid. The Australian Hotels Association (AHA NSW) Newcastle Hunter fundraising campaign ‘Fork to Farm’, encourages member hotels to participate in an initiative which allows everyone to work together to help our struggling farmers doing it tough in rural NSW. “

Over the past few months, hotels across Newcastle and the Hunter have dug deep providing more than $150,000 in support to our local farmers doing it tough in the drought.’ Hoteliers have held fundraisers, bought bales of hay, and made donations all in the name of community support. But when Upper Hunter Council was forced to weigh up the viability of opening the Murrurundi & District Memorial Pool this season, which requires 840,000 litres of water and an expected cost of $50

Great Northern Brewing Co recently launched its Let It Pour fundraising campaign, an initiative which included the donation of 1000 kegs to pubs and venues across NSW, Queensland and Victoria with the aim of raising $1 million for drought-stricken farming communities. All proceeds from Let It Pour 'karma kegs' will be donated to Rotary Australia for distribution to farming communities. A number of our pubs across Newcastle and the Hunter are participating in the campaign whic

Dave Anderson , hotelier at the Royal Federal Hotel Branxton likes to think his pub is the watering hole for some of the best locals in the Hunter, and he may just be right if the efforts of patron Cameron Waters are anything to go by. On Saturday, 18 August the Royal Federal Hotel is holding a major fundraising event to support local patron Cam and his campaign to help the drought-stricken community of Coonabarabran and surrounds. In fact, before the event has even taken pla

The Australian Hotels Association NSW recently launched a week-long drought appeal with the aim of raising $150,000 for drought-stricken farmers, with all proceeds provided to Rural Aid/Buy A Bale. In Newcastle and the Hunter, hoteliers quickly jumped on board and we created Fork to Farm, an initiative incorporating existing meal percentage donations and direct pledges with all proceeds going toward the AHA NSW fundraising campaign. Within the first 48 hours our generous New

Kicking off at 4pm this Sunday, 11 March the Stag and Hunter Hotel will showcase Golden Guitar winner Matt Scullion as he launches his new album I'm Just a Song, along with a host of other talent, to raise money for our country neighbours doing it tough in drought-stricken areas. 100 per cent of all money raised at the event will be donated to Rural Aid to assist in the purchase of hay for farmers impacted by drought conditions. Stag Hotel owner Mick Starkey said there were a