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The media has finally hit the alarm button over the climate crisis.

SCOTLAND’s first community-owned micro-brewery will go from a dream to reality after its founders shattered two crowdfunding targets. The Isle of Eigg Brewery started a fundraising campaign in November in a bid to make the facility the country’s most environment-friendly. Their initial target of £125,000 was reached and breached within a few weeks, so founding directors Stu McCarthy and Ben Cormack set a second target of £190,000 which they said would enable them to fast-track the social and environmental impacts they want it to deliver. By last night, after the last full day of...

IT is being billed as Scotland’s first community-owned micro-brewery and it has smashed the £125,000 fundraising target to help make the goal a reality. The Isle of Eigg Brewery started a fundraising community share campaign a fortnight ago and by last night it had raised more than £133,000. Stu McCarthy, its founder and brewer said with two weeks left in the campaign to create the country’s most environmentally-friendly brewery, the team had decided to “stretch” the target by £65,000 to allow them to fast-track the social impacts they believed it could deliver. McCarthy sa...

Updated: December 29, 2020, 9:26 am © Supplied by Community Shares Sco Stuart McCarthy Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Investors backing Scotland’s first community-owned micro brewery are now aiming to help it become even more environmentally-friendly. A £125,000 share offer was launched last month to get the brewery powered by renewable energy on the island of Eigg off the ground. So far more than £171,000 has been raised and now the target has been extended to £190,000 which will allow it to in...