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Support West London Wine School

It is with heavy hearts that we have had to temporarily close our much loved West London Wine School during this unprecedented crisis. Currently we plan to re-open on Monday 6th April but this is of course dependent on further developments and guidance from the government. COVID-19 is something that has had and continues to have a direct impact on everyone. Knowing that social gatherings is contributing to the rapid escalation of confirmed cases of the virus, we could not in good conscience continue operating when our business relies on groups of people congregating. The safety of our event attendees, our staff, and our community is takes priority over anything else.

As the troubles have unfolded recently, inevitably the cash flow of our business has suffered. We have very little bookings for a school which is normally usually full of excited tasters and therefore we have had little capital reserved to continue internal operations until a bit more normalcy resumes. Our award-winning facility and team need your help in order to meet our expenses such as rent, continue to pay our wonderful tutoring staff that many of you have had the pleasure of being taught by and support our suppliers who are also struggling during this difficult time. 

We are a small and passionate family-owned business and this is our livelihood. In order to survive this global crisis we are asking you to pledge not a donation, but to purchase gift vouchers so that we will gain initial capital to maintain the school during this uncertain time but also so you can come and enjoy the school at a later date. Our gift vouchers are valid for two years and make excellent gifts for yourself (to give you something to look forward to after the pandemic recedes) or for friends, families and loved ones for special occasions. 

For every amount contributed to this campaign you will receive a gift voucher via email matching the value of your contribution.

We have hundreds of award-winning courses such as WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) and WSG (Wine Scholar Guild) plus our informal but informative Introduction tastings/courses, fine wine evenings, specialist tastings, beer tasting, sake education and so on. Our calendar is action-packed (and we will continue to add additional tastings and courses for later this year and for early 2021), and led by our passionate and enthusiastic tutors. We want to be able to continue to support our wonderful team during this tricky time. 

If you have come across this campaign, but aren't too familiar with our business, please check out our website  and read our TripAdvisor reviews to get a real sense of who we are, and why it matters. 

So please if you can spare a little to purchase vouchers for the future please do so now. We love what we do, as most of you know, and we'd be eternally grateful if you help us to plan our future and to bring you an even bigger and better listing of events and courses!
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Donations 

  • Tony Fernandez
    • £65 
    • 4 yrs
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Fundraising team: The WLWS Team (2)

Jimmy SMITH
Organizer
Raised £6,027 from 33 donations
Terri Wade
Team member
This team raised £2,073 from 29 other donations.

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