Free drinks sold with adult 'biscuits'
Discussion
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Probably not the type of biscuits you first think of.
For many years our local school has given a free beer/glass of wine with the purchase of a biscuit/gingerbread man etc at PTA events. The belief is that this gets around Licensing as they are not selling the alcohol.
They now have a troublemaker, who is making trouble.....
My suspicion is that this loophole may have been closed some time ago, and they have got away with it as no ones creates meddles. but I don't know enough.... Time is too short to apply for a Temporary Licence.
Anyone have experience?
Probably not the type of biscuits you first think of.
For many years our local school has given a free beer/glass of wine with the purchase of a biscuit/gingerbread man etc at PTA events. The belief is that this gets around Licensing as they are not selling the alcohol.
They now have a troublemaker, who is making trouble.....
My suspicion is that this loophole may have been closed some time ago, and they have got away with it as no ones creates meddles. but I don't know enough.... Time is too short to apply for a Temporary Licence.
Anyone have experience?
Chair of the local Pre-school. She's raised it once before.
One of her committee has given word that she's looking into it more actively..... While enforcement risk seems slight it's there, and who really needs that stress.
They have not bough the booze yet, so it may be cut down numbers of non-alcoholic beer and wine this time around...
One of her committee has given word that she's looking into it more actively..... While enforcement risk seems slight it's there, and who really needs that stress.
They have not bough the booze yet, so it may be cut down numbers of non-alcoholic beer and wine this time around...
sparkythecat said:
I'm curious to know why you've felt the need to try and circumvent the licensing requirement ? A temporary event notice only costs £21 and you can apply on line.
https://www.gov.uk/temporary-events-notice
The event is on Thursday which rules out a temporary license. It's a small village, events have run like this for the last 20! Years.... never been a problem until now.https://www.gov.uk/temporary-events-notice
A closing update....
The ladies decided that adult biscuits would be off the menu. The event was last night and the feedback from the kids at halloween disco was great.
It's only a small school (less than 100 kids) and there is no certainty that they would make the £21 back on the licence. Add in the uncertainty on how much alcohol to buy and it's relatively high unit cost I'm not sure that they will bother even going down the license route in future...
Probably a good thing as if they've bought too much, I know who will end up buying it off them....
The ladies decided that adult biscuits would be off the menu. The event was last night and the feedback from the kids at halloween disco was great.
It's only a small school (less than 100 kids) and there is no certainty that they would make the £21 back on the licence. Add in the uncertainty on how much alcohol to buy and it's relatively high unit cost I'm not sure that they will bother even going down the license route in future...
Probably a good thing as if they've bought too much, I know who will end up buying it off them....
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