At the heart of our communities

Our commitments so far

We have been delighted to support the Hamburg Shower Bus, a pioneering initative and the first of its kind in Germany. Operated by GoBanyo, this mobile shower facility brings dignity, hygiene and comfort to people experiencing homelessness – offering much more than just a place to get clean. The Hamburg Shower Bus provides private, safe spaces where guests can access hot showers, clean clothing, fresh underwear, socks and essential hygiene products. Thanks to our donation, GoBanyo was able to stock up on vital supplies for the bus – including fresh underwear, socks, hygiene items, and fuel to keep the service running and mobile throughout the city. This support ensures the Shower Bus continues to reach those who need it most, empowering individuals with cleanliness, confidence and compassion.

Many thanks to the Crisp Malt team for the donations. This helps us greatly in providing hygiene options for people who have to survive on the streets. Washing is dignity!

 

Since May 2003, the Sternenbrücke children’s hospice has been helping terminally ill children, adolescents and young adults up to the age of 27 to be able to walk a dignified path until their death. The sick young people, and their relatives and loved ones, are carefully accompanied not only in the last phase of their lives, but also on the path of their illness, which often lasts for many years, as part of respite stays. Targeted services stabilize the family system and help relatives to regain strength and find respite. Even after the loss, Sternenbrücke continues to support families in their grief.

Thanks to financial support such as that from CrispMalt, we are able to provide young people with terminal illnesses with comprehensive medical and nursing care, provide each individual family member with psychosocial and socio-legal support and create a network of affected people and experts around the families. We strengthen the entire family system – from the time the illness is diagnosed until after the loss of the child. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to CrispMalt for their support in providing this important assistance. – Christiane Schüddekopf, Board member

 

Equal Brewkery is close to our hearts here at Crisp Malt. This not-for-profit was founded by Bill Russell with a vision to show that people with learning disabilities can be at the heart of a successful business. Equal Brewkery provides training in baking and brewing to those with learning disabilities and we have proudly supported them for over 6 years. We donate the finest malt so that they can produce the finest beers from their micro-brewery in Norwich. Our team have always been involved, attending brew days, getting hands on with bottling, and offering our technical support. We will continue to support this wonderful organisation over the years and spread the joy that brewing can bring!

Equal Brewkery has been supported by Crisp Malt for the last few years. They were keen to help our social enterprise which supports adults with learning disabilities. Equal Brewkery is a micro bakery and brewery which teaches skills knowledge and understanding to our customers in the hope that it may put them on the path to employment. Crisp Malt regularly supplies us with malted barley and we benefit not only from their expertise but also the excellent quality of malt they provide. The bonus for us is that it makes superb beer! We cannot say thank you enough to Crisp Malt. – Bill Russell

 

At our site in alloa, Scotland, we’ve been supporting lots of local initiatives! See below some stories from Alloa: £1200 donation for a ride-on lawn mower fr The Wimpy Park Community Group (WPCG). The ride-on lawn mower will keep the wonderful community-used park maintained for all to use safely. £750 donation to Active8, a local group running activities for all ages in Sauchie. They have 3 youth clubs, adult social classes, and parent/toddler groups. This money supported their summer trip to Briarlands. £600 donation to Home Start in Clackmannashire. Home Start are a charity supporting families who have lost a child under the age of 12. Our donation has helped to pay towards the costs of their programme.

 

We are proud to support the ongoing initiative to control giant hogweed along the Burn of Tynet, an important local conservation effort led by the Scottish Invasive Species Initiative. The Burn of Tynet flows close to our Portgordon maltings, making this project especially meaningful to us. As part of our commitment to creating a positive environmental impact in our local area, we donated £1,680 to the Scottish Invasive Species Initiative to support the clearance of invasive species such as giant hogweed and Japanese knotweed from the burn.

Invasive non-native plants like giant hogweed and Japanese knotweed have taken over big stretches of the Tynet Burn, crowding out native plants and significantly reducing local biodiversity. That’s why the Scottish Invasive Species Initiative was so pleased to receive the generous donation from Crisp Malt in 2024 to help with our overall control efforts of these species along the burn.

Thanks to Crisp Malt’s support, we were able to hire a specialised spray tank that allowed us to tackle the worst giant hogweed patches faster and more efficiently. – Karen Muller at Spey Fishery Board

 

Women in Beer is making huge moves in our industry, giving women who love beer, a platform to grow within the brewing sector. They offer a mentorship programme to anyone who identifies as a woman and based in the UK, looking to kickstart their career in the brewing industry. The mentorship programme offers one-to-one support, guidance, and opportunities to women across the UK. We have proudly sponsored WIB since 2024 and will continue to support this excellent initiative for as long as we can.

Women in Beer is grateful to Crisp Malt whose support makes our Mentorship Programme possible.

 

We were delighted to be able to support NABU’s project ‘Naturschutz in der Elbtalaue‘ which is a large project to conserve the biodiversity along the river Elbe in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, approx 2 hours from our Hamburg Maltings. Over the past 50 years, NABU Hamburg has bought land in this area to conserve the magnificient wildlife. Our donation helped to buy another 1.25 hectares in the Pevestorfer Wiesen. A landscape of meadows with a high diversity of insects and breeding birds, such as the whinchat, which is threatened by extinction. Our donation has helped to create a future for these species, because now a larger part of the meadows is managed in a natural way by the NABU