Do More Than Drink 2017

Overview

The next time you go out drinking and feel that warm, fuzzy feeling, it might not be because you've had one too many. Hopefully, it'll be because the money you spent on your beverage is being used to support an extremely important cause. Starting this week, 46 bars across Melbourne are once again teaming up with social enterprise Scarf for a campaign to help refugees, asylum seekers and recent migrants find work.

Running from December 3–10, Scarf's Do More Than Drink initiative will help raise awareness and funding for young migrants facing barriers to employment. Participating venues — including many Concrete Playground favourites such as Stomping Ground, The Beaufort, Neighbourhood Wine, Garden State Hotel, The Alps and Gerald's Bar — will put out donation jars and encourage patrons to dig deep. Proceeds will be used to provide migrants with training, mentoring and employment in the hospitality industry.

In addition to the donation jars, participating venues will reach into their tills and donate $1 from each drink sold on the final weekend (December 8 and 9) of the campaign. Basically, this means you're duty-bound to buy a drink. A move that's assured to give you the aforementioned warm and fuzzies across the bar.

Now in its third year, Do More Than Drink will allow Scarf to provide more ​training, mentoring​ ​and​ ​employment to those that it will make a difference to. So drink up — here's a list of venues participating on the final weekend.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8

New Gold Mountain
Double Happiness
Lucky Coq
Carwyn Cellars
The Rum Diary Bar
The Rooks Return
Belleville Melbourne
Stomping Ground Brewing Co
Gerald's Bar
Neighbourhood Wine
Joe Taylor
Back Alley Sally's
The Local Taphouse
Paradise Alley
Aviary Hotel
Los Hermanos
Garden State Hotel
Bar Josephine
Seddon Wine Store
Union Wine Store
The Attic above Black Pearl
Rupert on Rupert
Rochester Hotel
Atticus Finch
Toorak Cellars

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9

Robert Burns Hotel
Bimbo Deluxe
Kelvin
Pallino
Above Board
The Alps
Kitty Somerset
Section 8
Saint Urban
The Lincoln
Bomba (Rooftop)
Park Street
STARWARD Distillery
The Grace Darling
Hudsons Road Wine & Beer
Two Birds Brewing
Bad Love Club
Clever Polly's
The Beaufort
Lulie Street Tavern
The Attic above Black Pearl