Whatever happened to this boutique gin distillery?

We go in search of Jon Harper, owner of a Gloucestershire distillery Raikes first wrote about at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, to see if he was able to steer his business through the worst.

Good afternoon everyone,

We hope you have had a great week. And we hope you’ve enjoyed the editions of Raikes we’ve published so far. Today’s journal will make it three in a week, a target we did not expect to reach quite yet – but we’ve had this great story (see below) sitting on the site locked up to all but our members and we couldn’t resist sharing it to everyone.

First, on today’s edition we do our usual pre-amble about the main story below before we introduce you to another charity that caught our eye, then follow that with our briefing notes – the news, views and posts we’ve spotted we thought worth corralling here, on Raikes. 

If you know a charity and want it featured, please do let us know. We aim to introduce you to as many as we can while we can. And if you are a business and want us to run a short picture story or few words on something you are up to, please do the same. We may charge a business for the latter (the prices are on our About page), but you’ll not only get a wel…