Administration on the Twa Tams in Perth have celebrated reaching a crowdfunding goal of £15,000 to safe their future.
Often one of many metropolis’s busiest watering holes, the Scott Road venue was compelled to shut all through most of 2020.
With the music venue’s life on the road, bosses turned to fundraising, and inside simply over two weeks, achieved their £15,000 goal to maintain the enterprise afloat by December and January.
Bosses Sandy Stirton and Chris Woods requested their tight knit neighborhood patrons from Perth and past would come to their assist and are delighted by the way in which the purchasers have rallied round them.
Sandy mentioned: “Up to now few days we managed to hit our goal and we’re completely delighted.
“It appears to be like like we’ll be capable of survive till a minimum of once we suppose we will reopen.
“We’re overwhelmed. Folks from far and broad have supported us, even individuals from outwith the UK who’ve visited as soon as and developed an affinity with the place.
“We’re extraordinarily grateful for everybody’s donations and thanks for all the sort messages of assist.
“We will’t wait to welcome all of them again. We’re champing on the bit to reopen. ”
The pair helped elevate the cash with streamed gigs on Christmas Eve and Hogmanay, nights once they would normally be welcoming musicians to their stage, in addition to raffling off T-shirts and bookings for his or her grand reopening.
Extra socially distanced performances, reside or pre-recorded and together with digital pub quizzes, may very well be on the way in which to assist the venue tick over.
Additionally serving to elevate money for the bar was neighbouring tattoo parlour Inkredible Kreations, who created nearly a dozen Save The Tams tattoos.
The Canal Road artists charged £50 for every tattoo which went straight into the pub’s coffers.
“We’re planning for once we can reopen and been finishing up some renovations. There’ll be new heaters within the beer backyard.
The pub first closed down in 2020 the day earlier than St Patrick’s Day, a very large day for them.
Final month, Chris mentioned: “It was good once we had been capable of open our beer backyard up, however that by itself was not worthwhile.
“We tried to do takeaway earlier than, too, however didn’t have any luck with that.
“All of us thought this might solely be for 3 weeks, and right here we’re 9 months later.”
