Sydney start-up Shine+ drink has won an award for its charity contributions at The World Beverage Innovation Awards at Drinktec, and Coopers announced its inaugural grant recipient.
The maker of the Shine+ mental performance enhancing drink, which has been operating for less than a year, was awarded for having donated over 250,000 days of clean drinking water so far through their partnership with Water is Life.
Shine+ was presented with the award for ‘Best Corporate Social Responsibility’ at Drinktec 2017 which took place recently in Munich, Germany.
The awards are designed to celebrate excellence and innovation across every category of the global beverage industry.
CEO & Co-Founder of Shine+, Stephen Chapman, who presented at our Future Unpacked LIVE forum last month, said: “It’s a real honour to be a part of this prestigious event, and an even greater one to win an award.
“We feel incredibly lucky that all our hard work has been recognised and for such a vital cause. Over 780 million people in the world lack access to safe water and it was core in our vision to build a way we could also give back as well as help everyday Australians be at their best.”
Coopers Brewery Foundation, meanwhile, has announced the inaugural recipient of the Coopers Brewery Foundation Sustainable Giving Program.
An organisation providing mobile dental services to residents in 48 aged care and nursing homes in socially disadvantaged communities of South Australia is the recipient of the $150,000 grant.
The funding will be provided to the Australian Dental Outreach Foundation (ADOF) over the next three years to help fund dental outreach clinics, Coopers said.
Chair of the Coopers Brewery Foundation, Ms Melanie Cooper, said the ADOF was one of six charities in the aged care, medical research or health care sectors that had been short-listed for funding this year.
“The Board of Governors believes the impact the ADOF will make in socially disadvantaged communities in Adelaide and country SA, together with the significant donation of time and equipment it has made, make this the stand-out winner,” she said.
