The Golden Smog pALEgrimage 22
The Golden Smog is raising money for Great North Air Ambulance Service
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**SUNDAY 28th AUGUST 2022**
The Golden Smog is Stockton’s first and (self-proclaimed) best micro-pub.
For such a small place, we have a HUGE community and since opening in August 2014, together we have raised thousands and thousands of pounds for various charities.
The pALEgrimage is a yearly event where teams of Smoggies leave Teesside for various breweries scattered far and wide. These breweries donate a cask or pin of ale, the pALEgrims collect it and get it back to The Smog.
So far, so easy?
Not as easy as it sounds as the pALEgrims carry their precious cargo while walking, running or cycling from their nominated brewery back to The Golden Smog with their ale. Once all the kegs and pins are back, they are racked in the alley at The Golden Smog and the pALEgrims, their friends and family and Smoggies have ourselves a brilliant beer festival with all the donated ale.
The pALEgrims are sponsored for their endeavours and every penny of the festival ale sales goes in the charity pot too with all the donations going to The Great North Air Ambulance.
A local band of ale lovers called The Ale Team started the pALEgrimage with a yearly walk to Masham a few years before The Smog opened but we teamed up and held our first joint pALEgrimage in May 2015, a total of £3500 was raised and we were all thrilled.
However, The Smog is an amazingly generous community as are the friends & family of our pALEgrims and the funds have climbed every year -
2016 £6900
2017 £7777.77
2018 £14851.94
2019 £17033.40
2020 Dumbass Covid
2021 Dumbass Covid
2022 £?
2016 £6900
2017 £7777.77
2018 £14851.94
2019 £17033.40
2020 Dumbass Covid
2021 Dumbass Covid
2022 £?
The pALEgrimage has donated £50.063.11 to The Great North Air Ambulance since 2014.
We are and will always be so very grateful to every single pALEgrim, brewery, Smoggie and person who has helped in any way since 2014.
If you want to be involved in 2022, please go to our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TheGoldenSmog/ and send us a message, ask a pALEgrim or once we are open call down for a chat.
Are you in?