Warwick pub's Christmas charity ale event returns with pints poured by local priest
By Nadia Sayed 4th Dec 2025
A local pub has successfully hosted its Christmas Charity Ale event, with pints poured by a local priest.
Tim Maccabee, landlord at The Old Post Office Pub in Warwick, hosted the second annual Christmas Charity Ale event, with support from Parish Priest Father Patrick Mileham.
The event raised funds for a project in Uganda supported by the charity Chance for Childhood, which runs a girls' football team in a slum district of Kampala, offering a safe space and a way for the charity to support vulnerable young girls.
The cause is especially close to Tim's heart, whose fundraising efforts, alongside his wife, began in memory of their late son, who passed away eleven years ago.
Tim and his wife organise ongoing fundraising activities at the pub, including a monthly charity quiz.
Every other month the quiz supports the Chance for Childhood project, with the alternate months helping a local Warwickshire charity.
The Christmas ale tradition began through Tim's friendship with Parish Priest Father Patrick Mileham of St Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, situated across the road from the pub.
After many friendly conversations during the priest's visits, Tim jokingly suggested they should swap jobs. The idea stuck and in 2023 Father Patrick served behind the bar on Christmas Day while Tim delivered a reading.
That first event raised about £200.
In 2024 they sold around 500 pints at 50p each, enabling them to raise roughly £450 in total.
Tim expected a similar amount this year.
His Christmas readings often explore the similarities between pubs and churches as community hubs where people feel welcome and less alone, especially on Christmas Day.
This year he chose to focus more directly on the Uganda project and its importance.
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