Louth distillery produces 10,000 litres of hand sanitiser

The distillery has been adapted to produce hand sanitiser.

As reported previously, Bottomley Distillers - run by Alan Bottomley and Amy Conyard - decided to adapt their business to create the sanitiser for frontline workers, charities, and businesses.

Amy said: “We commenced sanitiser production around three weeks ago, and have been overwhelmed with the demand and frontline shortages that we were faced with.

“We always aimed for this to be a project to ensure the future of our employees, whilst enabling us to do good.

Alan Bottomley delivers some hand sanitiser to the LIVES charity.

“We have now surpassed the production of 10,000 litres and this number is continuing to grow.

“We have a multitude of customers for who we have been selling to, including funded NHS services, HMPs, police forces, food supply chains, care companies large and small, companies manufacturing for the NHS, Nightingale, etc.

“Also and more importantly, a very long list of charities that we have been able to help too.

“These include LIVES, St Barnabas Hospice, KIDS Lincolnshire, ECHO (East Coast Homeless Outreach), ELDAS (East Lindsey Domestic Abuse Service), NCHA Care & Support, The Priory Hotel (Serving The Neighbours Kitchen), the list goes on.”

Amy added: “We were incredibly fortunate to have received help from other local businesses, by way of breweries donating their out-of-date beer for us to convert into more alcohol as supplies are running low!

“We are being humbled by the stories that we are hearing every day and are proud that we have been able to adapt our business for both the security of us and our team, and for helping with a desperate national shortage.”