This list has Club Soda media appearances from 2018. Click here for 2020 news (and other years).
Newspapers & Magazines
31 December 2018 Irish Examiner: Mindful drinking: How booze-free is becoming the new norm
30 December 2018 The Times: Four Women Share Their Stories Of Living An Alcohol-Free Life
30 December 2018 Sunday Mirror: Dry January 2019: Expert tips for a painless, alcohol-free start to the new year
28 December 2018 The Londonist: 18 Things To Do In London In January 2019
28 December 2018 Imperfectly Natural: Alcohol free life
21 December 2018 OnInLondon: Mindful Drinking Festival 2019
20 December 2018 The Resident: 35 Things to Do in London: January 2019
17 December 2018 Time Out London: Londoners were less boozy than ever in 2018 (and these stats prove it)
14 December 2018 The Daily Telegraph: Are you ready for a ‘Low Alcohol, Low Sugar’ party this Christmas?
6 December 2018 Huffington Post: Having An Alcohol-Free Christmas Is Easier (And More Fun) Than You Think
1 December 2018 Gusto in Viaggio: Alcohol Free is not only a trend. An interview for curious readers
30 November 2018 Time Out: Unmissable winter events in London [see number 7!]
28 November 2018 Vitality Magazine: Need to Know: What is Mindful Drinking?
13 November 2018 Cosmopolitan Germany: Mindful Drinking – Massvoll Trinken Ist Jetzt Angesagt! [Drinking in Style Is Now The Order Of The Day!]
8 November 2018 The Drinks Business: Top 6 Consumer Drinks Trends of 2018
8 November 2018 Drinks Retailing News: Buyer Guide to Mindful Drinking
25 October 2018 Mercatornet: ‘Generation Sensible’: the British millennials going teetotal
24 October 2018 BBC Good Food: Best non-alcoholic drinks 2018
23 October 2018 Sheerluxe: How To Drink Less Without Stopping Altogether
19 October 2018 The Morning Advertiser: Are sober bars growing in popularity?
19 October 2018 Huffington Post: Meet The People In Their 20s Who Have Fallen Out Of Love With Alcohol
16 October 2018 The Drum: How can alcohol brands respond to consumers drinking less than ever?
15 October 2018 Plant Based News: REVIEW: Vegan Highlights At Mindful Drinking Festival Club Soda In Glasgow
15 October 2018 just-drinks: Five companies that are shaking the non-alcoholic drinks category
15 October 2018 just-drinks: Non-alcoholic beer falls at draught hurdle – Heineken head brewer
14 October 2018 The Sunday Times Scotland: Mine’s a mindful mocktail: sobriety is cool at Scots festival
13 October 2018 The Scotsman: Mindful Drinking Festival to challenge perceptions on alcohol free drinks in Glasgow
13 October 2018 The Scottish Sun: Scotland’s Willy Wonka urges people to go sober for October – with booze-free gin
13 October 2018 The Evening Standard: Why I don’t drink: the Londoners who ‘say no to alcohol’ as third of under-25s quit booze
12 October 2018 Evening Times: Booze-free festival to shake up drink habits
12 October 2018 New Statesman: “I do feel out of place”: why young people are risking their social lives to go teetotal
12 October 2018 iNews: The young people turning their backs on alcohol
12 October 2018 The Herald: Alcohol-free drinking festival targets Scotland’s heavy-drinking over 50s
11 October 2018 The Scotsman: Why have an unclear mind when you can have a clear one?
10 October 2018 The Morning Advertiser: More under-25s cutting booze, research claims
6 October 2018 Glasgow Live: Glasgow businesses combine to create Coffee Kambucha for Mindful Drinking Festival
2 October 2018 Metro: Club Sober
1 October 2018 The Daily Telegraph: Tackling Britain’s loneliness epidemic part one: Adolescence
1 October 2018 Balance: Founder Focus with Club Soda
27 September 2018 DRAM Drinks Retailing and Marketing: Club Soda Brings Scotland’s First Alcohol-Free Drinks Festival to Glasgow
25 September 2018 The Morning Advertiser: Pubs need to up their game on ‘low and no’ according to Five Live’s Chiles
24 September 2018 City A.M.: A barrel of laughs at the Beer & Cider Marketing Awards
24 September 2018 The Morning Advertiser: Beer and Cider Marketing Awards 2018 winners revealed
23 September 2018 The Observer: A pint of mindful, please: festival makes it cool to be teetotal in Glasgow
22 September 2018 The Daily Telegraph: Drink smarter, live longer: 20 ways to have a better relationship with alcohol
16 September 2018 The Guardian/Observer: New Radicals 2018: more of Britain’s best social enterprises
16 September 2018 Evening Times: Club Soda brings Scotland’s first alcohol-free drinks festival to Glasgow
9 September 2018 The Guardian: Love lager – but want to drink less? Adrian Chiles’s guide to great alcohol-free beers
31 August 2018 The Morning Advertiser: Shortlist revealed for 2018 Beer & Cider Marketing Awards
27 August 2018 Refinery29: Meet The Women Feeling The Benefits Of Mindful Drinking
24 August 2018 The Financial Times: Drinkers Like Me, BBC2 — brims with insight
12 August 2018 The Sunday Herald: Mindful drinking? Are we out of our McMinds?
10 August 2018 Vice: I Tried ‘Mindful Drinking’ to See If I Can Have Fun Sober
9 August 2018 ShortList: The Chosen Few – Alcohol-Free Drinks
8 August 2018 Time: The Millennial Teetotalers Upending the Stereotype of Boozy Britain
8 August 2018 Bar Magazine: Nirvana Brewery introduces two new alcohol-free beers
7 August 2018 The Times: I’ll have a nogroni: the rise of the no alcohol drink
2 August 2018 On In London: Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival Review
2 August 2018 The Church of England Newspaper: Great alternatives for summer drinking
27 July 2018 Hello!: Things to do this week in London
27 July 2018 Seen London: the mindful drinking festival comes to london: rise of the alt-gin
27 July 2018 Vitality: 3 Alcohol-Free Cocktails To Sip At Your Next Barbecue
27 July 2018 Elle: Things To Do In London This Weekend
26 July 2018 The Daily Telegraph: Alcohol alternatives: how not to get drunk on the hottest day of the year
26 July 2018 The Stylist: There’s a free mindfulness festival happening in East London this weekend
25 July 2018 The Drinks Business: A non-alcoholic drinks festival is coming to London this weekend
23 July 2018 Londonist: Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London
22 July 2018 Hospitality & Catering News: UK alcohol-free drinks festival coming to London at the end of July
20 July 2018 East Anglian Daily Times: Drinks industry ‘failing to respond’ to growing demand for low alcohol drinks, says Ipswich brewer
19 July 2018 Beer Today: Alcohol-free beers to try at Mindful festival
19 July 2018 Asian Trader: A festival to celebrate low alcohol drinks
19 July 2018 Evening Standard: Drinks festivals in London – The best events for the rest of the year
17 July 2018 Time Out London: 37 ways to feel good in the city
5 July 2018 Munchies/Vice: Mindful Drinking Is the Ultimate Hangover Cure
30 June 2018 The Daily Telegraph: How to make friends in the era of loneliness – at any age and in any situation
Summer 2018 The Jellied Eel: Softly does it
15 June 2018 The Spirits Business: Rise of low abv spirits
2 June 2018 i News: Quitting drinking eventually turned out to be everything I hoped for
24 May 2018 The Sunday Herald: Maggie Ritchie ‘I gave up wine o’clock five months ago – and I feel great’
17 May 2018 Drinkpreneur: Club Soda Challenges Public Health Minister
11 May 2018 The Morning Advertiser: Club Soda challenges MP to drink five 0.5% ABV beers then drive
May 2018 Boots Health & Beauty: The rise of mindful drinking
8 May 2018 Highsnobiety: This New Health Trend Might Save Your Summer of Excess Drinking
7 May 2018 Decanter: Jefford on Monday: Mindfulness and wine
6 May 2018 The Sunday Times: Brewers get into a froth over ‘misleading’ alcohol-free beer
2 May 2018 Harper’s Bazaar Spain: ¿Qué es y por qué debes conocer el movimiento ‘Mindful Drinking’? [What is and why should you know the ‘Mindful Drinking’ movement?]
1 May 2018 Wales Online: The strange new craze among people in Wales – being teetotal
1 May 2018 The Morning Advertiser: A guide to low and non-alcohol descriptors
May 2018 Men’s Health Magazine: How to party like you were born in 1999
29 April 2018 The Telegraph: Sales of ‘Nanny State’ low-alcohol beers are soaring , figures show
15 April 2018 The Sun on Sunday: Time to go semi-sober?
1 April 2018 BBC Business News: Could non-alcoholic gin ever be as good as the real thing?
April 2018 Diva Magazine: Queers Without Beers – Cheers to Mindful Drinking
29 March 2018 The Dieline: Booze-Free Alcohol is What’s Next in Beverages
27 March 2018 i News: What I learned after giving up alcohol for good aged 24
27 March 2018 Brewers Journal: 0.5% ABV, Alc-Free? The Facts Are Clear AF
23 March 2018 Financial Times: There’s money in moderation: the rise of alcohol-free drinks
16 March 2018 ShortList: How to tell your best mate they’re drinking too much
12 March 2018 The Daily Telegraph: Is it possible to have the night of your life on a sober bar crawl?
9 March 2018 The Guardian: Is cannabis the answer to older people’s booze problems?
8 March 2018 Female First: Do You Drink Because You’re Lonely Or Are You Lonely Because You Drink?
7 March 2018 Talking Retail: MPs call for clarity on low alcohol and alcohol-free drinks labelling
7 March 2018 Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade Review: Call for greater clarity on low and no alcohol labelling reaches House of Commons
7 March 2018 Better Retailing: Call for better labelling on low- and no-alcohol drinks
6 March 2018 Inside Drinks: Find & Replace: The Rising Demand for Non-Alcoholic Alternatives
1 March 2018 Brummell Magazine: Zero to Hero: Alcohol-free drinks
19 February 2018 The Pool: Is sobriety the way forward? 26 Habits update
8 February 2018 The Morning Advertiser: Claims that low-alcohol drinks ‘increases the amount people drink’ rubbished
7 February 2018 The Guardian: Too many public services provide the wrong kind of help
3 February 2018 Buzzfeed: This Is What It’s Like Inside An Alcohol-Free Gay Bar
28 January 2018 The Daily Telegraph: The rise of the ‘gym party’ for adults – how getting sweaty replaced getting sloshed
24 January 2018 El Pais BuenaVida: El alcohol está pasado de moda. Así es el nuevo ‘botellón’ [Alcohol is old fashioned]
16 January 2018 International Business Times: Mindful drinking: Six tips for getting through the rest of ‘dry January’
16 January 2018 Supper Magazine: Sobering thoughts
15 January 2018 Irish Examiner: What is mindful drinking and how can it help you booze less?
15 January 2018 XPOSÉ.ie: What is mindful drinking and how can it help you booze less?
14 January 2018 The Sun on Sunday: My Booze diaries [read the online version]
January 2018 Brides Magazine: The Best Non-Alcoholic Drinks To Serve At Your Wedding
11 January 2018 The Girlfriend: The Girlfriend’s Guide To Rethinking Drinking
January 2018 The Simple Things: Like-minded drinkers [this article is only in the print magazine!]
11 January 2018 Marie Claire: Have a successful booze break with these helpful Dry January tips
8 January 2018 The Pool: Women are going sober (and not just for January)
7 January 2018 Running in Heels: Health & Fitness: Change for 2018
6 January 2018 The Daily Telegraph: Sober sex – the Dry January side effect that nobody talks about
6 January 2018 Lovin IE: ‘Mindful Drinking’ Is The Latest Health Trend That’s Everyone’s Trying
6 January 2018 NZ Herald: Mind over mojitos: How to cut down on drinking, for good
5 January 2018 TimeOut London: Dry January? 11 fun things to do in London if you’re not drinking
4 January 2018 The Morning Advertiser: Low in strength, big on flavour: How craft beer is leading the low and no ABV revolution
4 January 2018 The Upsider: Dry January: The Rise Of The Grown-Up Non-Alcoholic Beverage
2 January 2018 The Resident: 15 Sober Activities to Get You Through Dry January
2 January 2018 Get the Gloss: The Staggering Number of People Taking Part in Dry January
1 January 2018 Huffington Post: What I’ve Learned From A Year Without Alcohol
TV & Radio
30 December 2018 BBC Radio 4 Food Programme: Weak, small and free: How no and low alcohol is finding power without strength
28 December 2018 BBC Radio London Robert Elms
22 November 2018 BBC Radio Wiltshire
20 November 2018 BBC Radio West Midlands and BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester
14 October 2018 SKY TV News
13 October 2018 BBC Radio Scotland
12 October 2018 BBC Radio Scotland: Good Morning Scotland
10 September 2018: BBC One: Breakfast
27 August 2018 BBC Two: Drinkers Like Me – Adrian Chiles
21 August 2018 BBC Radio 5: 5 live Drive
7 August 2018 VideoBlogg: Club Soda’s Mindful Drinking Festival
13 July 2018 BBC Radio London: Robert Elms (from 1 hour and 30 minutes onwards)
2 May 2018 BBC Radio Wales: Good Evening Wales
26 April 2018 BBC One – Rip-off Britain
13 April 2018 Channel 5: 5 News
1 April 2018 BBC World Service Radio: Booze Free Boom (see also this article)
8 February 2018 Four radio interviews about University of Cambridge study
30 January 2018 Ten UK radio stations, various programmes: Listen here
30 January 2018 Manx Radio: #MRWomenToday: Fern Hopkinson and Club Soda UK
15 January 2018 Sky News: Three in five adults drink to relieve stress of daily life [watch clip here]
Blogs etc
December 2018 Dry January: City Guide London
31 December 2018 Selfish Mother: Why I’m Not Doing Dry January
30 December 2018 Box Happy: Dry January
30 December 2018 Jane Peyton: No-Low – It’s All Go
27 December 2018 Square Root Soda: Your Dry January Survival Guide
21 December 2018 The Foodservice Show: Monetising Mindful Drinking
11 December 2018 Food Review London: Club Soda – Mindful Drinking Festival
26 November 2018 Sober Bliss: Meets…Club Soda
22 November 2018 The Pub Show: Monetising Mindful Drinking
13 November 2018 Paul Miller: Drinking problems (and some solutions)
12 October 2018 5pm.co.uk: No booze? No worries!
11 October 2018 Foodie Explorers: Product Review: Seduction – Chastity Alcohol Free Gin
13 October 2018 Slange Var: Slange Var at the Mindful Drinking Festival Glasgow
10 October 2018 BioMedCentral: Increase in non-drinking widespread among young people
4 October 2018 Janey Loves: Going sober for October? The Mindful Drinking Festival in Glasgow
October 2018 Patient.Info: Can mindful drinking improve your mental health?
16 September 2018 Nesta: New Radicals 2018
11 September 2018 Eventbrite: Update the Cocktail Menu – The Millennial Teetotallers Threatening Your Bar Revenue
6 September 2018 Best Bar None Scotland: Club Soda
4 September 2018 Bournemouth University Undergraduate Blog: The start of uni with Club Soda
21 August 2018 Fits&Starts: Mindful Drinking Festival
6 August 2018 Dejlige Days: Enjoying Non Alcoholic Beers
28 July 2018 Mummy was a Secret Drinker: Alcohol-Free Drinks
26 July 2018 Fitbeer: Reclaim Your Summer
7 May 2018 Harry Wallop: How much alcohol is in alcohol-free beer?
4 May 2018 EastLDN: Beyond Avocados, Matcha and Vegan hotspots: East LDN reports on the latest health movement
30 April 2018 Beer Today: Barworks to host Mindful Tavern Takeover
12 March 2018 Soberpunks: Coming out
February 2018 Nesta: Good and bad help: How purpose and confidence transform lives [Club Soda is one of the “case studies” in the report you can download and read]
19 February 2018 Lovin Manchester: ‘Mindful Drinking’ Is The Latest Health Trend That Everyone’s Trying
24 January 2018 Square Root London: Ain’t No Party Like a Club Soda Party
11 January 2018 Farmdrop: The food trends you need to know about
10 January 2018 Heart of the City: A cold but DRY January..
9 January 2018 The Gin Kin: 7 awesome “gins” & drinks to get you through Dry January
7 January 2018 Girl & Tonic: One Year Sober & 3 Lessons I Learnt Along the Way
6 January 2018 Mummy was a Secret Drinker: 5 Ways to Get Through Wine O’Clock
Articles and Guest Blogs We’ve Written
We also write regular articles on our other two websites: nudgingpubs.uk and clubsodaguide.com have regular posts about pubs and bars, and our work with them. And our festival website mindfuldrinkingfestival.com has articles about non-alcoholic drinks.
20 September 2018 Breast Cancer UK: Luck vs Confidence in the battle for habit change
24 July 2018 Balance Garden: Do Hangovers steal two weeks of your summer?
April 2018 Cocktail Lovers Magazine: Mindful Drinking
15 January 2018 Alcohol Concern Dry January blog: 2018’s best books about (not) drinking