Responsible Retailing
The WSTA takes a leading role in supporting its members to retail alcohol responsibily. This includes working with retailer members on schemes and initiatives designed to reduce under age sales, produce guidance for the responsible retail of alcohol and work to raise standards of alcohol retailer across the UK.
Community Alcohol Partnerships
Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAPs), developed by retailers and coordinated by the WSTA, aim to tackle the problems caused by underage access to alcohol. This is achieved through co-operation at a local level between alcohol retailers and other partners such as trading standards, police, local authority licensing teams, schools and health networks. Click here for more detail.
Challenge 25
Challenge 25 is the successful retailer-led strategy that requires that anyone buying alcohol who looks under 25 to produce acceptable ID. The higher threshold, along with training and support provided to checkout staff, helps to increase the number of challenges and to ultimately reduce the number of underage sales. Further details about the impact of Challenge 25, along with the free to download poster designs, are available at: rasg.org.uk/about/
Responsible Retail Guidance
RASG’s Guidance for the Responsible Retail of Alcohol was the result of unprecedented collaboration between retailers which looks to establish standards for alcohol retailing for the first time. In 2017 the guidance was updated and enhanced by the Group to include best practice and case studies. Guidance for Northern Ireland and Scotland was also published for the first time. It covers all aspects of alcohol retailing, including the legal and self-regulatory frameworks in which retailers operate, as well as voluntary measures they have agreed to undertake. The full guidance is available here: rasg.org.uk/guidance/
WSTA Guide to Licensing
To support its members and others in understanding their licensing obligations, the WSTA has developed a guide to licensing in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. The report can be found here:
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