CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has today announced their list of over 200 Local Pubs of the Year to help launch April’s Community Pubs Month.
CAMRA’s branches, which consist of thousands of volunteers, judge all of the pubs in their area to find their Branch’s Local Pub of the Year. Pubs are judged on their decor, value for money, customer service, that they appeal to all different demographics and of course, the quality of its real ale. The local branch winners then go forward to battle it out in the regional heats in their quest to become National Pub of the Year, announced in early 2015.
Colin Valentine, CAMRA Chairman said, “I would like to thank all of the volunteers that have judged pubs up and down the country. This can take a lot of dedication to find the best real ale pubs in the area. We like to announce the winners in Community Pubs Month to highlight the best pubs Britain has to offer to help raise the profile of pub-going.
New research shows 28 pubs close every week across Britain and 38% of British adults no longer visit pubs. Community Pubs Month has been launched to help raise the profile of the British pub and pub-going. Thousands of pubs across the Britain will be participating in this campaign by organising events and trying new marketing initiatives to attract more trade during April.
Mr Valentine continued, “There are literally thousands of wonderful pubs that need our support at this moment in time and I would urge everyone to visit their local pub in April and discuss with the licensee ways he or she could encourage you to visit more regularly.”
Included in the Local Pubs of the Year short list is the Fat Cat, Norwich who won the National Pub of the Year competition in 2004 and 1998 and Engineer Arms in Henlow, Bedfordshire which was runner-up in the national competition in 2011.
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Full list of Local Pubs of the Year please click here: www.camra.org.uk/CPM2014Media
For more information:
CAMRA Press Office – 01727 798443
Neil Walker – neil.walker@camra.org.uk
Notes to Editors:
CAMRA’s current National Pub of the Year is the Swan with Two Necks, Pendleton, Lancashire
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