Welcome to the following new members who have joined the Guild over the last month. The Guild now has more than 300 individual members – a record high. Thanks to outgoing membership secretary Matt Curtis whose advocacy for the Guild has helped grow its reputation and attract new writers and other communicators.
Full members: Claire Bullen, freelance journalist, staff writer for Good Beer Hunting, and author of a soon-to-be published book about food and beer pairings; Mark Fryday, a novelist and writer based in Cambridgeshire; Laura Hadland, freelance writer and blogger, who talks about beer regularly on Radio Leicester; Ben Richards, a Beer Sommelier and speaker, whose ‘Growing Beer’ project has been covered by a wide range of media; Katie Taylor a freelance writer based in Blackburn and Lily Waite, head of content for We Are Beer
Associate member: Thomas Hallett, founder of steadydrinker.com, a blog and website that helps people discover great tasting alcohol-free beer and promotes the alcohol-free beer industry.