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CAMRA designated April as Community Pubs Month and our Branch organised
a series of events and activities,
both to celebrate local pubs and to highlight the problems which
many face. We launched the month at the Green Man, Grantchester, focusing on the
issue of our
Manifesto for Saving Pubs.
BBC Look East covered the
event as well as local press and radio.
The Tour of Destruction also attracted considerable media interest. This involved Branch
members embarking on a minibus for the driest possible of pub crawls - all 23
Cambridge pubs we visited had closed since 2007 (that's 24% of the city's pubs gone in
just five years). We left a memento at each pub before piling into the Devonshire Arms for
the most welcome pint many of us had ever supped.
Our Awards Evening on 23 April is featured next.
We also ran three Ale Trails. Two covered, respectively, Cambridge and Rural pubs which
sell locally brewed beers while the third comprised a selection of other excellent local
pubs. The Trails ran until the end of May so at the time of writing the number completed
isn't known but feedback from the pubs is that they were very popular. People visiting a
prescribed number of pubs qualified for a special T-shirt - we're waiting until we know
how many we need before ordering them so please bear with us if you're waiting for
yours.
Community Pubs Month nationally seems to have been a success in raising public
awareness about pubs and we're pleased to have played our part. We're already thinking
about next year so if you have any ideas on what else we might do please contact the
editor.