CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALE

Chairman: Kathy Hadfield-Moorhouse

The Chairman is the most important person in a CAMRA branch. In addition to chairing all the meetings the Chairman is the figurehead of the branch and ensures that it is campaigning effectively.

Secretary: Richard Harrison

The secretary's role is to ensure good records are kept of all the decisions made and motions passed by the branch at its meetings.

Treasurer: Edric Ellis

The Treasurer keeps tabs on the cash-flow of the branch and makes sure that everything is all above-board.

Vice-Chairman: Richard Harrison

The vice chairman acts as deputy whenever the chairman is not available, e.g. chairing meetings and making presentations, and may also share the role of managing the focus of the branches campaigning directions.

Membership Secretary: Margaret Eames

It is the job of the membership secretary to raise the membership of the branch and to keep them all informed of branch matters and activities.

Pubs Information Officer: Roy Endersby

The pub just as much as real ale is central to CAMRA's campaigning, since it is pubs that draught real ale is available. So much is changing about the traditional nature of the British pub, and the pubs information officer's role is to:

• Maintain records of all pubs in the branch area
• Promote pub-going in the branch area

Campaigns Officer: Kathy Hadfield-Moorhouse

Much of CAMRA's role at a branch level is to carefully watch what is going on on the pub and brewery scene, but when we see a problem, we need to swing into action quickly. For this reason, we have a dedicated Campaigns Officer, whose roles include:

• Organise campaigns for preservation of pubs under threat of closure or unsympathetic alteration or refurbishment
• Organise campaigns for preservation of local breweries under threat of closure

Branch Contact: Richard Harrison

The branch contact is the first port of call to get in touch with the branch on any matter.

Social Secretary: Andy Shaw

While CAMRA is very much a campaigning organisation, we believe it's important to have fun at well. The Social Secretary arranges social events such as pub crawls, beer festival visits, brewery visits.

Press and Publicity Officer: Paul Moorhouse

The Press and Publicity Officer seeks to ensure that CAMRA's activities are promoted within the local media (newspapers, radio, television), both in relation to national CAMRA campaigns and local branch campaigns.

Newsletter Editor: Andy Shaw

The newsletter editor coordinates all the activities that go into the production of the newsletter, including layout, design, writing/receiving copy, dvertising, budgeting, printing nd distribution. Obviously the newsletter editor gets help from the rest of the committee!

Branch Young Members Contact: Helen Barnard

CAMRA is not just for old fogies, with beards and jumpers. CAMRA is also a young persons organisation. Many of our members are aged 18-30 and we arrange social events of interest to young people

Beer Festival Organiser: Andy Shaw

The beer festival organiser oversees all the activities that go into staging a local beer festival, from planning, through on-site organisation, and ending with clearing up afterwards. This process typically lasts over 6 months end to end - a lot more than just the 3 days when the festival is open to the public!

Beer Quality Monitoring: Andy Blagbrough

The Huntingdonshire branch uses continous surveying of beer quality in the branch's 160 pubs as the primary basis for selecting our entries for the annual Good Beer Guide. We also use these beer scores to select the pubs for our online pub guide, which is updated every three months. The Beer Quality Coordinator organises the survey work, processes the data, and publishes the results.

Newsletter Distribution: Sonia Clarke

The newsletter distributor organises getting the newsletter into the branch's pubs, via a team of volunteers.

Branch Webmaster: Edric Ellis

Responsible for maintaining and updating www.huntscamra.org.uk

Gig Guide Coordinator: Chris Knowles

The Gig Guide (or Event Guide) is part of an initiative called Going Out Live, the brain child of Chris Knowles, and is a way of allowing pubs and other venues to promote music events and other events.