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Young Members

Visit the national Young Members page

CAMRA, the CAMpaign for Real Ale, is extremely proud of its hugely diverse membership. Around 80,000 individuals of all ages, backgrounds and both sexes enjoy their CAMRA membership. Over 6% of the total national membership are aged between 18 - 30 years old, and this page is dedicated to show the activities of this thriving group of Young CAMRA Members.

This page will help you find out more about CAMRA's Young Members. You’ll find out about the Young Members Task Group (YMG), CAMRA Affiliated Membership, what social events Young Members will be attending and how you can get involved.

Your local Branch Young Members' Contact (BYMC) is Gwen Godfrey

What is the Young Members Task Group (YMG) and what do they do?

The YMG was formed to campaign on issues that affect Young CAMRA Members and to promote and encourage the drinking of Real Ale among young people (in this context "young" means the 18 - 30 age group).

We also encourage Young Members and young people to join in with the numerous social activities that are organised nationwide as well as getting Young Members to become more involved in CAMRA at local, regional and national levels.

The YMG has a committee, which is made up of younger members. The Young Members Group Committee (YMGC) have a responsibility to reflect the interests of all Young Members.

We hold four YMGC meetings a year, where we discuss issues that matter to Young CAMRA Members. Our YMGC meetings always have a set agenda and a level of business we have to get through on matters that affect Young CAMRA Members. These meetings are usually carried out much more quickly than most other CAMRA meetings because we try to keep our meetings lively and interesting and we have a deadline of 4pm.

We all enjoy the social side of the campaign too (because it's not all work, work, work), so we go on very informal pub-crawls of the local city/town after each of the meetings - not always knowing what pub we're going to stumble in next, because our guides are local Young Members. These pub crawls leave the meeting venue at 4.30pm.

All Young Members are welcome to attend the YMGC meeting or pub-crawl if they're unable to make it to both and young non-members are welcome to join us on the pub crawls. The YMG is also here to help Young Members and young people if they want to set up a Real Ale Society in their University.

Contact details of the YMGC members can be found on the Young Members Section of the CAMRA web-site, along with details of future events.