Mine's a Pint Issue 42

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Volunteering By the time you read this, we will have just raised a pint to National Volunteers’ Week at The Swan in Three Mile Cross with lots of our fellow members. The week is an annual, national event run by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations in the first week of June. Self-congratulatory and back-patting you might think? Not so. Over 21 million people volunteer in the UK each year – and some 7,000 of these are CAMRA members. They are first class examples of how we can all make a big difference to individuals and communities every day. CAMRA volunteers take on a vast range of roles and tasks – serving on committees, campaigning and lobbying, working at beer festivals, running events and much more. It may seem a small thing for someone to, say, submit a survey with the latest information about a pub but it all has a knock-on effect. More up to date information helps consumers (not necessarily just CAMRA members) make informed choices about where they want to visit and drink. This often means someone may be more encouraged to visit a local community pub which keeps money in the local economy, where they may meet new friends, try a tasty new beer or find out about a local event. Locally our volunteers keep our finances ticking over, collect beer scores, organise our Good Beer Guide entries, co-ordinate our Pub of the Year competition, arrange 24 pubs to be on an annual Ale Trail, keep our pub information up to date, help protect pubs from closing, lobby our Councillors and MPs, keep our LocAle scheme running, work with the local press to generate publicity, organise socials, keep a website, Facebook page and Twitter profile up to date, write the very magazine in which you're reading this (!), deliver aforementioned magazine ... not to mention the hundreds of volunteers who make the Reading Beer & Cider Festival – one of the largest beer festivals in the country – an annual reality.
Why do we do it? Because we really like beer, cider and perry (no really, we do - haven't you seen us drinking it?). And we want others to have the chance to enjoy them as well, now and for years to come. So we also support the pubs and clubs where you can find them, and organise our beer and cider festival to showcase them. So raise a glass to our volunteers and all they do. Next time you bump into one in your local pub why don't you say thank you? (or buy them a beer). Or maybe you feel you could make a difference in some small way as well? If so, just contact us using the contact details in this magazine. By the way, the fact that you can read this magazine is due to the work of volunteers. See you for a spot of volunteering soon? Cheers! James Moore Vice-Chair, Reading & Mid Berkshire CAMRA get involved Ideas for little things you could do as a way into volunteering: • Send us a beer score. It's really easy - all you have to do is log in to WhatPub.com • Update a pub survey - info on readingcamra.org.uk – click on “surveying pubs” • Deliver this very magazine to pubs • Put up a beer festival poster in your window Mail contact@readingcamra.org.uk for more details about how to get involved. Mine’s a <strong>Pint</strong> 25
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