CAMPAIGNING
 
New online pub guide and pubs data base
A new and powerfull campaigning tool for the branch

We are currently creating a new online guide and pubs database. You can access this from the following link www.whatpub.org . Type in nottingham in the Town field and you will get a list of pubs, click on the pub to view details. The listing at the moment is incomplete many without much detail and a warning of being out of date. but we are working diligently to bring this up to a full list of Nottingham and district pubs (including non real ale pubs). You will notice it also serves Cheshire, Wigan, Chesterfield and parts of South - west London. The aim is for a common guide and data base across branch areas, and we hope that more branches will sign up to the system in the near future.

This is a new and ongoing project and many pubs now have to be surveyed to ensure up to date information. A long and hard task. If you would like to help with this task please drop an email to onlineguide@nottinghamcamra.org

Behind the scenes this is not just a pub guide but a data base where activities such as change of licensee, owners, events can be logged. Close and re opened pub activities can be logged and reports made and much, much more. It is hoped that you eventually will be able to log on and submit beer scores and pub news etc. So this will be a very powerful tool for the branch.

It is also being designed to be compatible with national systems and GBG entries can be exported directly into the national system.

Goto LocAle Page Drink local ales in your local pub. Initiated by Nottingham branch and transport 2000 to get pubs to stock at least one local ale (brewed within 20 miles of pub) at all times, and to encourage customers to drink locally produced ale (within 20 miles of the pub). Thus cutting down on transport in an effort to help save the planet form carbon emissions.
So look out for the LocAle crowns on the pump clips
 LocAle Scheme
   
 Full Pint Sign Petition

SAY NO TO SHORT MEASURES AND ASK FOR A TOP UP.
New figures from CAMRA show that a whopping 26.6% of pints served in pubs contain less than 95% beer. There is a petition that you can sign to on the CAMRA web site (click link to the left)
It may be generaly accepted in the trade that a 95% pint is is OK, but we do not have to be satisfied with this, after all who is buying it? No, you are paying for a pint so a pint you should have. Always ask for a top up on short measures, any decent pub will always oblige.
CAMRA are actively campaigning, calling for the govenment to pass legistlation for a 100% pint to be served.

Ideally bringing back lined glasses would be the answer, but sadly there is a reluctance for the trade to go back down this route, they would probably lose too much money having to give you an actual pint of beer. There are still places in the country that do use lined glasses but these are few and far between. But we should not let them off the hook! So if they moan about giving you a top up, or will not give one, don't get too angry, sup your pint but let them know you are not happy about it. You can always vote with your feet and not go in again. Send an email to me (siteadmin@nottinghamcamra.org). If I get enough complaints about a particular pub you never know we may even be able to do something about it.

   
 CYCLOPS The ‘Cyclops' generic real ale campaign is an initiative that has been created to help and educate pub goers that are interested in giving real ale a try for the very first time, or have only tried a few pints and want to find out more!
The campaign has been designed to inform new real ale drinkers of what style of beer they are drinking, what its alcohol content is, what the beer should look like, what it should smell like and of course, what it should taste like using very simple but informative language
Learn More                                                         Download Customer Guide
   
Go to Axe The Tax Website 2344 Pubs Close Since the 2008 Budget
Is this insanity by the chancellor, putting up beer prices even further whilst supermarkets still continue to sell cheap lead loss booze!
As more and more community pubs close he still fails to see the picture.
The Axe the Tax campaign is putting continued pressure on the government to stop this insanity so if you have not already done so please take the time to add your name to the petition. to learn more and sign onto the petition go to the official website by clicking here
   
Save Our Pubs Campaign
With the most recent Beer & Pub Association report highlighting that 39 pubs are closing every week, CAMRA has to do more than ever to support local pubs through these difficult times.

What can I do? Link to the campaign to find out more
   
NOTTINGHAM
LOCAL LIST
Local list of buildings with heritage value

Nottingham City Council and Nottingham Civic Society want to update the authorities "Local List" of buildings with heritage value in the city.
These are buildings with architectural or historic importance locally but which do not meet the national criteria to become a listed building, but you in Nottingham think are an indispensable part of your local street scene.

The last list was drawn up in 1996. Some of these have in fact been promoted to Grade 2 listed status. So it is well worth getting a building on the local list, as you never know it may eventually make listed status.

So what are we doing? We are compiling a list of pub buildings that we believe have some reason to be saved in their present form. This can include buildings that have already changed from a pub to something else, at least if we can save the building has the possibility of being changed back into a pub at a future time.

So your help is needed as we have to send this list in by the 31st August. Please nominate a pub or ex pub building or buildings that in you opinion have some reason to be and not altered or knocked down. It must be within the city boundary. An example is the Loggerheads as this has a 90 year old first world war memorial locked up inside it.
It may be a building that if altered or demolished would simply alter the look of the street it is on.
A row of terraced shops on on Forest Row East has been nominated owing to they were built 1905.
We are nominating pubs like the Running Horse now closed owing to original tiles outside. PDF of list so far

So you get the picture. What we want is the pub name, location, a brief statement of why you think it deserves to go on the list and if possible (but not essential) a photo.

Please email to webmaster or post a nomination to:
Howard Clark
212 Southview Road
Carlton
Nottingham
NG4 3QU

  Please help with nominations as soon as possible as we do have an unmovable dead line to get these in by 31st August. Also it must be within the Nottingham city boundaries. City boundary map
   
   
   
   
   
   
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