Amber Valley CAMRA
Categories: Clubs Social And Associations
Derbyshire
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When local CAMRA members living in the Belper, Ripley and Alfreton areas realised they were missing out, due to difficulties attending Derby CAMRA meetings and social gatherings, the idea of an Amber Valley sub-branch started to form.
The initial meeting on 18 September 2008 saw the George on Lowes Hill, Ripley, packed with supporters of the idea, and at the following "inaugural" meeting, at the now closed Prince of Wales pub in Ripley, on 23 October, the Amber Valley CAMRA sub-branch was born.
The first committee, a relatively inexperienced group, comprised Pete Hounsell as chair, with Paul Gibson as secretary, Gus Manning as membership secretary, and Charisma (Paul Eydon) and Nathan Dilley as joint social secretaries.
The branch gradually grew in confidence and in numbers, with regular meetings and survey trips, until we were ready to hold our very first beer festival in 2010 a very wet affair, but rewarding and extremely popular!
In the time that has passed, there have been a number of changes and we have gone from strength to strength with two further beer festivals, a highly successful first ever Mild Trail in the area and a very popular Winter Ales Trail which is something unique to our Branch.
The culmination of our hard work resulted in us being granted independent branch status in November 2012 and we now have over 600 members in our branch area and growing.
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