Campaign For Real Ale

Welcome to the Web Site of the Rochdale, Oldham and Bury Branch of CAMRA - The Campaign for Real Ale

Want to sign into the member's area? Sign in (left hand side menu) using your normal CAMRA log in which is your membership number (less any 0's at the front) and your postcode, no spaces.

The Branch covers the Metropolitan areas of Rochdale, Oldham and Bury, and is one of 8 within the CAMRA Greater Manchester Region covering the Greater Manchester area. About the Branch. As a Branch we tend to use Rochdale as the administrative centre of the Branch as it is reasonably easy to get to by public transport from most of the areas across the Branch. This is why all of our Branch meetings are currently held in The Baum, Rochdale.

Good Beer Guide 2012

The Branch will be ordering stocks of this and they will be available in September following the National launch on 15th September. Pre-order yours now! Contact any Committee member or attend the next meeting at the Baum, Rochdale - see "Branch Diary" on the left hand side of this page. If you have a fancy mobile 'phone (like the Branch Chairman) with "apps" you will be able to order a 2012 mobile Good Beer Guide for it.

CAMRA nationally has also be released the Good Beer Guide 2012 in popular ePub and Kindle formats in - so warm up your e-book readers! The latest News about the 2012 GBG.

ROB Electronic pubs guide

This Branch has many hundreds of pubs and we are trying to get our electronic pubs guide up to date so that any visitor will be able to check out and visit any of our pubs. To do this, though, we need your help. We have a Pub Survey Form that you can download and provide as much, or even, as little, information that you can. You can also fill it out electronically and send it to our pub's Officer Bernie Jackson @ moc.dlrowltn@namnoiskca

Branch Pub Of The Year 2012

The Branch this year decided that we would have a Pub Of The Year (POTY) for each of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Rochdale, Oldham and Bury and these were selected at an all members meeting in January 2012. The 3 winners then went forward to a later meeting in February where we decided, as a Branch, the overall Branch POTY for 2012. This will then go on to be judged alongside the other POTY's in the Region and a decision will be made as to which one will represent the Region in the "Super Regionals" and on to the National Competition. This prestigious award is given to the pub that the branch feels has been truly outstanding during the previous 12 months. Given the scope of the branch and the number of contenders, winning it is no mean feat. The 2012 recipients in each of the Boroughs are:

Rochdale - The Baum;

Oldham - The Ashton Arms: and

Bury - The Hare & Hounds, Holcombe Brook

Congratulations to each of the area winners, no mean feat being nominated and then winning each area award!

The overall Branch POTY for ROB is the Baum, Rochdale and congratulations to Simon and all his staff.

For details of the all the winners in the Region got to Regional POTY's 2012

Notifications

The Membership Secretary welcomes new members to the branch when they join CAMRA, but then we only write to branch members who have not supplied a current e mail address,however due to the costs and time involved this only happens infrequently. If you have an e mail address and would like to be updated on a regular basis please tell us what it is! Branch members that supply an email address receive a monthly newsletter "CAMRA Calling" with up to the minute news from the branch, as well as reminders about meetings and socials. If you used to get these and have stopped getting them maybe that's because you have changed your e mail address and not told us? If so please contact Branch Membership Secretary.

In addition any Branch member can join our ROB CAMRA Yahoo Group - we use this to communicate information to the members and it really is a useful tool. Please sign up to it, it really is simple!

Please join our ROB CAMRA Yahoo Group, which provides regular updates on other events taking place in the branch area.