The Great British Beer Festival is being held this year at the NEC 5-9th August 2025. At the last branch meeting it was agreed to support the GBBF with people making their own arrangements for tickets and travel but try and coordinate individual plans around Friday the 8th August to give a branch social event feel, if you are planning to go let John know your plans to enable a meet up at the festival ku.gro.armac.yrubsekwet@riahc

Hopefully the information below will help you with thoughts and planning. The website is HTTPS://greatbritishbeerfestival.co.uk and hopefully the link works Great British Beer Festival | Home. Tickets for general admission are £16.00 but £6.00 for CAMRA members ( membership cards will be checked) a group offer of 5 for 4 also exists at £64.00, only making financial sense if a non CAMRA group. Birmingham International Station is right next to the NEC which should help with travel arrangements. Currently the National Rail enquires are only showing their timetable up to mid-June so specifics can’t be looked at travel from Ashchurch for Tewkesbury to Birmingham International.

Currently the cost of a return on the train would be @£34.00 changing at Cheltenham and Birmingham New Street. This is before any discount for railcards our group travel, the details below are from the National Rail enquiries website.

GroupSave – discounts for groups of 3 to 9 If you’re a group of 3 to 9 adults, you can get a 1/3 discount on Off-Peak tickets with GroupSave. Not a bad deal! Also, you don’t need to purchase a Railcard to get the GroupSave discount. In order to get GroupSave discounts, you must travel together at all times. You cannot combine GroupSave with other discounts, and there are certain days when GroupSave cannot be used on selected services, and with some train