We will be presenting the TWAF 2025 Overall winner of Beer of the festival certificate to Pete Clark of Ashton Brewery for Jaffa Cake 6% at the The Cross House Tavern, Tewkesbury on the 23rd April at 7:15pm. All being well Laurence will have Jaffa Cake on tap for you all to try during the evening. Please come along and show your support for Pete and to thank Laurence for hosting the event. PS... This was originally planned to be at Clavell & Hind but we had to change venue due to a function being held at C&H that evening.

Saturday 17th May Not a Minibus trip, instead Ben Smith (our vice Chair) is organising a public transport wander to visit and Judge the Sandford Ale House, Cheltenham and the Pelican Inn, Gloucester for West Central POTY award as part of the selection process towards CAMRA national POTY anyone interested in going along please contact Ben Smith for detail of buses and times. ku.gro.armac.yrubsekwet@riahCeciV

Friday 20th June Phil is organising a surprise Minibus trip, times and more details to follow, to reserve your place contact Phil on his mobile 07748 376007

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