Chairman: Chris White
Chris took over as Chairman in 2023. A CAMRA member since 1991, Chris has previously been involved in helping at our beer festivals.
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Secretary: Steve Stringer
Steve returned to the UK after living in France for a while. He is a keen gardener, tending to not just his own garden but many of his neighbours’. Steve is also an acomplished home brewer.
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Membership Secretary: Roger Braddick
Roger has been a member since 1995 and took on the role of membership secretary in 2018. He hails from Somerset, but spent 40 years working in Worcestershire and is now part-time/part-retired. Roger strongly recognises the community role of the pub within the community as well as the way the pub looks after its beer.
Treasurer: Chris Harris
Our treasurer since 2012, Chris makes sure we don’t spend too much and ensures our profits are sent to HQ to fund campaining.
Since retiring a few years ago, Chris, and wife Lucy, spend much of their time travelling in their motor home and visiting Spain. Luckily, all our banking is now on-line so Chris isn’t having to write cheques as used to be the case.
Social Secretary: Position Vacant
Unarguably the most important of our team, our social secretary is responsible for arranging all of our social activities. Campaining visits to our local pubs, both urban (city saunters) and rural (minibus trips), comprise the bulk of our activities but they also try to find some trips further afield; all of which are very popular.
Andrew Hesketh is holding the fort until a willing volunteer can be found.
Pubs Officer: Sue Turner
Our pubs play a cricial role in CAMRA, without them, Real Ale would have no outlet. Monitoring which of them may have closed, may have reopened or just those who teeter on the edge falls to the Pubs Officer. A thankless task, poor Sue can be found trawling social media for news. As it happens, Sue is rather an expert as she runs her own social media pages that concentrate on events in and around Salisbury; many of which are pub-related.
Webmaster: Ian Turner
Ian created the banch’s first web pages in 1999, originally just a few web pages with some contact details and a diary. The site was transformed in 2009 with the introduction of dynamic content and a modern content management system. In 2019 the site moved to WordPress with the long task of moving the old content.
Press & Publicity: A Member
An old ‘hack’ himself, he uses his vast experience in the press industry to increase our exposure through the local press, TV and radio.
Festival Organiser: Andrew Hesketh (and Team)
Organising Beerex and Winterfest, our two local CAMRA festivals, is hard work but seeing the results and hearing the tremendous feedback we receive makes it all worthwhile. After a spell without a leader, Andrew has stepped up to lead a small group of dedicated people.
GBG Co-ordinator: Keith Foster
Keith has been a keen member for many years but a recent move to the city has allowed him to take more of an interest in running the Branch. He now monitors and advises on NBSS (National Beer Scoring Scheme) and also coordinates our GBG (Good Beer Guide) entries each year.
LocAle Officer: Vacant
LocAle is an initiative that promotes pubs stocking locally brewed real ale in order to reduce the number of ‘beer miles’ from brewery to pub cellar. It is based on growing consumer demand for quality local produce and increasing awareness of environmental issues.
Launched in 2007, CAMRA branches around the country will award accreditation to pubs that regularly stock at least one real ale. The pub can then advertise their support by posting the window sticker in their pubs.
Cider Champion: Jane Foster
Whilst we do concentrate on Real Ale, ciders and perrys are also important to CAMRA. Jane looks after cider and our pubs that serve real cider. If your local pub is serving real cider, do let her know.
Vice Chairman: Vacant
Someone has to cover for the chairman in his absence.