Notification of Amber Valley Branch AGM

Now that the pubs are free of restrictions we will be able to hold our delayed Branch AGM on Thursday August 26th at the The Old Oak, Main Street, Horsley Woodhouse, Ilkeston DE7 6AW at 8pm.

Any CAMRA member may attend, but should any votes be taken only members of Amber Valley Branch may vote. The AGM's formal business is where we'll hear reports from Branch Officers, receive and approve the Branch accounts for 2020, and appoint/confirm people into various roles within the Branch.

There are a number of Core Committee positions at Branch level - these are:

·       Branch Chair

·       Branch Secretary

·       Branch Treasurer

·       Membership Secretary

·       Pub Data Co-ordinator

And we have a range of other roles, which are vital in contributing to the campaigning success of the Branch.

Any member of Amber Valley can stand for the Core and other Branch positions, and we welcome CAMRA members from outside the branch to stand for non-core Committee positions if they wish to do so.

We currently have a number of vacancies on our committee and sadly, unless they are filled, we will not be able to run our Branch in a fully effective way.

Most pressing, is a volunteer to be our Branch Secretary. I would be very happy to discuss this role with anyone who is interested, with the possibility of dividing the job up if this could be done in a sensible way. We also need the following key roles filled:

·       Pub of the Year Co-ordinator

·       Magazine Article Editor (to produce/co-ordinate/edit articles for the someone to produce Derby and Nottingham Drinker magazines)

·       Brewery Liaison Officer for Bad Bunny Brewery.

This AGM is important because it will help chart the forward direction of the Branch. Of particular importance is the future of our Beer Festivals. Personally, I would very much like to see an Amber Valley Beer Festival run in 2022, but there is work to do before this can happen. As I said when I first became Branch Chairman in 2012, and it holds true more than ever today, “The Branch will do as much as the active membership of the Branch are prepared to do.”

I look forward to seeing you at the AGM.

Chris Rogers

Amber Valley Branch Chairman