North Hampshire Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA) campaigns for good quality real ale, community pubs and consumer rights, all carried out with a lot of socialising, enjoyment and fun.

Welcome to North Hampshire Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), a group that enjoys pubs and beer festivals, supports local pubs and breweries, and campaigns for a better deal for the pub user.

With over 740 members the group's area stretches from across the northern reaches of Hampshire including the main centres of Andover and Basingstoke. Hartley Wintney and Odiham are included to the east; Whitchurch, Sutton Scotney and Stockbridge are to the west, and Tadley and Kingsclere are northern-ish, but we don't reach as far as the Watford Gap ;-)

The group is part of national CAMRA, with a membership of over 192,000 and which has been going strong since 1971.
Social events and meetings are regularly held with enjoyable walkabouts, town and city trails, while visits to beer festivals and breweries all appear from time to time within the calendar. Check out the Events and Branch Diary for new Events

Join us – it can be Fun.

Breaking News

  • COTY 2019 Presentation Saturday 8th June 2019

    Presentation of the 2019 Branch Club of the Year, Basingstoke Sports and Social Club, 12pm

 

Interview with Matt at the Wonston Arms Friday 5 April 2019

  • From failing boozer to winner of the biggest pub prize of them all, Wonston Arms Landlord Matt Todd tells us how he did it. InaPub News article

POTY/COTY 2019 Results

POTY 2019

The winner is: The Wonston Arms, Congratulations Matt. Runner Up: The Plough Inn, Little London

COTY 2019

Basingstoke Sports and Social Club

CONGRATULATIONS on winning the National POTY 2018

© John Buckley
The Wonston Arms, our local Pub of the Year has just been chosen as the National Pub of the Yera. Well done to Matt and his team!

Presented with the Award on Thursday 28th February

A true community pub in the heart of the village, the Wonston Arms serves four real ales from local breweries plus 160 gins. It opens on Mondays for darts matches, a fish and chip van visits Tuesdays, curries are delivered Fridays and a fishmonger visits on Thursdays. Folk music takes place on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month and it is also home to regular jazz sessions, quizzes, and a photography club. The pub has been named Branch Pub of the Year three years running, and has a focus on raising money for charity.

Nigel Jones, CAMRA’s Regional Director for Wessex and the Channel Islands said: “Matt and his team have created a fantastic rural village pub with a great atmosphere by shaping it around the community and its needs. They have realised that it takes something special to create a sense of real belonging so that people want to come out of their homes and back in the pub.

The Wonston Arms serves excellent cask ales and is a great social environment for all. There is also a community business benefit which both emanates from, and contributes to, Matt's success. Regular "pop-up" hot food, music, community, charity and educational events add to the "must be there" feel. In these testing times for pubs it is a real credit to them that it is so popular. This pub really deserves to go all the way in this competition.”


OktoberFest Beer and Cider of the Festival 2018

Congratulations to Jon and the team. Presentation took place place on November 30th at the brewery in Broughton. he Cider of OktoberFest 2018 as voted by the public was - Farmer Jims Rhubarb Bob. Congratulations to Jim and the crew down on their farm in Newton Abbot.

CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2019

- Published September 13
£13.00 (Non- Member) or just £11 + p&p for members of CAMRA (special online price)
Packed with 4,500 of the best real ale pubs in the UK and information on every real ale brewery currently operating and their key beers. The perfect package for pub-goers everywhere.

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