Facebook icon Twitter icon Forward icon

Dear CAMRA Member

The National Executive and Branches Committee met in Cardiff on Saturday 24 September to receive a report from the Revitalisation Project Steering Committee about their work on CAMRA's strategic review. After a presentation on the evidence accumulated from consultation meetings, surveys and research, the Committee members raised a number of 'key issues' which were then debated by the assembled company.

The purpose of the meeting was to give feedback and direction to the Steering Committee, who will now prepare a detailed proposal about CAMRA's future positioning and purpose for delivery to the National Executive at the beginning of December. There is much work still to be done, and the Committee will shortly be surveying all members for a third time, as well as seeking further opinion from representatives of important external stakeholder groups.

My colleagues and I on the National Executive, in considering the opinions of the Steering Committee, believe that it is likely to be necessary to delay the timescale for a final decision by members, originally planned to take place at the Members Weekend in Bournemouth in April next year. As the implications of any decision will be far-reaching, the National Executive believe that it would be prudent to use the 2017 Conference for a debate on the proposals and their implications for CAMRA and to then hold a vote at a general meeting at a later date, either within an extraordinary general meeting or at the 2018 Members Weekend in Coventry.

An announcement will be made to external stakeholders concurrent with the release of this information to you. The National Executive believe that it is important that CAMRA gets it right, rather than rushing to meet an arbitrary deadline that was set before the work on this fundamental review of our common purpose ever began.

Yours sincerely,

Colin Valentine (signature)

Colin Valentine

CAMRA National Chairman