Branch Diary

Social Co-ordinator: Position Vacant For email please use 'socials'. Emails will get through to the branch contacts.
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For more information on any of these events please contact our socials team by emailing socials@shantscamra.org.uk.

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New for 2024 is a group of real ale socials.
Two of them are in regular venues, The Hour Glass, New Milton, and the Park Inn, Shirley, the other tours around Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.
The planned itinerary for the year is on this poster:
Real Ale socials list
Full details for each event in our branch area will be below. (See West Dorset for Wet Wednesday. Don's Spot will only be shown when in our branch area, otherwise may be found on East Dorset website).

January 2026

Thu 8th
12:00 noon
Park Inn Thursday
Park Inn, 37 Carlisle Road, Southampton, SO16 4FN
Join us again for our monthly get together and enjoy a beer with some of our friends and CAMRA members from New Milton, Dorchester, Salisbury and Basingstoke. Everyone welcome whether a CAMRA member or not, you just need to enjoy good beer and good company.

For 2026 this event will be the second Thursday of every month.
 Contact Norman Clinnick for more information. Phone: 07974 837868.
Tue 20th
7:30pm
Good Beer Guide Selection Meeting
Belgium & Blues, 184 Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7DW
We look forward to welcoming members of the branch to attend our annual selection meeting for the CAMRA Good Beer Guide.

The meeting will begin at a slightly earlier time of 7.30pm, upstairs at Belgium & Blues, where the final submissions for the GBG will be decided.

Card carrying members only for this one... any questions reach out.
 Contact Owen Jackson for more information. Phone: 07568 488876.

February 2026

Thu 12th
12:00 noon
Park Inn Thursday
Park Inn, 37 Carlisle Road, Southampton, SO16 4FN
Join us again for our monthly get together and enjoy a beer with some of our friends and CAMRA members from New Milton, Dorchester, Salisbury and Basingstoke. Everyone welcome whether a CAMRA member or not, you just need to enjoy good beer and good company.

For 2026 this event will be the second Thursday of every month.
 Contact Norman Clinnick for more information. Phone: 07974 837868.

March 2026

Thu 12th
12:00 noon
Park Inn Thursday
Park Inn, 37 Carlisle Road, Southampton, SO16 4FN
Join us again for our monthly get together and enjoy a beer with some of our friends and CAMRA members from New Milton, Dorchester, Salisbury and Basingstoke. Everyone welcome whether a CAMRA member or not, you just need to enjoy good beer and good company.

For 2026 this event will be the second Thursday of every month.
 Contact Norman Clinnick for more information. Phone: 07974 837868.

 
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