Bristol Pubs Group was formed in response to the growing number of pubs in the Bristol area closing or being drastically altered. It was launched in 2008 with the support of local councillors, members of the trade and the media.

Our aims are simple ...

Bristol Pubs Group will:

• Promote the use of community pubs
• Campaign against the closure of pubs that could be viable
• Campaign against insensitive alterations

However ...

Bristol Pubs Group needs you!

We need more volunteers to help us campaign for all threatened pubs ... and you don’t have to be a CAMRA member to join us.

So, can you spare some time to help Bristol Pubs Group campaign against closure or other threats to pubs in our area?

There are many ways you can get involved, and your help in any capacity – and whatever commitment you can make – would be very welcome. You just need to be someone with an interest in pubs and their survival, and be able to spare a little time to help.

We usually meet in a central Bristol pub on a Monday evening, every other month, often followed by a social drink or two. But you don’t have to come to the meetings if you don’t wish to as we keep up to date via email etc.

Please contact Bristol Pubs Group either to let us know if you might be interested, or to find out more.

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Related material

Saving Your Local Pub
Is your local pub threatened with closure?

Saving Your Local Pub is CAMRA’s go-to guide, providing in-depth support and advice on the practicalities of campaigning to save a pub, options available, and how to use the planning system to combat unwanted change. If your local pub is threatened with closure or damaging alteration and you want to do something about it, we hope this guidance will help and inform you. It focuses on the practicalities of campaigning to save a pub and on how to use the planning system to combat unwanted changes.

In recent years, pub closures have remained high. A combination of factors, such as falling footfall and soaring property prices is leading to many owners shutting down their pubs and converting the buildings to another use. The good news is that many successful campaigns have been fought to stave off closures. There are numerous thriving pubs up and down the country which would otherwise have been converted to private houses or heaps of rubble without the efforts of local campaigners.

Although this guide looks at how to fight attempted closures, the same basic approaches and tactics apply if the threats are of a lesser but still unwanted kind, such as proposals for major alterations which would spoil the pub’s character.

Want to get a copy of this comprehensive toolkit for campaigners?

Then please visit camra.org.uk/save-your-local-pub - where you will also find lots more useful information - then scroll down and follow the links to the guide (there are separate guides for England, Wales and Scotland).

Alternatively you can access the guide directly here: Saving Your Local Pub

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