Branch Officers 2010-2011
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Pub Of The Month selection
At each month's branch meeting (dates here) a number of pubs are proposed for our Pub Of The Month award. The proposing member then explains why the pub deserves this accolade. Comments and questions are then invited from the floor. When all arguments have been made a single transferable vote system is used to select that months winner.
There are no written criteria for eligibility, only a set of guidelines.
- The proposer MUST have visited the pub within the previous four weeks.
- Ensures an up-to-date report and not a long distant fond memory. - The landlord must have been in place for six months or more.
- Ensures they have a proven track record and not riding on their launch event. - Having won the award, a landlord becomes ineligible until two years have passed.
- Ensures one or two pubs don't dominate the award - The award is given to a pub of excellence and not just because it serves a multitude of beer.
- Excellence can cover:
Conversion or reverting to real ale after years without
Social events, eg themed day, eg Victorian, fund raising event
Community inclusion, eg darts teams, meal for OAPs,
Upgrade of the pub fabric, from an extention to a re-decoration
Continued beer quality
Unlike the popular perception that awards given by the Campaign for Real Ale are to the pub with the most beers, we in Stockport and South Manchester endeavour to recognise excellence, commitment, enterprise and sheer hard work. Thus an establishment selling but a single beer, and located in a back street industrial estate, but which is packed every night and runs three darts team and annual events for senior citizens is as likely to win as a multi-ale free house.
Branch Area
The boundaries between CAMRA branches in Greater Manchester follow a rather illogical pattern, the reasons for which go back to the early history of CAMRA. The area covered by the Stockport & South Manchester Branch is roughly as follows:
Stockport
The greater part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport including Stockport Town Centre, Brinnington, Offerton, Great Moor, Hazel Grove, Bramhall, Woodford, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, Gatley, Heald Green, Adswood, Cheadle Heath, Edgeley, the Four Heatons (Chapel, Mersey, Moor and Norris) and Reddish.
Excluded
The remaining area on the eastern side of Stockport MBC, including the districts of High Lane, Marple, Compstall, Bredbury, Romiley and Woodley is covered by the High Peak and North East Cheshire Branch.
Manchester
The whole of the south-eastern part of the city from Princess Parkway to the River Medlock, including the districts of Wythenshawe, Northenden, Didsbury, Withington, Fallowfield, Rusholme, Moss Side, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Burnage, Levenshulme, Longsight, Ardwick, Gorton, Beswick, Bradford, Openshaw and Clayton.
The branch only covers the quadrant of the City Centre south of London Road/Piccadilly and east of Mosley Street and Oxford Road.
Excluded
The area west of Princess Parkway, and the remainder of the City Centre south of Market Street and west of Mosley Street, is covered by the Trafford & Hulme Branch.
The northern half of Manchester and the whole of the City of Salford, including Eccles, are covered by the North Manchester Branch.
Branch Area
The boundaries between CAMRA branches in Greater Manchester follow a rather illogical pattern, the reasons for which go back to the early history of CAMRA. The area covered by the Stockport & South Manchester Branch is roughly as follows:
The boundary (usually) runs down the centre of the indicated roads and rivers. In areas with few houses etcetera straight lines have been used rather than the exact boundary, which corresponds to the town, city or old rural district boundary (at the interface with Marple).