Digital Futures

CAMRA is also known as the Campaign for Real Ale. We are a UK-wide consumer group championing the rights of beer and cider drinkers and pub-goers. We are considered one of the most successful consumer organisations in Europe. Founded by four cask beer enthusiasts back in 1971, today we represent beer and cider drinkers and pub-goers across the UK.

Our vision is to have quality cask beer, cider and perry and thriving pubs in every community. We do this by supporting and encouraging the beer, cider and pubs trade by running beer festivals, lobbying Government for changes to the law, giving awards and developing bespoke pub finders and guides.

Membership is the complete CAMRA package.

As a member, you get access to all the digital features that a subscriber does, plus benefits such as £30 worth of cask beer vouchers*, reduced entry to our 150+ beer festivals, discounted prices at our shop, volunteering and campaigning opportunities, quarterly award-winning BEER magazine and more.

You can either purchase a membership as a one-off payment for a year, or you can sign up on Direct Debit for £2 less.

*£30 for single members, £40 for joint members

We only use the data we collect about you to process your account and create personalised access to certain tools and information. This means you get the best experience possible and only the information you need.

Our privacy policy is here camra.org.uk/privacy-policy

Our Terms and Conditions are here camra.org.uk/terms-conditions

Our Membership Team can help with any aspect of your CAMRA membership and account. Get in touch with them using the contact form at the bottom of this page: camra.org.uk/about/contact-us

You can send feedback to digitalfutures@camra.org.uk

You can send any ideas to digitalfutures@camra.org.uk

In most cases you can use the search function, and it should direct you to the right page, but if you are in doubt, please use the contact form on the site and it will be directed to the relevant team: camra.org.uk/about/contact-us

The CAMRA Volunteers’ Area of the site has not changed and is still the place to find information for branches and resources: members.camra.org.uk

You’re a CAMRA website user if you’ve registered with us for a free account. You might have done this after purchasing something from our shop, purchasing a ticket for one of our events, or selecting to do so from our main website. You will have had to create a password and consented to do so.

Being a user is great because you can access simple website features without paying a penny. Features like event searching, access to recent CAMRA news, pub, brewery and beer searches.

As a user you are limited on many features and you’ll only be able to create a maximum of three trips with our trip planner, and view only a maximum of three suggested pub walk routes.

For access to all online features, you can become a subscriber or for the full CAMRA benefits package you can become a CAMRA member.

You’re a subscriber if you’ve signed up to CAMRA on our 99p per month user package. This gives you access to all our website features and functionality, such as unlimited trip planning across the UK, viewing CAMRA verified beer tasting notes and descriptions, access to our recent news and upcoming events. This is an excellent package for someone looking to travel and experience more great beers, pubs and breweries in different areas of the UK.

As a subscriber you’ll have access to our digital features only. For the full CAMRA benefits package - including beer vouchers, pub discounts, reduced festival entry and more - you’ll need to become a CAMRA member.

Registering as a user is free and unlocks some basic features of the CAMRA website.

Becoming a subscriber requires a small monthly payment of 99p on direct debit but gives you full access to the features on the CAMRA website.

Joining CAMRA as a member is our top tier and most popular option. Not only do you get access to all the website features that a subscriber has, but you’ll also get all the CAMRA membership benefits too!

As a member of CAMRA, you not only get all the same digital features as a subscriber but also our wider membership benefits.

The digital features include: - Plan pub trips around the UK with our trip planning features - View our extensive reviewed list of verified pubs, breweries and beers - Search for regions and branches to get local information - Read extensive verified beer tasting notes to find your favourite beers quicker and easier - Access beer ratings and recommendations verified by our members - Use our beer spotter search functionality - Explore CAMRA events such as beer festivals and branch meetings - Catch up with recent CAMRA news - Read news related to the industries we work within on What’s Brewing

A full list of our member benefits is here: camra.org.uk/membership-benefits

*£30 for single members, £40 for joint members

As a subscriber, you get access to our full digital features package:
- Plan full pub-orientated trips around the nation with our trip planning features - View our extensive reviewed list of verified pubs, breweries and beers - Search for regions and branches to get localised information - Read extensive verified beer tasting notes to find your favourite beers quicker and easier - Access beer ratings and recommendations verified by our members - Use our beer spotter dedicated search functionality - Explore CAMRA events like beer festivals and branch meetings - Catch up with recent CAMRA news - Read news related to the industries we work within on the What’s Brewing news site

You don’t have to be a subscriber or a member of CAMRA to get some of the features of the CAMRA Experience.
By registering an account for free, you can start using some of our basic website features such as:
- Search through our database of pubs, breweries and beers - Find out what CAMRA events are on around the UK - See recent CAMRA news - Search our database of pubs and clubs by region or CAMRA branch - Read some of our What’s Brewing articles for recent news on the Campaign and the licensed trade.
The best thing about registering with us is that your starter account is free!
Please be aware that with some features, you will be limited on the amount of uses.
Fortunately, for only 99p per month, you can upgrade to a subscriber account and unlock all our website features and benefits we offer.

We are here to help you explore the amazing world of beer, cider and pubs.
Registering with us, becoming a subscriber or joining CAMRA will unlock different features that will give you a quicker and easier way to discover amazing beer and pubs, and plan your next trip out.

The concept behind our Digital Futures project, with the new website as our flagship product, is to bring all our digital features under one umbrella.

This is to make it easier to tap into as a member or volunteer, rather than to remove any of the features or materials currently offered to our membership.

However, key systems such as WhatPub are now on old technology that is difficult and expensive to support, so all new investment will go towards the new site that will over time become the focal point for pub and beer information.

At the moment, the Volunteers’ Area of the website (which requires a CAMRA member login) will stay the same.

At the moment we don’t have specific plans for changing the Volunteers’ Area (which requires a CAMRA member login to access). However, we are developing plans to improve this area.

Yes! We have plans to develop a CAMRA app.

Our new digital subscription is not related to our Learn and Discover content and full access to Learn and Discover is a benefit of CAMRA Membership.
We are simply removing the £4.99 a year Good Beer Guide App subscription in favour of the current 99p per month digital subscription, and giving you access to more content and features.
Learn and Discover beginner content is available to everyone, and we have member only-content at the enthusiast and connoisseur levels, all of which can be found at learn-discover.camra.org.uk
We are working on a new Learn and Discover platform, so our existing content has not been integrated into the new website.

These have been integrated into the new CAMRA site, and redirects from the old sites have been set up to direct people to the correct pages on the new site.

You will no longer need a Good Beer Guide subscription separately to your membership.

Whether you need to manually cancel your subscription or not depends on how it is currently set up:

• If you pay a 99p monthly subscription via iOS, you will need to cancel it manually – we cannot do that for you.

• If your Good Beer Guide App subscription is linked to your CAMRA membership account, and you pay it directly to CAMRA, then we will cancel the subscription for you.

• If your Good Beer Guide App subscription is not linked to your CAMRA membership, then you will need to cancel it manually.

Your subscription will continue until it expires, and what happens next will be determined by which payment plan you have chosen.
Those paying 99p a month will automatically be moved onto the new platform, those paying £4.99 a year will be given the option to renew on the new site for 99p per month, which will give access to the same information that was included in the Good Beer Guide App.
You can link your CAMRA account with your Good Beer Guide App account which will allow you to continue to benefit from access to Good Beer Guide information as a subscriber to the new website.

A digital subscription is a card payment for 99p per month giving a non-CAMRA member access to our website’s digital content and features. It is not the same as a CAMRA membership – which gives you membership rights and benefits.

Digital subscriptions cost 99p per month and standard CAMRA Membership starts from just £30.50 a year.

Giving members access to digital Good Beer Guide listing information provides additional value to your CAMRA Membership, and is another great reason to join CAMRA today, rather than purchasing a digital subscription option.

These are beer quality ratings for the venue, based on scores submitted by CAMRA members.

Find out more about beer scoring here: camra.org.uk/beer-scoring

Find out more about our pint score ratings here: camra.org.uk/beer-quality-accreditation

No, you can still use the Good Beer Guide web app or WhatPub at the moment, but you can use the new site to submit, view and edit your scores from one place.

The new site will not affect how you update pub data – input interfaces like Pubzilla, Spile, Hops and other custom tools will still work in the exact same way. This data is fed into the “WhatPub” database which is used to power this site.

Branch websites will not be affected, and we will ensure that links are provided to your site. The branch pages of the new site are there to help users find branches and promote them as part of how CAMRA operates at a local level.
Link redirects are in place for WhatPub pages and the old website, so you shouldn’t have to edit links that you have in place.

We are planning to phase out WhatPub over the next 6-12 months. It uses legacy software, and new features and enhancements are being added to the new site, with great feedback so far.

At the moment links to the What’s Brewing website are displayed throughout the site. Eventually it will be fully integrated, but this will happen later in our development roadmap.

We are still developing our cider and perry database and once this is completed, there will be more detailed information available, in addition to the information about cider and perry producers on the site.

CAMRA’s flagship publications - BEER magazine - is still available in hard copy for members, as is the Good Beer Guide and many other excellent CAMRA Books titles.

The site makes use of your location and so pubs, clubs, beers and breweries should naturally be tailored to your local area and nation.