We’re looking for people to join our new Licensee Panel
Our Pub and Club Campaigns Committee is looking for licensees to lend us their expertise to help inform our campaigning and feedback on our work.
The group will be a sounding board for the people that shape our pub and club campaigns and provide vital insights on the realities of running a pub, and the effects of decisions from government on trading.
We will also discuss consumer issues, like choice and business practices.
How to apply:
Simply email campaigns@camra.org.uk with a quick overview of your experience and why you want to join the panel.
We’re recruiting eight licensees from across different types of operating models.
You do not need to be a CAMRA member to apply, and we want licensees from a range of pubs.
Deadline Tuesday 14 July.
Full Terms of Reference for the panel:
Purpose
To establish and maintain dialogue between CAMRA and licensees so that issues of mutual concern relating to the licensed trade can be discussed, understood and, where necessary, referred to appropriate CAMRA Committees.
Objectives
Identify issues that are of mutual concern or interest to licensees and, as representatives of consumers, CAMRA. These include but are not limited to:
Consumer choice.
Business regulation – Pubs Code, environmental regulations etc.
Taxation – business rates, alcohol duty, VAT etc.
Business practices – stocking, range of products, prices, employment practices, environmental measures, supply chain issues.
Gather and share relevant information on all such issues, including the effects of legislation or general business practices on the licensed trade, and the impact on consumers.
Identify examples of relevant case work and case law and consider how best such material could be used for campaigning purposes.
Consider the business practices that have a generally negative impact on the customer experience and how they can be highlighted and addressed.
Consider opportunities for joint campaigning, in line with CAMRA’s policies and governance structures.
Provide feedback on CAMRA and its campaigns from a licensee perspective.
Operations
Quarterly sessions to which all forum members are invited.
Between sessions, continue dialogue between forum members by email.
As necessary, ad-hoc sub-groups to focus on particular issues.
Panel Members
Group Chair – who will be a core member of Pub and Club Campaigns Committee
Pub and Club Campaigns Director
Representative from the Campaigns and Communications Team
Other CAMRA volunteers or staff members may be invited, as relevant to discussion topics.
One licensee representative from the British Institute of Innkeeping.
Up to eight individual licensees from a mixture of operating and ownership models, recruited through open application (via social media and trade media).
Types of operating model could include: ‘free’ house, tenanted tied (regulated under Pubs Code), tenanted tied (not regulated under Pubs Code), tenanted free of tie, managed, and ‘manchise’/retail agreement.
Membership will be reviewed annually.
