With National Volunteers Week under way, the Campaign for Pubs is looking for volunteers of its own to help keep its work in the public eye.
The group is, appropriately enough, based in the Volunteer Arms, in York, where group chair Paul Crossman is behind the bar.
Even more appropriately, the Volunteer Arms is only still there — and thriving — because of a community campaign to save it. Paul and his then business partner, John, got involved and buying and saving the venue.
“We need more volunteers to help with our campaigning, with letter/email writing, administration, social media, press releases, research, data, finance, IT… You name it, if you have skills (and a little time), we could use them!
“We are specifically looking to increase our team of letter writers who help write letters of objection when pubs are threatened.”
To find out more, email campaign@campaignforpubs.org.uk
