The Campaign for Real Ale

CAMRA is considered one of the most successful consumer organisations ever. It’s aim is to promote good quality real ale, ciders, and perries and to have thriving pubs and clubs in every community. It is independent, not-for-profit, and non-party political.

Find out more about CAMRA visit National CAMRA

The Oxford Branch of CAMRA …

… covers an area rather more extensive than the name suggests. It also includes Abingdon, Carterton, Eynsham, Kidlington, Wheatley, Witney, and all the surrounding villages, stretching to the Gloucester border in the west, to Otmoor in the north-east, and generally to the Thames in the South.

Support local beer, pubs, clubs and cider producers

To find pubs and details on their offering and hours please visit CAMRA Pubs. (Pubs do varying their hours, often from week to week. We do our best to update opening hours but it is difficult to keep up with over 300 pubs. If travelling it is best to confirm with the pub, their website or Facebook or Google Maps all try to stay up to date.) Help us to help you by sending in feedback from the CAMRA Pubs entry if any details have change.

The Oxford Drinker! 

We are producing the branch magazine Oxford Drinker again, now four times a year. There is also an online version with up-to-date news and articles, so take a look at: Oxford Drinker

Sign up on the website for email updates, either as they happen or a weekly digest. Importantly tell everyone you know and even people you don’t by using Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We have a wealth of news and views, and we welcome your contributions. Get in touch with story ideas, and if you want to write for us – even better!

The Oxford Drinker website is updated whenever there’s something worth telling you such as pub and brewery news, ‘On Tour’ reports, national news about pubs and breweries, thought-provoking guest columnists, ‘Down Memory Lane’ and much more.

On this web site:

Details of branch meetings are in What’s On. There is also the Branch Diary and upcoming beer festivals are in the Beer Festival Diary.

We have finished our Pub(s) of the Year (PotY) competition for 2025. It was a very close thing in both categories with only one point in it in each case. There is a complete change with last year’s winners (2024) being the runners up this time. City PotY 2025 is the Grapes from the Royal Blenheim and Town & Villages PotY 2025 is the Crafty Pint in Witney from the Brewery Tap in Abingdon. Well done to both of them.

You can download and read our current and previous editions of our publication, back issues of Oxford Drinker.

If you are visiting Oxford, you can download our City-centre-pubs-with-times-Oct-2022   or, if you want to find a particular pub, or all pubs in a town or village, there is a wealth of information on CAMRA’s pub database CAMRA Pubs. This site is a much improved version of the old WhatPub site.

If you are not a member, why not join the more than 800 members in the Oxford branch?

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