The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has named the Marden Village Club in Kent as one of the four best member clubs in the UK as part of the Club of the Year 2024 competition. The four finalists will now have a chance to win the overall Club of the Year title, which will be announced in early 2025.
This Grade II listed community hub won the overall Club of the Year title in both 2022 and 2023. The Marden Village Club boasts of six cask beers at the bar, generally from local microbreweries and with one dark beer always available. Snooker and darts teams are very poplar, along with regular bingo nights.
Marden Village Club Chair Les James said: ″We are very proud and honoured to be named by CAMRA as one of the top four clubs in the UK. This is testament to the tremendous efforts and accomplishments of Simon, the club’s manager, his amazing bar team and the dedicated cleaners. They are all ably assisted by the Club’s Committee in ensuring the Club has a warm and welcoming atmosphere for members to socialise and drink. None of this would have been possible without the continued support of the Club’s members.”
Paul Sanders, South East Regional Director for CAMRA said:
“The Marden Village Club will soon be running out of space to display its ever-growing haul of awards! Their consecutive successes are not only consistent, having won the National Club of the Year award in both 2022 and 2023, but a real testament to the hard work that the team has poured into the social club to make it the beating heart of its community. There is a real chance the fabulous Marden Village Club could win a stunning threepeat of the celebrated title and it would be richly deserved. I’d like to wish the team the best of luck in the final.”
Notes to editors
Full list of the super-regional winners:
Haydock Reading Room - Merseyside and Cheshire
Kettering Midland Band Club – East Central
Marden Village Club – South East
Firs Club – West Midlands
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CAMRA campaigns to protect and promote clubs, as well as pubs, which are important community assets that promote the social wellbeing of their local area. The Club of the Year competition is run in conjunction with Club Mirror magazine and is the highest honour the campaigning organisation can award a social club.
All of the clubs in the competition are selected by CAMRA volunteers and judged on their atmosphere, decor, welcome, service, value for money, customer mix and most importantly – quality of beer.
