Those planning to visit Cambridge between 23rd and 28th May might want to leave the car at home and pitch up overnight at a local luxury hotel, as Cambridge will, that week, once again host its celebrated annual Beer Festival.
This year’s festival promises to be a truly enjoyable and inspiring occasion, with a vast choice of British ales, ciders and perries all available on tap. The festival will also offer a selection of about 80 different British cheeses from its cheese counter.
Also featuring this year will be a special beer brewed on behalf of a local charity, Cambridgeshire Search and Rescue (CamSAR).
Called ‘Lost and Found’, the ale, produced by Wisbech-based brewery, Elgood’s, will be on sale at the festival to help raise money towards CamSAR’s £20,000 campaign to purchase a new incident control unit (ICR). The ICR will assist the charity in its role of tracing vulnerable individuals, including children, who have gone missing, and – in the words of volunteer radio operative for CamSAR, John Gothard – enable the charity’s helpers to ‘recover missing persons sooner’.
The charity’s fund-raising coordinator, Lisa Chapman, also signalled the benefits that the charity ale and the festival itself would bring in terms of publicity for CamSAR, which, she says, normally operates ‘away from the public eye’.
For those visiting Cambridge to attend the festival, the good news is that it takes place on Jesus Green – very close to both the main shops in Cambridge, and its great hotels.
