Kettering club makes final round of Club of the Year competition run by the Campaign for Real Ale

The four finalists will now have a chance to win the overall Club of the Year title for 2024, which will be announced in early 2025. 

A popular club tucked away close to Rockingham Road Pleasure Park, the Midland Band Club has plenty of space to accommodate guests, with a long public bar, sunken lounge area, a separate games area and a large concert room for events.

Five guest beers from independent breweries are on the bar including one dark beer, with bar manager David Bellamy having previously won Club Mirror’s Bar Manager of the Year.

The club actively strives to entertain its community with a busy social diary and regular organised trips.  

Bar manager David Bellamy said: “To say I am overwhelmed is an understatement. It makes six-and-a-half years of hard work all worthwhile in taking the club from strength to strength and promoting good real ale with the management committee's full support.” 

Hubert Gieschen, acting east central regional director for CAMRA, said: “The Kettering Midland Band Social Club should be immensely proud of this achievement, to be included in the final four of the Club of the Year competition is no mean feat.

"Their commitment to giving their members a choice of top-quality beers has meant they’ve been awarded Northamptonshire’s Club of the Year for the last three years, and now it’s only right that they have secured a place in the final four in the UK.”