British Pub Confederation

The British Pub Confederation brings together key pro-pub organisations as a forum to bring them together on key issues for pubs.

The British Pub Confederation is a confederation of separate organisations, not an organisation in itself. British Pub Confederation member organisations are here.

The overarching campaign group is the Campaign for Pubs, which campaigns and lobbies on all key issues – which everyone can join (publicans, pub campaigners, independent brewers, suppliers etc). The British Pub Confederation fully supports the Campaign for Pubs and all it is campaigning on.

Please join the Campaign for Pubs to help support, promote and protect pubs! Anyone can join – publicans, pub campaigners, pub goers, brewers suppliers – for just £25 a year (or £40 a couple).

About the British Pub Confederation

The British Pub Confederation campaigns and lobbies through our member organisations, to ensure the voice of publicans and pubs is heard.

The British Pub Confederation was formed in 2015, from organisations involved in the Fair Deal for Your Local Campaign that brought together organisations who then campaigned very effectively all using one campaign and one brand. This Fair Deal for Your Local campaign – and the powerful joint campaigning – led directly to the legislation that introduced the Pubs Code, including a Market Rent Only option and the Pubs Code Adjudicator. Following this, the decision was taken to establish a permanent Confederation of pro-pub organisations to give a stronger voice to pubs and publicans.

The British Pub Confederation is the successor to the Independent Pub Confederation, the first confederation that brought pro-pub organisations together, to counter the dominance of the large corporate interests and speak with a stronger united voice.

The British Pub Confederation is focused on campaign on pub related issues, including continuing to campaign for the Fair Deal for Your Local – the genuine Market Rent Only option for tied tenants – that publicans were promised. We have been involved (directly and through member organisations) with ongoing campaigning regarding the Pubs Code in England and Wales and the Tied Pubs Code in Scotland.

The British Pub Confederation also supports fairer taxation for pubs, including pub specific measures (that will actually directly benefit and help pubs and publicans) including a VAT cut for pubs and an overhaul of the outdated business rates system.

We also support reform to planning law to protect pubs from predatory purchasing by supermarkets and developers and to stop pub-owning companies and others disposing of viable pubs for non-pub use, against the wishes of local communities (and often publicans themselves).