Fr Corniel Quak, Curate, St Saviour’s Church.Danny told the story of how the charity Ask For Clive came about and its ambitions for growing the campaign over the years. Danny Clare, Chairman of Trustees & Co-Founder, Ask For Clive.and, of course, an organisation called the Gay Outdoor Club.a large contingent from St Albans Musical Theatre Company.a large proportion of the board of the Campaign for Real Ale (themselves a diversity of the LGBT+ community) (and here is their press release for Pub Pride).The launch event was well attended, with ~100 people.
Holy Communion has never been so popular…! The venue is a regular host of local wine merchant Flagship Wine’s annual wine pre-Christmas fair and hosts its own annual Beer & Fizz Festival. The launch event for 2022 took place in St Saviour’s Church, a glorious Arts & Crafts building with a solid local reputation for being a venue of venues, especially with anything to do with alcohol. Having launched in 2019, lockdown in 2020 scuppered the group’s initial plans, making the first annual campaign 2021. Pub Pride 2022 is the group’s second annual campaign. The group provides a sticker for the pub to place in their front window, to advertise their alignment to the campaign. The group’s method is to convince pubs to train their staff to act upon any observed or reported instance of discrimination and/or hate crime.
The group aims to promote inclusive environments for the LBGT+ community. This event was run as a participant to the media event Pub Pride 2022, run by the campaign group Ask For Clive (registered charity number 1188038). An optional prequel was the point-to-point in the reverse direction, to make it a longer circular walk. This event was a point-to-point walk of 3.98 miles (6.4 km) from St Saviours Church, St Albans, N to the Elephant & Castle pub, Amwell, nr Wheathampstead. Weather: clear skies, sunlight to twilight.