The AMI Galactic Plane survey is being made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) Small Array at 15.7GHz and with resolution of approximately 3arcmin. This is the first data release, covering ~868deg^2^ of the Northern Galactic plane between |b|~+/-5{deg} and above {delta}=40{deg} with a noise level of ~3mJy/beam away from bright sources. The source catalogue contains a total of 3503 sources.