News

• September 16th 2019   Registration is now available for the Autumn Training Day which takes place on 12 October. Courses on offer range from Stedman Doubles to Surprise Major. The closing date is 5 October. Online registration is available here. Alternatively full course details and an application form are available to download and print.
• September 7th 2019   The Bristol Rural Branch practice on Saturday 28 September has changed venue. Instead of Warmley the practice will now be at Wapley. The start time remains the same at 7pm. The Branch officers apologise that the tower is 6 rather than 8 bell.
• August 14th 2019   Chippenham Branch's outing is on Saturday September 21st to the North Somerset area. More information, including an itinerary and lunch menus is available on the Branch page. Everyone is invited, even those who are not members of Chippenham Branch. Please be aware though that there is a deadline for ordering food at lunchtime.
• July 9th 2019   The Ringing World National Youth Contest took place in Liverpool on Saturday 6 July. The G&B Team, despite a lack of experience, were placed 5th out of the 24 teams who entered. The overall winners were a band representing Oxford DG. The band and the rest of the group made full use of the ringing opportunities available. A full report with photos is available here.
• July 5th 2019   The latest edition of Strike Note, the quarterly Chippenham Branch Newsletter, is now available on the site. This issue includes reports on the Ring and Ramble, Skittles Evening and the Branch business meeting as well as the usual reports and peal / quarter peal lists.
• June 4th 2019   The latest edition of Swindon Branch's quarterly newsletter Belfry View is now on this site. It includes amongst other things reports on the first peal on Liddington bells, called in his own words, by a willing but inexperienced conductor and an article on a visit by Devon call change ringers. There is also a list of peals and quarters and details about the forthcoming combined striking and pudding competitions.
• April 23rd 2019   Further items have been uploaded to the website. Everyone having an obituary or simply recorded as having passed away in any Annual Report back to 1898 is now listed on the site. This includes the 'Toll of the Great War' list in the 1920 Report plus some additions as shown in the Central Council Roll of Honour.
• April 13th 2019   The unapproved minutes of the recent Association AGM are availablehere
• April 6th 2019   The results of the striking competitions for the Penn (eight bell) and Croome (six bell) trophies are now available on this site.
• March 25th 2019   There are a number of corrections to the Annual Report 2018 which was recently published. Chief amongst these is the omission of Terry J Jefferies of Winterbourne in the Bristol Rural branch from the list of Honorary Life Members. Terry was elected an HLM in 1995 and in addition has also completed 40 years membership of the G&B. We regret any distress this might have caused.
• March 2nd 2019   Voting for the Tower of the Year took place at the Branch Officers' Meeting on 2 March. The winner of the competition for 2019 was Almondsbury in the Bristol Rural Branch. Joint runners up were Barnsley in the Cirencester Branch and Tidenham in the Forest Branch. They collected their awards at the Association AGM on 6 April at Mitcheldean.
• March 2nd 2019   The Association Annual Report 2018 and Handbook for 2019 has been published. Copies have been distributed to the branches via their officers.