News

• September 19th 2018   The Elementary Practice due to take place at Rodbourne Cheney in the Swindon Branch on 22 September has been CANCELLED.
• September 2nd 2018   Very sadly, and due to an unfortunate combination of circumstances, the Autumn Training Day has had to be cancelled. Hopefully this is a one off occurrence and normal service will be resumed next year. In the meantime, if anyone has a particular training need then contact in the first instance your branch officers. Help for branches who want to run training events is often available from other branches.
• August 19th 2018   Additional items have been uploaded to the website. Every obituary in all the Annual Reports back to 1960 is now available on the site.
• July 8th 2018   On Saturday 7 July in London the G&B Youth Team took part in the 2018 Ringing World National Youth Contest. The G&B Team were: 1) Ivan Barritt - Barnsley & Cirencester Branch; 2) Mary Pang - Barnwood & Gloucester Branch; 3) Madeleine Johnson - Much Marcle & Forest Branch; 4) Ben White-Horne - Stone & Wotton-under-Edge Branch; 5) Alistair White-Horne - Stone & Wotton-under-Edge Branch; 6) James Joynson (C) - Chipping Sodbury & Wotton-under-Edge Branch; 7) Thomas Moller - Filton & Bristol Rural Branch; 8) Matthew Woods - Cirencester & Cirencester Branch. The travelling reserves were: Ed Miller - Stone & Wotton-under-Edge Branch; Isabella Beattie - Kempsford & Cirencester Branch.
  The band rang in the eliminator at St George in the East, Stepney. Unfortunately they were unable to qualify for the final at St James, Garlickhythe. Nevertheless full advantage was taken of the opportunities to ring at various open towers in the capital during the day.
• June 14th 2018   The latest edition of Swindon Branch's quarterly newsletter Belfry View is now on this site. It includes reports on the Association AGM and both forthcoming and courses past as well as the usual peal and quarter peal reports.
• June 4th 2018   The latest edition of Cirencester Branch News is now on the branch's website. There are congratulations for weddings and striking competitions, reports on visits to the Cathedral and outings.
• May 12th 2018   The Association has a Data Protection Policy in compliance with the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In association with the policy there is also a Privacy Notice for the Association and its website.
• May 2nd 2018   The latest edition of Strike Note, the Chippenham Branch newsletter has been updated to reflect a change of date for the Branch Practice at Great Somerford. Instead of 12 May this will now take place on 19 May. This issue also contains reports on the skittles evening and training morning and a preview of the Ring and Ramble on Monday 7 May as well as the usual reports and peal / quarter peal lists.
• April 17th 2018   The unapproved minutes of the recent Association AGM are availablehere
• April 14th 2018   The results of the striking competitions for the Penn (eight bell) and Croome (six bell) trophies are now available on this site.
• February 25th 2018   Voting for the Tower of the Year took place at the Branch Officers' Meeting on 24 February. The winner of the competition for 2018 was Alvington in the Forest Branch. Runners up were Stone in the Wotton under Edge Branch. They collected their awards at the Association AGM on 14 April at Cricklade.