News

• November 14th 2019   On Saturday 9 November the young ringers in the Association attended a Training Day organised by Ian Bucknell. There were 33 students, divided into 6 groups, and they tackled everything from Rounds to 8 spliced. A full report with pictures is available here.
• November 4th 2019   The G&B Firsts Fortnight and Peal & Quarter Peal Festival finished (nominally) on Sunday 3 November. Firsts Fortnight celebrates anything which someone has done for the first time. The achievement is entered into the list by a Branch Officer and appears on this page. The last 5 events added appear on this page.
  Peal and Quarter Peal performances should be submitted to Bellboard in the usual way but first linked to the G&B 2019 P&QPF Bellboard event. Once logged on, click on 'Link Perfs', then add a new performance and enter the details as normal. At the completion of the festival all the performances will be submitted for publication together.
• October 5th 2019   The Association's Insurance Policy document has been updated following renewal of the insurance.
• September 30th 2019   The latest edition of Swindon Branch's quarterly newsletter Belfry View is now on this site. It includes amongst other things reports on a re-visit to Rodbourne Cheney after a long absence, Lydiard Millicent's tercentenary and supermodels at Lydiard Tregoze! There is also a list of peals and quarters and details about the forthcoming AGM.
• 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.
• 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.