News

• December 11th 2024   Next year's competition for Achievement of the Year is now open. The theme is 'How to encourage, persuade & promote members to come to Branch events'. The rules for the competition are here. The closing date is 15 February following which all of the entries will be available to view on this website. Voting for the winner will take place at the Branch Officers' Meeting in March.
• November 16th 2024   The G&B Firsts Fortnight and Peal & Quarter Peal Festival ran for the entire month of October. You can still get any Firsts added to list here by contacting your Branch Officers.
  Peal and Quarter Peal performances which were submitted to Bellboard linked to the G&B Peal & Quarter Peal Festival Bellboard event have now been sent to the Ringing World for publication.
• July 10th 2024   The G&B Youth Team took part in the 8 bell method category of the Ringing World National Youth Contest 2024. This took place at St Olave, Hart Street, London on Saturday 6 July. This year there were 36 teams competing in 4 categories; of which the 8 bell method was considered the most challenging. The team rang well but were up against some stiff competition and were placed 3rd equal. The members were as follows:
  1. Daisy Judson - Stroud Branch
  2. Megan Dawson Philips - Chippenham Branch
  3. Rupert Knight - Chippenham Branch
  4. William Roberts - Stroud Branch
  5. Alfie Stick - Gloucester Branch
  6. Toby Hicks (Conductor) - Cirencester Branch
  7. Andrew Woods - Cirencester Branch
  8. Will Hunter - Bristol Rural Branch
  . The reserves were William Baldwin (Stroud branch), Ada Thomas (Bristol Rural Branch), Oliver Bulteel (Bristol branch) and Alma Tillman (Cheltenham branch). All of the team members took part in ringing around London before and after the competition at St Mary-le-Bow, Spitalfields, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey and St Magnus the Martyr.
• April 27th 2024   The unapproved minutes of the recent Association AGM are availablehere
• April 13th 2024   The results of the striking competitions for the Penn (eight bell) and Croome (six bell) trophies, held today at Bisley and Minchinhampton respectively are now available on this site.
• March 2nd 2024   The 2024 Achievement of the Year competition has been won by Cheltenham Branch who received the Bliss Trophy. Runner up was Pebworth tower in the North Cotswold branch who received the Littledean and Purton Trophy. All of the entries are available to view here.
• March 2nd 2024   The 2023 Annual Report and Accounts has been published today; including the Tower Directory and Officers Lists 2024. Printed copies will be distributed via the Branch Officers to the towers. The electronic abridged Report will be released in due course.
• October 5th 2023   The Association's Insurance Policy document has been updated following renewal of the insurance. This protects ringers when engaged upon Association business; see here for more details.
• October 4th 2023   Pebworth in North Cotswold branch has a new website. As well as details of the band and ringing times it also includes various ringing resources: learning methods, listening & striking and a decoder of ringing jargon.
• March 18th 2022   The printable tower certificate, showing ringing times and a contact phone number, has been updated to add the What3Words destination and access information in addition to the postcode. Branches can download the certificate - in pdf - for printing out and displaying in the tower. It can be generated here although you will need a login.
• February 26th 2021   It's now possible to make a Gift Aid declaration acceptable to HMRC via email. Go to this dedicated page and follow the instructions. The page also includes a link to the paper form of the declaration if preferred.