News

• March 4th 2025   The 2025 Achievement of the Year competition has been won by Cirencester Branch who will receive the Bliss Trophy. All of the entries are available to view here.
• March 4th 2025   The 2024 Annual Report and Accounts has been published; including the Tower Directory and Officers Lists 2025. Printed copies will be distributed via the Branch Officers to the towers. Additional printed copies may be obtained via this link. The electronic abridged Report will be released in due course.
• March 1st 2025   All of the arrangements for the forthcoming Association AGM to be held on 5 April at St Mary de Crypt, Gloucester in the Gloucester branch are now available on this site. Details of the arrangements for the Penn Trophy (8 bell striking competition) to be held at Barnwood and the Croome Trophy (6 bell striking competition) to be held at Churchdown will be available shortly.
• 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.
• 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.