News

• April 17th 2025   On Saturday May 10 there will be an open day for about 20 towers in the Chippenham, Swindon and Cirencester branches to fund raise for Charlton church. As part of this Charlton ringers are staging a World Record Attempt for the greatest number of ringers at one tower in a day. Individual ringers as well as bands are encouraged to take part; they will need 720 ringers to fully utilise the time. There is no minimum standard; if you can ring rounds you can take part. All the details at www.charltonbells.co.uk.
• April 8th 2025   The unapproved minutes of the recent Association AGM are now availablehere
• April 5th 2024   Tewkesbury were victorious in both striking competitions today. For the Penn (eight bell) trophy held at Barnwood and for the Croome (six bell) trophy held at Churchdown.
• April 3rd 2025   All practices at St Andrew, Chippenham have been CANCELLED due to one of the bells being temporarily unringable. This includes the regular Wednesday night practices and the Suprise Major practices on the first Wednesday; these have been transferred to St Paul. A further news item will be posted when they are back in order.
• March 24th 2025   A new page has been added about the Central Council's Ringing 2030 initiative, together with its background and progress. This is important if ringing is to be sustained, or even survive in certain parts of the country.
• March 4th 2025   The 2025 Achievement of the Year competition has been won by Cirencester Branch who received 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.
• 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.