Happy Christmas from the Master

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Published: Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:55

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!

It’s nearly time for Santa Claus to visit and bless us with the opportunity for plenty of additional ringing over the Christmas and New Year period. No doubt many of us will also be welcoming the chance to go out for a Christmas get together or even a Christmas meal with our fellow ringers and of course the almost obligatory ‘little’ sip of alcohol.

This is my last Christmas message to you, as I have almost completed my 3 year term as Master, and will be handing over the chain of office at the Association’s AGM in May.

I look forward to meeting many of you at the individual District ADM’s in February, but in the meantime, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year, and just keeeeeep ringing.

Graham Hills
Association Master

Ringing the Changes for the Central Council – Your Feedback on the New Rules is Needed!

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Published: Sunday, 17 December 2017 18:00

Sweeping changes are underway at the CCCBR (Central Council for Church Bellringers) to modernise it, and make it more relevant to and supportive of all ringers. Key to this is a complete rewrite of the Council’s rules – a revised draft of the new rules is now available for comments and suggestions. Please do take a look at the new draft rules, and submit your comments and suggestions by 12^th January 2018!

It’s important that as many ringers as possible – no matter what ability or background – provide feedback and suggestions on the draft rules. The Central Council exists to support and represent you, so please do get involved in this process. You might have experience or ideas from non-ringing activities that could be very valuable.

There’s a nice overview of the work being undertaken to rewrite the rules, feedback so far, and things to consider in the 15^th December issue of Ringing World. Feedback submitted at this stage will guide work on the final version of the new rules, which will be published in February, in good time for the next Central Council meeting in May 2018.

SCACR clothing - back by popular demand!

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Published: Thursday, 23 November 2017 08:07

By popular demand, SCACR clothing is back!

Brighten up your winter with our new SCACR clothing range – hoodies, rugby tops, t-shirts and more – a range of colours and sizes – available to order now! Children’s sizes now available.

Full details on the clothing page.

Ringing for Peace: recruiting ringers for Armistice Day 2018

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Published: Monday, 13 November 2017 10:42

This weekend, half-muffled bells rang out across Sussex to commemorate Armistice Day. Next year will be the centenary of the end of World War I, in which more than 50 Sussex ringers lost their lives. In memory of the 1400 bell ringers who died in the First World War, a new national campaign was launched today [12 Nov 2017] to recruit 1400 new bell ringers to participate in the 2018 centenary ringing. This is a call out to all of us and an opportunity for everyone, a chance to make the wonderful ancient tradition of bell ringing open to all. Join the project and become a bell ringer today in memory of the 1400 who lost their lives.

The campaign launch received nationwide media coverage. The ringers of Northchapel, West Sussex, were featured by The Telegraph. The BBC Breakfast interviewed Alan Regin (Central Council Steward of the Rolls of Honour) and demonstrated teaching new recruits. The Guardian and BBC News also ran articles about the new campaig

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