Ringing World BellBoard

Welcome to BellBoard

Submitting and browsing ringing records is quick and easy on BellBoard – you can also confirm performances for print publication in The Ringing World. We hope that you enjoy using BellBoard.

Delayed RW delivery

Many subscribers are reporting late Ringing World delivery each week due to postal disruptions. While our usual policy is to send out replacement copies if you do not receive it by the following Thursday, for the moment we ask subscribers to wait until the following Monday (ten days after publication) before getting in touch with the office to request a replacement copy.

Vacancy: Digital Assistant

The Ringing World Ltd wants to develop its online presence by recruiting a digital assistant to the dedicated staff team. We are committed to investing in this direction even in this difficult time, and we look forward to meeting talented developers interested in a flexible and enjoyable role developing digital technology for the good of ringers.

Distributed Performances

For those who wish to submit performances to BellBoard that were rung on online platforms such as Ringing Room, Handbell Stadium or Muster, we suggest the following format on the submission form:

Place: the online platform (e.g. ’Ringing Room’)

BellBoard performance submissions

Unless you believe it to be of wider interest, please refrain from posting performances where a computer has controlled one or more of the bells, whether on a simulator or a personal computer.

This week's issue

Purchase PDF version of issue 5691 (22 May 2020).
Also available in high resolution.

Our featured performance

Guild of St Cuileáin

Handbell Stadium, England

Monday, 25 May 2020 in 2h 36

5088 Yorkshire Surprise Major

Composed by Graham A C John

1–2 Lesley H M Boyle (Reach)

3–4 Gareth Davies (Reach)

5–6 Graham A C John (C - Brimpton)

7–8 Simon Humphrey (Wetton)

First handbell peal with simulated sound.

£2.00

Obligatory photograph of the band.

Other highly-rated performances

22 May 2020	Ringing Room	1344 Bristol Surprise Maximus
16 May 2020	Moseley (26 Forest Road)	1260 Plain Bob Minor
26 May 2020	Ringing Room	1282 Cambridge Surprise Royal
24 May 2020	Ringing Room (The Lair of the Snow Tiger)	1280 Yorkshire Surprise Major

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Upcoming events

Thursday	Chester Diocesan Guild — East Branch 8 Bell practise at Knutsford (7.30 pm)
Friday	Ely Diocesan Association — A Medley of Methods Irish Association — Ballymena Bells - 125th Anniversary
Saturday	Oxford Diocesan Guild — AGM Ladies Guild — Marches District Ringing and meeting Four Shires Guild of Bell Ringers — SATURDAY EVENING PRACTICE CANCELLED
Monday	Truro Diocesan Guild — Surprise Major Practice - 1930hrs at Pillaton

Older features

25th Jan 2016: If you wish to have a group of quarter peals printed together, for example those rung for a district quarter peal week, please create an event for it, enable Linked performances and then select Collate performances in The Ringing World. Please ensure that all performances get associated with this event before (or at least shortly after) the performance submitter sends them for print so they can be caught and collated. This can be done either by the person who submitted the performance, or by the owner of the event; for performances imported from Campanophile, only the latter is possible.
24th Jan: We now have an RSS feed of news bulletins from the front page of BellBoard.
25th Oct 2015: Users who subscribe to The Ringing World may now see this week's issue in PDF format linked prominently from the front page of BellBoard. If you are a subscriber and do not see it when logged in, this is probably because we were unable to link your BellBoard account to your subscription automatically. Contact us and we will link them manually. We also have a library of back issues allowing users to access any issues from your period of subscription. These currently go back to 2011, but we hope to continue that to 2001; they will remain available indefinitely.
6th Aug: A new page shows the days of the year on which you've rung peals or other performances.
4th Jul: It is now possible to download a PDF version of any performance by clicking on the PDF icon in the updated navigation menu above the performance. Many of the old options on that menu have been relegated to a new edit menu marked with a pencil icon. The left and right arrows (or the arrow keys on the keyboard) navigate to the previous and next performances, and the new up arrow returns you to the list. We would be interested in opinions on this new style of menu, especially regarding their usability on phones and tablets.
2nd Jul: BellBoard now tracks the donations you've made, and allows UK tax payers to fill in a Gift Aid declaration allowing The Ringing World to claim 25p from HMRC for every £1.00 donated. This is all linked from the new-look account page, formerly the user preferences page.
Older features …