The BellBoard event to link your ringing to is here.

Congratulations to

• The Yorkshire Tykes, winners of the Whitechapel Trophy for the second year in the Method Ringing Class with an eight-bell band.
• Three Spires, winners of the Robert Lewis Trophy in the Call Change Ringing Class with a six-bell band.
• Brumdingers, winners of the Six-Bell Method Ringing class.
• Worcester Cathedral, winners of the Eight-Bell Call Changes class.
• Coventry Spires, winners of the Beginner Call Changes class.

Method on Eight (Edgbaston)

Method on Six (Edgbaston)

Call Changes on Eight (Erdington, St Barnabas)

Call Changes on Six (Erdington, St Barnabas)

Beginner Call Changes (St Mary, Moseley)

Thanks to Contest Organiser Jo Cresshull, and the host organising teams from the St Martin’s Guild and the St Martin’s Bullring Band, for an incredible day of youth ringing. Look out in The Ringing World for full reports of the day.

Click here to listen live all day.

You can hear all the contest ringing, plus interviews and commentary by presenter Matthew Tosh.

We will post the results here as soon as they are announced, at approximately 6pm.

Jimmy Yeoman

Based on his recent book, Foolish Youths & Substantial Rewards, Gareth will give a short online talk about the activities of the Cambridge ringers over 300 years and why the study of this one town is relevant to the history of bellringing across the country. Learn fun facts about prominent ringers of their day and how reasons for ringing have changed over time.

Following the presentation there will be an opportunity for questions.

Whether you’ve bought a copy already or want to hear more about Gareth’s research into how ringing has changed over three hundred years, come along for a fascinating evening with Gareth!

Book now to attend for free!

Congratulations to the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths, winners for the fourth time and the first to beat Birmingham other than a host team since 2015.

Test Piece: 288 Cambridge Surprise Maximus

Judges: Thomas W Griffiths (Chief), Julia R Cater and Andrew B Mills

Click here to listen again to the broadcast, with all the contest ringing, plus interviews and commentary by presenter Matthew Tosh.

Please advise if attending. David Potter

A reminder that the RW office administrator is on leave between Good Friday (Friday 29th March) and Friday 12th April.

Finally, don’t forget the clock change!

The office email, post and phone will be monitored sporadically by other staff, but please contact the Editor (editor@ringingworld.co.uk) with any urgent queries, and be aware that other replies may be delayed. If your subscription renews at the end of March and you have not yet paid it, please do so as soon as possible to ensure smooth continuation.

The RW shop will be not be dispatching merchandise and publication orders between those dates. We will fulfil all orders as soon as possible after Monday 15th April.

Jack Page

Congratulations to the Winchester & Portsmouth Youths and the Durham & Newcastle Young Ringers! Both teams are trophy winners for the first time.

The Whitechapel Trophy - Method ringing (Huntington)

The Robert Lewis Trophy for Excellence - Call changes (St Lawrence)

Thanks to David Hull and the York organising team for a fantastic day, ending with a pizza party in the Minster. Look out in The Ringing World for full reports of the day.

Congratulations to Birmingham, winners for the twenty-sixth time since 1975.

Test Piece: 288 Cambridge Surprise Maximus

Judges: Ben Carey (Chief), David Dearnley, Lucy Woodward

Click here to listen again to the broadcast, with all the contest ringing, plus interviews and commentary by presenter Matthew Tosh.

If you’re ringing for St Dunstan’s Day, you can link your performance to an event here.

Read an article about St Dunstan on the US National Bell Festival website.

St Dunstan Doubles is an ancient method, listed in Campanalogia (1677). Nowadays we’d describe it as a variation of Grandsire which uses all three of Grandsire Bobs, Singles and Extremes.

Can you guess how many rings of bells Dove’s Guide lists in churches dedicated to Dunstan?

£5 per extra copy or 5 for £20 (UK p&p incl.)

To order an extra copy of the special issue

• Make an electronic transfer (UK p&p incl.) to The Ringing World, 40-52-40 00095085 (CAF Bank), or send a cheque to 35A High Street, Andover, Hants SP10 1LJ
• Please use a short payment reference that will help us recognise you (e.g. your surname) – we can’t see any payee details except your reference
• Email Jo at bacs@ringingworld.co.uk to confirm your purchase, with name and address.

You can generate a special performance certificate automatically from BellBoard for Coronation ringing. You can do this for any performance rung between 1st and 10th May, or that is linked to the main Coronation ringing event.

Click on one of the PDF icons at the top of the performance record page. There are two new certificate styles: the dark blue icon will create a ‘Ring for the King’ certificate and the gold icon will create a ‘Coronation’ style certificate.

If you need help submitting your performance or linking it to the event, try our FAQs or email bellboard@ringingworld.co.uk.

See similar performances

You can see similar performances to any ringing linked to this event - look for the links at the bottom of one performance to see others in the same county, diocese or by length. Or you can use the filter function within the event to search for other features, such as by association.

To link a piece of ringing, first submit it, and then select ’Link to event’ on your performance’s edit menu (denoted by a pencil icon).

The Clerical Guild of Ringers

Written by ringing clergy, this new book explores ringing’s history, theology and society, and its relationship with the Church of England. It gives tips for good relationships between ringers and church leaders, and encouragement for this art and its profound and lasting impact on the public soundscape.

Buy now from the Ringing World shop.

The funeral will be at St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick on Tuesday 21st at 12 noon.

Matthew Higby (on behalf of the Pomeroy family).

Please spend 15–25 minutes to complete the survey today and share your views with us. And please encourage all ringers you know to respond – subscribers and non-subscribers, BellBoard users or not. Your response will help us choose our path to 2030.

For more information, see this article in the 3rd March issue of The Ringing World.

• If you changed your name during the year
• If you are aware of any errors that need correction
• If your name may have variants, including nicknames, initials (or if it may have appeared in brackets)
• Or if you just know that there are QPs that don’t appear on a standard search on your name.

If you think you are a leading quarter peal ringer, please get in touch on editor@ringingworld.co.uk by 10th January.

As presented at the Ringing World AGM in September, donations in 2022 have returned to pre-pandemic levels and, along with the extra ringing activities around the Queen’s Jubilee and Funeral, we have made up some of the financial deficit from the two previous years. We hope that donations will continue at this level into 2023, also taking into account the likely increase in ringing activity surrounding the Coronation of King Charles III.

On the negative side we are already experiencing significant cost increases in everything we produce and this will have an impact on our bottom line. We have noticed that many bands are making performance donations of £1, and in order to continue to repair losses from the last two years £1 will become the recommended donation on BellBoard from the start of 2023.

Paul Jopp

Chairman

‘Bells That Still Can Ring’: “an exploration of John Taylor & Co’s bell foundry in Loughborough and some of their most iconic bells – including Great Paul at St Paul’s Cathedral and AC/DC’s ‘hell’s bell’.”

Repeated Monday 12th December, 4pm.

To link your ringing, from your performance, click on the pencil icon and click Link to event. You can email us for help.

The results were as follows

A full report will follow. Meanwhile, more information is available on the competition website or on its Facebook page.

Following the success of the purple book, the Ringing World are delighted to announce the Little Green Ringing Book, with ideas and explanations for ringers from their first lesson until they’re ringing Plain Bob and Grandsire.

See more at littleringingbooks.co.uk or buy it today in the Ringing World shop.

We’re pleased to announce that you can now generate a special performance certificate automatically from BellBoard for ringing in memory of Queen Elizabeth II. You can do this for any performance rung between 8th and 19th September, or that is linked to the main ‘In memoriam HM Queen Elizabeth II’ event. Just click on the black PDF icon at the top of the performance record page.

The 19th August issue of The Ringing World has an article on ringing at University which you can download for free from here.

Application deadline EXTENDED to end of Monday 13th June 2022.

Read more here.

The test piece was a plain course of Yorkshire Surprise Royal. The judge was Simon Meyer.

St Magnus the Martyr, London:

Chester:

Click here for the entry form.

Please submit your entries by 1700 on Wednesday 30th March. No payment is required at this stage; there will be a charge of £5 per young ringer attending which will be collected in due course. All team members must be aged 18 or under on 31st August 2022. Squads wishing to attend but not participate in the contest, and individual young ringers not currently connected to a youth team, are also very welcome, and can register using the same form.

We look forward to receiving your entries, and to seeing a large number of young ringers to Exeter in July. Accommodation suggestions can be found on the contest website at [rwnyc.ringingworld.co.uk].

DAVID G HULL

RWNYC Organiser

You can link your performances to the event here.

Our thanks to Rosie Wood for her work compiling the index again this year.

The test piece was a plain course of Plain Bob Cinques.

Congratulations to the Leeds team!

Filling out the Gift Aid declaration form is easy. Just log in to BellBoard and go to this page, or through your Account screen.

Thank you!

We hope you will consider taking out a new tower subscription. If you have any queries, please email the office or phone 01264 366620 and we will be pleased to help you.

It will provide you with method ideas, teach you to call quarter peals, help you gain confidence on eight and ten bells, and guide you towards ringing simple surprise minor – progressing from the ‘blue zone’ to the ‘red zone’.

Just £6.50 (inc UK p+p): A6 size, 56 pages. Read our launch article to find out more.

From the BellBoard front page look out for ‘View the contents of this issue’ under the front cover image, and on the ‘Issues’ page, issues with contents have a small ’i’ icon next to their issue date. A list of articles is displayed with links to individual RW pages – subscribers can view the page with just one click, and non-subscribers will be invited to purchase a pdf copy of the issue.

At first only new issues will have their contents listed, but we will work to extend the archive backwards as well as develop search facilities. If you are interested in helping with this – or indeed any other aspects of BellBoard development or data – please get in touch with the Editor.

Developing BellBoard is made possible by the donations we receive from our subscribers and supporters and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your ongoing support. Through your generosity we are able to improve this valuable resource.

Ringing can be associated with the event at this link.

A Central Council note can be found here.

We have now implemented a new version of the download on a slightly different URL, which includes footnotes (in the final field before band details) and header information. Note also that where more than one bell is rung by a single ringer (e.g. in handbell performances), the relevant bells cell will now start with a tab character. This will force spreadsheet software to interpret the cell as text and prevent it from trying to format it as a date or number.

If you download a CSV file from the browser you will receive a file in the new version, while automated scripts will continue to receive the old format. If you wish to change, the old query ends &fmt=csv and the new ends &fmt=csv_header

A reminder, if you are downloading the results of a large search from the browser, that you can append ‘&pagesize=1000’ or some suitable number to increase the records shown.

Submitted performances rung in Ringing Room, Handbell Stadium etc will be automatically flagged with the ’simulated sound’ flag. If you have rung with Abel or Wheatley controlling one or more bells, please add the ’automated’ flag from the performance view screen.