Future Meetings

District
Bingham11th Feb East Bridgford  and Oxton
Mansfield24th Mar Greasley (1900) 
Newark17th Mar Barnby in the Willows (1500) 
North Notts13th Feb Ordsall (1900) 
Nottingham3rd Mar TBA (1430) 
South Notts24th Feb East Leake (1930) 
Guild19th May Southwell 
     

Recent Additions/Updates

5 Feb 2012
Winners of Jan 2012 100 Club Draw available

30 Jan 2012
Updates for Newark District after AGM
Change of Contact for Oxton

19 Jan 2012
Update Gedling Sunday Service times

11 Jan 2012
Shelford tenor weight amended (Dove update)

31 Dec 2011
Thrumpton practice night changed to Wednesday

29 Dec 2011
Mansfield District: Change of venue for January and March meetings

22 Dec 2011
North Notts AGM: clarification that evening ringing only if enough want to

30 Nov 2011
100 Club Draw results from Half-Yealy meeting updated.
Add contact for Gotham.

28 Nov 2011
Amend Sutton in Ashfield practice details.

24 Nov 2011
Normanton on Soar now ringing again (from online Dove)

 
2012 Guild Calendars are now available.
For more details click here

Introducing the Southwell and Nottingham Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers

The Guild was created when the old Midland Counties Association and the North Nottinghamshire Association came to an end on the 31st December 1945. The old Midland Counties Association had covered a huge area including part of Staffordshire and the Dioceses of Derby, Leicester and Southwell. This new Guild which covered the whole of Nottinghamshire was called the Southwell Diocesan Guild of Change Ringers. At the end of the first year of operation the Annual Report recorded 213 ringing members which included 46 new members.

In 1959 the importance of less experienced ringers, who rang regularly for Sunday service but hitherto were not qualified for membership of the Guild, was recognised by changing the name of the Guild from the Southwell Diocesan Guild of Change Ringers to the Southwell Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers.

The Diocese of Southwell changed its name to The Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham at the end of 2005. At the Guild AGM in 2008 a motion to change the Guild's name to reflect the current name of the diocese and to continue the diocesan link was finally passed.

Today, ringing is based on six districts – Bingham, Mansfield, Newark, North Notts., Nottingham and South Notts. – each with its own District Officers who facilitate the successful running of the district. The 2010 Annual Report records a membership of 670.

 
 

 Objects of the Guild

 It shall aim to be of service to the Church in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham by:-

(i)

Ringing for Divine Service
(ii)

Recruiting and training ringers
(iii)

Encouraging the art of change ringing
(iv)

Helping ringers to improve their standard of ringing
(v)

Assisting in the care and restoration of bells and their fittings

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