Horsham hosts 'Essex Trophy' south-east striking competition

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Published: Monday, 03 September 2018 22:41

Seven teams from across the South East will converge at St Mary's, Horsham this coming Saturday morning (8th September 2018) for the annual Essex Trophy Striking Competition. The test piece will be a course of Yorkshire S Royal with Hannah Taylor and Tom Hinks as the two judges.

The Essex Trophy is a prestigious striking competition between Essex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex with invitations to neighbouring associations (Middlesex, Guildford, 
Winchester & Petersfield).

Thanks to the local ringers who will be providing refreshments throughout the morning.

Do come along and support your Sussex team (competition ringing starts at 10.00am). This is a wonderful opportunity to listen to some excellent ringing and to enjoy sunny Horsham. We wish the Sussex band well and hope the Trophy gets to stay with us for another year!

NEWSFLASH! Sussex Young Ringers to star in Blue Peter

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Published: Friday, 17 August 2018 13:15

Sussex Young Ringers will feature on the BBC’s Blue Peter programme on Thursday 22nd November* (17.30, CBBC channel). Filming took place during the Ringing World National Youth Contest in July, which the Sussex team won. Presenter Lindsey Russell was also filmed having a “learn the ropes” session the week before, with the SCACR and KCACR youth striking competition teams. The programme may contain a few surprises…!

The programme airs a few times in the week and is available for replay for a month afterwards. If the date changes for any reason we will be informed in advance and will let you know. Do encourage everyone you know to watch it! This is great publicity for ringing, and we hope it will inspire new young (and old!) ringers.

* Note, the broacast date was changed from 20 September to 22 November (informed by BBC on 18 September).

WATCH ONLINE: ITV News features Ringing Remembers at St George's, Brede

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Published: Wednesday, 18 July 2018 07:00

We are very excited to have ITV News Meridian featuring St George's Brede at 6pm tonight (18 July 2018)! They are covering the campaign to support the "Ringing Remembers" initiative to commemorate the 1400 bell ringers who bravely lost their lives in WW1 by recruiting 1400 new ringers in time to ring on Armistice Day 2018.

On 11th November 2018, on the centenary of the end of WW1, bell ringers across the world will ring out for the fallen and most poignantly for the 1400 bell ringers that were lost. Heather Smith, one of our new ringing recruits is training hard to be able to ring "Called Changes" on Amistice Day.  She and the St George's band will be filmed by ITV.

[NEW] Watch the ITV broadcast online

Julie says: "Fabulous afternoon with presenter Sarah Saunders from. ITV Meridian and crew at St George's Brede to talk about #RingingRemembers. Sarah even had a go herself. A Drone was also sent up for ariel photos. It will be aired next week... "

Visit our Ringing Remembers page for more information and to download the posters, leaflets etc. or download the CC Bellringing leaflet to print.

This news was also republished by the Central Council here: https://cccbr.org.uk/2018/07/18/ringing-remembers-on-itv-meridian-news/

Sussex Ringers Live on BBC Radio

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Published: Sunday, 08 July 2018 22:28

‘If you want to learn the art of bellringing listen out!’ On Sunday 8th July, Sussex Ringers Rob Lane (Master), Marisa Hayes and Julie McDonnell featured live on BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey’s ‘Sunday Breakfast with Emily Jeffery’. They discussed the international Ringing Remembers recruitment campaign and the Young Ringers’ National Contest (which Sussex won!). They encouraged people to have a go at learning this ancient art – a team activity that’s open to all, where you’re welcome at towers all over the country and in other parts of the world. And yes, we’ll be ringing to celebrate a football world cup win!

Here is a link to the programme, (available until 6th August) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06bm2nk - go to 1h22 for Julie and 2h21 for Rob and Marisa.

Emily Jeffrey appealed for anyone learning for Ringing Remembers in Sussex and Surrey to email her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so she can chart their progress towards the big day when they will be ringing (hopefully) as part of the Armistice 100 band, ringing to honour the memory of those 1400 bellringers who lost their lives in the First World War.

The Central Council also featured this as their top news story at the weekend!