Strike Back Against Cancer (SBABC) campaign

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Published: Thursday, 27 October 2016 07:23

Please help us ring 200 quarter-peals of any Julie McDonnell method by Christmas 2016

Bell ringing and the bell ringing community has an amazing ability to change lives for the positive. Coming up to Christmas it is a nice time to reflect on how we are such a close-knit and caring group, as witnessed by the support Julie McDonnell has received from bell ringers around the world. Within SCACR you have probably read about or been involved in some of the bell ringing activities inspired by Julie McDonnell and her Bellringers Strike Back Against Cancer (SBABC) campaign. However, the Central Council have publicised on their website and emailed out to all us as they have been made aware that many ringers around the country are not yet in the know, and when they do hear about it, of course they want to get involved! Here is a link to the article on the Central Council website: https://cccbr.org.uk/2017/

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Central Council Review Part 2: The role of a central body

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Published: Monday, 10 October 2016 14:00

Article published in Ringing World on 7 October 2016: http://cccbr.org.uk/review/part2/

In my last article I outlined the background to the review of the Central Council and the work that CRAG (the Council Review Action Group) was undertaking in order to advise the Central Council on how it might change and modernise in order to serve ringers better.

At the time of writing we have had just over 50 responses of which about two-thirds were in total or general agreement with what was proposed as a vision for ringing. About ten per cent of respondents felt that a Vision was unnecessary and that CRAG should simply have proposed reforms to the Central Council. A number were disappointed that there was no mention of ringing as a sport, while a few others (all from the UK) felt that the church should have featured more prominently. While both of these viewpoints were from a small minority it is clear that any central body (or bodies) that exist to support ringing in the future will n

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Dance, Music and Bell Ringing to celebrate the Life of Henry Burstow

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Published: Friday, 30 September 2016 08:22

Saturday 22 October 2016. Welcoming bells from 7pm, concert starting at 7.30pm
Venue: St Mary's Parish Church, Causeway, Horsham, RH12 1HE
Price: £10 per adult in advance or £12.50 on the day, under 15s £8

Tickets can be purchased from:
The Capitol Box office: www.thecapitolhorsham.com or 01403 750220
Horsham Museum & Art Gallery - in person or on the phone 01403 211 661
St Mary's Parish Office - The Barn, Causeway
Horsham Folk Club

Further information on the museum website 

Programme

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It’s a fantastic time to be a bell ringer!

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Published: Monday, 12 September 2016 09:08

By Matthew Jones, Tower Captain – St Peter’s, Ashburnham.

As I sit and watch Team GB raise the bar once again on what is possible, winning an amazing 67 medals at this year’s Rio Olympics I can’t help but think it’s a great time to be a bell ringer.

Team GB’s success has been built on a realisation that things were not going as well as they might and following a poor Olympics for Team GB in Atlanta ‘96, where they won just one gold and only 15 medals, a concerted effort to look again at the organisation and support for elite sport began.

Change came in small manageable bites and successes were built upon year after year. Large groups tend to have a battleship turning circle and as such change takes time. More important than the speed of change is the collective ‘hands on the rudder’, edging the direction towards a shared goal.

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