Brabourne Tower has kindly agreed to host the first 2022 Ashford District Young Ringers Practice on Saturday 9th April from 2pm to 4pm. This is an open session for District young ringers but youngsters for neighbouring districts are also very welcome. Please let me know if you are able to Read more…
Below is the report on bell restoration activities up to the end of 2021:
The first District Practice for 2022 will be held at Broomfield (6) on Saturday 12th February from 10am to 12pm. This is a ground floor ring, open to the church and with a door open to the outside as well, so we should be fine from a Covid-secure perspective to Read more…
Message from the Chairman, Phil Barnes We will have several vacancies for important offices at the Association AGM on Easter Monday and, following on from my New Year’s message, I hope that we will have some volunteers to take on these important tasks. The known vacancies will be: Association Chairman Read more…
Tom’s handbells are being blessed on Sunday January 23rd at Mass at St. Michael & All Angels, Maidstone. Ringing for Mass is 09:50 to 10:30. Mass is 10:30 to 11:45 approx. Please let me know as soon as possible if you intend to go to Mass and see the bells Read more…
We are holding our first Quarterly Meeting virtually this year due to the ongoing spread of the Omicron variant. The business meeting will be at 10am on Saturday. To register for the online meeting, please go to the following link: https://vmware.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsduiqpzspHdz8ALAeh–koJYBuKNp-36I You will receive an email confirmation once registered with Read more…
Requests are now being taken for printed copies of the 2022 Handbook. Every tower will receive a single (1) tower copy automatically – there is no need to request this. If you or members of your tower would like a printed copy (one (1) copy free per member) then please Read more…
Membership renewals are now due for 2022. For those that have a valid email address associated with their membership record, you should hopefully have received an email reminder (however, a technical issue did prevent some of these from going out). Details of the renewal process for this year can be Read more…
A very Happy New Year to everyone! May it bring peace, happiness, good ringing and a rapidly reducing viral threat. While many greet the New Year to the words of Auld Lang Syne, another New Year’s poem which seems especially relevant to the present time is Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Ring Read more…
With the fluid situation around the Omicron variant at the moment and the sheer rate of spread being so high, we have taken the decision to move the January District meeting to an online even instead. I know this is disappointing but we feel it’s the safest thing to do Read more…