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Recent Additions/Updates

4 Mau 2010
Normanton on Soar tower update

30 Apr 2010
AGM information included.
Bulwell tower update

25 Apr 2010
Update Nottingham St Peter

20 Apr 2010
S Notts District update inc Outing details added
Update Sutton in Ashfield

30 Mar 2010
Nottm District Outing details added

16 Mar 2010
Update of District Calendars
Tower Updates
Rules Update

22 Feb 2010
Nottingham and Mansfield Committee changes
Tower Updates
BRF Update

17 Jan 2010
North Notts tower contact amendments. Update RW Index. Details of Charity Race Night, Bingham District Meeting venue change.

Guild AGM

Saturday 15th May 2010
For further information, and details of proposed rule change, please 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 2008 Annual Report records a membership of 664.

 Objects of the Guild

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

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Last updated : 04 May 2010