Future Meetings

District

Recent Additions

12 July 2008
Updates to BRF work.

7 July 2008
Update to Eastwood ringing times.

21 June 2008
East Leake group - practice night information updated

14 June 2008
Stapleford - all ringing suspended until further notice

8 June 2008
Practice night changes for Upton and Rolleston

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 our name to reflect the current name of the diocese and to continue our 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 2007 Annual Report records a membership of 654.