Ladies' Guild of Change Ringers

AGM on Saturday 14th June hosted by the Central District. Please return booking form by 14th April.

Welcome

Welcome to the website for the Ladies' Guild of Change Ringers. We are a national organisation whose aim is to support and encourage all women ringers to reach their full potential.

Much of the country is covered by our 8 Districts, each of which arranges a programme of ringing activities at towers in their area. In addition, we have a national programme of events that allows members from across the country to meet together. More about the Districts here.

Safeguarding and Code of Conduct

We strive to be a friendly and supportive group, and the welfare of everyone involved in our ringing is important to us. Our Safeguarding Policy, and details of our Safeguarding Officer are here. We follow the Code for Ringing published by the CCCBR on 1/1/2024, details here.

New Members

We are always ready to welcome new members.

Currently our memberships stands at just over 400, spread across the country. Whether you ring advanced methods or rounds and call changes we invite you to join us.

Membership Application

Newsletter April 2025

Earlier Newsletters here

Dates for all Districts

Annual General Meeting 2025

Saturday 14th June 2025, hosted by the Central District.

The Central District is looking forward to welcoming Ladies Guild members to the AGM on Saturday 14th of June 2025. For members who will be travelling to the area the day before we have arranged a couple of events on the Friday which we hope you will enjoy. Any non-ringers with you are very welcome to join us for the service and meals.

More details and booking form on the AGMs page here.

February is Ladies' Guild Quarter Peal Month

Liz Smith writes:

The Quarter Peal Month for 2025 is fast approaching! I hope each District has something in the planning. There is an event on Bellboard for your successful quarters to be linked to. Good luck!

Central District Quarter Peal Weekend, London, 22nd-23rd Feb 2025

Download booking form here

Jo Harris writes:

The Central District would like to invite members of all districts to our planned Quarter Peal Weekend in central London on Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd of February. Please note this is not the National Quarter Peal Weekend, we are opening up the event to all members of the Guild in the hope we will have more Quarter Peal attempts!

Huge thanks to Bo Myers who has organised the event based around the towers she knows well in London, including Christ Church on the Isle of Dogs, which is where the first ever all ladies peal was rung in July 1912. We will have general ringing session on the Saturday afternoon at this tower, open to all ringers, no need to have been involved in quarter peals. On Sunday 23rd we will have a chance to ring for services, followed by a general ringing tour, again open to all ringers. You are free to attend as much or as little as you wish of course.

Please do support the weekend if you are able to - and step up to call quarters if you have the skill set to do so, we cannot ring quarters without callers.

The application form is available here as a Word document. Please download it and save it with your own name, then fill it in an return, following the instructions on the form itself.

We are asking that completed forms are returned to Bo (bogusia.myers@gmail.com) by Friday 24th of January at the latest, please copy me in also (secretary.lgcentral@gmail.com).

Looking forward to a wonderful weekend of ringing and fun.

Guidance to Districts, December 2024

In December 2024, the National Committee of the Ladies Guild issued Guidance to Districts, covering Safeguarding, Finances and a National Mailing List, Proposed Rule Changes, Insurance and District Rules. Read the Guidance here.

Letter to Members re National Mailing List

On 3 November 2024, Guild President Liz Smith sent a letter for distribution to all members on the process of setting up a national mailing list. Read Liz's letter here.

Publicity leaflet and Thank You flyer available June 2024

The publicity leaflet is intended for use by any member to hand to their non-member ringing friends or to leave at towers when a district has had a ringing day / quarter peal. It is available for download as a pdf.

The Thank You flyers are intended for leaving in a tower after ringing. There are two versions - a National one giving contact details for National officers (available as a pdf only) and an adaptable version with space for contact details for the relevant district (available as a Word file and as a pdf)

These documents are available on the Publicity downloads page, here.

Ladies' Guild Holiday, May 2025 Download booking form here

Now fully booked (as of 30th July). Waiting list in operation.

Pearl Jeanes writes:

Dear All,

Margaret has done a terrific job of finding us a great hotel for the holiday next year. We will be staying at the Derby Mickleover Hotel and I enclose the Booking form (see link above).

As we are a bit behind with our planning this year, and there are a large number of towers within a 20 mile radius of our hotel I have not enclosed a provisional programme, but the towers will probably be taken from this listing - Dove’s Guide for Church Bell Ringers (cccbr.org.uk) . If anyone has a burning passion to ring a particular tower within this group of towers please let me know asap.? I also plan to book Southwell Minster - Cathedral 140: Welcome to Southwell Minster 2024 | Southwell Minster Southwell has been on our radar since before Covid - and we are pleased that the hotel this year enables us to spend some time there, and ring of course!

Please be aware that the holiday is very popular and places are - of necessity - limited. They will be allocated on a first come first served basis. As always - please send your booking form to Margaret Laver - margaret404@btinternet.com - to book your place.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Pearl

There is a link to the booking form above. Please download the form as a Word document, fill it in and save it as your own document, then send that to Margaret. Please do not attempt to update the form directly on the website, so that the blank form is available for others. in case of problems, please contact Margaret (margaret404@btinternet.com).

Annual Report for 2023, presented 2024

The Annual Report for 2023, presented at the AGM in 2024, is available for download as a pdf file.

The file is available on the Annual Reports page here.

Ladies Guild logo - improved versions available May 2023

Improved, computer usable, versions of the Ladies Guild logo have been designed, and are now available for downloading and using whenever required. The logos can be scaled as required. Coloured and greyscale versions of the logo are provided, with white or transparent backgrounds. Huge thanks to Sue G Hall for her work in producing this improved version of our logo.

The logos are now available on the Publicity downloads page, here.

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