Stand !! By Mike Rigby, ART-Accredited Teacher and Tower Captain at Lighthorne, Warwickshire

By on 22-Aug-2019 - My wife isn’t a ringer, but a classically trained mezzo-soprano who teaches singing and gives the occasional recital; usually it’s just her on stage with a piano accompanist. Bell ringers give performances too, and everything that my wife teaches singers about preparing to perform is analogous to what we ringers need to do – apart […] Read more

A year of ringing: the secret diary of a lifelong learner, aged 54

By on 18-Aug-2019 - Pauline Fox is a learner at All Saints Church,Northallerton, North Yorkshire. She briefly rang as a teenager at her village church and began working towards her ART Learning the Ropesc ertificates in October 2017, when she moved from Northumberland back to North Yorkshire and re-engaged with bell ringing. Her teacher is Jennie Town 5 February […] Read more

Young Ringers’ Fest ! A big day out for young ringers in the ODG

By on 12-Aug-2019 - The city of Oxford was an ideal choice for our Big Day Out as it not only offers a variety of historic and memorable towers but is relatively easy for 19 young ringers and their parents to get around.Our first two towers were the light tens at St Thomas and St Mary Magdalen. Ringing was […] Read more

First Time at a Striking Competition

By on 06-Aug-2019 - I started learning to ring in March 2018, in Nassington, Northamptonshire. I’ll always be grateful that they took me under their wings to help me learn to competently handle a bell. We have two ART teachers at our tower and both have been extremely supportive and encouraging. They’ve never let us stand still with our […] Read more