Dear all, Diana Street has again organised a ringing event for the afternoon of Sunday 17 September, with the added bonus of a Cream Tea at the Johnson Farm in Old Hurst.

All are welcome. She has provided the following information:

12:15 (as bells down) – 1pm    Hemingford Abbots 6  14 cwt in G#      (toilet in kitchen area)

1:15 to 2pm                              Hemingford Grey    8  11-2-12 in G#     (toilet in kitchen area)

 2:15 to 3pm  await confirm     St. Ives                     8  12-0-4 in G    (Portaloo inside South Porch)

3:30pm  Johnson’s Farm Old Hurst (off A141) Church St, Huntingdon PE28 3AF

We will leave a donation at each tower, so £3 each should cover this, please give it on the day.|

Details of how to pre-order from the cream tea menu will be available a bit nearer the time. Diana did have to check their home-made scones (scone and tea = cream tea) out before she made the booking!!

Both ringing and non-ringing family members and friends are welcome to join us for afternoon tea at Johnson’s Farm at Old Hurst – we may have a function room to ourselves.

For non-ringers there is the added bonus of the Farm, with its animals, birds and ‘safe distance’ crocodiles to look round for a £3 adult entry fee, including a children’s play park (please have sensible footwear, for the fields part, if there has been any rain), while the rest of us ring!

Dear all, at the Branch AGM on Saturday, the Guild presented a paper on possible configurations of Branches across the Peterborough Guild of Bell Ringers. This paper, called Rethinking the Branches, can be found on the downloads page for the AGM, follow this link https://petbells.org.uk/downloads/.

The Branch Committee will be holding a meeting to discuss the document on 26 February. Nick Elks and I will then be attending a Guild Management Committee meeting on Saturday 4 March, which will discuss the way forward.

If you have any views on the matter which you would like us to take into account, please let Nick, nick.elks@gmail.com or me, chairman@peterborough.pdg.org.uk know by Saturday 25 February.

Best wishes,

Hilary

Dear all, a final reminder that I need to know if you plan to attend the Peterborough Branch AGM by Saturday 14 January please, through this link – Branch Events Organiser. Thank you to all those who have already responded confirming attendance, or given their apologies.

The agenda for the AGM and the Minutes of the 2022 meeting, plus other documents for discussion at the meeting, can be found on https://petbells.org.uk/downloads/

Best wishes,

Hilary

Dear all, a Happy New Year to everyone.

A reminder that I need to know if you plan to attend the Peterborough Branch AGM by Saturday 14 January please, through this link – Branch Events Organiser. Thank you to all those who have already responded confirming attendance, or given their apologies.

The agenda for the AGM and the Minutes of the 2022 meeting can be found on https://petbells.org.uk/downloads/

In addition, there are now three additional documents on the download. These are documents that the Guild Executive would appreciate the opportunity to raise at the AGM, so you may want to read them before the meeting. They will also feature as topics for branch committee meetings and will be further discussed at the Guild’s GMC meeting in March. 

The Guild appreciates that some branches are struggling and believes that it would be better to take a Guild wide approach, rather than deal with the same issue in different branches over a longer timeframe. This is not going to be a quick process and the Guild Executive anticipates that there will be lots of view and opinions across the different branches. This is just the start of the discussion process. 

The proposed programme is as follows:

14.00 Ringing

14.45 Service

15.30 AGM followed by Tea

16.30 Ringing until 17.30

There will be a number of vacancies on the Branch Committee for 2023, so if you are interested in being nominated, please let me know through this link – Branch Events Organiser.

Dear all, the Peterborough Branch AGM will be held on Saturday 21 January 2023, at St John the Baptist Church, Barnack. The proposed programme is as follows:

14.00 Ringing

14.45 Service

15.30 AGM followed by Tea

16.30 Ringing until 17.30

Please let me know if you plan to join us, so I have numbers for tea, by Saturday 14 January, or if you want to give your apologies, through this link – Branch Events Organiser.

The agenda for the AGM and the Minutes of the 2022 meeting can be found on https://petbells.org.uk/downloads/

There will be a number of vacancies on the Branch Committee for 2023, so if you are interested in being nominated, please let me know through this link – Branch Events Organiser.

With all good wishes for a happy Christmas, and I look forward to ringing with you in 2023.

Hilary

Dear all, just to give you advance notice that the Peterborough Branch AGM will be held on Saturday 21 January 2023, at St John the Baptist Church, Barnack. The proposed programme is as follows:

14.00 Ringing

14.45 Service

15.30 AGM followed by Tea

16.30 Ringing until 17.30

I’ll be in touch in mid December with final arrangements and to get numbers for tea.

Best wishes,

Hilary

It is very sad to hear of the deaths of Ian Burroughs and Tony Evans, two long standing ringers in the Peterborough Branch, and I thought ringers might want to know the arrangements for their funerals

Many people will have known Ian as the Tower Captain at Barnack, and will have rung with him in the past. His funeral is at 1pm on Tuesday 11 October at Barnack. Bells will be rung after the service.

Tony was a key member of the band at Castor for many years, and he was the instigator of a teaching facility at Castor, that then became the Castor Ringing School. His funeral is at Castor on Monday 17 October at 2.45pm. Bells will be rung by the Castor band.

As the current Head Tutor of the School, I propose to ring one or more Quarter Peals in Tony’s memory, comprising ringers who were taught to ring by Tony. If you are interested in joining us, please will you let me know through the following link, https://petbells.org.uk/contact/events-organiser/ and I will ensure that all those who want to are included in any ringing we organise.

Best wishes,

Hilary Hardie

Dear Ringers,

A reminder that Diana Street has organised a ringing event for the afternoon of Sunday 11 September, with the added bonus of a Cream Tea at The Willow Cafe, Central Park in Peterborough.   

Both ringing and non-ringing family members and friends are welcome to join us for afternoon tea at The Willow Cafe, Central Park, Peterborough – we have the function room to ourselves!! Parking is free in Park Crescent (far side of the park) PE1 4DX and then walk into the park itself aiming for the centre (green grass ’roundabout’ with Weeping Willow tree) where The Willow Cafe is located.

Please advise Diana Street (email: diana_cherryfields@yahoo.co.uk) on attendance and your clear choice of menu from : The Willow Cafe menu  by Sunday 28h August, (later than originally requested) so she can let them know numbers and orders.

If you want to join us just for tea, we are meeting at the Willow Cafe at 4pm.

The timing of the ringing is: 

1:30-2:15pm       Yaxley (6) upstairs  toilet (3)

2:30-3pm            Stanground(6) GF  toilet       

3-15-3:45pm       Fletton (5) GF        toilet       

We will leave a donation at each tower, so £3 each should cover this, please give it on the day.

Example from menu:

Scones, jam, clotted cream                                    £4:50

choose drink  from menu  eg pot of tea                   £2.30  

Full cream tea (sandwiches, scone, chosen drink)    £14:50 

Vegetarian alternative cream tea and drink                £14:50

If you prefer cake(s) of the day then please order that (eg £3.10) and a drink choice from the menu.

If anything is not clear then please get in touch with Diana.

I looking forward to seeing you all then.

Take care

Diana

Dear Ringers,

Diana Street has organised a ringing event for the afternoon of Sunday 11 September, with the added bonus of a Cream Tea at The Willow Cafe, Central Park in Peterborough.   All are welcome.   She has provided the following information:

The timings are: 

1:30-2:15pm       Yaxley (6) upstairs  toilet (3) confirmed

2:30-3pm            Stanground(6) GF  toilet       confirmed

3-15-3:45pm       Fletton (5) GF        toilet        confirmed

We will leave a donation at each tower, so £3 each should cover this, please give it on the day.

Both ringing and non-ringing family members and friends are welcome to join us for afternoon tea at The Willow Cafe, Central Park, Peterborough – we have the function room to ourselves!! Parking is free in Park Crescent (far side of the park) PE1 4DX and then walk into the park itself aiming for the centre (green grass ’roundabout’ with Weeping Willow tree) where The Willow Cafe is located.

Please advise Diana Street (email: diana_cherryfields@yahoo.co.uk) on attendance and your clear choice of menu from : The Willow Cafe menu  by Thursday 25th August so she can let them know numbers and orders. They will be busy over the bank holiday weekend and need to ensure ingredients supply, as they make all of their own food. Thank you.  (The owner of the cafe is my neighbour’s daughter)

Example from menu:

Scones, jam, clotted cream                                    £4:50

choose drink  from menu  eg pot of tea                   £2.30  

Full cream tea (sandwiches, scone, chosen drink)    £14:50 

Vegetarian alternative cream tea and drink                £14:50

If you prefer cake(s) of the day then please order that (eg £3.10) and a drink choice from the menu.

If anything is not clear then please get in touch.

I have ‘tested’ the afternoon tea and needed ‘doggy-bag’ boxes to bring the rest of the food home for the next day!

Thanks a lot.

I looking forward to seeing you all then.

Take care

Diana

Dear all, unfortunately the Branch Outing on 20 August has been cancelled as insufficient ringers signed up by the deadline of today to make it a successful event.

I hope to see you all soon,

Hilary