We are planning a social afternoon ringing minor methods on 26 March, 4pm (BST). Venue to be confirmed but hopefully St John the Baptist, Stanground. We will ring for an hour and a half and there will be tea and cake! The tower has a ground floor ring and plenty of room for socialising. I have arranged for some experienced ringers to come to support those with less experience. 50p donation towards the tower.

It would be a good idea to know how many people are planning to attend so we can have enough cake and if you would like to come and have a specific method you would like to ring please let me know so I can warn potential conductors.

Email contact: jrcalamity@icloud.com

We look forward to seeing you.

Jane

Assistant Ringing Master

This Friday 3rd March the branch practice will be at St John’s Peterborough, at 1930hrs. Please note the CHANGE OF USUAL VENUE. This is not a permanent change of venue just a different opportunity for this month.

Please come for a taster of 8 bell ringing on the heavier St John’s bells.

There will be Bob Major available and the special method will be Lessness. If you have been practising Cambridge we will plan to ring this too.

See you on Friday

James

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!

This Fridayweek is the first Friday of the month so I will look forward to seeing you at the branch practice.

1930hrs at Castor as usual.

If you are a surprise ringer please look at Superlative. If you need Bob major you will be most welcome.

See you there

James

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

Subs rates are still at £7 for adults and £3.50 for students. Over the past year I have also converted some folk over to FLM (Full Life Members) if they have requested it and they have reached the age of 75. Some members still prefer to support the Branch/Guild but the choice is yours.

The easiest way for most people to pay is to make a payment an online payment, as folk have been doing during the pandemic.

Account Name: Peterborough Branch of Bellringers (name will be truncated due to character limitation by your Bank)

Sort Code: 77 72 37

Account #: 11096468

I will be at the AGM at St Mary’s on 20th Jan and alternatively can give me a cheque or cash payment (correct amount preferred). Any arrears for 2023 happily received too.

Any queries please get in touch.

Andrew Christie

Branch Treasurer

Please see the attached accounts that have now been signed off by our examiner. I will share a summary at the Branch AGM at Barnack on 21st January.

Andrew Christie

Branch Treasurer

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.

The first branch eight bell practice of the year will be at Castor this Friday, 1930h.

The special method will be Superlative, with opportunity to ring plain hunt or plain bob of you are new to eight bell ringing.

Happy new year!

James