Master’s Message
Having just spent 5 weeks in Africa where I’ve had lots of time to relax and reflect, two things came to mind: one is the large amount of change that has been undertaken over the last few years and the second is the number of people who have helped design, drive, and implement those changes …
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Firsts Week starts on Easter Weekend
The Guild’s Firsts Week runs from 5th to 12th April which includes two weekends to give the maximum number of people a chance to participate. It doesn’t matter what you’d like to do, as long as it involves doing something for the first time. Here are some ideas: Ring a touch or plain course of …
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Guild Festival & AGM 2026 - Saturday 9th May
Full programme including Open Towers for general ringing, AGM and ringers' tea as well as the announcement of the 8-bell striking competition held in the morning.
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Please help raise funds for the Young Ringers
We are taking a group of nine young ringers from across the guild to take part in the RWNYC in Nottingham on 4th July: Daniel (Devizes branch), Amelia, Ava, Bobby & Ivy (Dorchester branch), Annabelle, Ben & Esther (East Dorset branch) and Alastair (Salisbury branch). To raise money to help families with transport and accommodation costs, …
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Learning from online videos
There is a quite remarkable video recording on YouTube of a band from Birmingham ringing Stedman Triples while blindfolded.
Spending 10 minutes listening to this and reflecting on the lessons we can learn from it will pay dividends on our own skill levels.
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Mobile Belfry Volunteers needed
Can you tow? The Mobile Belfries Trust is busy preparing for its 2026 season, and we already have 21 provisional or confirmed bookings between the beginning of May and mid-October. Unfortunately, one of our regular drivers is unable to help us this year. In any case we needed more drivers to help spread the workload, …
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Five go Ringing on Fives
Five ringing friends set out to spend a day ringing in 5-bell towers to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Sherborne Abbey’s Jan Keohane’s election as a member of The Guild of Devonshire Ringers which marked the beginning of her lifelong love of the exercise. Joining her for the day’s ringing were Mark Symonds, Paul Cottingham, …
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Giving Ringers a Sound Start - Inspiring ideas for recruitment and development
Although this event is now passed, this article contains so many fine ideas about this initiative that it will make inspirational reading for anyone who is interested in recruitment and development of new ringers.
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Guild 8 Bell Striking Competition 2026
The SDGR 8 Bell Striking Competition will be held on the morning of the Guild Festival on Saturday 9th May 2026 at Bishops Cannings.
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Janice Vivien Scull RIP
Janice Scull on her 80th Birthday 6 February 1943 to 28 January 2026All Saints Westbury Janice was born on 6 February 1943 at Frogmore House Farm in Westbury, Wiltshire, the second daughter of George & Edith Elliott. After completing her education at Trowbridge High School, Janice went on to study at Portsmouth University where she …
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Angus Menzies RIP
It was with great sadness that the Chilmark ringers learned that Angus passed away in March this year after a long illness. He was a loyal member of the band at St Margaret’s and of the Mere Branch for over 10 years. Angus learned to ring at St Margaret’s in 2013. He regularly attended weekly …
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Guild Executive Committee meeting report – 28th February 2026
The Executive Committee met at The Hinton Hall, Tisbury on Saturday 28th February. In the absence of the Master, the President took the chair for the meeting. We commenced with the list of names of all members who had died since the last committee meeting being read out followed by a short period of silence …
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An Afternoon of Ups and Downs
Two very successful courses in Raising and Lowering in Peal during March have seen, in all, 8 students spending a whole afternoon being put through their paces. Each course had 4 students with 5 or 6 experts who patiently rang up and down and also stood behind giving advice. Starting with the basics of chiming …
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Devizes Branch Skittles Evening – the Results!
Following an afternoon of ringing at Warminster, we had a very enjoyable (and exhausting) Skittles Evening at Westbury Conservative Club resulting in Chris Bush (Melksham) winning with 37 strikes and Holly (non-ringer) winning the wooden spoon for the least number of strikes. Well done to them both! Chris Bush (Melksham) winning with 37 strikes and …
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Keeping Tower Information up to date
A note for Tower Correspondents and Tower Captains. If information about your tower changes, please would you use the form on this page where you can update information which is published on the website and in the Annual Report …
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Dates for Your Diary 2026
Some important Guild and other ringing dates for the coming year for you to make a note of are now available on the website - find them under the Events tab. |
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It's Striking Competition season - cartoon by John Fry, Sherborne
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