Church bellringing in the Salisbury Diocese

Ringing 2030 Business Plan Published

The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (CCCBR) has just published the business plan for its major initiative – Ringing 2030 – which is intended to create a sustainable future for ringing (links below).

The Central Council (and therefore this initiative) is financially supported by affiliation fees paid by our Guild for each individual member from subscriptions which means that every member of our Guild is a contributing stake-holder. In 2026 the contribution will be £1 per member – 10% of your total membership subscription. You may also like to get involved in supporting this project and you will find details of roles and skills they are looking for on the Central Council website.

Andy Waring
Communications Officer

About Ringing 2030

Ringing 2030 is a major strategy, initiated by the Central Council of Church Bellringers to create a sustainable future for change ringing:

We want to work in collaboration with ringing organisations to put in place a growth pipeline, creating a steady and sustainable recruitment stream:

- 10000 more active ringers by 2030 (new or returned)
- Half of them under the age of 30
- 30000 people under the age of 20 have heard about or had a go a bellringing.
- A retention rate of 50% of new recruits
- Double the number of teachers and trainers of ringing.

Previous recruitment campaign shows can recruit large numbers of ringers – Ringing Remembers brought over 5k new enquiries, resulting in 3332 ringers on the day. There were 3k enquiries for Ring for the King, and around 50% of those are still ringing.

These ‘’big bang’’ campaigns tied to a specific event also raise awareness of bellringing, and we have anecdotal evidence that people continue to express interest in learning to ring because of these campaigns.

We also have evidence that taking a mini-ring to a public event, such as a festival or scouting event can give up to 1200 people a chance to try and learn about bellringing, laying the ground for future recruitment and public understanding of what we do.

With this evidence and with all ringers working together, we know we can achieve these goals. More importantly, this work will lay the foundation for how we continue to recruit people into ringing far beyond 2030.

The business plan is quite short and you can download it here. There is also more information about the plan on the Central Council website here.