Bells and Bellringing Presentations

A number of presentations have been pulled together as an ‘off the shelf’ resource to save time on research and preparation.  Please feel free to use the attached presentations, which contain guidance notes and which can be tailored to your needs:

An introduction to English change bell ringing An introduction to English bell ringing final March 2017

The history of bell ringing History of bell ringing final March 2017

The science of English bell ringing The science of English bell ringing – final March 2017  (I have to say, I think the video of bells, ringers and the diagram rolling to the side, all at the same time, is brilliant – thank you ART!  Caroline Stockmann)

Come learn to ring! Come and learn to ring final March 2017

With acknowledgement to the Association of Ringing Teachers for much of the core material, as well as the working group led by Caroline Stockmann: David Gambling, Mike Gander, Stuart Holtham, Helen Horn, Martin Jones, Rosalind Martin and Milica Reardon.

Additional useful materials

We hope you might also find this guide to an open tower day useful Running a successful Tower Open Day v6 , with thanks to Margaret Bale and friends, as well as this example poster from Brisbane BrisbaneBellPoster.

To stimulate ideas about how you might promote ringing in your area/context, have a look at this presentation which was used as pre-reading for the ‘PR Matters‘ day in February 2017 The Effective PR Officer

Photos for use with the presentations

There are a large number of photos available for you to use, which can be found at https://cccbr.org.uk/services/pr/bells-and-bellringing/