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Scottish Association of Change Ringers |
Welcome to the website of the Scottish Association of Change Ringers. We hope that you enjoy your visit to the site, and we look forward to welcoming you to one of our towers. The art of change ringing has been practiced for hundreds of years, and there are 18 towers in Scotland of 6 or more bells where you can learn to ring. All of our towers are willing to teach new recruits, for more details of your local tower, please contact the publicy officer or see the Towers section of the website for your local contact.
Ringing is currently suspended at St Mary's Aberdeen due to water seeping into the tower from above the ringing tower. Attempts are being made to dry it out, but it is unknown how long it may take.
The following are dates for your diary. Further information on each will be displayed nearer the time of the event, but if you need to know more sooner, try contacting the tower nearest to you.
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Date |
Event & Venue |
| Friday 30th July 2010 - Sunday 1st August 2010 |
38th Inveraray Annual Ringing Festival |
| Saturday 23rd October 2010 |
Meeting and Social Event |
| Saturday 22nd January 2011 |
Meeting |
| Saturday 12th March 2011 - Sunday 13th March 2011 |
Training Weekend |
| Saturday 21st May 2011 |
AGM and Striking Competition |
These practices are currently suspended while we concentrate on improving our 12-bell ringing. However, there will be a special 12-bell Advanced Practice at St Mary’s Edinburgh as below. Special methods will be announced in the meeting notification issued about 2 weeks before the meeting. For further information please contact the ringing master, Chris Frye.
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Date |
Venue |
| Friday 28th May 2010 | 12-bell Advanced Practice St Mary’s Edinburgh 19.15 – 21.00. |
These practices are being held jointly with St Mary’s Edinburgh to help improve our abilities on 12. They are normally held on second Thursdays, but may not be run if other events are too close. We aim to ring on 12 bells at all levels from rounds to (currently) Yorkshire Surprise Maximus. For further information please contact the ringing master, Chris Frye.
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Month |
Date |
| June | No 12 bell practice on second Thursday due to proximity of advanced practice on 28th May. |
Working jointly with the Keltek Trust (www.Keltek.org) SACR has recently helped to save 2 redundant sets of bells from churches in the West of Scotland. We now have 22 bells available for new bell projects in Scotland. For more details of the exciting opportunity, follow see the "New Bell Installation Committee"
The Annual Report for 2009 has now been published. Please see our Annual Report page for more details, a list of the companies who support us with advertising, and corrections.
SACR badges are now available once again, with our logo of a plain bell on a saltire. They are very smart and you really need one, especially at the unbeatable price of £3. Badges are available from Terry Williams.
There is an SACR email list available to any interested ringers. By subscribing to this list you will receive email notifications of upcoming events such as AGMs, Training days and Surprise Royal practices along with any other SACR information. Click here to susbscribe to this list.
The 50-50 Club is open to anyone who wants to support the SACR, whether ringers or non-ringers. One entry costs £1. It is a great way to raise money for the bell restoration fund.
You can download a form by clicking on the link below:
The Scottish Association of Change Ringers was formed in Edinburgh on 23rd April 1932: so 2007 saw the 75th anniversary of the Association. To mark this there were a number of special events and ringing. For more information, see our 75 Years of the SACR section.
View the 75th Anniversary Peals here .
View the 75th Anniversary Quarter Peals here .