🚨 Read all about it! Cary Branch Practices for 2026. Here is an updated listing for all the branch practices for the rest of the year. Some of the towers for later in the year are still to be confirmed (marked with an asterisk). It is in a black & white, A4, printer-friendly format – so, if a hardcopy helps you, do print out, stick up on a wall, hang it in your ringing room! Else, feel free to distribute the soft copy to ringers you know who may not be on Facebook, WhatsApp, or who might not even access this website.
🙋♀️ The practices are for everyone – both new and experienced ringers. There will be rounds, call changes, and methods.
🐣 For new ringers, it is a great way to fit in more practice, get tips, and get to know the broader ringing community.
🥷 For experienced ringers, we know many of you are in towers in which there aren’t enough experienced ringers to practice more advanced methods – so the practices are a great opportunity to bring the ringing ninjas (ringjas?!) together for something special.
🙏 Big thanks to Emma, Branch Secretary, for coordinating all of this, it is no small task. Also, many thanks to the towers that have agreed to host a session.
Looking forward to seeing you at a practice soon!
Read all about it! Summer is very nearly on its way and what better way to ease you into the mood than a read of the Cary Branch Newsletter – Summer 2026 edition.
As ever, if you have news or pictures you would like to share about your tower, a workshop, or a ringing story then please send them in to: carybranch.news@bath-wells.org
The next deadline is 5th July 2026.
Many thanks to our Branch Secretary, Emma, for being the newshound, editor, and publisher!
Last Saturday, 11 ringers from across the branch got together in Pitcombe to take the Association of Ringing Teachers (ART) course on teaching bell handling.
Well done to everyone who took part – and special thanks to Emma for organising this alongside Claire from ART (https://bellringing.org/).
We’re looking forward to training up the new recruits to ringing!
St. Peter’s at West Lydford needs to raise £12,000 for essential maintenance work to keep the bells ringing.
Already, 5 of our 44 towers are now unringable and we’d love for St. Peter’s to keep ringing for the community as it has done since Elizabethan times.
You can donate by following this link: Help raise £12,000 for St. Peter’s, West Lydford (via JustGiving)
Thank you for any support you can provide!
Save the date: 17th May 2026
The Great Cary Branch Ring
17th May is the national “Bell Sunday” celebration.
To mark this event, we are discussing an attempt to ring in every Cary Branch tower that Sunday.
44 Towers. 237 Bells. 93 Tons of Heavy Metal. 700 Yards of Sound Bow.
So, we will need all the ringers we can find!
New ringers. Experienced ringers. Occasional ringers. Regular ringers. We will need YOU!
We will divide into teams to cover each area of the branch.
It will be a fantastic day out visiting multiple towers and a great way to celebrate our communities.
KEEP THIS DAY FREE AND LOOK OUT FOR MORE DETAILS 😃
