WELCOME
The Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers was formed in 1962 to promote the art of change ringing in our two countries. There are currently around 350 members who ring at more than 70 bell towers throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Non-ringers might like this introduction to bellringing.
Ringers and potential ringers can contact our association's office bearers or local towers and ringers.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Updated: 30 April, 2024
Advanced Ringing Weekend in Sydney 
Thomas Perrins leading a workshop on London Surprise Major.
Over 40 ringers attend the Advanced Ringing Weekend in Sydney in April. The two "streams" both worked well: "Towards Surprise Major" (everything from treble bob hunting on 6 to some leads of Cambridge Major) and "Surprise Major +" (Cambridge, London, Bristol and spliced Surprise). The streams came together for Saturday lunch and social events all three evenings over the weekend.
A quote from a participant: The weekend was positive and instructive. The single most significant event for me was Peter's session on Splicing, with the necessity of being on top of what place bell you are and which you will become at the lead end, and what that means your start will be in the next method.
Contact me to talk about arranging an Advanced Ringing Weekend in 2024-2025 in your branch.
Further information and photos are available here.
Phil Goodyer
30 April 2024
Register for ANZAB 2024
Early bird discounted registration (and $10 registration for under 21s) closes 30 April. Register online here.
Registration by 30 April also gives you the option of attending the Lord Mayor's Reception on Friday evening.
ANZAB Gender Statistics Update
An update to our gender statistics, including more detail about the 2023 Peals and QPs, may be found here. See the summary below.
Deryn Griffiths
22 April 2024
12-bell weekend scholarships
Congratulations to Inga Griffiths-Hunt of Melbourne (left) and to Patrick Meyer of Adelaide(right). They have been awarded the 2024 12-Bell Scholarships
($500 each) to attend the 12-Bell Weekend in Sydney in October.
More information about these weekends is available here.
Training Quarter Peals on Easter Monday
The webmasters asked James Perrins for the story behind the footnotes on the following performances reported on BellBoard for Easter Monday - 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3. He writes:
After unsuccessfully gathering a peal band at St Mary's Sydney on Easter Monday I thought I could still utilise the time slot. There are quite a few ringers in Sydney who are relatively accomplished but could benefit with a quarter-peal or two to really consolidate what they already know. With this in mind, I asked the ringers who had agreed to the peal if they were still happy to ring, most of whom were, and then targeted a few doubles and triples ringers to make up the bands. It was pretty easy to organise and ultimately three QP ideas formed, targeting four ringers. All three were successful and everyone got a lot out of it, especially in terms of confidence. I hope to organise more QP days in the future for the development of other ringers.
ANZAB CPR Training and First Aid Assistance
ANZAB offers funding to all towers for ringers to train in Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid, to a maximum of two ANZAB members per tower. Each tower is also being offered a free poster providing details of CPR.
Read more about the Assistance scheme, and how to apply, by following this link.
anzab diary
Updated: 21 April, 2024
2024
1-5 May
Wellington. Two Island Cluster.
Contact:
4 May
Sydney. ART Module 1.
Venue: Christ Church St Laurence
Register
Contact:
11 May
Claremont. WA Branch Practice & AGM.
Contact:
28 May
Sydney. NSW-ACT Branch Practice.
Venue: Christ Church St Laurence
Contact:
7-10 June
ANZAB 2024 Festival and AGM.
Adelaide.
More info
15 June
Lithgow. NSW-ACT Branch Practice.
Contact:
28-30 June
Melbourne. Intermediate Ringing Course.
More info
Contact:
things to ring for
2024
23 June - 100th anniversary of Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix (Goulburn)
This is a very selective list in an ANZAB context. See also the CCCBR's list for events and anniversaries, and ringing.org's peal and quarter peal lengths for appropriate compositions.
about an event or anniversary to list here.
news archive
latest first
2024
Advanced Ringing Weekend in Sydney - 30 April
Gender-based statistics update - 22 April
Training Quarter Peals - 16 April
Stedman Peal - The whole thing was risky! - 11 April
First open peal at St Patrick's Melbourne - 11 April
Macarthur Region Tour - 9 April
12-bell Weekend, Hobart - 6 April
Surprise Major Weekend in Adelaide - 29 March
Advanced Ringing Weekend in Victoria - 25 March
Ringing School (Intermediate) Bundaberg - 22 March
Ringing Towers
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