The Association
About Us
We are a group of about 400 bell ringers in North Staffordshire who meet to ring and socialise together.
We give support and training throughout the area, promote bell ringing and provide bell ringing advice.
If you would like to find out more, visit a tower or try a sampler session, please email our public relation officer
Up-coming Events
Sun 15th NovemberYoung Ringers - Extra Meeting
Tue 17th November
Tuesday Daytime Band
Sun 29th November
Young Ringers Monthly Gathering
Sat 5th December
AGM - Ellastone & Alton
Tue 8th December
Surprise Practice
Sat 12th December
Young Ringers Christmas Gathering
National Bodies
The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers is the representative body for bellringers worldwide. Founded in 1891, the Council today represents 65 affiliated societies including our Association.
View the Central Council website
The Association of Ringing Teachers (ART) provides training, support and motivation for ringing teachers. It also provides a progresive learning scheme for new ringers. They have an extensive website with many useful resources.
View the ART website
News
Ringing Census - 16th to 22nd Nov
The Central Council are carrying out a ringing census to better understand the ringing landscape.
It will consist of two parts: an individual census for all ringers and a tower census for tower captains.
The census is intended to be a snap shot of ringing during the week beginning 16th November and the census questionaires will be available from the 23rd November.
Further information has been emailed to all members and full details are available here...
AGM Stone - Sat 6th December
Join us this December for our AGM, complete with the traditional ringers' tea.
This year's meeting will be held at Alton, with some early afternoon ringing at Ellastone.
Ringing starts at 2pm at Ellastone before moving on to Alton at 3pm. This will be followed by the tea and meeting, including our 100 Club Super Draw.
Details of the AGM are here...
Young Ringers Group
Young Ringers Group
Welcome bellringers aged under 30. Welcome if you can call spliced, or just about handle a bell, and any standard between.
Come and have fun ringing with young people. You are welcome to bring your non-bellringing friends so we can signpost them to suitable lessons at convenient towers.
For our next get togethers see here...
100 Club
The Association runs a '100 Club' to raise funds for the Bell Restoration Fund. Members pay a subsciption of £12 and are entered in 5 draws in the year.
There are four prize draws, usually at business meetings, and one Superdraw at the Association's AGM. If fully subscribed the first prize will be £50 at the prize draws and £100 at the super draw.
If you would like a flutter in aid of a good cause, please visit our 100 Club page...
Activity Groups
Several groups are active in the North Staffs area providing a variety of ringing opportunities.
Organised by group leaders, some are mainly social while others concentrate on a particular aspect of ringing.
Details of these groups and when they meet can be found on our Activity Groups page.
(Other means of transport can be used!)
Association Peal Records
All the peals rung for the North Staffordshire Association have now been entered on to Bell Board.
There are more than 2,000 peals recorded, dating back to the very first in 1884. They can be viewed in the NSA Peals section of our website, where they are arranged by decade and by year.
Because this is a live feed from Bell Board, any new peals will automatically appear in the lists as soon as they are added.
Visit the Peals section of this website to explore them.
