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
Tue 20th OctoberSun 25th October
Young Ringers Monthly Gathering
Sat 7th November
Afternoon Meeting - Burton on Trent
Tue 10th November
Surprise Major Practice
Tue 17th November
Tuesday Daytime Band
Sun 29th November
Young Ringers Monthly 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
Next Meeting - 7th November
The November meeting takes place in Burton on Trent on Saturday 7th.
Ringing starts at 2pm on the eight at St Chad's, followed by the six at All Saints an hour later.
Full details of the meeting are available on our events page.
For directions, open the event, select View Tower, and use Directions link to see the route to the tower in Google Maps.
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!)
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...
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 to explore them now.
BRF - Raising funds while you shop
The BRF has been registered on Easyfundraising and this provides an easy way to raise extra funds for our Bell Restoration Fund.
If you shop at any of the 4000+ retailers available via the Easyfundraising website, the BRF gets cashback. And it doesn't add anything to the cost of your shopping, but just gives a bit of extra income to the BRF.
Retailers include well known brands like M&S, John Lewis, Argos, Dunelm, Currys and many many more.
You can shop either via the Easyfundraising website or by downloading their App from Google Play or the Apple App Store.
If you have any questions please email our Treasurer, Liz Fitzgibbon.
Gay's Stays
Phil Gay has a supply of ash stays for sale, with profits going to the Keele belfry funds.
Phil can provide a wide range of sizes to suit most bells. If you need a stay, or want a couple for standby, please contact Phil on or by using this
