Our Annual Social & Quiz Night took place at Kelvedon Parish Church Hall: a very good night was had by all. 

We will post here the amount raised by the Raffle and entry fees when known.

* EACR Open Towers Day - 25th August (Bank Holiday Monday)

This was a really busy day, with some teams racing round up to 15 minutes before the advertised opening times at each tower!  

The event started at Great Dunmow at 9.a.m. with the other Towers opening in turn for an hour or so throughout the day, with the last tower being Coggeshall at 6 p.m.

District Organiser Maurice Downs has written to say:

"On behalf of the Association, I would like to thank all the Stewards for the help and support you gave to the success of the Open Day fundraising event on Bank Holiday Monday.

As a result, I was able to pay £1,172.50 into the bank, some of which was also Gift Aided. This goes to support the donations the Association is able to offer from the Bell Restoration Fund when work related to bells is done."

Well done and thanks to all!

* Annual Striking Competitions - 2008

Congratulations to the teams from Coggeshall and Rayne for coming 1st and 2nd in the District heat - they went on to represent the District at the Association Competition.

Congratulations to the band of youngsters from Wickham St. Paul for winning the Call Change Competition.

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     The Judges were Paul and Anne Bray from Kirby Cross

      Many thanks to all the ringers (and supporters) who turned out 
      on a rather damp evening to take part in this event.

Finals

Congratulations to the team from Coggeshall who went on to come 4th in the Association 6-bell Striking Competition Final, and to the team from Rayne for coming 9th, this event being held at Henham in the North-Western District.

At the Inter-district 8-bell competition held later in the evening at Hatfield Broad Oak the Northern District team did really well, coming 3rd ringing a plain course of Superlative Surprise Major. Well done to both the team and Maurice Downs for organising the preparations: we last won in 1993 - we CAN do it again!.

The judges for both Association competitions were Chris McCarthy and Owen Claxton.

* Update to the Annual Report

Ringing times at Great Bardfield are now as follows:
Sundays, 9.50 am - 10.20 am. Practice night Wednesday, 7.30 pm - 9 pm.

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