Articles
Child Protection
- The ODG have issued updated guidlines for Safeguarding in towers. Please use the link to the ODG website (below) to read the latest information.
- Special attention is drawn to the following sentence referring to visiting bands:
- This tower follows the safeguarding policy of the Church of England Oxford Diocese and expects all visiting bands to conform to this policy.
The latest guild guidelines can be found at http://odg.org.uk/safeguarding/.
Central Council guidelines can be found at https://cccbr.org.uk/safeguarding/.
CCCBR PowerPoint Presentations
The Central Council Public Relations Committee, with help from other ringers, has been working for some time on publicity material that ringers can use to explain our wonderful hobby to others.
Recruitment leaflets, tower open day posters and lots more are available
for download from the
CCCBR website.
Doves Guide for Church Bellringers
A brief guide to the definitive source of bell data on all the rings of bells in the World and the proto-National Bell Register which can be accessed from Dove's. It explains the parameters which are needed to fill the p-NBR and how you can help.
Correcting Odd-struckness
Technical Paper TBC03 from the Towers and Belfries Committee explaining some simple techniques for correcting odd-struck bells.
Risk Assessment in the Tower
Technical Paper TBC02 from the Towers and Belfries Committee outlines the application of risk assessment in the tower. This is an important topic in this day of Health and Safety and accident litigation.