It's Showtime!

The National Rally 2011, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, surrey

15th - 17th April 2011

The South East region is looking forward to welcoming you to the National Rally 2011 at Royal Holloway-University of London, Egham ,Surrey.
 
A varied programme of events is being prepared with the emphasis being placed upon opportunities to ring and perform as a team and to learn as much as possible to enhance your own teams ringing.  With this is mind we anticipate the following activities being available as well as attending the National AGM.

• Share your repertoire.  A chance to play for about 20 minutes to share your favourite repertoire with ringers from teams of a similar size
• Informal concerts.  A chance to play to a friendly audience of other ringers in the foyer during rest breaks 
• The National Concert.  Come and listen in comfort to teams representing the different styles and regions of HRGB 
• Ring from Scratch.  A chance to tackle a new piece of music and really get to grips with it about an hour! 
• Ring till You Drop.  A non stop ring-a-long drop in pick up some bells and join in. 
• If you need a rest and a sit down there will be workshops looking at ‘Concert Planning’, ‘Organising events’, ‘Planning a recording’. 
• Other workshops may be available by request so if there is something you’d like to attend please let us know and we’ll see what we can do!
• On Friday evening have fun at ‘The Bell Olympics’ chal-lenge your timing in ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’ or try something different in ‘Percussion Plus’ or just test your brain power in the ‘Bell Quiz’ 
• We will be inviting all of HRGB’s partners in the trade to join us, so shopping will always be an option!  

Chairman’s Address – AGM 2010

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the AGM of Handbell Ringers of Great Britain.  You should all have received information about the content of today’s meeting and as you will see there what appears to be a fairly complex proposal to be considered at this meeting.  Hopefully we will be able to guide you through the proposal in such a way that it is easily understood and therefore will allow you to make a balanced decision.

The statutory purposes of the AGM are to receive the reports from the Officers, to receive the accounts, to elect Officers and an Examiner of Accounts for the coming year, to consider motions proposed and to elect Honorary Life Members.  In addition, there is an opportunity for the holders of appointed positions in the Society to report on their various activities.

I am pleased to be able to report that HRGB remains in a healthy financial position and John will expand on this later.  Sandra will report on the activities that have been undertaken by HRGB over the past year and Margaret will update you on the Membership position.  It falls to me to put the position of HRGB into a more global perspective and to give some thoughts to the direction that we may pursue in the future.

Welcome to HRGB

The aim of the Society, which was formed in 1967, is "To advance, provide and encourage for the public benefit the art of handbell tune ringing in all its forms." It is the only national organisation supporting handbell, handchime and Belleplate players. The Society presents to its members a wide range of activities and music designed to show the many aspects of handbell tune ringing.

About HRGB

The aim of the Society, which was formed in 1967, is To advance, provide and encourage for the public benefit the art of handbell tune ringing in all its forms" It is the only national organisation supporting handbell, handchime and Belleplate® players. The Society presents to its members a wide range of activities and music designed to show the many aspects of handbell tune ringing.

The Society is organised into 8 regions giving access to a nationwide network of handbell ringers from all walks of life and of varying abilities. Each region holds rallies where teams have the chance to ring individually or to combine to ring the same piece of music in 'massed' ringing. Workshops are also organised in the regions for teams to try out other ringing methods or techniques.

A National Rally is hosted by a different region each year. This may be either a one-day or a weekend event, which culminates in a concert by some of the participating teams.

HRGB is one of six countries to host the International Handbell Symposium which is held every two years giving members the chance to visit Japan, Korea, Australasia, Canada and America to meet and ring with handbell teams from these and other countries.