Here’s where you’ll find details of what training events are on offer, when and who to contact as well as other useful information to supplement your learning.
The resources library of the Essex Association of Change Ringers.
Our collection of guides, tutorial, presentations and activity sheets on all manner of aspects of ringing – apart from methods there is much more here to help you as a ringer or as a tower member. Many of these documents have been produced by tutors on the Essex Ringing Course which has been training and informing ringers for over 25 years.
10th—12th April 2025
All day at New Rickstones Academy, Conrad Road, Witham, Essex, CM8 2SD
Contact: Sarah Knights, 07787 506846
Booking opens – January 2026
See more information here
22nd November 2025
All day
Contact: Education Officer
The Association has a Recruitment and Training Fund. Districts, towers and individuals are invited to apply for grants to facilitate and enable training and ringers’ skill advancement, as well as to support recruitment initiatives.
Please click the following link to take you to the Grant Application page.
Christina Brewster looks after the Bookstall which is present at most Association events and stocks a number of Central Council publications as well as others that will complement your learning. Look out for the Bookstall at events throughout the year.
Please note that we are unable to provide a postal service for purchasing.
Below is the full calendar for all upcoming training dates.
To see all other Association and District events please visit the main Calendar
Would you like to make the leap into this higher level of ringing?
In the year 2024 only four first peals have been rung in Essex whereas from 1984 to 1990, on average 14 ringers a year rang a first peal and many went on to be regular peal ringers.
We’d like to think that there are many ringers in Essex who would become valuable peal ringers for the future and to encourage this we have a First Pealer’s Club.
Many ringers have local help in developing into a peal ringer but if not, Yvonne Towler, who has rung over 1300 peals for the Association, will mentor new peal ringers, give them guidance as to what to do to train for their first peal and provide bands for their practices and attempts.
Do YOU aspire to peal ringing? Do you know a ringer who you think would be able to reach this milestone and might like some encouragement? To join the club you’ll need to have rung at least five quarter peals.
Sign up now by contacting the Education Officer or Yvonne, see below.
Contact the EACR Education Officer below for information relating to this page.
The resources library of the Essex Association of Change Ringers.
Our collection of guides, tutorial, presentations and activity sheets on all manner of aspects of ringing – apart from methods there is much more here to help you as a ringer or as a tower member. Many of these documents have been produced by tutors on the Essex Ringing Course which has been training and informing ringers for over 25 years.
The Central Council is the largest publisher of ringing books, all of which can be found in the Shop on this website. The Council has also now published the following works as eBooks for reading online and on mobile devices.
These make use of the online format to includes links to other content, videos and other resources.
The training, support and recognition that ART provides to ringing teachers and new ringers.
SmART Ringer is an online learning portal created by the Association of Ringing Teachers. It can be used by Ringing Teachers wanting to become accredited with ART and students learning bell ringing via the ART Learning the Ropes programme.
The Association of Ringing Teachers available courses.
Abel is the most popular change ringing simulator in the world for Windows PCs, for both home and tower use. Mabel is a ringing simulator for the Apple Mac, intended primarily for home use. Mobel is a simpler simulator for Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac; and for Android phones and tablets too.
BELTOWERis multi-functional software for change ringing, incorporating a bell ringing simulator, method, touch and peal printing, editors, composer, prover and much more…
It is designed for bell ringers to practise ringing and calling, either at home or in a tower, and includes the natural sound of church bells and hand bells, interactive animation, input from external sensors, and a wide choice of display/input practice modes.
This is a simple web app to display and learn change ringing methods. For more information about change ringing see the change ringing article on Wikipedia.
The difference between this website and others that display method blue lines is that this runs entirely in your web browser, it does not rely on any software running on the web server. It also has a practice mode for learning the line and you can listen to the methods being rung.
This is a site built for change ringers to continue ringing with one another even when socially distanced. It is under development currently, and new features may show up with little warning!!
All of us have come to ringing in different ways,some have been ringing for decades, some have just joined. We are all familiar with our own ringing histories but what we don’t know is what the future holds for us, our ringing, our band and the wider world of ringing? This is something we all need to think about.
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