The East Anglian Region is one of eight regions of the Handbell Ringers of Great Britain (HRGB) and currently comprises 75 teams.

If you would like to join a team or are interested in more information, or if you would like to just help out with forthcoming events, then please contact Susan Duke or your nearest team.

Future Events 2012:-

EAR AGM
Bottisham, Cambridgeshire
Saturday 17th March
(Click here to download the application form).

National Rally
York
Friday 30th March to 1st April
(Click here for more details).

EAR Team Public Concert
St Pauls Church, Bedford
7pm, Saturday 28th April 2012
Tickets available on the door

EAR Team Public Concert
Blackfriars Hall, Norwich
3pm, Sunday 27th May 2012
Tickets available on the door

EAR Team Public Concert
The Drill Hall, Ware, Herfordshire
7pm, Saturday 23rd June 2012
Tickets available on the door

EAR Team Public Concert
The Priory Centre, St Neots, Cambridgeshire
3pm, Saturday 30th June 2012
Tickets available on the door

French Themed Rally
Norwich Area
Saturday 14th July 2012

15th International Symposium
Liverpool
Tuesday 31st July to Sunday 4th August 2012

Autumn Rally
TBC
Saturday 13th October 2012

Hallowe'en Rally
TBC
Saturday 27th October 2012

We now have a separate web page for the EAR Handbell Team. If you haven't already done so please "click" on the button below and take a look at the photographs from our recent ringing tour to Rouen, France.

REGIONAL TEAM

TO 'DOWNLOAD' INFORMATION & APPLICATION FORMS FOR COMING EVENTS:- l

'Click':- NEWS

This will take you to directly to the website's
NEWS page.
'Click' on the appropriate link, save the file to
your computer and then print-out copy
from there.

CALENDAR UPDATED

Please see our updated events list for the rallies and EAR Team concerts this year. Rallies provide an excellent opportunity for teams to share repetoir through performance, play as a massed team under a conductor and learn new skills. EAR Team is the compromises around 30 ringers, performing on 3 sets of Handbells and Handchimes. EAR Team perform a range of music from popular classics to Japanese folk melodies to Handbell compositions. Returning from a successful tour in France, this year's concerts shall be a real treat and well worth attending.

FRANK TOMLIN - BELLS

As many of you will know, when Frank Tomlin, a member of Broxbourne Handbell Ringers, died in 2006 he left the region £1000 in his will. After consultation with the membership the Committee decided to use this money to purchase a set of 12 Malmark handbells, to be used by the membership in a way not dissimilar to the Woodroyd Bells owned by the William Hartley Memorial Fund.

These bells were bought in 2008 and are appropriately named the Frank Tomlin Bells. They are available for lease to named individuals on behalf of a team, for a period of 6 or 12 months.
The only cost to the lessee is insurance for the duration of their lease - currently approximately £25 per annum - and the only requirement (other than looking after the bells and abiding by certain formal conditions) is to perform at an EAR rally while the bells are in their possession.

This is an ideal opportunity to get a new team started, enabling them to fund-raise to buy their own bells, or to introduce handbells to a school or other youth group. Applications for the lease of the Frank Tomlin Bells are invited; please put your case to us, stating who would use the bells, how long you would like them and why the lease would be of benefit.

Send your applications, via Susan Duke, (Secretary), to the Regional Committee, who will assess their merit.

IDEAS, PROBLEMS, THINGS TO DISCUSS!!

Feel free to email or phone a committee member to air any ideas that you may have. Please inform them of any problems which you encounter and let them know of any help which you can give.

FUN STUFF

"Hear bells being played"

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