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See below calendar for latest details on Ely District Towers Open Day, Sat 30 Aug 2025!
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Dates for the district
Dates for the district
Here are dates for the District, the Association and the Stretham REC shown in a Google Calendar. A larger calendar, showing these dates and dates for all the Districts and for the Young Ringers, with space for more entries at a time, and with options to view a whole week or month, is available on the Ely DA website here.
For regular updates about District and Association events, select your mailing options on Membermojo - you can receive mailings from all four Districts should you wish to.
Ely DA Grand Open Day, Sat Aug 30th
Ely DA Grand Open Day, Sat Aug 30th
Ely District and friends are looking forward to welcoming you to visit 25 towers in aid of the Stretham Tower Enhancement Project (STEP) which aims to maintain and enhance the Ringing Education Centre there so we can keep teaching bell ringing!
Please come, and please tell your fellow ringers and consider forming teams to challenge each other—can you manage to ring at every tower on the route?
Start at Balsham with bacon rolls served from 8.30am. Refreshments will also be served at Burwell (11am) and Stretham (1.45). Single ringers to whole bands welcome! Come and grab those towers you've not yet rung at - some towers outside the Ely District are included. Day tickets £25 on the day or £22.50 if paid for by Wed 27th (scan QR code below to access account details for BACS payments), or £2 (cash) per tower. Ringers must be able to safely handle a bell. NOTE: Sutton in the Isle has only bells 2-5 ringable and Soham has only bells 1-8 ringable.
Click HERE for printable itinerary and parking advice
Click here for details of the Stretham Tower Enhancement Project (STEP) JustGiving page to find out why we need to raise funds and to donate (this is NOT for Open Day tickets!)
Facebook page giving info.
Email steptoweropenday@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Ely DA Membership Renewals for 2025
Ely DA Membership Renewals for 2025
Please continue to support your local District and Association by renewing your membership for 2025. Subscription rates are £15 for Adult Ringing Members and £5 for Juniors (<21). There is no longer a 'free' category for older members although those who already claimed this membership status are allowed to keep it!
Email elymembership@elyda.org.uk if you have any questions. You can pay by:
Membermojo - enter your details or find your details if you wish to renew a membership. You can pay securely online. You do not need to create and remember a password, but you do need a functional email address! Full information is available on the main Ely DA Association website under membership. THIS IS OUR PREFERRED METHOD AS it minimises administration! You can also maintain your own information about receiving print reports etc. Go have a look!
BACS: a/c name Ely District Bell Ringers, 30-98-90 (Lloyds), 16630468. Please use your name as Reference. If subs are paid collectively by the tower or PCC then please use the name of the tower as Reference. Also please email to say that you paid by BACS and which tower you are from.
Cheque - please make out to Ely District Bell Ringers and give it to the District Treasurer at a District Meeting
Cash - directly to the District Treasurer at a District Meeting or other event
If you are not a member and would like to become one so that you can support ringing locally, including youth ringing, then please follow the instructions on the Ely DA website. You will need to state the name of your proposer. Once entered your membership will be approved at a future District Business meeting - see schedule for details. Please get in touch with elymembership@elyda.org.uk if you have any questions.
Ely District AGM - Histon, 6 Jan 2024
Ely District AGM - Histon, 6 Jan 2024
A good crowd attended our Annual District meeting, and thanks to the Histon Ringers for looking after us.
We had the pleasure of some of the Association Officers in attendance - Bob Cox and Ann Seaman representing the management; Shirley Warbrick reminding us about safeguarding, Jon Warbrick telling us about a plan to put the Association membership management online, and Tom Ridgman talking about putting the Association Subs up (from £10 to £15 for adults) and why.
Other District Officers gave their reports. Kit mentioned Bells Advisory visits to Over, Sutton and Littleport. Questions were asked about the state of Doddington bells. Roy talked about the state of the bank balances, at the end of which he proposed that the District give £1000 to the Stretham Tower Enhancement Project (STEP) which was seconded and carried. Two new junior members were elected.
Phil thanked all those stepping down from their District roles - Janet Garnett, Helen Mould, Roy Mould, Dee Smith and Matthew Webb - and all those willing to continue. The various officers and committee members were successfully elected leaving all but the Education Officer role filled, so if you think you could have a bash at this, do get in touch! The full list of appointments is here. Thankyou to all our willing volunteers, especially those new volunteers willing to give it a go!
Lesley Boyle (me) and Conrad Braam have taken over looking after the Ely District website from Janet. And the District is looking into getting a card reader so as to do cashless payments at meetings - talk to John Mitchell if you have any information or experiences to share. The refreshment charges at meetings are to rise to £3 for a tea with sandwiches and £1.50 for tea/coffee/biscuits.
Ely DA AGM 2024 on Saturday 4th May at Swavesey
Ely DA AGM 2024 on Saturday 4th May at Swavesey
Details in the calendar entry. More to follow. Discussion topics will include membership subscription rates.
Ely DA Annual Report
Ely DA Annual Report
The Ely DA Annual Report for 2022 is available as a pdf file to Ringing Members, Junior Members and Honorary Members of the Ely DA. Please request a file from the District Secretary (elysec_at_elyda.org.uk) or the Report Editor (elyweb_at_elyda.org.uk). Paper copies will be available. We will print one copy for each active tower and copies for individual members by prior request.
Recent archive - little did we know how things would pan out...
Recent archive - little did we know how things would pan out...
"Ely District ringing and Ely DA AGM update (17/03/2020)
"Ely District ringing and Ely DA AGM update (17/03/2020)
In the light of yesterday's announcement by the Government - to avoid all non-essential travel and social contact - and the latest update from the CCCBR (see https://cccbr.org.uk/2020/03/16/coronavirus-covid-19-update/ ), the Ely District committee has decided to suspend all District ringing until further notice. This includes the District outing scheduled for 4th April, and the District striking competition scheduled for 2nd May. Philip Bailey is hoping to rearrange the outing to the same towers next year, and also suggests that we could look at holding the striking competition later in the year.
All sessions at the Stretham REC are also cancelled until further notice.
In addition, the General Committee of the Ely DA has agreed to postpone the 2020 AGM from the date of 30 May 2020 to a date later in the year when the peak of the Covid-19 epidemic has passed and more members will be able to attend. The intention is to transfer the AGM and striking competition to Saturday 3rd October, which is the date which was proposed for the Autumn Event, and to hold the AGM and Striking Competition in the Wisbech District at Downham Market as originally arranged, but these details are not fixed yet.
CCCBR advice on Coronavirus covid-19, 16/03/2020
See https://cccbr.org.uk/2020/03/16/coronavirus-covid-19-update/
Executive summary: new updates on the Coronavirus have been issued by the UK government today, which include avoiding any “non-essential” travel and contact with others and avoiding pubs, clubs theatres and social gatherings. If you haven’t already decided to cancel ringing activities, it seems that now is the time to do so."
Advertise your tower open day with the Ely DA banner
Advertise your tower open day with the Ely DA banner
This 2.5 metre PVC banner is available for any tower that needs to advertise an open day or similar ringing-related event. The only proviso is that you hold it on a Saturday and have at least some of the attractions listed under the title, temporarily blanking out what is not on offer.
The banner is available to borrow, with the mobile demonstration bell and display stands. For more information, and to make a booking, see the Mobile Bell page on the Ely DA website.
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