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Launch of the Recruitment Network - Sun 15th Mar, 8 pm GMT

Are you involved in recruiting new - or returning - ringers? Or perhaps your tower / branch / guild is thinking about a recruitment campaign but you don't know where to start, or would like some advice? Join us online on 15th March for the inaugural meeting of the new Recruitment Network (actual name to be voted on at the meeting!); anyone with an interest in recruitment is welcome to attend. Register here to receive the joining instructions (Zoom): https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/BiaWLvF_THeWn3imnl0gnQ

The 3Rs (Recruit, Regain, Retain) CCCBR Team is setting up a network of people to share good ideas and success stories through regular online meetings, taking place every 2 months. These will feature a short talk from a guest speaker, followed by Q&A and general discussion around the topic of the talk. Our first speaker will be Angela Dawes from Sussex County Association, who will talk about "Battle & Sedlescombe Tower Recruitment Campaign - or, what we did, what we learnt, and how to deal with too many recruits!". As a taster for the talk, have a look at the short video of their event: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B4Vh9UUiD/

Register for the event (free): https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/BiaWLvF_THeWn3imnl0gnQ - you will automatically receive the joining instructions after you register.

Thanks Alison

Thanks John! We may have a copy of that in our Association bookstall...

Exactly!! Thanks :-)

Thanks Sue!

Thanks!

Yes, good points

Thanks Lucy - same issue as me then!

Thanks both. The the crown staple bolt on the current clapper constantly works loose. And it's odd-struck but we've given up faffing around with tapered washers. The clapper ball is worn so it needs turning at least, and there isn't a huge difference in cost between turning the old one and a new composite one (although a composite is definitely more expensive). White's have already inspected.

Has anyone had issues with the longevity of composite clappers...?

PS please state of you have a conflict of interest when replying! TIA

Mr P has done the lion's share of the work - I've mostly just been proofreading things! BIG thanks to the Surrey Association for all their guidance and help!!

As someone closely involved in setting up the new membership system - responding to your *: how did you guess?!

How on earth do you keep track of them?? For Sussex at least, these people haven't actually signed up as members, just handed over 20 p at some point, sometimes several decades ago (genuinely). And/or they were paid-up resident members for a few years and then moved away, automatically (under our current and previous rules) becoming non-resident members "without further payment" (i.e. we no longer have contact). Although we (SCACR) have records of peals, I don't believe we have complete records of who these non-resident "members" are. There's probably be a list (likely incomplete) of names but I doubt there are contact details (someone may correct me if I'm wrong...). Individuals need to be identifiable (there are multiple different people with the same name, for example), the data kept about them should be accurate, and they should have the opportunity to check this data and request that it is corrected where necessary. So maybe "nightmare" was a bit strong - "somewhat dodgy" (no pun intended!) might be more accurate. A pain in the proverbial anyway.

I like the idea of recognising contributions rather than "just" long service.

The type of membership that I really don't see the point of (any more) is "non-resident member" - i.e. pay an annual subscription just once to ring a peal for an association, never pay again but magically become a life member! Unfair, unreasonable, and a GDPR nightmare...

Does anyone know who designed the Ledbury exhibition pop-up banners? Those are fantastic!

PS Thanks to Roger Booth for sending me several examples.

Really helpful to have the "newbie" view, thanks Tristan

Thank you Phillip. I look forward to finding out the definitive answer, and in the meantime I'll suggest we work with 75 years.

Blimey. Thanks Phillip.

In the Sussex County Association, all subs go directly to the central organisation - Districts do not have separate bank accounts or separate budgets. So there would be no change there.

And with a DMO a member could still be primarily associated with one particular tower. Or several towers.

Thanks all for your comments. Does anyone know anything about the requirement of records for safeguarding cases? Is there any guidance about how long records should be kept in case retrospective/historical safeguarding concerns are raised?