Following guidance received today the following towers have ceased all ringing until further notice in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID19:
Alton (All towers), Blackmoor, Bramshott, Buriton, Froxfield, Hawkley, Holybourne, Selborne, Steep, Warnford and West Meon
Other towers will be added once confirmation is received that they are also cancelling their ringing activities
Hope to see you all soon and stay well…
Steve
A&P Communications Officer
Category Archives: Steep
Practice at Steep on June 12th
**RSVP** Ringers needed at Steep, Sunday 7th Jan, 10am
Steep Ringing Times
Sundays: 10.00am (2nd & 4th), 5th irregular Please contact tower secretary
Practices: Tuesday (Generally second and fourth Tuesdays, alternating with Froxfield, but check beforehand)
Easter Sunday Ringers Needed at Steep 10.00 to 10.30am
Steep Practice Tuesday 28th March **CONFIRMED**
- Contact Hugh Routh
Bell Advisor for Portsmouth Diocese
Telephone: 01730 267237
Address: Mill Cottage, Mill Lane, Steep, Petersfield GU32 2DJ
Email: Use Form
Steep Practice Tuesday 28th March **RSVP**
- Contact Hugh Routh
Bell Advisor for Portsmouth Diocese
Telephone: 01730 267237
Address: Mill Cottage, Mill Lane, Steep, Petersfield GU32 2DJ
Email: Use Form
Confirmed – Practice at Steep – Tuesday 14th March
RSVP – Practice at Steep, Tuesday 14th March
**Confirmed** -Steep Practice – Tuesday 28th Feb
Invitation to the Steep Practice Tuesday 14th Feb – RSVP
Practice confirmed at Steep this evening Tues 13th Sept
Hello All
We now have sufficient ringers, so will be having a practice tonight at Steep.
Thanks to all who responded; any others are welcome to join us.
Regards
Steep practice cancelled on Tuesday 24th May
Hello All,
There won’t be a practice at Steep this Tuesday (24th May) as we will be at the annual Steep Parish Meeting; apologies to all who intended to come.
Hugh
Steep Practice CONFIRMED Tuesday 26th April
A Brief Report on Our Executive Committee Meeting
STARTING WITH THE REALLY IMPORTANT BIT:
At the Guild AGM in Alresford on 2nd of July The Guild Committee needs a whole new team of officers to be elected.
This incredible Committee has steered the Guild into a new era. The Plans are in place, the signposts show the way and the commitment to improve, educate and modernise this vibrant and active community is stronger now than ever before. SO, Please think seriously about helping us to keep the Guild and ringing moving forward. If you have been a secretary or treasurer for a school committee, if you can take minutes or type them up from a Dictaphone recording, if you like collecting data or think ringing needs to have a different voice in the Central Council, now is the time to say ‘do you know what? I could give it a try’. The posts becoming vacant are:
- Master
- Vice-Master
- Treasurer
- Secretary
- Librarian
- Peal recorder
- Report Editor
- Minutes Secretary
- CC reps (five of them)
- Child Protection Officer
- Independent Examiner
- BRF Trustees for the two dioceses
Other Noteworthy Items:
On a cold and sunny morning on 12th of March The Executive Committee Meeting was held in St Barnabas Church Hall in Southampton. 24 members were present with 8 apologies.
We all stood whilst the names of those who have passed away since November were read out.
- Roy Grayson (Purbrook)
- Roy Howard (Freshwater)
- Tom Metcalfe (Blackmoor)
- Ramon A Stone (life member, West Meon)
- David Yates (Arreton)
- Martin Routh (Former Tower Captain at Amport)
- Colin Nicholson (Formerly of St Peter Port)
With no matters arising from the last minutes the reports and accounts were accepted.
Interesting and noteworthy was that;
- Our Hon. Librarian and Archivist Bruce Purvis had asked for a budget increase to buy volumes of Order and Disorder which contain ringing extracts from 18th and 19th century newspapers.
- The Belfry Stewardship Committee planned on visiting and inspecting Droxford.
- The Bell Restoration Fund gave a report on the Trustees’ Meeting; David Mattingley said there were grants outstanding to All Saints’, Basingstoke augmented from 9 to 10 and awaiting sign-off by the Belfry Stewardship Committee, Houghton where work had started, and Ecchinswell where fundraising was continuing. At Wherwell higher priority work in the church had been identified and so the outstanding grant would be reduced to zero and the church asked to reapply when they were in a position to proceed with the bell restoration. A new grant application had been received from Northington where the plan was now to augment from 3 to 6 at a cost of £17,000 of which £13,500 had already been raised. The Trustees recommended a grant of £2,000. The Trustees agreed with Hugh Routh who pointed out that work on three clappers which was part of the original project specification had not been done and we should not pay grants towards the same work twice.
- Greg Jordan was elected onto the Striking Competition Committee
- These fine folks will be presented with Life Membership certificates at the AGM, after completing 50 years of membership! Congratulations to you all: John Croft (Winchester District Chairman), Alan Hoar of Odiham, Maureen Routh of Steep and Ronald Tipper of Buriton.
The Master reviewed The Guild Action Plan and suggested the setting up of 3 working groups:
- A small working group will be set up to consider the content, format and production costs of The Annual Guild Report. Discussions revolved around how many reports to print IE 1 per person or 1 per tower, sending it out digitally and if it could be produced in a more cost effective way.
- Interestingly, A working group to consider the compilation, presentation and costs of books, listing performances rung between 2014 and 2018 commemorating the WWI fallen, to be presented to Winchester and Portsmouth Cathedrals, and that the working group be authorised to register interest with the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Excitingly, A working group to consider the possibility of a centralised Ringing Training School for teaching new ringers.
The Committee were happy to support a funding request of £400 towards travel expenses of a joint team of young ringers from the Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Districts to represent the Guild in the competition at Epsom on Sat 2nd April 2016. The rest of the money would be found by the youngsters and their families by fund-raising. We wish them well.
After much discussion a rethink was agreed on the ‘welcome pack’ for new ringers. Whilst people though it (The ART Discover Ringing booklet and a contacts list) was a good idea, just who to give it to e.g. not many probationary members become ringers and how to get it to them was of concern.
The Communications Exec member gave a presentation on Social Media extolling its virtues and its pitfalls.
Future Dates worth noting are;
In the ‘Any Other Business’ section issues discussed were;-
- The arrangements for the Central Council (CCCBR) weekend at the end of May are well under way. There has been a good response to calls volunteers and Guild members are encouraged and welcome to attend the open meeting and Songs of Praise service both on Sunday afternoon.
- If a volunteer can be found the requests for Guild sweatshirt production can continue.
- If there was a form for making a bequest to the Guild. The answer was no it can be put into your Will.
- Ropley Church was expected to be rebuilt between 2016-2018.
- The Master promoted the Mid-Monthly Ringing Tours & the next one is on 13th April.
We were all done by 12:00 Then a long and very fast quarter peal of Grandsire Doubles ensued.
No Steep Practice 29th March
Hello all,
We haven’t had enough positive replies, so I’m sorry but we won’t be having a practice at Steep this Tuesday 29th March (tomorrow). Thanks to those who replied.
Hugh Routh
Mid Monthly Meeting Weds April 13th Steep, Froxfield and Privett
Mid Monthly Meeting
Wednesday April 13th 2016
11.00 – 12.00 Steep, All Saints, 6, 6-0-13 in Bb, SU745253,
Lunch “Great Oak”, Buckmore Farm, Winchester Road, Petersfield, GU32 3SB
14.00 – 14.45 Froxfield, S Peter, High Cross, 6, 5-1-23 in Bb, SU711265
15.00 – 15.45 Privett, Holy Trinity, 8, 12-0-15 (616kg) in F, SU676269
Organizer – David Forder
- Contact David Forder - Telephone: 023 8087 2399 Email: Use Form
All are welcome whether beginner or expert.
Looking forward to a good turnout for this first meeting of 2016. A
volunteer is needed to organise the May meeting. If you would consider
taking this on please contact me
Please display this poster in your tower april16
Kind regards
David
Steep Practice CONFIRMED for Tues 23rd Feb
Steep Practice Tuesday 9th Feb
Welcome Alice Rosina Partridge!
A quarter peal was rung at Steep on 19th January to welcome Hugh and Mo’s new grand-daughter, Alice Rosina Partridge, born on January 12th 2016. Alice is the first child of Claire and Ian Partridge. See the quarter peal details here
CANCELLED Steep 6 bell practice Tues 12th Jan RSVP
UPDATE:
Hello All,
We should be having a practice at Steep (6 bells, 6cwt) this coming Tuesday 12th January so, as usual, please let us know by reply if you are able to come.
When we have a quorum, we usually ring Grandsire, Stedman, Plain Bob, Cambridge, St Clement’s, Little Bob and sometimes London but, as ever, it all depends who turns up!
I will send another email on Monday evening, confirming whether we have sufficient numbers, or not, so please check on the day.
Many thanks,
Contact Maureen Routh
Email: Use Form
Next Steep Special Practice – November 10th RSVP
No Steep practice 27th October
Hugh Routh writes:
Hello All,
Most of the regular visiting ringers have now replied to say that they can’t come this week, so I’m sorry but we WON’T be having a Steep practice tomorrow 27th October
Thanks to all who replied; I’ll be in contact again in two weeks time.
All the best,
Hugh
Steep Practice 29th October 2015 RSVP
Bell Stock Survey for Steep
The Survey Results are in pdf form – please click the link below