[RWCentenary] 100 for RW100

[RW Centenary News]

As readers will know well by now, 2011 sees the 
one hundredth anniversary of the publication of 
the first edition of The Ringing World. Already 
there are well advanced and widely reported plans 
for a major day of celebration in London on 26th 
March; the nearest Saturday to the anniversary of 
the actual first publication date.

However, as the magazine for all ringers in every 
tower across Britain, and many other places 
overseas, The Ringing World is keen to involve 
ringers of all standards and in all locations 
where bells are rung with rope and wheel in the English tradition.

With this in mind, we would like to encourage 
ringers from all corners of the globe to join in 
celebrating our 100th birthday, and in doing so, 
to help to raise the profile of ringing and 
ringers in the wider community. We are inviting 
you and your ringing friends, your tower and 
band, your branch or district, and your Guild or 
Association to take part in the ‘100 for RW100’ Challenge.

Perhaps you could ring 100 peals or quarter peals 
in the year specially to mark The Ringing World 
Centenary: you could even arrange for them to be 
sponsored for a ‘good cause’. Why not work within 
your Guild to get 100 bells in your area rung for 
Easter or Christmas 2011 and then tell your 
locality what you have achieved. Together with 
other Guild members you could aim to recruit 100 
new ringers to the Exercise, or get 100 members 
of your Guild or District achieving at least 100 
changes of a ‘ringing first’ during 2011. You 
might even want to initiate a fundraising 
campaign – and perhaps donate £100 to support 
continued publication of The Ringing World into the future!

Whatever you choose to do, we are sure that there 
will be countless unusual ideas. We know that 
among the members of the ringing exercise are the 
brains and ingenuity to come up with all sorts of 
100 for RW100 ideas we haven't thought of. But we 
are keen to hear about them. So when you have 
organised and held your event, do write in to let 
us know and to submit your entry to the 100 for 
RW100 Challenge. We will offer one year’s free 
subscription to The Ringing World for the 100 for 
RW100 event idea judged the most unusual or 
outstanding by our selection panel who will meet 
in February 2012 to review all of the 100 for 
RW100 Challenge entries we receive.

When can you undertake your challenge? At any 
time between and , the nearest Sunday to 13th 
January, the 134th anniversary of the birth of 
John Sparkes Goldsmith, founder, proprietor and 
sole editor of The Ringing World from 1911 until his death on 2nd June 1942.

So get thinking and good luck. We look forward to 
hearing all about your Ringing World Centenary celebration events.

Phil Watts
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