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AMENDED VERSION...<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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!<br><br>
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.<br><br>
When can you undertake your challenge? At any time between <b>Saturday,
15th January 2011</b> and <b>Sunday, 15th January 2012, </b>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.<br><br>
So get thinking and good luck. We look forward to hearing all about your
Ringing World Centenary celebration events.<br><br>
Phil Watts<br><br>
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Regards<br>
Chris Darvill<br>
General Manager<br><br>
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