Dear All,

To try and encourage more teams to enter the competition, we have decided to hold the Striking Competition on a Branch Practice night this year. Bletchingdon seemed to be the best venue.

Although we will expect the winning (valid) team to represent the branch at the Guild Striking Competition in October, our branch striking competition is meant to be a fairly relaxed event and the emphasis is on getting as many teams as possible together on 8th April and having an enjoyable evening.

Please don’t think that only teams capable of ringing complex methods need apply. Call-changes are quite acceptable. We would rather have ten teams ringing call- changes than no teams at all! Whatever you choose to ring will be marked on the actual striking, not on how hard or easy the method is.

I would appreciate a response from your tower by Wednesday 31st March, at the latest, and would be grateful if you could let me know whether you will or will not be entering a team (or several), especially as this would normally be a branch practice night and if we cannot raise enough teams for the competition, the practice can still go ahead.

Many thanks

Teresa Carter
Joint Ringing Master
Bicester Branch
ringingmaster@bicesterbranch.org.uk