About Epsom Ringing | Epsom Church Bell Ringing

Benefits

It is FREE!
Whole family activity (over 10’s)
Excellent exercise, both physical and mental
Service to the community and church
Helps with coordination and concentration
Excellent stress relief – you have to concentrate 100%!
Sociable activity. Once trained you can go and ring in most other towers.
Fantastic teamwork activity – you ring as a band and interact with different people.

Most people aged between 10 and 70 (who can get up the stairs to the ringing chamber).
You should be ringing a bell on your own within 4 weeks.
You never know it all, there’s always something new to learn.
Ringing is multi-denominational. There are ringers from all religious and ethnic backgrounds.
You do not need to be musical or strong!

Ringing can appear challenging, so we train each individual action and then link them together, building your bell control with each step.

To start with your trainer has 99% control of the bell and slowly passes that control to you, as you get used to it.

Each new step is demonstrated and you are walked through it without pull the rope before trying it for real.

All under very close supervision from an experienced trainer.

After learning to control the bell you move on to ringing in groups and then learning “methods” (our music).

You never stop learning!

Safety in the ring chamber and belfry is paramount. The person in charge is always vigilant to keep things safe.

All trainers have completed the Church of England Safeguarding Training and are DBS certified.

Church of England Safeguarding procedures are followed.