Fred E Dukes International Bell Fund

This is a capital fund which makes grants from the interest earned, so grants are usually small. Grants are paid only for work carried out by the main UK bell founders on bell restoration projects in countries outside the UK and Ireland. For details of the allocation criteria and administration procedures please see guidance for applicants, and the application form.

Applications for grants are invited each year in November or December by a notice in The Ringing World, notifications to ringing organisations outside the British Isles and on this website. Applications for the annual allocation of grant awards must be received by the following 31 January.

Donations to the Fred E Dukes International Bell Fund are welcome, but potential donors should be aware that the fund is a capital fund. This means that donations will be added to the capital sum and only the interest is payable in grants each year. Donors who prefer that the full donation should be used for bell restoration may prefer to donate to the Central Council Bell Restoration Fund, which also funds overseas projects.

Donations to either fund should be made via the Central Council Hon Treasurer

Further information

For further information please contact Jackie Roberts at

Grants awarded in 2010

St Cyprian's Cathedral, Kimberley, South Africa	£1,000
St Boniface Anglican Cathedral, Bunbury, Western Australia	£2,000

Grants awarded in 2009

St James Anglican Church, Menangle, NSW, Australia

£2,500

Grants awarded in 2008

All Saints, Fourways, Johannesburg, South Africa	£787
Christchurch, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia	£3,022

Grants awarded in 2007

St Augustine's Catholic Church, Balmain, Australia	£1,471
All Saints, Fourways, Johannesburg, South Africa	£1,000
St George's Cathedral, Perth, Australia	£740

Grants awarded in 2006

All Saints, Fourways, Johannesburg, South Africa	£421
Christ Church, Rochester, NY, USA	£2,750
St Mary Greyville, Durban, South Africa (towards the purchase of new ropes)	£500

Grants awarded in 2005

St Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn, NSW, Australia	£580
Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Quebec, Canada	£2,275
St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, South Africa	£540

Grants awarded in 2004

Holy Trinity Church, Orange, NSW, Australia	£400
Breslin Tower, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA	£1,900

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