Information and guidance notes on all aspects of tower operation, including regulatory requirements and good practice:
- Top Tips for preparing your tower and bells for ringing – Advice for ringers if the bells and tower have not been used for an extended period. This is available as a PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) which includes presenter notes and an audio recording of the presentation and as an Adobe Reader file (PDF).
- Tower Safety & Risk Assessment – Guidance to ringers on how they can assist their church in the preparation and maintenance of an effective risk assessment for ringing and other activities in the church tower.
- Risk Assessment Template – A suggested template for download and suitable modification to act as a record of a risk assessment.
- Tower safety and risk assessment – AFTER an extended period out of use
- Risk assessment template (out of use) – A suggested template for download and suitable modification to act as a record of a tower risk assessment after an extended period out of use
- Society Health & Safety Policy advice (pdf) with a draft policy that can be edited (Word) appropriately for the society concerned
- Security for ringers – crime prevention and counter-terrorism
- Tower environments and their suitability for recruiting and retaining ringers – a light but serious look at some key issues
- Insurance Guidance – advice for individual ringers, ringing organisations, parochial church councils and clergy on factors to consider regarding insurance while ringing tower bells and other issues related to ringing
- Fire prevention
- Safeguarding – detailed information can be found in the dedicated safeguarding section
- Tower warning notice – with space for local details
- General Data Protection Regulations – advice for ringers
- Appointment of Bell Ringing Tower Captain
- Faculty Rules 2019 (making changes to Church of England Churches)
- Ringers and churches – some Frequently Asked Questions: Managing the relationship between ringers and the church. A paper by the Clerical Guild with questions on PCCs, finance, faculties, holding and AGM, etc
- Bells not rung regularly – looking after the tower and bells where there are no ringers.
- Bells in Your Care – Leaflet for incumbents and churchwardens
- Church Stewardship Resources from the Church of England https://www.parishresources.org.uk/ (although not directly related to ringing, these items may be helpful for ringers)
- Advice for ringers returning to towers as Covid restrictions are lifted (July 2020)
- Measuring tower movement and its impact on full circle change ringing