Child Protection Procedures

HRGB Safeguarding Procedures

Performance Tips

If your team is asked to perform in public it’s worth thinking about how you present your group to the audience - first impressions count!

Terms and Conditions (pdf version)

Booking and Cancellation Policy

This policy applies to HRGB members as they apply to attend HRGB national events and to non-members of HRGB as they apply for HRGB events which they are permitted to attend.

Booking an Event (using agreed HRGB booking procedures)

HRGB SAFEGUARDING AND CHILD PROTECTION INTRODUCTION AND POLICY

Introduction

Definition
Safeguarding, child protection and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk can be defined as:

The International Handbell Committee

The International Handbell Committee was formed in 1990 to set standards and goals for the biannual International Handbell Symposium.
The committee is made up of the presidents and other representatives of the Guilds that currently rotate in hosting the event –

The Peace Bells

The history of the Peace bells goes back to the Victorian era when the Poland Street Hand-Bell Ringers from London, who were associated with the Temperance movement, rang at major meetings of Temperance groups across the UK. After their appearances before Queen Victoria their name changed to the Royal Poland Street Hand-Bell Ringers and subsequently to the Royal Hand-Bell Ringers.

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Tune ringing became popular in the 1700's when the more musical tower bell ringers discovered that there were far less limitations to ringing handbells than ringing swinging tower bells - and there were likely to be more of them. They found that they could ring tunes, firstly carols and hymns, then chamber music and on to the popular classics. By the middle of the I9th century tune ringing had reached its heyday.