Worship and Celebrate:
Weekly Church Services
Festivals:
e.g.
Christmas
New Year
Remembrance Sunday
Weddings
National Events
Maintenance:
Cleaning down the bell frame in 1996
A traditional event for bell ringers is the annual outing, organised for ringers and their families. Sharnbrook organises two a year. One is a “one-day” outing where we ring in a small rural area at 4 or 5 churches, have a pub lunch, a picnic tea and is child friendly! A typical area is our Ouse Valley i.e. churches at Milton Ernest; Sharnbrook; Odell; Harrold; Carlton and Turvey.
Our more adventurous weekend outings are usually held at school autumn half term. Our organiser books hostel accommodation where we are self-contained and can cater for ourselves. We have pub lunches and social evenings all together with food, games, quizzes etc.
Examples
of weekend outings include the Derbyshire Dales, and the Isle of
Wight, ferry “abroad” for the children! The picture shows us ringing in 1999 at
St. Mary the Virgin, Westham in East Sussex and we stayed at the local Blackboys
Youth Hostel.
Hand Bells:
CHRISTMAS HAND-BELL COLLECTION
We ring our annual "Carols on the
Hand-bells;' around the Village before Christmas each year. Our collections are donated to
Christian Family Care in Bedford.
The picture shows us ringing outside the newsagents in the High Street at the
village Christmas Fayre.