CHARMBOROUGH - Key Persons
Alison Everett: A former member of the Executive of the Central Council of Church Bellringers. Originally from Lincolnshire Alison lives in Sussex and learned to ring at Bosham. As Communications and Events Team Leader for the Sussex County Association of Change Ringers she was responsible for social media, publicity and promotion. Invited by the Chichester Diocese to join their Sanctuary area at the South of England Show with a mobile belfry to demonstrate that ringing and ringers are part of the community Alison organised teams of volunteers across the 3-day event over a number of years.
Job Titles:
- Trustee of the Chrmbrough Ring
Ian Kerwin: Based in Willingale, Essex Ian has been a Trustee of the Chrmbrough Ring since. He has taken the ring out to many events in the surronding counties. Ian is also Master of the North West District of the Essex Association of Change Ringers.
Phil Gay has been ringing since 1956, initially in Somerset and since 1963 in Staffordshire, where he is tower captain at Keele. He is very experienced with hanging and ringing light bells - Keele (Woodlands) which he hung in 1992 and the Lichfield Mobile which he invented and hung the bells for in 1998. He has rung 460 peals on light bells, mostly at Woodlands. When on the Central Council he was a member of its Education and Ringing Centres Committees, and for twenty years he ran the Keele University Bellringing Summer School.
Roger Booth: A founder trustee of the Charmborough Trust, Roger now lives in New Alresford in Hampshire. He is also a member of Management Committee of the Association of Ringing Teachers and a former member of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Roger originally became involved with mobile belfries having masterminded the restoration of the bells in five unringable towers in London. He was then anxious to recruit and train new ringers to ring on them, which led to the purrchase of the Charmborough Ring and the establishment of the Charmborough Trust