Striking Competition Weekend: 5th–7th September, 2025
The 2025 Trinity Shield Striking Competition will be held on Saturday, September 6th 2025. We are delighted to have Dave Bassford from St Paul's Cathedral, London, as our competition judge.
The competition will be part of a 3-day ringing weekend at Trinity, running from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, with general ringing as well as competition ringing. The schedule for the weekend is shown below. There may also be potential for one or more quarter peal attempts, depending on interest. Please indicate interest in your participant registration.
The competition will be on 8 bells. The test piece is the following touch of 210 Plain Bob Triples: M B B B M sH
The rules for the competition are available here.
Team Registration
To add a team, please complete the form below. Check the current list of teams in the form first to ensure your team hasn't already been added.
Participant Registration
If you are joining a team or registering as a free agent, please use the Participant Registration below. Free agents will be assigned a scratch band, or will be designated a band to join by the organizers.
Schedule for the weekend
Friday Sep 5th
5:30–8:00pm: General ringing
8:00–8:10pm: Competition draw in the tower
8:30pm: Dinner at Bill's Bar & Burger
Saturday Sep 6th
10:00–1:00pm: Practice ringing for teams
1:00–2:00pm: Lunch break
2:00–5:00pm: Striking Competition
6:00pm: Dinner and results at London & Martin (dinner is provided at no charge)
Sunday Sep 7th
9:45—11:15am: Service ringing
11:15am–12:15pm: Brunch
12:15–1:45pm: Service ringing
1:45–5:00: General ringing, potentially including one or more QP attempts
Please sign up for the Friday general ringing and the Sunday ringing sessions here.
Registration FAQs
Does the conductor need to be the team captain?
Not necessarily! Anyone can be the team captain, they serve as the main point of contact from the Trinity Striking Competition Event Team to the competition team.
Can I register a team if I'm not a captain?
Yes! Simply put the team captain's name and email in the form, and they will get a confirmation email, plus email updates when participants register with that team.
Do all participants need to register? Can or should backup ringers register?
Ringers do not need to register to participate in the competition, though it's encouraged because registered participants will be added to the mailing list to get updates on the event. There are no caps to teams, so back up ringers are welcome to register in order to get email updates. Team captains will be responsible for organizing and informing their team of updates regardless of whether participants are registered or not.
If I've registered the team, or if I've been designated team captain, do I need to register as a participant?
Not needed! By registering the team, or if the team has been registered by someone else and they have designated you as the team captain with your name and email in the team registration form, then you are all set! Please note you will receive automatic emails when other participants register for your team.
Are there any rules about the team name?
Nope, please be as creative as you want! Though we do encourage names that will not force us to make rules around obscenity, offensiveness, or profanity in future years.
Can we change the team name?
Yes, but not through the registration form - just email us at trinityringers@gmail.com or via Contact Us and we can update it for you.