Welcome to the July 2026 LDG Newsletter. At the time of writing, it is currently 29 degrees outside so it feels like the summer has arrived.

Many thanks to those of you who attended the LDG Ceilidh in June, it was a great night, many thanks to Annette Tudor-Brown for organising the event – I’m still eating left over sausage rolls.

We are moving ahead slowly with splitting the Syston District between it’s neighbour’s – apologies for the delays – our General Secretary has been battling with some GDPR issues around this, which I hope are now resolved. The aim is to have the work completed before the AGM in October. 

Coming up we have the major event of the Education Committee’s year with the LDG 2026 Ringing Course at Copt Oak. This will take place from the 18th to 20th of September and hopefully those of you who are interested in attending the course will have submitted your expressions of interest. The committee will now put together the structure of the course and as always they will need helpers and instructors so please help out if you can. Good luck to Jez / Mark and the team in running this. 

Just a reminder that Nicky and Dave Carling have kindly taken up the challenge of running the ‘LDG@80 Ringing Focus month’ in October where we will try to get as many ‘firsts’ in things like methods, quarter peals, conducting etc which will be rolled up into an article for the Ringing World. Anyone who wants to should be able to pick a personal goal for this, get their achievement logged on bell board and entered into the article.

Pete Brown
LDG President