The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers, has sponsored a research project into the question: Why is it that there is an even gender balance among ringers in the early stages of ringing, but the gender distribution changes at more “advanced levels”?

This website is to enable the bell ringing community to explore the issue of gender balance within bell ringing.  It aims to air the issues, and enable people to share experiences so that the working party and wider community can start to explore what barriers there may be, visible or invisible, to achieving an equal distribution of gender in bell ringing.  Barriers to progression creates pools of untapped potential and threatens the longer-term sustainability of our hobby.