PRESIDENT

Eric Godfrey

Eric is a truely venerable gentleman of the Association. He brings style, dignity and good humour to every event that he attends. He has been involved in General and District Office and in BRF and Training matters.

VICE PRESIDENTS

The Bishops of Southwark; Guildford; Croydon; Kingston-upon-Thames; and Woolwich, Robert Cooles

Honorary posts for local senior clergy and distinguished members.

GENERAL MASTER

Sheila Cheesman

The head of the business side of the Association. She also chairs the General Meetings and runs the ringing at General Association events.

GENERAL SECRETARY

Richard Wallis

As well as all the arduous secretarial duties that concern the Association as a whole, this post is also that of treasurer.

BELFRY REPAIR FUND CHAIRMAN

Rosemary Lilley

By the Rules of the Association, the holder of this post is the convenor of the Belfry Repair Fund sub-committee, and so has responsibility to oversee the various projects that this committee undertakes.

BELFRY REPAIR FUND SECRETARY AND TREASURER

Robin Leale

Primarily responsible for fund raising. The Surrey Association has the proud position of raising more money for the BRF per annum per member than any other Association or Guild in the World!

ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY

Diane Reynolds

This post has the specific task of taking the minutes at the General Meetings.

TRAINING OFFICER

Michael Uphill

Training is something we excel at in Surrey. The Training Officer is the convenor of the highly active Training Committee. He is responsible for the organisation of all the Training events, mainly by delegation to the rest of the committee!

PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER

Carolina Goodship

Chairs the Public Relations committee and helps promote the work of the Surrey Association to its members and the general public.

PEAL SECRETARY

Shirley McGill

Keeps the official records of all peals rung for Association and writes the peal report for the Association's Annual Report.

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER

Andrew Robinson

Independently examines all the Association's various accounts before they are presented to the members at the AGM.

CENTRAL COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES

Jeremy Cheesman, Kate Flavell, Paul Flavell, Richard Wallis

The Surrey Association is affiliated to the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. The CC Reps attend the Annual Meeting to look after our interests at this international level of ringing activity. They also serve on some of the Central Council committees. Several other Surrey members also serve on behalf of various other societies.

DISTRICT MASTERS

Shirley McGill (ND) and Kate Desbottes (SD)

They head the business of the Districts and run the District ringing events. This is a brief description of a lot of hard work.

DISTRICT SECRETARIES

Clara Westlake (ND) and Gail Terry (SD)

Attend to the many details of running the Districts business and events. Another brief description of even more hard work. Their phone numbers and addresses are in the Annual Report.

ASSISTANT DISTRICT SECRETARIES

Jeremy Cheesman (ND) and Marianne Bell (SD)

Quite literally these posts exist to relieve the Districts Secretaries of some of their burden.

DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Mike Bangham, Chris Baldwin

Anne Rueff, Vicky Williams (SD)

These members are available to help arrange district events and members in touch with Association activities.

CHILD PROTECTION OFFICERS

Jeremy Cheesman and Irene Rich

Look after the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

PEAL SECRETARY

Shirley McGill

Keeps the peal records of the Association.

ARCHIVIST

Nigel Price

Looks after the Archive.

LIBRARIAN

Richard Wallis

Looks after the Library.

WEBMASTER

A team of ringers looks after the website, headed by the Public Relations Committee.

Phone numbers, addresses and e-mail addresses are in the Annual Report and the regular District newsletters.