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<DIV>>The CC currently has, amongst others, committees for "Bell Restoration", </DIV></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>"Redundant Bells", "Rescue Fund for Redundant Bells" and "Towers &
<DIV></DIV>>Belfries", and you don't think "Stolen Bells" is appropriate?
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<P><FONT color=#ff0000>No, I don't. All of the committees you mention deal almost entirely with change ringing bells. Chimes usually only come into it very occasionally, and then generally when they are to be hung as a ring. These committees don't generally have anything to do with small turret bells.</FONT></P>
<P>>If, as you say, the CC should not get involved with "small swing-chiming <BR>>bells", then who should? The individual churches? </P>
<P><FONT color=#ff0000>I don't say they shouldn't. I said that they would have no reason to because it isn't really their business to. Look at the practicalities, for a start. How would the information be gathered? What infrastructure is there to enable this? If change ringing bells were stolen they'd probably find out, but how would they hear about the theft of some small turret bell in an obscure church somewhere?</FONT></P>
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<DIV></DIV>>Surely any effort to maintain a list by a country-wide (globe-wide, in fact)
<DIV></DIV>>representative body is better than none at all?
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<P><FONT color=#ff0000>I'm not denying it's a good idea, I'm just saying the the CCCBR doesn't have the resources to be able to do it. For something like this to be effective, it would probably need to be part of a national register of stolen church artefacts, with the information being gathered at diocesan level and collated centrally - probably by the Council for the Care of Churches. As I said in my previous email, I do not know whether any such system exists.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#ff0000>David</FONT></P></div></html>