Launching this month … HYMN COMPETITION 2026 To celebrate our 90th Anniversary and in conjunction with The Pratt Green Trust,…

Congratulations are in order … Two of our members have been honoured this year by the Royal School of Church…

Annual General Meeting – Thursday 24th July at 11:15 Our AGM will, as usual, take place during our Conference, this…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.103: Winter 2025 From the Officers, c/o: Mr Martin Leckebusch Email: Please see our Contact page A…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.102: Autumn 2024 From the Interim Secretary:  Revd Robert A. Canham  Windrush  Braithwaite  KESWICK  CA12 5SZ  Phone:…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.100: Spring 2024 From the Interim Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone:…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.100: Spring 2024From the Interim Secretary:Revd Robert A. CanhamWindrushBraithwaiteKESWICKCA12 5SZPhone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.99: Winter 2024From the Interim Secretary:Revd Robert A. CanhamWindrushBraithwaiteKESWICKCA12 5SZPhone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.98: Autumn 2023From the Interim Secretary:Revd Robert A. CanhamWindrushBraithwaiteKESWICKCA12 5SZPhone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.97: Summer 2023From the Secretary:Revd Robert A. CanhamWindrushBraithwaiteKESWICKCA12 5SZPhone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.96: Spring 2023From the Secretary:Revd Robert A. CanhamWindrushBraithwaiteKESWICKCA12 5SZPhone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.95: Winter 2023From the Secretary:Revd Robert A. CanhamWindrushBraithwaiteKESWICKCA12 5SZPhone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.94: Autumn 2022From the Secretary:Revd Robert A. CanhamWindrushBraithwaiteKESWICKCA12 5SZPhone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page…

The Secretary’s Newsletter No.93: Summer 2022From the Secretary:Revd Robert A. CanhamWindrushBraithwaiteKESWICKCA12 5SZPhone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page…

The Hymn Society 2022 Annual Conference CHANGE OF VENUE Due to entirely unforeseen, some may feel extraordinary, circumstances, our Conference,…

The Hymn Society 2022 Annual Conference Our resumed Annual Conference remains on schedule to take place Tuesday-Friday, 26th-29th July 2022…

Apologies for the lateness of this final mailing of 2021, due to the Secretary and unnavigable circumstances. However, it does…

Annual Conference – planning update: At the time of writing, life appears to be returning to some sort of normality,…

Annual Conference – planning update: The responses to my enquiry in the last Newsletter indicated little appetite for a Conference…

Conference 2021 Cancelled: Along with some other organizations, we have reluctantly decided to cancel, once again, our July Conference. With…

Hymn of the Day – Advent to Epiphany Information and Request for Participation. Following the success of ‘Hymn for the…

New Subscription Rates to take effect from January 2021. There will be a modest increase in Subscription Rates effective 1st…

Cancellation of our 2020 Annual Conference. It is with considerable regret that I have to notify you of the cancellation…

The Hymn Society’s 2020 Conference. The Application Form with details of this year’s 3-Day Conference, is enclosed. It will be…

Core Hymnody: At the Canterbury conference our Executive Vice-President, Martin Leckebusch, used a Sectional to launch a project exploring what…

Restoration of logo! The eagle-eyed among you will have noted, as soon as you glanced at the top of this…

Hymn Society Canterbury Annual Conference Tuesday, July 23rd to Thursday, July 25th 2019 It is not too late to register…

New Year, new logo Well not really, this revised logo was first used during our 80th Anniversary Year (2016-2017), bearing…

The Hymn Society’s Canterbury 2019 Conference Next year’s Conference will be a 2 Day Conference held from mid-day Tuesday 23rd…

GDPR Consent Forms. 200 of our members have returned their GDPR Consent forms – thank you to all 200! If…

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Enclosed with this mailing is a paper with information about GDPR on one side and…

This Quarter’s mailing: With this mailing you will find enclosed the 2017 Festival of Hymns booklet from our Carmarthen Conference…

This Quarter’s mailing: Occasional Paper instead of Festival of Hymns booklet. Normally, at this time of year, we circulate the…

This has turned out to be a Congratulatory Newsletter And none the worse for that! It is good to have…

3 Day Carmarthen Conference; July 18th -21st 2017 There’s still time to book! Cost: £260.00. As you will see from…

An opportunity for all our members to vote Hitherto, the opportunity to nominate and vote for members of our Executive…

Our 80th Anniversary Radio Broadcast Extract from the first entry in the Minute Book of The Hymn Society of Great…

BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship The third aim of The Hymn Society is ‘Encouraging the discerning use of hymns and…

Annual Conference, St Andrews, Fife Bookings are coming in well for this year’s Conference which is being held from Tuesday,…

Annual Conference, St Andrews, Fife This year’s Conference is being held from Tuesday, 26th July to Thursday, 28th July 2016.…

A Note From Our Executive President and Executive Vice-President On behalf of everyone who attended this year’s spectacularly successful International…

Cambridge 2015 International Hymn Conference. The International Conference is now little more than days away. A few facts and figures:…

Cambridge 2015 International Hymn Conference Hymns in Liturgy and Life from Sunday 26th July – Saturday 1st August We are…

Cambridge 2015 International Hymn Conference Hymns in Liturgy and Life from Sunday 26th July – Saturday 1st August The application…

Honorary Vice-President The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, at its AGM at Cirencester, was delighted and honoured to…

2014 Cirencester Conference This year’s Conference is almost upon us and, with around 100 attendees signed up, and a varied…

Booking for our 2014 Cirencester Conference Our 2014 Conference at Cirencester Agricultural University begins on Wednesday 30th July, concluding Friday…

The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology was launched in Bristol on 19th/20th October 2013. It is the result of ten years’…

Sunday Half-Hour When Radio 2’s Sunday Half-Hour was moved from its 8.30 pm time to 6.00 pm on Sunday morning…

Honorary Presidency of The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland We are delighted and honoured that the Rt Revd…