The Right Reverend and Right Honourable The Lord Williams of Oystermouth
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.84: Spring 2020 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page The Hymn Society Website: www.hymnsocietygbi.org.uk Cancellation of our 2020 Annual Conference It is with considerable regret that I have to notify you of the cancellation of our 2020 Hymn Society Leyland Conference which …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.83: Winter 2020 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page The Hymn Society Website: www.hymnsocietygbi.org.uk The Hymn Society’s 2020 Conference The Application Form with details of this year’s 3-Day Conference, is enclosed. It will be held from mid-day Tues. 14th to Fri. 17th July …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.82: Autumn 2019 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page The Hymn Society Website: www.hymnsocietygbi.org.uk Core Hymnody: At the Canterbury conference our Executive Vice-President, Martin Leckebusch, used a Sectional to launch a project exploring what hymns we think should be “core” hymnody. Martin’s …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.81: Summer 2019 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page The Hymn Society Website: www.hymnsocietygbi.org.uk Restoration of logo! The eagle-eyed among you will have noted, as soon as you glanced at the top of this Newsletter, that The Hymn Society logo has reverted …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.80: Spring 2019 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page The Hymn Society Website: www.hymnsocietygbi.org.uk Hymn Society Canterbury Annual Conference Tuesday, July 23rd to Thursday, July 25th 2019 It is not too late to register for this year’s annual Conference. This year’s two-day …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.79: Winter 2019 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page The Hymn Society Website: www.hymnsocietygbi.org.uk New Year, new logo Well not really, this revised logo was first used during our 80th Anniversary Year (2016-2017), bearing an appropriate strapline high-lighting the occasion, and it …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.78: Autumn 2018 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page The Hymn Society’s Canterbury 2019 Conference Next year’s Conference will be a 2 Day Conference held from mid-day Tuesday 23rd to Thursday 25th July 2019 at the University of Kent’s Canterbury Campus which …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.77: Summer 2018 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page GDPR Consent Forms 200 of our members have returned their GDPR Consent forms – thank you to all 200! If you haven’t returned your form yet, please do so. Please Note: there are …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.76: Spring 2018 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Enclosed with this mailing is a paper with information about GDPR on one side and a Consent Form for completion on the other. This is a new legal …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.75: Winter 2018 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page This Quarter’s mailing: With this mailing you will find enclosed the 2017 Festival of Hymns booklet from our Carmarthen Conference which was deferred from our Autumn (October) 2017 mailing. The accompanying Commentary to …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.74: Autumn 2017 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page This Quarter’s mailing: Occasional Paper instead of Festival of Hymns booklet. Normally, at this time of year, we circulate the Festival of Hymns booklet from our recently held Conference Festival together with its …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.73: Summer 2017 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page This has turned out to be a Congratulatory Newsletter And none the worse for that! It is good to have the opportunity to share news of our members when their contributions to Worship …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.72: Spring 2017 From the Secretary:Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see our Contact page 3 Day Carmarthen Conference; July 18th -21st 2017 There’s still time to book! Cost: £260.00. As you will see from the programme, this is excellent value! Forms available on the Society website or from …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.71: Winter 2017 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Phone: 017687 78054 Email: Please see the Contact page An opportunity for all our members to vote Hitherto, the opportunity to nominate and vote for members of our Executive Committee has taken place at our Annual Conference and has therefore been limited …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.70: Autumn 2016 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Email: Please see the Contact page Our 80th Anniversary Radio Broadcast Extract from the first entry in the Minute Book of The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland: ‘A Conference of those interested in the Study of Hymnody was held in …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.69: Summer 2016 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Email: Please see the Contact page BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship The third aim of The Hymn Society is ‘Encouraging the discerning use of hymns and songs in worship’. Sunday Morning Worship a few weeks’ ago (19th June) came from the chapel …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.68: Spring 2016 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Email: Please see the Contact page Please see below for important information about Risk Assessment, Investments and Reserves and the Structure and Future of the Executive. ******* Annual Conference, St Andrews, Fife Bookings are coming in well for this year’s Conference which …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.67: Winter 2016 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Email: Please see the Contact page Annual Conference, St Andrews, Fife This year’s Conference is being held from Tuesday, 26th July to Thursday, 28th July 2016. The international flavour of last year’s Conference is to some extent being sustained with lecture contributions …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.66: Autumn 2015 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Email: Please see the Contact page A Note From Our Executive President and Executive Vice-President On behalf of everyone who attended this year’s spectacularly successful International Conference in Cambridge we would like to thank all those who helped to make it such …
The Secretary’s Newsletter: No.65: Summer 2015 From the Secretary: Revd Robert A. Canham Windrush Braithwaite KESWICK CA12 5SZ Email: Please see the Contact page Cambridge 2015 International Hymn Conference The International Conference is now little more than days away. A few facts and figures: about 170 people are coming with 46 people from the Inter-nationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie (IAH), 42 …