Change Bell ringing dates back to the 17th Century, serving as a call to worship and celebrating national events. Ringers have recently rung for the death of the queen and now the coronation of a new monarch.
However recruitment of new ringers has become an issue threatening the hobby. Ringing is still very male dominated and getting new people to join requires engagement at a local level. Last year I showed the technology I started building on Civo to analyse our data. Now the Central Council has launched Ringing 2030 to reverse the demise of change ringing through technology. We’re building our technology stack on Civo using it's offerings.

I'm leading the development of managed websites (because bell ringers don't make good websites) with an integrated recruitment portal and a management system. Our aim is to provide an end to end user, from interest to pairing up people with experienced ringing teachers to managing their progress in a simple but compliant way, respecting personal privacy.
I will demo our platform built on Kubernetes, with GitOps and Observability built in, and how we've managed to improve recruitment of change ringers so far.