The new 123 waste collection (including food waste) rota starts next week – it looks as if Wednesday 5th November is the day for Fulking. Although MSDC say that their data glitch is fixed, please check your individual collection day here
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Call My Bluff Wine Evening
Final tickets on sale for Call My Bluff Wine Evening
Fulking Village Hall on Friday 7th November, 6:30pm
Book as a team of 6 or 8, or book individually and form a team on the night!
Tickets only £35pp including all tasting wines and a delicious food platter!
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/fulkingvillagehall/1815973
Bobservation No. 134: Call My Bluff Wine Quiz
Nick Hughes and I started this event to raise funds for the Social Committee. Through the years we have been supported by Quaff, Wine Rack and Tesco among others.
Initially we were helped by a friend of Nick’s but as it developed we did more of the organisation and pricing ourselves.
Call My Bluff Wine Quiz evenings have been held in the village hall, in the marquee at the annual village fair at various private homes, at Preston Nomads and at the Shepherd & Dog.
The ethos has been to keep the cost of admission as low as possible whilst enabling the guests to enjoy good wines and perhaps even learn a little about wine. The largest number of places we ever sold was 96 in the marquee.
We have tried to keep the inebriation at an acceptable level but I must confess on a few occasions it has ended up as a bit of a party. The three quizzers have been assisted by a crib sheet for each of the wines and allowed to embellish this as much as they care to.
I have personally had a great deal of pleasure presenting this evening and have descended into barely acceptable Limerick poetry at times.
Over the years we have raised quite a lot of money for the Social Committee.
Lastly, I wish the Village Hall fund raisers every success in their latest edition next month, of what, I hope, has become something of a Fulking tradition.
Call My Bluff Wine Evening – 7th November 6:30-10:30pm, Fulking Village Hall.
Bobservation No. 133: Hearing Aids
Having used ‘Action for Deafness’ for quite a few years, in fact ever since they used to come regularly to the Henfield Village Hall, I was surprised when they announced their discontinuance and transfer to a private firm, Scrivens. On the face of it this appears to mean that the NHS is no longer offering free hearing aids and support. I am given to understand it is still possible to get free hearing aid support and indeed new hearing aids if you get referred to Scrivens by your GP. I have not had the occasion to find out how well this actually works but would be very interested in hearing from any villager who has tried to get referred.
Election of new North Town Field Trustees
Immediately prior to the Parish Council meeting on 9th October 2025 at 19:15 we will be holding a meeting of the village to elect three new trustees to the North Town Field Trust. This will be done by a simple majority vote of the villagers present at the meeting.
We have three people living in the village who have offered to join the existing trustees.
They are: –
Charlotte Quine of 43 Clappers Lane, Fulking,
David Ellin of Perching Manor Farm, Perching Drove, Fulking,
Ronan Kennedy of The Old Post Office, The Street, Fulking
The North Town Field Trustees
Parish Council Meeting Agenda 9th October 2025
You are cordially invited to the Ordinary Meeting of Fulking Parish Council, on Thursday 9th October 2025 at 7.30pm to be held at Fulking Village Hall. The meeting will consider the items set out below.
AGENDA
Public Participation: There will be a period of 15 minutes set aside at the beginning of the meeting for the public to ask questions or make comments on items on the Agenda. Comments on items not appearing on the agenda can be made at the chairman’s discretion.
25/051/OM. – Apologies for Absence.
25/052/OM. – Councillor Resignation
25/053/OM. – Declaration of Members’ Interests.
25/054/OM. – Approve the Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of 3rd July 2025 and Planning meeting 21st July 2025 The minutes, subject to any amendments, to be approved and signed as a true record of the meeting.
25/055/OM. – Matters Arising & Outstanding Actions – To clarify and report on actions brought forward from the last meeting.
25/056/OM. – Abandoned Car
25/057/OM – Reports from District and County Councillors.
25/058/OM – Village Hall Grant Request
25/059/OM. – Fulking Parish Council Budget 2025/2026
25/060/OM. – Reports from Outside Bodies, Information Items & Correspondence
25/061/OM. – Financial Matters: To receive the report on the Council’s income and to approve future expenditure.
Date of the next Ordinary Meeting: Thursday 15th January 2026
Notice of Councillor Vacancy
To view the notice of vacancy, please click here
Celebrating 200 years of Hassocks Station
On Saturday 27th September, we will celebrate 200 years of the modern railway.
Pop into the ticket office between 9:30am and 5:00pm where Hassocks Rail Group will have:
Historic exhibition: discover the station’s history through photographs
Model railway: miniature trains with sounds
Railway memories: sharing your stories
Kid’s corner: stickers and colouring books
We’ll also have keepsake cards produced by a local artist to take away
For further information click here
Bobservation No. 132: Old Friends and Quotations
Quotations Group
This group continues to meet in the village hall at 11am on Mondays. It is a friendly group of villagers who have become good friends. Each meeting has a catalyst of a word chosen by popular demand around which the meeting is based. Attendances are rarely more than ten which we have found is an ideal number for a discussion. We seem to be mostly female but welcome anyone. Discussions are friendly and cover any subject that those present care to bring up. It would be of great value if more and similar groups could meet up and possibly discuss local ideas and problems as well as international matters.
Old Friends
Just bumped into Harry Diamond in a restaurant. He was looking very fit and it reminded me of an occasion probably twenty years ago or more: I was then Chair of the Parish Council and Harry and I met the Chair of Mid Sussex District Council (MSDC) in the field next to Harry’s house whish was too large for just he and Charmaine to live in. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the possibility of Harry transferring the whole of his bottom field to the Parish Council, completely free with no charges whatsoever so that that a new village hall with adjacent parking might be built. In exchange for this very generous and highly practical offer Harry was to get planning permission to build a smaller house than his own in the adjacent field. The MSDC Chair immediately dismissed the offer saying ‘we don’t do deals at MSDC’. So that is why a considerable amount of money is being raised to acquire the current village hall.
Bobservation No. 131: Fulking Village Hall
The fund raising appears to be on target for the acquisition of the Village Hall from the Church.
It would be good to know that plans are in place for the really necessary repair and maintenance work that is going to need to be funded.
Because I am aged and disabled I am particularly concerned about the highly dangerous steps and entrance door opening out onto those steps. Wheelchair access is impossible which excludes anyone with that need from attending the hall. In order to update this entrance from the entrance gate to the front door must cost several thousand pounds and I hope this has been budgeted for in future costings.
In setting out the foregoing I am only expressing concern that the enthusiasm for acquiring the hall has not obscured the serious costs that are going to be needed to improve and indeed maintain the hall, if it is going to continue to be the asset it has been in the past.