The community skills swap whatsapp group is going so well. It has become a wonderful thing of people giving, lending and accepting, befriending and supporting. We have seventy five members at the moment. If anyone would like to join just click the logo above.
Category Archives: Social
Bobservation No.68: Coronavirus
How the Community Skill Swap WhatsApp, which originated from climate change, has now turned into a very effective program combining both Fulking and (mostly!) Poynings.
Many gardening swaps of plants and seeds have been achieved and it will be very interesting to see how many new vegetable growers appear and how successful they are. If there is any demand it would be good to investigate the possibility of allotments in Fulking. They used to be on the south side of the Poynings road exiting Fulking.
When, eventually, this virus is controlled if not conquered we will find ourselves in a very different world to the one we left behind. Economically, socially and politically our lives will have changed and it will be up to to us to make sure that these changes are for the benefit of the many and not just the few.
Locked down as we are for the immediate future and possibly for a much longer period, I find it interesting to note the effect it has had on our village society. There has been a wonderful helpfulness generated by enthusiastic local leaders.
This is much appreciated by the more vulnerable villagers.
Keep safe all of you.
Community Skills Swap
If anyone wants to join the community skills swap whats app group they can through this link chat.whatsapp.com
It’s a group of people who are offering help or who would like help with anything, anything at all. You won’t have previous messages in the group but there are tools for loan, for instance.
Green Resolutions 2 [updated]
on Climate Change
I hope you are all well and have had a chance to follow upon some of the resolutions we came up with in January? Spring is almost here and we thought it would be a good time to reflect on our progress to date and make new resolutions for the next few months. Please let me know if you would like to offer a short report or demonstration of anything you have followed up on since the last meeting, at the start of this one, so that I can add it to the agenda. Myriam very kindly took on the car pooling and website initiative and has sent through an early draft for us all to look at:
Any ideas or questions please contact Samantha.
Green Resolutions 2
At 7:00pm in Fulking Village Hall on Sunday 8th March
Over pot-luck snacks, join the second inter-village consultation on what we can each do individually and together locally to make a practical difference towards reducing our impact on the environment. Bring pencil and paper and practical ideas.
Any ideas or questions please contact Samantha.
Minutes of the first meeting: Environmental Impact and Green Resolutions 11th January 2020 [PDF].
Bobservation No. 65: Eco
The ecological way forward:
‘It’s impossible’ said Pride
‘It’s risky’ said Experience
‘It’s pointless’ said Reason
‘Give it a try’ whispered the Heart!
With thanks to my friend Kirshanda of Itsallgoodeco.co.uk
The recent meeting arranged by Samantha bringing Fulking, Edburton and Poynings villagers together to exchange ideas on how to tackle Climate Change was a great success and will produce many ideas that we can all share and indeed implement.
The very recent upsurge in local parish level concern is very gratifying in spite of the total denial by some world ‘leaders’. I do urge everyone in Fulking to join us in this very rewarding crusade at the next meeting which is scheduled for Sunday 8th of March in the village hall at 7pm (please check this date/time on the village website).
BN5
Many thanks to Emma Osman and her team. Emma is the editor of BN5 magazine which comes through our letter boxes monthly. It is always a fund of local news and advertisements. BN5 is a very good friend of our village when we want some publicity. Periodicals like this are one of the corner stones of protecting village life as we would wish it to be.
Fulking Social Committee AGM
Agenda
- Election of Chair
- Election of Treasurer
- Minutes of last AGM
- Financial Report
- Annual accounts year ended 31 December 2019
- Review of activities 2019
- Consideration of any requests for financial assistance
- Activities in 2020 including Fair
- VE Day 75 (8th May to 10th May) anniversary celebration
- Date of Christmas Party 2020
- Any other business
Games Evenings
in Fulking Village Hall followed by the Shepherd & Dog
All welcome Jen Green (552)
New Year’s Resolutions
At 7:00pm in Fulking Village Hall on Saturday 11th January
Over pot-luck snacks, join an inter-village consultation on what we can each do individually and together locally to make a practical difference towards reducing our impact on the environment.
To get the ball rolling, we will start by watching a couple of short David Attenborough videos on climate change. Then we’ll open the floor to consultation on what we can do, on the basis of which we will make new resolutions for 2020 and beyond. Bring pencil and paper and practical ideas.
Any ideas or questions please contact Samantha.
Minutes of the meeting: Environmental Impact and Green Resolutions 11th January 2020 [PDF].