Today: Poynings Fete (2:00pm) followed by Fulking Potluck (7:00pm)
Category Archives: Children
Poynings Fete
Poynings Country Garden Fete, Saturday 8th June 2:00pm at The Rectory
Round about the cauldron go
Fulking Village Fair – Sunday 28th July 2013
Fulking Village Fair – Sunday 28th July 2013
Downside Meadow – 12 noon till 5pm
A must for everyone’s diary, cancelled last year due to bad weather the social committee for the Fulking Village Fair have worked hard to ensure this year’s fair will be even more fun for all the family.
Children’s games and entertainment, Pimms, local ales, homemade cider, Birds of Prey, live music including Brighton City Singers, homemade cakes, ice creams, cream teas, Sussex Wildlife Trust, Dog Show and over 45 various stalls & country demonstrations.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Fulking Village Fair – Sunday 28th July 2013
Downsview Meadow – 12 noon till 5pm
Nature Tots
The Sussex Wildlife Trust has developed a Forest School programme specifically for pre-school age children (2-5 year olds) starting at Woods Mill Nature reserve. Nature Tots is a brand new programme focused around getting pre-school children engaged in wildlife and outdoor activity. More information here.
Hog Porn
Brought to you by Roger Musselle and Sussex Wildlife Trust:
Bread, milk, slug pellets — bad. Dog meat and cat biscuits — good.
Bank Holiday Walks
The May bank holiday looms and you face the problem of ensuring that your weekend visitors are kept both entertained and exhausted. Walks provide a tried and tested solution to this problem. Over this past winter, the Local Walks page (in the sidebar, under “About Our Village”) has been greatly expanded. There are links to over forty walks as well as a dozen or so walking maps available for download.
Fulking’s Got Talent
Aidan writes:-
In a Pigeon-less world (not for much longer, soz), what we need is a bit of variety theatre, right?
Which is why FULKING’s GOT TALENT comes round again at breakneck speed. Next Friday 5th April, to be exact. Come and support the amazing array of musical, theatrical, athletic and general all-round awesomeness of our Village Young. It’s been a blast these last two years and 2013 will be no exception. Listen, have fun, enjoy… and then stay for a cheerful beverage or three.
DATE Fri 5th April
TIME 7.30pm
PLACE Village Hall.
Be there, or be… Disappointed.
REHEARSAL Thursday 4 April, 5pm.
Any enquiries to Tessa Schaeffer on 821.
In the frame for foster caring?
Could you provide a warm and loving home for some of the most vulnerable children in West Sussex? Could you become a foster carer?
Foster Care Fortnight, the annual campaign run by the Fostering Network to highlight the need for more foster carers, takes place this year from Monday 13 to Sunday 26 May.
West Sussex County Council runs monthly fostering drop-in sessions across the county, which are an ideal chance for anyone interested in finding out more about fostering to come along to.
You can speak to officers from the fostering team, and some drop-in sessions have foster carers present so you can speak to them directly and find out more about what being a foster carer is like.
Foster homes offer children a stable family environment while their own parents are unable to look after them. Could you help in providing this vital role?
There are many reasons why a child comes into foster care. Their stay with foster carers could be short-term until they can return to their parents, or it might need to be longer term.
The County Council tries to place children with foster carers in their local area, so they can continue to stay close to their school, friends, people and places they know. This means the Council is always on the lookout for new foster carers to come forward from across West Sussex.
Foster carers come from all walks of life and from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. People from a variety of backgrounds can apply to foster, regardless of their marital status or sexuality.
What is important is skills such as a good sense of humour, patience, energy and the ability to treat children and young people as individuals.
Foster carers receive a comprehensive support package from the County Council, including on-going training and financial allowances to meet the needs of the children in their care.
Are you interested and would you like to find out more? You can visit the website at www.westsussex.gov.uk/fostering for further information and details of all the drop-in sessions, or call 01403 229333.
Fostering drop-in sessions run from 10am to 4pm. The sessions taking place in West Sussex in 2013 are:
- Saturday 18 May, Worthing Library, Richmond Road, Worthing, BN11 1HD.
- Wednesday 22 May, Horsham Library, Lower Tanbridge Way, Horsham, RH12 1PJ.
- Wednesday 19 June, Burgess Hill Library, The Martlets, Burgess Hill, RH15 9NN.
- Tuesday 9 July, Chichester Library, Tower Street, Chichester, PO19 1QJ
- Friday 16 August, Shoreham Library, St Mary’s Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 5ZA.
- Tuesday 17 September, Crawley Library, Southgate Avenue, Crawley, RH10 6HG.
- Tuesday 8 October, Worthing Library, Richmond Road, Worthing, BN11 1HD.
- Tuesday 12 November, Haywards Heath Library, 34 Boltro Road, Haywards Heath, RH16 1BN.
- Tuesday 3 December, Bognor Regis Library, London Road, Bognor Regis, PO21 1DE.