Advance notice: November 27th — this is always a popular event and promises to be a fun evening which will be held once again at the Nomad’s Pavilion in Clappers Lane. Tickets at £7.50 per person include a ploughman’s supper and sold out quickly last year — so let us know early if you would like to come.
Contact Jane on 07812-465-559 for more details and to enter teams.
October 18th — a traditional Harvest Festival Service at 11.00am will be followed by our ever popular harvest picnic — bundles of harvest/ploughman’s food tied up in a knapsack and eaten inside or if fine in our grounds, allowing us to take a little ‘time out’ and relax and enjoy our surroundings.
Picnics (£6.50) should be ordered in advance — phone Jane on 07812-465-559.
Apple Pressing, Sunday 11th October at Poynings Village Hall. Pressing starts at 11:30am. Have your apples pressed at 50p per litre. Bring containers or buy 1 litre bottles — 25p.
Best Apple Cake Competition. Entries 11:00am — 1:00pm Poynings Village Hall (£1.00 per entry). Judging 1:00pm — 2:00 pm (followed by trophy presentation). Open to Poynings, Fulking and Newtimber residents.
Music from ‘Sold As Seen’. Refreshments, Stalls, Apple Bobbing, Toffee Apples in aid of various charities and events.
Enquiries — sheila@oakpoynings.freeserve.co.uk
Sheila Marshall
Join mycologist Martin Allinson for a day of recording as many species of fungi as possible across Newtimber Hill on Friday 9th October from 9:30am to 3:00pm. Wear suitable clothing and bring lunch. Tea and cake will be served upon return to Saddlescombe. Supervised children are welcome. Booking essential. Click the image for more information.
To be held at St. Andrew’s on Friday 2nd October at 7.30pm. The singing will be led by The Pyecombe Village Choir and tickets, priced at £10, include supper of bangers, beans and baked potatoes and a welcome drink. Numbers will be limited. To buy tickets, or for more details, please email StAndrewsEdburton@yahoo.co.uk, or phone 07812-465-559.
St. John the Evangelist Church, Newtimber, will be hosting a concert on Saturday October 17th at 7:00pm entitled Traditional Songs of the Sussex Downs and Coast by Chris Hare and his group of singers. The cost of tickets will be £10 for adults and £5 for children under 18 — this includes a drink during the interval. Tickets can be obtained from:
Shirley Murrell at 01273 857353, shirleymurrell@btinternet.com
Lucy Dalrymple 01273 832009, lucy@arboreaters.co.uk for credit card payments
Gill Keith 01273 835013, gillian.bedlam@googlemail.com
Make cheques payable to to ‘Newtimber Church PCC’.
Breaking news — Get your apples pressed in Poynings —
probablyactually Sunday afternoon, October4th11th. Enquiries — sheila@oakpoynings.freeserve.co.uk
Sheila Marshall
Bank Holiday Monday, 31st August, music, beer tent, stalls, bring-your-own-picnic.
Morning: there will be several races including Juniors and a Fun Run for adults. A lap of the Blacksmith’s field is just over half a mile.
Afternoon: party, tug of war, traditional children’s races, raffle, charity barbeque.
The show will be held on Saturday August 15th 2015 in the Mackley Sports Field. The show is open from 1.30pm, entry to the marquee commences at 2pm and the show will close at 5pm. There will be a dog show, stalls from local charities and societies, childrens’ amusements, music from the Patcham Silver Band and refreshments. The marquee will hold displays of oddly shaped vegetables, local produce, handicrafts, photography and cooking that will be judged as part of the show’s events.
