Mill Close, Poynings, in aid of Poynings Church. Give us your surplus home grown veg or pick some up and make a donation.
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Planning Meeting – Friday 5th August 2016 5:30pm – Village Hall
Fulking Parish Council will hold a planning meeting at 5:30pm on Friday August 5th 2016 in the Village Hall.
SDNP/16/02656/HOUS
Location: Knole House, Clappers Lane Fulking BN5 9NH
Proposal: Demolition of existing carport with store room above and construction of new carport with store room above.
Members of the Press and Public are welcome to attend.
Ping! Pong!! Poynings!!!
Following installation, boxes of concrete balls will be available for loan from the Royal Oak.
Fulking Village Fair – Saturday 30th July 2016
Bob Rowland writes:-
The 2016 Fulking Fair and Fun Day, in its new venue, proved to be highly successful. In particular the villagers’ stalls along the Street on the way from car parking in Downside Meadow to The North Town Field were reckoned to be a great addition and so were the teas and cakes in the village hall.
A good variety of stalls displaying country crafts, tractors ,beverages and food were on show and the childrens’ games included the ever appreciated ‘Stocks’ for dads to get a soaking and the new addition of Bubble Pop which was a tremendous success.
Needless to say the new format gave rise to problems particularly with food and drink in the field but these will be improved to our usual standard by next year. Having said this the French Revolution Crepes wagon did sterling work.
Thanks so much to all the villagers who participated and to the stallholders and visitors who came. See you in 2017!
Bob
Click here for a selection of photos from Fulking Fair 2016
If you have any other photographs of this year’s fair that you would like to share then please email them to webmaster@fulking.net
Bobservation 22. The Parish of Fulking
Walking on Newtimber Hill on a fine morning this week I looked down on the amazing view across the Downland Villages of Poynings, Fulking and Edburton. In particular the long shape of the parish of Fulking stretches out from the Downs to Holmbush Lane and what a wonderful sight it is on a summer’s day.
How fortunate we are to live in this wonderful part of the country and enjoy all the benefits of the rural life.
Fulking itself has so much to offer; a great pub, a refurbished village hall, a fair, yoga, toddlers mornings, a book shop, beagles, a highly successful cricket club, a good size field for village events. The location of the village is only five minutes to shopping, fifteen minutes to a main line railway station and access to a half hourly bus service to Brighton, Burgess Hill or Horsham and 30 minutes to Gatwick.
It is so easy to just accept this great privilege without realizing that there are few places that offer a better way of life for us, our children and grandchildren. We are indeed very lucky.
You may think I have rambled on too long and sound like an Estate Agent’s pitch but I do want you to know how much I appreciate living in Fulking. I hope you do too.
Much ado about Fulking
Friday 19th August 7:00pm in the North Town Field, £17.50 per adult, £9.00 per child/student/unemployed/retired, £45.00 family ticket (two adults, two children). Pay on the gate.
Walk, Tea, Cake!
Renowned for its tasty teas and scrummy cakes, the annual Balcombe Walk will put on its famous spread again this year – on Sunday 11th September. And you can have some. The one small proviso is that you first of all enjoy a wonderful country walk and raise sponsorship or make a donation to support St. Catherine’s Hospice, Crawley.
For the 26th year, the Haywards Heath Support Group for St. Catherine’s Hospice is proud to present the Balcombe Fundraising Walk, at Victory Hall, Stockcroft Road, Balcombe RH17 6HP.
The Walk takes in some of the very best of the wonderful Sussex countryside, with fabulous views. You may want to take on the challenge of the full 12.5 mile circular route or you may set yourself a gentler target of 4, 6 or 9 miles; if you do that, we’ll send a chauffeur to get you back to Balcombe! Whatever your choice, you set your own pace and we’ll welcome your support. Afterwards you will have take and cake, and a certificate to mark your achievement on behalf of St Catherine’s.
If you’ve joined the Walk before, you’ll know what a great day you can have. If you haven’t, we want the chance to show you. Bring your family, your friends, your dogs on leads, and have a great day out.
Every day it costs St Catherine’s more than £17,000 to provide their free care to local people across Sussex and Surrey, so why not show your support by taking part in this year’s Balcombe Walk? Sign up today at www.stch.org.uk/balcombewalk or call the Events Team on 01293 447355. You can also sign up on the day itself and we hope to see lots of familiar and new faces there.
Downland Calendar 2017
Sunrise over the Downs – Miles Firth
Many beautiful photos were sent in but sadly some were not of sufficiently high resolution to be included, or didn’t make the final selection.
The calendar will be going to press before long to showcase the beauty of Fulking and our surroundings. We hope to launch what will be a very beautiful product sometime in September, in plenty of time to maximise sales. All proceeds from the calendar will go to help maintain the village hall.
Jen Green