The community website of the village of Fulking, West Sussex
South Mid Sussex County Local Committee
Albourne, Burgess Hill, Bolney, Fulking, Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint &
Sayers Common, Newtimber, Poynings, Pyecombe, Slaugham & Twineham
MEET YOUR LOCAL COUNTY COUNCILLORS
SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS AND CONCERNS ON LOCAL ISSUES
Tuesday 26 November 2013 at7.00pm
Schering Suite, Downlands Community School, Dale Avenue, Hassocks, BN6 8LP
For further information and an agenda please contact:
T: 0330 22 22527
E: talkwithus@westsussex.gov.uk
If you think you could handle the stress of having to commute from Fulking to Newtimber every day, then this job might be for you.
Update 29th November: job no longer on offer.
Fulking Parish Council along with Poynings, Newtimber, Hurstpierpoint, Keymer, Clayton and Pyecombe Parish Councils were the original supporters of starting up a community led bus service linking those parishes with Hassocks some twenty years ago.
The bus services commenced on the 17th January 1993. Each parish paid a nominal £1 to become members which allowed us to provide a bus service to the parishes. It also entitled the residents and not-for-profit organisations within the parishes to hire the community bus whenever it wasn’t being used on the bus services.
The bus services that we provide are available to any member of the public and we accept all English disabled and pensioner bus passes.
However the service we provide is loss making but nevertheless considered by those who use it as an essential service. It has this problem in common with many rural bus services. The volunteers that provide the service do so without any form of payment whatsoever. As we are a charitable organisation we cannot make a profit. Most of our income is generated by private hires enabling us to plough this back into the organisation and thus continue to provide a bus service to rural communities.
Peter Gibbons
Driver Assessor Trainer/Driver Recruitment
Hassocks Parish Council
