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Fulking Parish Council – Budget 2014-2015

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Fulking Parish Council set a budget of £7,303 for the current financial year at its meeting on 10th October 2013.

Parish Council budget covers items such as the grass cutting & maintenance of the playground at NTF, street lighting and repairs, public liability insurance, website hosting, cost of audits, subscriptions to local societies, as well as additional training for Councillors & Clerk and the Clerk’s salary.

The budget has remained the same as last year.

A full copy of the budget is available here.

Andrea Dickson
Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
andreadicksonfpc@gmail.com

Finding, Identify & Surveying Invertebrates

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Finding, Identify & Surveying Invertebrates
Two day course to be taught by Graeme Lyons at Woods Mill on 29th & 30th May. Attendees will learn different ways to survey invertebrates from field craft such as beating, sweep-netting, sieving and netting to sampling techniques such as light-trapping, pitfall-trapping and water-trapping. Inevitably some identification will be taught too but the emphasis will be on surveying and field craft.

Local high tech wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise

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Delta Media Server Queen's Award for Enterprise Innovation
The West Sussex County Times reports:

Sussex creative technology business 7thSense Design in Upper Beeding has been awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation ten years after being founded. ..

7thSense is renowned for its Delta® Media Server product – a state-of-the-art video server and pixel management technology designed to take the highest quality films and content and plays back onto any giant screen or projected surface ..

Ploughing the Downs in 1940

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Ploughing the Downs in 1940
British Pathé have recently released a large number of film clips from their news archives. One from 1940 shows sixty seven seconds of a farmer checking his fields on the Downs and his men ploughing them with heavy horses and early tractors. Click the still above to watch the clip on YouTube and read Geoffrey Harris’s Farmers in Fulking for his recollections of Downs farming in the 1930s and 1940s.

Changes to the website

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recursive screenshot of fulking.net
There are three main changes:

  • The calendar widget in the right sidebar has been removed and replaced with a large icon. If you click the icon you get to see the current month displayed in the central section of the page. The calendar widget was not working well with phones and tablets.
  • The various search options have been put together at the top of the left sidebar. Ordinary (Google-style) keyword search may not always deliver what you want or expect on fulking.net. Category search will sometimes provide you with a better result.
  • We have introduced a permanent slot for local adverts at the top of the right sidebar. The contents at any given time will be determined by importance and urgency. Thus you may see ‘Fulking Fair’ there for a week or two (it’s important), then something alerting you to an emergency closure of Clappers Lane (that’s urgent), then back to ‘Fulking Fair’ for a while.

Steyning Saplings

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The Outdoors Project Steyning Saplings
Birds, bugs and butterflies – these are just some of the creatures that a new nature group for 2 – 4 year olds will be learning about on the Steyning Downland Scheme from Easter. The aim is to run fun outdoor sessions, where parents and young children can explore and enjoy nature right in the heart of Steyning. The group will run on Tuesday mornings 10 -11.30am from 29th April to 27th May 2014. The cost is £25 for five sessions. To book a place email: katie.scanlan@theoutdoorsproject.co.uk