Saturday 17th October, at 10:30am in the church. It is proposed to change the south transept so as to make it a more useful space for both community and church purposes. The plan is to make it warmer, to display the church’s heritage better and to provide a ‘tea-point’. The meeting will provide an opportunity to hear about what is proposed and to express your views. If you cannot come to the meeting but wish to know more and/or to comment, please contact Alan or Caroline Currer at The Rectory (857456).
St. Andrew’s Day Quiz
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.
Harvest Festival & Picnic
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.
Christmas Shoebox Appeal
‘Link For Hope’ deliver Christmas boxes to elderly people left alone and the destitute in Eastern Europe, including Syrian and Eastern Ukrainian refugees.
The fact that someone has thought of them, together with the useful items inside can bring considerable joy to those who have lost everything.
You can make up a shoebox for a family or for an elderly person – details on www.linktohope.co.uk or leaflets from Sarah Rushton at Pyecombe Manor. Call: 855 or email: sprushton24@gmail.com.
Please deliver your shoebox to Sarah (or phone her for collection) before 4th November to be in time for shipment.
Link for Hope also collects leftover foreign coins – so don’t forget those coins lurking in the drawer.
Poynings Apple Press Release [updated again]
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