Your chance to walk from Devil’s Dyke to Beachy Head starting at midnight on 25th July for just £150.00 per five-person team (one in a car). Details here.
Reconfiguration ~ Transfiguration
Work has started on the new loo and kitchen at Pyecombe Church. The Reverend Caroline Currer comments:
The church is the only public meeting place available in the village, and is used for meetings and events such as parish council meetings. We believe the extension and its facilities will encourage the start-up of smaller local, social groups such as coffee mornings and informal meetings. In addition, the toilet facilities will encourage greater links with the many hundreds of charities and groups who organise sponsored walks, bike rides and the challenges along the South Downs Way.
Landfill Communities
The South Downs National Park Authority reports:
The Veolia Environmental Trust have awarded a grant of £40,000 through the Landfill Communities Fund which is helping to improving the chalk grassland near Saddlescombe Farm, Brighton, where rare and threatened butterfly species such as the Small Blue, Chalkhill Blue and the Brown Argus can still be found. The funding means that newly improved chalk grassland on the edge of Waterhall Golf Course will join up with chalk grassland already managed by Brighton and Hove City Council — increasing the area that the butterflies can call home by 50 per cent.
Beeding Flower Show
Beeding and Bramber Horticultural Society are having their spring show in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding, from 10:30am to 1:00pm on Saturday March 15th. Last year’s spring show was cancelled due to heavy snow.
Small but perfectly formed
Tutor: Laurie Jackson
Venue: Woods Mill
Date: Friday 11th April
Time: 10:00 — 16:00
This course looks at identifying small mammals and their field signs, conservation status, introduction to ecology (distribution, habitat requirements), survey and monitoring.