Poynings Panto

Poynings Panto Dick Whittington January 2014
Tickets are still available for these performances: Friday 10th January at 8pm; Saturday 11th January at 3pm; and Sunday 12th January at 3pm. Refreshments at the evening performance. Prices: 3pm Performances, Adult £7 Under-12s £3; 8pm Performances, All tickets £8. Tickets can be bought from www.poynings.net or at The Royal Oak. Sold in aid of Holy Trinity Church Chapel Restoration Fund.

Have you lost a bird?

Mike Russell Sussex Wildlife Trust
Mike Russell
Finding Birds in West Sussex

Sussex Wildlife Trust is offering a package of five field trips, from February to November 2014, led by Mike Russell, and including the Henfield Levels (February); The Burgh, Burpham (April); Stedham and Iping Commons (June); Chidham and Cobnor (September); and Amberley Wildbrooks (November). The subjects covered will include bird identification techniques; migration and seasonal factors in bird distribution; and habitats. This is a multi-session package: individual trips cannot be booked.

** Booking and detailed course information sheet **

Call for contributors

Call for contributors on children, business and farming
This website managed to deliver an average of just over a post a day during 2013. However, there are three areas of interest to many locals where our coverage has been very weak:

  • Children — there are many more in the village now than has normally been the case in recent years. We could usefully include a lot more news about their activities, their schools, their successes, their failures (okay, perhaps not), and their parenting.
  • Farming — we all live surrounded by farms. We walk the public footpaths through the fields. We can see the crops and animals. Occasionally we see a tractor doing what tractors do. But, for those residents who are not involved in the farming, that’s about it. Many would be interested in learning more. For example, the implications of changes in policy or regulation for farming in Fulking.
  • Local businesses — relative to the the size of the population, there are many hidden away in Fulking and the immediately adjacent villages. They expand and contract, introduce new products or services, employ new people, enlarge their premises, and so on. All of which is of potential interest to readers of this website.

Unassisted, we are unlikely to be able to improve our coverage of these three areas in 2014. If you think you could help with one of them, please get in touch with John.