Jun 17

Poynings Village Party

With the church Fete coming up this weekend, you will soon be wondering what to do with yourself next month.
Well, all is sorted.

🎉 Poynings Village Party – Don’t Miss It! 🎉

📅 Date: 12th July 2025

📍 Location: Poynings Village Hall

🕒 Time: 2.00  –  11.00

Join us for a fun-filled day at the heart of the village! There’s something for everyone:

🎟 Raffle – Great prizes to be won!

🍔 BBQ & Bar – Delicious food and refreshing drinks

🎈 Children’s Games – Fun and laughter for the little ones

💪 Tug of War – Get your team ready!

🎤 Karaoke – Grab the mic and sing your heart out

🎶 Live Music – Featuring:

  • Double Trouble – Fantastic local folk duo
  • Huginn and Muninn – Morris dancing with a twist
  • Rock and Roll – Dance the evening away!

Jun 11

Church Fete

Hi everyone,
I hope you received a leaflet through your door about the bottle tombola for our village fete. We will be collecting all donations this Friday from 6pm. Please leave bottles on the doorstep if you are going to be out or don’t want to be disturbed. THANK YOU so much in advance for any donations – we really appreciate it! Pippa 😀😊 x

PS. And if you wanted to donate anything after Friday then please do just drop off by our door at Fox Ash just up the road from the vicarage. Thanks!

May 29

Cotillion “ The Last Trip Home”

A celebration of the final days of the working horse and ox, in folk song and verse.     

FRIDAY 4TH JULY 7PM START.  
Join us at Newtimber church to enjoy an evening of stories, song and verse describing the rhythm and traditions, the passing seasons and romantic timeless of the English countryside.

May 20

The next Annual Parish Council Meeting

is at Poynings Village Hall on Thursday 22nd May 2025 at 7pm. Not Wednesday 22nd!

May 19

ANNUAL PARISH MEETING

You are invited to the Annual Parish Meeting at Poynings Village Hall on Thursday 22nd May 2025 at 7.30pm, after the Annual Parish Council Meeting.

Agenda

  1. Outgoing Chairman’s report
  2. Minutes of last meeting
  3. MSDC and WSCC
  4. Speaker
    Chris Horlock’s talk will detail the development of this well-known Sussex beauty spot.  He will tell the famous legend of how the Dyke chasm came into existence, linked with the coming of Christianity to Sussex, and cover its Victorian hey-day when owned by entrepreneur James Hubbard with details of its many attractions, including an aerial cable car.  Other more recent aspects of the Dyke’s history are covered, including the secret “old fort” and its connection with the First World War.
  5. Open Forum
  6. Refreshments

 

May 19

ANNUAL PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

The next Annual Parish Council Meeting is at Poynings Village Hall on Thursday 22nd May 2025 at 7pm.

Agenda

  1. Election of Chair and Vice Chair
  2. Apologies for absence
  3. Minutes
  4. Matters Arising
  5. Expenditure for Feb 2025 and March 2025
  6. Planning applications
    SDNP/25/01039/FUL Extension of time period for the erection of a marquee from the 1st May to the 30th September with an additional flexible 14 days to 1st May to the 30th September as approved ref SDNP/23/00748/FUL with an additional flexible 60 days use of the marquee outside of these dates. The Royal Oak Inn The Street Poynings BN45 7AQ
    b. SDNP/25/01886/FUL Demolishing existing garages and replace these with agricultural style metal clad building using the same footprint.
    Parkwood Scout Camp Henfield Road Poynings BN45 7BA
  7. Litter picking
  8. Annual Governance and Accountability Return 2023/24
    a) Certificate of Exemption
    b) Annual governance Statement – section 1
    c) Accounting Statement – Section 2
    d) Accounts
  9. Insurance renewal
  10. Poynings village Hall.
  11. Village Party.
  12. Chairman’s Allowance
  13. Items for next month’s Agenda
  14. Date of Next month’s Meeting

 

May 07

Support Poynings Village Hall

1st 3 shows had a standing ovation!
The Play’s The Thing: A One Person Hamlet Poynings Village Hall Friday 9 May 2025 7.30pm. Doors open a 7pm
The previous link was confusing, use this one.
https://applause.org.uk/whats-on/hamlet-2/ 
 
‘A bewitching solo performance by Mark Lockyer, a masterclass in pacing and emotional clarity**’
The Guardian
‘This production is extraordinary. I cannot remember receiving Hamlet with more open ears and more abandon, such is Mark’s absolute commitment to and mastery of this timeless classic.’
Rufus Norris. Former Artistic Director, National Theatre.
 

May 07

Poynings Pilates on Tuesdays

Pilates is coming to Poynings each Tuesday evening 6.00 – 7.00 at the Village Hall.

May 01

Support Poynings Village Hall and have a great evening

A One Person Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing – Poynings Village Hall Friday 9 May 2025 7.30pm. doors open 7pm
Don’t forget your tickets. 
The previous link was confusing, use this one.  

https://applause.org.uk/whats-on/hamlet-2/     

 ‘A bewitching solo performance by Mark Lockyer, a masterclass in pacing and emotional clarity****’   

The Guardian

‘This production is extraordinary. I cannot remember receiving Hamlet with more open ears and more abandon, such is Mark’s absolute commitment to and mastery of this timeless classic.’

Rufus Norris. Former Artistic Director, National Theatre

‘A masterful show. The Play’s the Thing is an ambitious work, skillfully done. There cannot be too many performers who can make such a show work, but Laird has found one of the ones that can, Mark Lockyer is truly an excellent choice to bring her vision to life****’ The Upcoming

‘Mark Lockyer’s performance is a tour de force – This is a Hamlet as a tightrope act, balancing Shakespeare with bold reinvention, a masterclass in what theatre can achieve when talent, vision, and text collide

****’ London Pub Theatres Magazine

‘A sharply crafted bare-bones solo take on Hamlet – director Fiona Laird and heroic solo cast member Mark Lockyer are to be congratulated for presenting the Bard’s best in such audience-pleasing style. Laird deserves every accolade for wielding the surgeon’s knife so effectively. It is excellent.’ Everything Theatre

‘Mark Lockyer plays all the parts in The Play’s The Thing: A One Person Hamlet at Wilton’s Music Hall. If ever there was a tour de force this is one. Not to be missed****’ Bill Russell, Reviewsgate

‘Masterful. Ambitious. Skilfully done. Mark Lockyer is truly excellent****’ The Upcoming

 

Apr 26

A date for your diary

Now Easter is behind us, you will be looking for something else to do at the weekends. Well, look no further.  
Hamlet –  Friday 9th May 20 2025. The last show until the Autumn to support Poynings Village Hall.  
The most moving and memorable Shakespeare you’ll see this year. Not to be missed.  
https://applause.org.uk/whats-on/hamlet

The careful editing of the play really brings out Hamlet’s dilemma. Seeing all the characters through one actor helps audiences deeply understand the relationships and the simple staging focusses the audience fully on the text and the story.
This version of Hamlet runs just over 100 minutes straight through. Revenge, suspicion and family intrigue light up the stage in this powerful version of perhaps Shakespeare’s most personal play.
Starring Mark Lockyer, thought by many to be one of the finest classical actors of his generation, as all the characters, this stunning new production ‘leaves the watcher utterly spellbound’ (Rufus Norris, Director Royal National Theatre of Great Britain).
Hamlet is a play about ambition, loyalty, honour and imagination. It is also about isolation, psychological torment, loneliness, and madness. Mark Lockyer (our principal Hamlet) knows too well all about those things, because for his whole adult life he has lived with – and suffered the consequences of – severe bipolar disorder, an illness that has wreaked almost unimaginable chaos in his life. But with time, creativity and patience he has recovered. And a big part of this recovery was his connection and reconnection to theatre. In acknowledging this there is a powerful message of hope that we cannot, and will not, ignore.

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