Each year Sussex Historic Churches Trust invites people to visit our county’s historic churches, on foot or by bicycle, and to raise sponsorship to enable them to make grants towards their care. In 2009 we received an award of £20,000 towards the restoration of the east window of Holy Trinity.
On Saturday 11th September, some of us are walking from The Transfiguration, Pyecombe to St Andrew’s Edburton, calling in at Newtimber and Poynings on the way. You would be welcome to join in; we will be departing from Pyecombe church 8.30 a.m.
The next meeting of Poynings Parish Council to be held on the Village Hall on Tuesday 14th Sept 2021 at 7pm.
Agenda
Apologies for absence
Minutes
Matters Arising
MSDC and WSCC
Public Participation
Expenditure for June 2021 and July 2021
Planning applications Glebe Cottage. The Street Poynings BN45 7AQ Exterior Oil Boiler as replacement for internal oil cooker/boiler. Decision b. Aviation House. The Street Poynings BN45 7AQ Part demolition of light industrial building etc Decision c. Dyke Golf Club Devils Dyke Road Poynings BN1 8YJ Installation of 2no additional water tanks, concrete bases and fencing around the tanks. https://planningpublicaccess.southdowns.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=QXS8XJTUKST00&activeTab=summary
Fireworks night
HGV sign
Bins left out
Passing place
Cemetery trees removal
Defibrillator training
Items for next month’s Agenda
Date of Next month’s Meeting
Clerk to the Council Mr Colin Warburton Tel: 01273 857024
A select village team will take on the cricket club at a game of mixed stoolball on Sunday 12th starting at 1pm. Drinks and BBQ will be available, all welcome.
Stoolball dates back to at least the 15th century, originated in Sussex. Possibly as far back as the 11th century. It is said that milkmaids invented the game and used milking stools as the wickets, hence the name stoolball.
Due to unforeseen circumstance. The Poynings Parish Council meeting has been postponed to Tuesday 14th September 2021. The Agenda will be posted later this week.
When most people think about taking part in a climate change protest they might think of going on a march, youth strike or even sitting on a busy road. A group of locals from Fulking in the South Downs have taken a more unusual approach by using their handicraft skills to share their concern about climate change with the community and send a warning message to local MP Andrew Griffith that the Government needs to do more and faster to protect our home from global warming.
Laurence Teillet from Fulking and group members have used their sewing skills to create a small handmade yellow canary each to gift to Andrew Griffith to urge him to use his position to push for stronger and faster action to tackle climate change locally, nationally and encourage our Government to act as bold hosts of this year’s UN climate change summit, known as COP26, taking place in Glasgow in November. This crucial meeting of world leaders will be an opportunity for the UK to be seen as leading the way in creating a cleaner and greener future for all.
The ‘Canary Craftivists’ as they’re known, even donned yellow canary outfits and spent time quietly creating their handmade canaries in public at the top of Devil’s Dyke in the South Downs.
The group have taken inspiration from yellow canaries because they are small and sensitive little birds yet in the past they quietly helped warn miners of dangerous pollution such as carbon monoxide with miners treating them as valuable colleagues not unkind enemies. In the same way the Craftivists hope that their little canaries and images of them sitting quietly in small ‘flocks’ in the local area will gently warn and help remind their MP and the Government about the urgent dangers of global warming and encourage them to take more and faster action to tackle this pressing issue.
The Craftivists believe climate campaigning doesn’t have to always be big, loud and disruptive to have impact and suggest that gentle and quiet craftivism (craft + activism) can play it’s part to show the widespread concern about climate change from diverse audiences including introverts, shy people and people who love to craft.
Laurence Teillet, the Craftivist Coordinator of this ‘flock’ happening on Devil’s Dyke said:
“ I have been visiting the South Downs for many years and I am now lucky to live in this beautiful part of the country which I love so much. This action is to gently remind people that our National Park is fragile like the rest of the planet. We need to tackle air pollution and global heating together now so we can boost our own well being, and leave a safer, cleaner and greener place for the future generations”.
The ‘Canary Craftivists’ campaign is part of a nationwide initiative run by the Craftivist Collective, who use handicrafts as a tool to do a form of quiet, kind and attractive activism that they call ‘gentle protest’.
This year the UK has a particularly important role to play to address climate change as it’s hosting the COP26 UN climate summit in November. This meeting, hosted and overseen by Boris Johnson and the UK Government, will be a key moment where world leaders negotiate how they will reduce emissions to protect the environment and stabilise the climate.
As the first country in the world to industrialise, the UK has pioneered and shaped the world as well as contributing to the creation of climate change. This year the UK Government has an important role in bringing world leaders together to agree a way forward that will help, not harm, the world.
Fulking Fair and RSPCA fun dog show are on this Sunday in the North Town Field from 12 till 5pm.
Free entrance and parking.
Bric-a-brac and books, Shepherd & Dog bar, Clive’s BBQ, Rushfields pies, Teas, coffees, and homemade cakes. Ice cream including a doggie one! lots more stalls. and children’s games.
Give yourselves and the pooch a fun afternoon, possibly in the rain, be there.
