Dear Parishioners,

At times it seems that we live in an increasingly divided society. There are divisions around politics, class, race, gender, and views on health, to name but a few. In a digital age it is easier to access opinions and people whose thoughts correspond to our own, so that views often become more polarised.

One of my favourite parables is the Good Samaritan. Even though the Samaritans were enemies of the people of Israel at that time, the Samaritan was ready to risk his personal safety to help the man who had been attacked and robbed. He went beyond the call of duty to help and to pay for the injured person’s expenses until he had recovered.

The Samaritan looked beyond the deep-seated divisions to see another human being in need, and responded with care and compassion.

God’s vision for the church is that we will be a place where this kind of love is shown–where other differences are secondary and where we are united by the compassion and love of the Lord Jesus. In response to his undeserved mercy, we are called to love our neighbour – whatever their creed or background. These acts of kindness may seem small to us, but they can make a huge difference! Whatever the weather this summer, we have the power to bring sunshine to the lives of others.

With warm greetings,

Parish Barbecue Update

The new date for the Parish BBQ is Friday 23rd July. It is at 6pm in the garden of Chelwood Gate Church, RH17 7LF. There will be a hog roast with a vegetarian option. Bring your own drinks. You are welcome to bring a 'talent!' Please email [email protected] or ring 01825 790 269 for more details. . All Saints Church, Danehill with Chelwood Gate July2 021 Services will be held in both churches duringJune with morning services at Danehill online asw ell at www.allsaintsdanehill.org.uk, thes treamed recordings being available on the website for several days afterwards. Please note that careful social distancingw ill con�nue to be maintained at all �mes un�ld iocesan and na�onal guidelines allow relaxa�ons.Detail s on the website or from the Vicar, the Revd. Paddy MacBain(790269). Sunday 4th July 8am Tradi�onal Holy Communion (Chelwood Gate) 9.30am Tradi�onal MorningPrayer (Danehill) 11am All AgeService (Danehill) Sunday 11th July 9.30am Holy Communion (Danehill) 11am Informal Service (Danehill) 4pm Worship@4 (Danehill) Sunday 18th July 8am Tradi�onal Holy Communion (Chelwood Gate) 9.30am Modern Morning Prayer (Danehill) 11am Informal Service (Danehill) 4pm InformalP rayer Service (online) Sunday 25th July 9.30am Holy Communion (Danehill) 11am Informal Communion( Danehill) 4pm Worship@4 (Danehill) Sunday 1st August (No 8am) 9.30am Tradi�onal MorningPrayer (Danehill) 11am Informal Service (Danehill) Children’s & Families Work Update—July 2021 Noah’s Ark: Mum’s, dad’s and carers have enjoyed being together, with even a couple oftimeso utside. Fun craft has included painty butterflies, fingerdot flowers andplay dough.

School Assemblies: Paddy, Josh and I allru n assemblies atD anehill Primary, they are great fun and we thoroughlyenjo y beingw ith the children andw e hope itg ivesthemv aluable reflection time. Sunday Club & Crèche: have been busy during the 11am service, and we have enjoyed too the All Age service on the 1st Sunday of the Month. Whyn otcome and join us? WonderZone HolidayClub:We are excited about the holiday club run- ning at the end of the month,l ook out for our massive inflatable obstacle course. A big thank you to my wonderful teamo f volunteers who help make all this happen. Meg Coppin All Saints Children’s (& Families) Worker 0781 5511142 [email protected] Worship@4 is for all ages, has ar elaxed ‘festival feel’ with songs/multimedia from thelates t Christian artists. The talkis engaging, built around God’s word and all that it means forus today. Worship@4 is on 11th July & 25th July this month 4pmat All Saints, Danehill.

Curious as to what it isa ll about? Why not check out previous Worship@4 at Home, still available on The website here: www.allsaintsdanehill.org.uk/update-online-services/worship4-at-home

Any questions do get in contact with Steve & Meg on 0781 5511142. ______

Round And About In The Parish Wally Dixon was born in 1892 and during the 1939-45 War he was an Air Raid Precautions warden. Wally was a lengthsman for County Council which meant that he and another Council employee were responsible for looking after a length of road, in their case the stretch from the Roebuck to the Sheffield Arms. The job came with a tied cottage, Beech Cottage. The other lengthsman was Mr Gaston (yes that is the correct spelling) and he lived next door to Beech Cottage as both of these cottages were owned by Sussex County Council for this purpose. Before WW2, all of the grass cutting and clearing was done by hand using swaps and scythes. It was only post-war when a grass cutting machine was purchased. Anyway, Queen Mary used to come and stay for the weekends with the Soames family at Sheffield Park both before and after war. Before that visit, Buckingham Palace would contact the Soames family and ask that the roads and the verges were suitably tidy for the royal visit. This was then conveyed to Wally although it’s not sure how, as he never had a telephone. Wally had to pay special attention to the verges as Queen Mary always sat on the left of the car. Mrs Soames had confirmed to Wally’s wife, that she hid all her favourite or valuable items when Her Majesty visited. Queen Mary would often express admiration for an object during a visit and if it was’nt immediately gifted to her she would just take it before she left. I said to the person who told me this that I couldn’t possibly repeat their comment, but to my surprise in the Daily Telegraph in April there was an article which said exactly that, in their words“Queen Mary had something of a reputation for swiping other people’s best furniture and clothes etc….” Then the editors of the Fletching Parish Magazine told me “that the late Eve Thubron could have confirmed this story although it was believed it was trinkets rather than clothes or furniture that she ‘admired’. Mrs Thubron -, a descendent of John Dryden, grew up at Canons Ashby, the family ‘seat’ now belonging to the National Trust. She remembered that Queen Mary came to visit and - knowing of her reputation - Mrs Thubron’s parents arranged for all treasured items to be stored temporarily in the kitchen. The Queen arrived, and unfortunately had read of the splendour of the kitchens at Canons Ashby and asked to see them………” Going back to Wally - The road men had a tin hut beside the road between the Police House in Danehill and the Nurse’s house. Even though it was very close to home, neither Wally nor Mr Gaston could go home when they were supposed to be working but had to eat and wait out the rain in the hut so that if any bosses came along they knew where to find them. During the war Wally got an extra cheese ration which was distributed by Mr Tester at County Hall in Lewes. This was sent to Reg Edwards in Chelwood Gate (he lived in one of the cottages on Stone Quarry Road) who in turn took it round to the local ESCC employees. The Dixon ration was shared with the Gastons next door, so one family received it one month and the other family received it the following month. So that there could be no dispute etc Wally’s wife, Annie, wrote everything down in a notebook and got Reg to sign it. In 1951 Mr Gaston and Mr Dixon were working on the straight piece of road going from Paygate Cottage in Furners Green to the Sheffield Arms when Mr Dixon was hit by a drunk driver. The impact was so great that the machine was sliced in half with Mr Dixon and the cutting blades going one way, and the remainder of the machine going the other way. Mr Dixon never worked again after that. The family was allocated a newly built council house in and were allowed to remain in Beech Cottage rent free until it was completed. Unfortunately Mr Dixon died and so this arrangement came to an end and Mrs Dixon had to leave the tied cottage pretty sharpish. As there was now just Mrs Dixon and her daughter, who was 13 at the time, they were only entitled to a 1 bed flat rather than a house. The daughter, Violet, only had six months left at school so it was cheaper for Mrs Dixon to pay the bus fare to send her to Danehill every day rather than pay for new school uniform and PE kit for the school in . In those days you could get from Maresfield to Danehill with only one change of bus!! Photo of Wally and Annie Dixon with their adopted daughter, Violet. My thanks to Ian and Vi Etherton.

Jill Rolfe 740446.

Parish Nightjar Walk “Churlwood East” & “Reservoir” 14 June 2021was a magical evening.

We commenced promptly at 20:45 hrs,the evening looking promising for Nightjar activity after sunset (21:14 hrs) with a temperature of 22 Celsius and light winds. As we walked, spaced apart, down the wide track from the car park a GARDEN WARBLER chortled excitedly from a mixture of birch scrub and gorse. Small flocks of LINNETS flew up from the track where they had been feeding and as we approached took refuge in the safety of gorse thickets as our party diverted round to the top of a bank. STONECHATS were calling and we saw one briefly on top of gorse. We passed round and down the side of a large pond and enjoyed the view west towards a red horizon, the sun having set. Pausing briefly to scan the open heath we walked on towards a Nightjar territory. It was now just before sunset and several of us heard a male DARTFORD WARBLER giving a last burst of his scratchy song before retiring for the night, safe within thick gorse. Then at 21:15, almost 20 minutes before we expected it, a male NIGHTJAR raised our hopes by giving a brief rendition of his “churring “ song, likened in olden days to the sound of a spinning wheel in motion: hence the old Sussex name for this mysterious bird “Wheelbird”. This male may possibly have arrived late to his breeding grounds here on due to unseasonal downpours throughout May 2021.He will have come, year on year, from his wintering grounds in Africa south of the Congo rainforest. To our great surprise and delight a male NIGHTJAR flew across the ride in front of us, in such good light that several of us could clearly see the prominent white wing patches near his long narrow wing- tips.These white wing patches,and those on his long tail, are used in courtship to attract a male and to ward off rivals. As we walked slowly along all was quiet. We cupped hands to ears to amplify the distant sound of any “churring “. While doing so some of the party spotted one or more deer in bracken and a Ranger heard briefly the final song of a CUCKOO in the distance. Churring had re-commenced, probably by a second male NIGHTJAR to the south near an area of scattered Scots Pines enclosed by fencing to contain some handsome Exmoor ponies. All went silent until at 21:40 the first male NIGHTJAR started “churring “again as the moon shone high above. Then we waited as the NIGHTJAR ceased churring. When he made his squeaky “goo-ik“ flight-call we knew he was on the move and most of us saw the NIGHTJAR flitting above and around the top of gorse bushes and open bare ground giving us very clear views. He came very close as we watched his jerky flight, with strange in- flight pauses of his long, falcon-like wings. At 21:46 all of us managed to see a NIGHTJAR come very close to our standing group, quite unconcerned by our presence as he twisted and turned in flight, swooping upwards to catch flying moths and beetles.Not for nothing have they been nick-named “ Nighthawks”. We were given even more flight- displays as we watched in awe until at around 22:00 hrs we had to leave his “churring “.

CLIVE POOLE, assisted by ROGER GRAY, VOLUNTARY RANGERS Internet Privacy Around every digital service like a glowing penumbra of empowerment is the communications ‘glue’ of the public internet; quite the most marvellous tracking tool ever invented. You may also like some privacy with it so here are some ideas.

To help you with your unique passwords, a password manager application is jolly handy. Rather than passwords, consider having passphrases: “Redmond 8 my data!” is easy to remember and more secure than a short simple password. Make your email password unique and use your email account’s extra security features.

Turning to chat communications, Facebook’s intention to make money from their WhatsApp service has raised data protection concerns. Whether this is correct - after all, when did Facebook ever track you? – many people now use privacy- orientated alternatives such as Threema, Signal and Telegram. Time to switch?

Mobile apps always ask for permissions. These requests often stray beyond the reasonable needs of that app. Judge for yourself whether tracking your location and monitoring your microphone, contacts and other data is desirable - and the possible impact of that data being gathered, shared or lost. Do you still want that app?

Apps are essential for controlling Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Yet, security on IoT devices–and their controlling apps-is infamously poor. Ask yourself this: what picture emerges of your life when your toothbrush, bed and lights all report on your activity, collect your contacts and share your location? Those dour computer geeks have a lovely saying about the Internet of Things: the ’S’ in ‘IoT’ stands for security. Many manufacturers remain deaf to calls for better security, yet the current level that they offer is generally not fit for our age.

Many online services are also not geared towards your privacy. Some have inherent conflicts between your privacy and their financial goals such as Facebook and Google. Others, such as Dropbox, do not implement strong security in key areas which makes them more vulnerable to data breach and legal requests for your data. There are alternatives. For example, a secure alternative to Dropbox could be SpiderOak, or SecureDrop for file sharing.

More on this and further topics, all beautifully free, at

RLComputerSolutions.co.uk/defence Fletching Organ Concert Postponed In the light of the continuing restrictions, we have decided to postpone the concert planned for 26 June, as the event would lose its important social dimension. The new date is Wednesday 28th July at 7.30pm. The concert was advertised in the May magazine.

Singles Lunch Club It was unfortunate that we were not allowed more than 12 places at the Bent Arms last month due to the restrictions not changing as expected. I do apologise to those who missed out on that booking, as I decided to keep the same twelve people who made the previous booking. I could not face all the phone calls I would have to make. Those who missed out will have priority at the next lunch which is going to be at the Roebuck on 25th July, please be there 12.00 ready to order by 12.30. Please let Karen know as soon as possible if you would like to join us. Karen Day 790857, Mae Lewis 740679

School Request– Danehill School writes, ‘We are looking for committed volunteers to work with us on a regular basis. In particular, we are looking for volunteers to help supervise our playground at lunchtimes or to engage in reading with our youngest children. But we are also keen to hear what other skills or interests you might have to offer. What we are looking for is people who can commit to a regular amount of time each week - just an hour or two will make all the difference. For an informal chat about whether this might be of interest to you and to find out more about our school, please contact our school office in order to make an appointment with our Headteacher Lizzie Overton (01825 790388), [email protected] Lockdown Pursuits - Juggling By Benji Mar�n Most people can learn three ball juggling within a week. Like with many hand eye co-ordina�on skills, the key is: Repe��on. Repe��on. Repe��on. For me, the secret was to break juggling down into steps and master each one before moving on.

You can juggle with almost anything (eventually), but I’d recommend star�ng with classic juggling balls or beanbags. They’re heavier than, for example, tennis balls and are less likely to roll away if you drop them - which will happen a lot! The set I used cost around £5 on amazon.

As a le�y, my first test was to get comfortable throwing and catching with my right hand. I began with just one ball; throwing it in an arc between each hand. As you do this, try to aim Juggling Balls for a fixed point (around eye-level or higher) and imagine the ball passing through this invisible point with every throw. Your hands should not move very much, so keep your elbows at your hips to avoid this.

When you’re comfortable with the first stage, it’s �me to introduce a second ball. Start by holding a ball in each hand, and beginning with your dominant hand, recreate the arc throwing mo�on from before. This �me, throw the second ball when the first reaches the apex of the arc.

For me, this was a difficult transi�on from the first stage. I dropped the balls a lot. They’d collide mid-air. I’d forget to throw the second ball. This is where pa�ence and repe��on came in. I aimed to prac�ce in 5-minute chunks throughout the day, and a great� p is to juggle next to a bed or a table; that way you don’t need to keep bending over.

Eventually, with confidence and eagerness to try the final stage, I moved on to three balls. Juggling three is o�en a ma�er of understanding the balls trajectories and how they intertwine. For the majority of the �me, one will be in the air, whilst each hand has the other two.

In this stage, start slowly and build upon your successes. Startng with two balls in your dominant hand, throw one in an arc to your non-dominant hand. When ball 1 is at the peak, throw ball 2 (the only one in your non-dominant hand) under ball 1 to your other hand.

When ball 2 is at the highest point (and while catching ball 1 in the non-dominant hand), throw ball 3 under ball 2. Finally, when ball 2 is in the dominant hand, just catch ball 3 and this should be it! Prac�ce this un�l, by sheer luck or skill, you do it; then before you know it, you’re catching more than you’re dropping.

The step up from two to three balls took Juggling the longest to master. I found small and frequent prac�ces worked best for me, across a number of different days. On my first day I managed to go from no juggling skills, to juggling con�nuously for 30 seconds. Not bad!

Help Needed! Josh Watson writes: I am working (with others) to organise a summer youth outreach event at Cumnor House School on the 31st July-1st August. We will need some help to make it happen! If you are able to help as a steward or as a competent first-aider, please let me know. We would also appreciate any cakes you can bake to help fuel the team, to be dropped off at All Saints, Danehill at 11am on the 30th of July. And if you have a spare room and would be able to put one of our guest worship band up for two nights it would be most appreciated. Any prayer support you can give would also be very welcome - please pray for the young people’s excitement, and that God's presence will be with us throughout all of the planning and the event itself. Please contact me at [email protected] Many thanks!

Danehill Parish Council

The Council did not meet in June due to an extra mee�ng in April and the ongoing covid regula�ons which make zoom mee�ngs illegal now, but add many restric�ons to public par�cipa�on in face to face mee�ngs. The Council hopes to meet in July on the 14th, risk assessment pending, in Danehill Memorial Hall at usual �me of 7:30pm. Items to be considered include re-greening works, tree plan�ng, ligh�ng outside the pavilion and possible co-op�on to the Council. If you wish to be considered for co-op�on please contact the Clerk in the first instance. The pavilion is now complete and has had its first hire and it is hoped school leavers and sports days can now benefit from the new facili�es. The Council is grateful to the historical society working with the Clerk and the archives to map the burial ground for be�er access from the Council website later in the year. This is a large project but it is hoped will provide those seeking family records accurate and easy access. All PC papers are available on the website and any queries please contact the [email protected]

Danehill Memorial Hall At long last the end of Lockdown is in sight, and with the easing of the rules we are able to open our doors again to the weekly classes and interests. There are still many vacant spaces should you wish to hire the hall, and it has proved to be a great place for children's parties, wakes and wedding receptions.

We have been sadly lacking in general meetings due to the Pandemic, but we can now plan a rather late AGM on Tuesday 7th September at 2000 hours. Please make a note in the diary, and come along with your ideas and criticisms for us. We will also be seeking new committee members, as we are all a bit long in the tooth!! Drinks will be served.

Malcolm Burwood [email protected] Ashdown WI With the latest statement from the Government we will not be starting WI on July 13th, instead we will start on Tuesday September 14th at 8.0pm. We will hope to have our Annual meeting then. BUT we will continue to meet outside by Chelwood Gate Village Hall 12.30 - 2pm, every Tuesday. All you need to do is bring a chair and your favourite picnic bites. It is amazing how many topics we cover and how much we learn from each other. So don’t stay at home, come and join us and have a really good long chat. The WI Life magazine was about Mental Wellbeing and one of the things I noticed was the chapter entitled Rediscover Awe. ‘We know that walking in a green space or on the beach is good for the mind. But we can tap into a greater force in nature for deeper benefits. The secret? Connecting to a sense of awe. Take the time to notice the pattern on a shell, the music of birdsong, the incredible depth of colours in a sunset, as if experiencing them as never before.’ This picture below is what I saw early one morning. The sky was blue and the sun was shining and the bright pink poppies with their black spots were in full bloom. The stems had grown tall and the bees were greedily rushing into the yellow centres to gather pollen. Totally unaware of a human, the bees were oh so busy. It was quite a sight and I hurried to get my camera and capture the moment. In the online version of the magazine you will be able to see the full colour of the poppies, but otherwise I hope you can imagine the scene I saw, a moment of awe! Yvonne Smith, [email protected] Danehill Parish Historical Society The society is planning a new programme in a new format starting in the autumn.

In the meantime the website has a new article on the parish windmill. Jill Rolfe tells us about the now derelict Corner Shop and the Natural History section has details of the orchids to be found in the churchyard and burial ground.

.www.danehillhistory.org China presents itself to the world as a nation that is committed to religious freedom, and in recent years laws have been passed purporting to underline this commitment. And yet, in spite of this apparent commitment, Release partners China Aid report that documented cases of persecution are increasing. As recently as 2014 it reports that almost 18,000 individuals suffered persecution – 1,592 of whom were church leaders. They include prominent Christian lawyers and pastors who have stood up for the rights of the poor. Those who question the authorities can find themselves branded enemies of the state and charged with undermining national security. Even so, the church is growing, and is contributing to church growth elsewhere. In 2015, more than 900 house church pastors pledged to send 20,000 missionaries to other nations by 2030. One Christian lawyer who has suffered greatly is Li Heping. Li was initially taken from his home in 2015, during a nationwide roundup of human rights lawyers. During the first six months of his imprisonment, he was tortured, and after nearly two years of arbitrary imprisonment was found guilty of “subversion of state power”. He was sentenced to three years in prison with a four-year suspension, depriving him of political rights for four years. Release partner China Aid works to expose abuses such as those suffered by Li Heping and his family in order to stand in solidarity with persecuted Christians and promote religious freedom, human rights, and rule of law. Through China Aid Release supports Christians in China through printing, producing and distributing a book about Christian marriage, Bibles and other Christian resources. We also support workers in China who investigate cases of persecution, provide support to families and arrange legal aid. Next Magazine

Many thanks to all contributors to this issue. The deadline for the next issue is Tuesday, 20 July. A mail box is installed on the fence outside Marten Co�age, Coach and Horses Lane, Danehill where copy can be le� at any �me. Electronic copy can be sent to: [email protected] . If the a�achment is in Microso� Word, it is helpful if the format is an A5 page size with 1 cm margins and point size 11.

Emma Mar�n, Chris Drewery 740298

For all queries regarding adver�sements, adver�sing and special run “Flyers”, please email Stefan Mercado: [email protected] Glow-wormby Michael Blencowe of the Sussex Wildlife Trust

It’s not what you look like but what’s inside that counts. The Glow-worm knows this. First off we need to get one thing straight – she’s not a worm. Glow-worms are beetles, except she doesn’t look much like a beetle - more like a squashed woodlouse.

She may not look like much but she knows that she has a certain something that is more alluring than all the brightly coloured feathers, petals, fur and scales that others use in their desperate cries fora� en�on. When the colours of the day start to fade she undertakes a dignified climb to the top of a blade of grass. She posi�ons herself carefully, turns on her love-light and shines. Glow-Worm female Derek Middleton Sussex Wildlife Trust When scien�sts explain this phenomenon they use words like ‘bioluminescence’ and discuss the ‘oxida�on of luciferin’ – but these boffins and their fancy talk ain’t fooling me. I know magic when I see it and to look upon Glow-worms shining on a warm summer’s evening is just that – magical.

Of course the Glow-worm is not glowing for our benefit – there’s a special someone she’s trying toa� ract. I’ve been referring to the Glow-worm as ‘she’ because the female is the one who does the glowing. The male looks like a different species altogether and is Glow-worm by associa�on. Much smaller and beetle-like in appearance, he has bulging eyes which are protected under a see-through rim on his tough beetle-body – imagine a �ny Glow-Worm female Marty Feldman in a suit of armour and a Derek Middleton Sussex Wildlife Trust sun visor and you’re not too far off. On warm evenings he flies over the grass looking down for a female’s glow. When her signal registers on his radar he dives, crashing to the ground near her. He then looks up through his visor to locate the female hanging over him, before scu�ling the short distance to his new partner.

This amazing li�le animal has inspired poets through the centuries. William Blake’s Glow-worm lit the path for the 'Troubled wilderd and forlorn' while in the poem ‘Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been’ William Wordsworth woos his sweetheart with a Glow-worm. But surely the most epic verse ever wri�en about a Glow-worm is this anonymous poem: “I wish I were a glow-worm, a glow-worm's never glum, 'cos how can you be grumpy, when the sun shines out your bum?”

Sussex Wildlife Trust is an independent charity caring for wildlife and habitats throughout Sussex. Founded in 1961, we have worked with local people for over half a century to make Sussex richer in wildlife.

Chailey Repair Café isdelighted to announce that we have reopened at our new base in St Peter’s Church Chailey, on the A275 at Chailey Green. We will be there on the second Saturday of each month between 10:00hrs and 13:00hrs

This first face to face Repair Café on Saturday 12th June is for “drop off” repairs. You’ll be able to talk through the problem with one of the team and, unless it really is a “quick fix”, we’ll take the repair away and let you know when it’s ready for collec�on from the volunteer’s home.

Regre�ully, un�l all Government restric�ons are li�ed, we are unable to offer a café facility on June 12th. We hope normal service – with our legendary cakes! - will resume when we reopen fully on 10th July – watch this space!

Meanwhile we want to thank the nearly 400 people who have entrusted their repairs to us over the past year. Your incredible generosity has enabled us to fund equipment for our new base at St Peter’s.

Please don’t leave items for repair at the Church when we are not there! Come and see us when we are open, or contact us [email protected] and we’ll see what we can do to help. Local Update - Roy Galley June 2021

Our Local Environment 50 volunteer groups have par�cipated in the Great Bri�sh Spring Clean. Between us last year we collected over 200 bags of rubbish. We are hoping for more this year as we come to the end of our campaign, but hopefully many will con�nue their li�er picking throughout the year Biffa’s performance con�nues to be very good with current missed bin figures averaging 65 per week out of a total weekly collec�on of 87500 bins. Street Cleansing • Mee�ngs have been completed with Highways and ESCC Highways to improve coordina�on for street cleansing on rural and high speed roads. • The A27 Bypass has been cleared and further work on the A22 near is planned for June. • Permits are in place for many loca�ons with more in progress and the posi�on regarding rural roads is improving with more being li�er-picked each day. • Aroadsidesignagean�-li�er campaign is imminent with posters on vehicles and by the roadside encouraging people to ‘Do the Right Thing: Bin it or take it home’. Street Scene • Theincidenceoffly�pping remained at a normal level with 50 in April and 45 in March. • The Enforcement Team is currently inves�ga�ng several recent fly �pping incidents involving asbestos. The source of the material for at least one of these occurrences is under inves�ga�on with help from Trading Standards and Traveller Liaison at ESCC. • The company responsible for the paper spillage on the Uckfield bypass has been iden�fied and was cooperating with the inves�ga�on. It was agreed to be an accidental spillage but they have been issued with a Fixed Penalty Notice and also have made a voluntary dona�on to Brighter Uckfield Li�er Picking Group which collected the paper for Biffa to remove for disposal. Garden Waste Renewal Progress • The end of the 2020/21 garden waste service period is 31st July 2021. • The renewal process for 20201/22 went live 1st April 2021. • Charge for 2021/22 is £55.00 per bin (increased from £50.00) • 12,000 households have so far signed up. Currently 67% of customers are renewing online. This is already high for such a process and is expected to increase to 75% when we send direct reminder emails and publicise on social media.

ASHDOWN CAFÉ We were looking forward to opening the café on 9th July, but because the restric�ons are in place for another month we will unfortunately need to postpone.

But all is not lost! We are planning a really exci�ng bumper café on: FRIDAY 10th SEPTEMBER Put the date in your diaries or the kitchen wall planner and come to the Memorial Hall for coffee or tea, home-made cakes and biscuits and a chance to catch up on everyone’s news.

For any queries, please get in touch:

Shelagh Gilliam | Telephone 790803