BN5 Magazine May 2022

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MAY 2022 | Contents

from the BN5 area

08 News

from the BN5 area

18 Kid’s Stuff

Henfield Football Club Tournament

Editor’s Letter The Henfield Football Club Youth Tournament has become a very important date in the local tournament calendar and this year is set to be even more special, since it’s the first chance for the children to compete since 2019. We were thrilled to feature the tournament on our front cover, please do pop along (supporting the brilliant kids in black and white stripes of course!) and enjoy the weekend.

The Henfield Jubilee Celebrations are really taking shape; we’ve added a centrefold ‘dates for your diary’ schedule in this magazine, but there will be more detailed information in June issue. We’ve also asked for some help from you. We’d like to publish some Henfield photos from Jubilees past; if you have any street party images you can share with us, please email me emma@bn5magazine. co.uk for our special June issue.

A real highlight will be the ‘70 Years of Platinum Hits with the Brighton Beach Boys’ concert at the Henfield Hall on Friday, 4 June, it’s sure to be a sell-out so get your tickets soon. They’re a brilliant band who will be playing covers from throughout the years, 1952 onwards. Grab your dancing shoes, get dressed up and head on down for a right royal knees-up!

Emma Cole, Editor

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Queen Elizabeth II - your memories

27 Local Interest

Henfield Theatre Company

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The Platinum Jubilee in Henfield

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Antarctica: This Magical Place

47 Local Interest

Changes to the Henfield Food Bank

62 Index

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Many thanks to our editorial and photographic contributors this month;

Martin Love, Joe Penfold, Sam Witherden, Trevor Hodgson, Sarah Butler and Paul Samrah.

Cover photograph of one of Henfield Football Club U10s players with the kind permission of DE Photo, www.dephoto.biz.

Additional artwork by Helen Boosey.

BN5 magazine is printed on 100% FSC approved managed forests paper at Gemini Print in Shoreham and is printed using vegetable-based inks.

Copy deadline for advertisements or editorial submissions for the June 2022 issue of BN5 magazine is Friday 6 May.

If you have a local interest story for us please email editor@bn5magazine.co.uk. If your not-for-profit club, group or charity has an event you would like us to publish on our what’s on pages, please submit via our website www.henfieldbn5.co.uk, this gives you additional automatic website entry. Please note we no longer accept postal or email diary submissions due to potential inaccuracies when transcribing.

Priority is given to local, charitable and non-repeating events when we are oversubscribed.

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Big Bird Bash

Henfield Artisan Market

Various locations, times and walks, for keen birdwatchers as well as people who would like to identify more birds on their walks.

A range of artisan food and drink stalls from local producers. Stall-holder enquiries please contact Andrea Garrick on 07886 028295

Fri 29 Apr - Mon 2 May

Sun 1 May 10am-2pm, Henfield Hall Car Park

The Arts Society, Steyning

Arts Society Henfield

Samuel Courtauld and His Collection by Natalia Murray. This lecture will explore Courtauld’s collection and his role in promoting Impressionism in the United Kingdom..

‘Mary Anning: A pioneer fossil hunter and a woman at that!’ Dr Aaron Hunter presents a talk about one of the first female fossil hunters. Guests £8. www.theartssociety.org/henfield

Mon 9 May, 10am, The Steyning Centre

Friends’ of St Peter’s AGM and Talk

Mon 9 May, 2.15pm, The Henfield Hall

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Thu 12 May, 7.30pm, Corpus Christi Church Hall

Henfield Wild Violets WI

Short AGM followed by a talk by Derek Sayce entitled ‘A life On, Under and Above the Ocean Wave.’

A talk by Tony and Liz Gilks on ‘Lilibet – A fond look at the life of our Queen’. Visitors welcome.

Henfield Bowling Club

Sun 15 May, 10am-1pm, Henfield Bowling Club, The Daisycroft Open morning for new and experienced bowlers.

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Fri 13 May, 9.45am, Henfield Hall

Henfield and Woodmancote WI Wed 18 May, 2pm, Henfield Hall

Our guest speaker is Malcolm Wells MBE with a talk entitled ‘So far so good’. Join us for an interesting afternoon along with tea and cake!

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Two, great, one-act plays; ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ by Tom Stoppard and ‘A Cold Supper Behind Harrods’ by David Morley.

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Cinema: Death on the Nile

Tue 24 May, 7.30pm, The Henfield Hall

Kenneth Branagh stars in the Agatha Christie classic Death on the Nile (12A). Tickets from Marcus Grimes or www.touringcinema.com

Henfield Hall Extraordinary Meeting Friday 27 May, 7.30pm, Henfield Hall

Meeting to inaugurate the constitution of the new CIO, if you’d like to become a member please come along. See news item on page 12.

Nature at its finest

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Hymns and Pimms

Sun 29 May, 6pm, St Andrews Church, Edburton

Annual ‘Songs of Praise’ service. All welcome to join us in singing some favourite hymns in our beautiful Downland Church while drinking a glass of Pimms.

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Teas & delicious home baking Unusual plant sales Open Wednesday to Sunday 1pm - 5pm* No need to book - dogs and picnics welcome Great value individual and family season tickets (which this year can also be used to attend the plant fairs, craft fairs and Bazaar Indian Summer Market) - see website for details *Opening times may change for special events - see website

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th Jun - (noon - 5pm) Great food, music and plants . Pre booking essential!

70 Years of Platinum Hits

Fabulous range of craft workshops available to book with talented tutors throughout the summer and autumn !

Friday 3 June, 7.30pm, Henfield Hall The Brighton Beach Boys, presented by Henfield Community Partnership in this Jubilee celebration for the village. Tickets from Marcus Grimes, Christina’s and www.ents24.com. See centrefold for more details.

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Bishop Park - Parking Enforcement

First Port Property Services, the Management Agent for the Bishop Park Estate, are introducing a Parking Enforcement scheme from 1 May. Residents and visitors will be required to display a valid permit in the vehicle windscreen and park in the indicated Visitor Bays for a maximum of 24 hours, with no return allowed within 12 hours.

There is no parking allowed on any of the estate roads or verges other than the visitor bays. Commercial vehicles have to be pre-authorised and parked on property driveways or allocated parking space and are not allowed to use Visitor Bays.

The scheme will inevitably cause an overflow of cars and vehicles into the surrounding roads / St Barnabas Marathon Challenge streets which are already congested and popucompleted! lated with walkers / cyclists using the Downs Link trails. Concerned residents have made both I was so lucky that on 26 March beautiful sunshine and dry underfoot made walking a pleasure Henfield Parish Council and West Sussex County Council aware of the enforcement scheme, if you and I completed it in 11 hours! The day saw a wish to voice your views on the subject please total of 130 fellow walkers all raising money for the hospice - £36,000 raised so far! I am so grate- contact your West Sussex County Councillor Sarah Payne on sarah.payne@westsussex.gov.uk ful to everyone who supported me in exceeding or the Managing Agent for Bishop Park on my target and giving me their best wishes. The cesussex@firstport.co.uk. organisation on the day was tremendous, many volunteers helping with registering, marshalling Denny Weller, Bishop Park resident and providing refreshments. I managed the challenge better than I thought, although the last 6 Seed Swap Success miles was tough. Now time for a rest!

Thanks to everyone who came to the seed swap Steve Parnell on 19 February at the Haven. We had a very good turnout and people enjoyed having a good rumNew Toddler Group mage through the trays of seed packets to pick out ones they fancied. I think we can all look out Come down to Stokes in Henfield from 11am – for some interesting and different plants growing 1pm on Thursdays for our new toddler group. in people’s gardens this year! The event, which It’s free to come along and tea/coffee is free for included a sale of tools, plants and pots raised parents. There’s lots for your little ones to do in nearly £600 for the Henfield Haven. the garden here and the first sessions activity is Easter colouring. This is a perfect opportunity Liz Taylor for your little ones to meet new friends and there will be ice cream and milkshakes available to Looking to host Ukranian refugees? purchase too. Sessions will be held in the garden so will be weather dependent – we will keep you If you’re planning to host guests from the Ukraine via the Homes for Ukraine scheme or similar, a updated via Facebook if we need to cancel. really useful Facebook group has been set up for Fiona Ayres Henfield and local villages: www.facebook.com/ Cinema at the Henfield Hall brought to you by

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MAY 2022 | News groups/506981560865763 . It offers help, friendship and support during the process and will also allow local guests and hosts to connect with each other.

4 hours. Contact nigel.colgate@btinternet.com or 01273 493037. Saturday 30 April with Paul Cole – Downslink to Betley, riverside to New Inn and back via Hollands Lane. Leave Downslink Car Park by Railway Tavern at 6.30am. Approximately Sandy Perrin 4½ hours. Contact paulcolewildlife@gmail.com or 07841924726. Sunday 1 May with Will Green – Henfield Common, Woodmancote woods, Furners Lane. Leave Village Hall 7.30am. Approximately 3½ hours. Contact greengardendesign@ hotmail.com. Monday 2 May with Val Bentley – Downslink to Streatham Bridge, riverside to New Inn and back via Frogshole & Rye Farm. Leave Hollands Lane end of Downslink near the Old Steam Mill at 8.30am. Approximately 4 hours.

Contact chetsford@talk21.com or 01273 494723.

Big Bird Bash Monday 2 May with Mike Russell – Millstream It is time for the Henfield Birdwatch Big Bird Bash opposite Woods Mill, Downslink to Streatham Bridge, back via Mill Farm. Leave Woods Mill Car again. Anyone is welcome to join one of our fun Park at 6pm. Approximately 3½ hours. Contact walks over the weekend of Friday 29 April to Monday 2 May where we find as many species as mikerussell51@yahoo.co.uk . possible to raise money for The Haven. Last year There are some stiles on most walks and it’s a we raised over £500 and so have a target to beat good idea to bring a drink as maybe (hopefully) this year. it will be warm. There are no guarantees but in the past we have found Nightingale, Cuckoo, You don’t need to be able to tell a Dodo from a Turtle Dove, Barn Owl, Skylark, Yellowhammer, Penguin, hopefully the leader can do that!

Red Kite and migrant Warblers such as Blackcap, Friday 29 April with Nigel Colgate – Furners Whitethroat and Chiffchaff so there’s lots to see Lane, Bylesborough, Morley & Park Farm, Want- and hear. ley. Leave Village Hall at 7.30am. Approximately

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BN5 Birds

I am writing this at the end of March and we are about to enter a cold, murky spell after weeks of sunshine. A friend has told me that a pair of Blackbirds already has chicks in a nest in her garden, she can hear the hatchlings squeaking and the male is flying to and fro with food. I hope the chicks keep warm over the next few days.

In another friend’s garden a Wren has built a nest in her bird box. A male Wren has a hard time of it; he flies around his territory looking very important, fanning his upright tail as he sings his heart out. He dashes around building the ‘outer shell’ of more than one nest and, if more than one female is available in his territory, he will mate with as many as he can! Each female will decide which of his nests she wants and line it with moss and feathers to make it nice and cosy. This poor male helps with the feeding of the chicks so, if he has more than one active nest with chicks, could end up zooming around helping with each brood.

Exhausting work!

By the time you read this we will hopefully have heard the Cuckoo. These birds are a critically endangered breeding species in the UK and will have migrated up here all the way from Central Africa; a lengthy trip that most of our migrants have which is also exhausting! We are lucky to hear them in Henfield as their call is becoming less and less frequently heard in this country.

Debbie Colgate

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A Hand of Friendship for Ukrainian Families in Henfield Henfield Churches, Parish Council, Community Partnership and Medical Centre, alongside various organisations, businesses, groups and charities are coming together to offer a welcoming hand of friendship to the families who will be joining us in the village from Ukraine.

The group will offer friendship and support to host families and new Ukrainian residents. It will offer signposting towards other support to help them settle into our village, such as medical and school contacts and practical help, including translation services.

The group ‘Henfield for Ukraine’, will be calling out to the wider Henfield community for specific needs over the coming months, such as donations of goods for people setting up their homes, or perhaps offers of employment.

For now, we are looking to create a database of those who can offer the following: Ukrainian or Russian speakers who can translate; Experienced teachers of English as a foreign language (specifically TEFL trained); Local businesses who may have suitable job opportunities available in the near future; People who would be willing to assist new members of our community from Ukraine in filling in forms or making telephone calls on their behalf; People willing to offer transport for our newcomers to attend interviews, shopping etc.

A useful website is under construction (www.henfieldforukraine.com) offering information for host families and local people wanting to offer help in some way, as well as new Ukrainian residents in Henfield (the site is translated into Ukrainian).

Latest news will also be posted on social media on the ‘Henfield for Ukraine’ Facebook page.

The Henfield Helpline number (01273 494 420), will be reopening when the newcomers arrive, where a message can be left and someone will get back to you. For more information or to offer assistance in any way, please email henfieldforukraine@mjra.net, we’d love to hear from you.

Revd. Paul Doick

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Rohan’s walk for Dementia UK

Horsham District Mystery Trails

Editor

Luna Russell

Rohan and Anne Dewdney from Henfield have participated in the ‘Walk 30 Miles in April’ for Dementia UK, you may have seen them walking around the village or have followed their progress on social media.

Rohan has Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and as well as raising money for this important charity, this challenge encourages him to exercise daily.

The mile each day is a significant challenge, and his friends and family are incredibly proud of how he’s doing. As we go to print he has walked in the rain and sunshine, all with plenty of encouragement from Anne. Each walk takes between 60-90 minutes.

Rohan’s donation page can be found on Facebook by searching ‘Rohan & Anne’s Walk 30 miles in April for Dementia UK’ and it’s already achieved almost £1,200. Rohan and Anne’s last challenge walk will depart the Downs Link Car Park (next to the Old Railway Pub) at 2pm on Saturday 30 April. They’d love friends, family and supporters to join them on the last stage of their final mile which ends at Berrett’s Farm for well-deserved coffee and cake! Thanks to Kieran for supporting Dementia UK and hosting the final part of the walk. Any questions please call Anne on 07990 512134.

Find them in Billingshurst, Henfield, Horsham, Pulborough, Southwater, Steyning, Storrington; Whistlestop Arts have created seven free outdoor mystery trail games across the Horsham District.

These immersive and exciting trails have broad appeal; play as a family, with friends, or use them as a team-building exercise.

If you like outdoor adventures, solving puzzles, or doing escape rooms, you will love our Mystery Trails. Join Answare, President of the Curators Alliance, to help solve the district mystery on one or more of our seven interactive town trails.

Horsham District Mystery Trails are designed for families (8+), young people and adults.

Stay for food and drink, browse the shops, explore the library, local heritage and discover the hidden gems of each town. Pick up your Mystery Trail leaflet and folder at Henfield Library now. For more information visit whistlestoparts.org The ERDF’s Welcome Back Fund supports Horsham District Mystery Trails enabling our communities to enjoy their high street businesses, surrounding areas and time spent together.

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Friday 20th May 1pm to 2pm Come along and meet us at our lovely rural setting (just outside of Henfield) to see what we do and the experiences we can offer your children for their Early Years journey.

2 to 5 years old, 2 year old funding, 15 and 30 hours funding offered and non funded children places for September 2022.

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New procedures at Henfield Medical Centre to tackle high demand for appointments

enquiries you have (such as sick notes or admin queries) to be answered efficiently; while clinical issues are summarised, saving you and your GP valuable time when they contact you.

At Henfield Medical Centre we are facing the • You will be encouraged to access your test same challenges that 99% of GP surgeries across results and request repeat prescriptions online the country are: levels of demand never seen through our GP system, SystmOne. before. Something needs to change, and we are • You are encouraged to undertake simple routine meeting this challenge head on. activities (such as recording blood pressure) at We appreciate that it is often difficult to get home or in the waiting room to free up our time through on the phone, and our frontline reception for us to spend with you, focusing on the health staff are grateful for your understanding when matters that are the best use of your doctor’s you’ve had to wait. We know it’s not been easy time. for them or for you. Our new way of working will Until this system is fully functioning, please be prioritise patient care for those who most need patient with us. We need all our patients to play our help. We plan to introduce a ‘Total Doctor a part in this new process, the NHS under presTriage System’ by telephone. This will allow your sure affects us all and we need to work together doctor to make a preliminary assessment of your to make sure every person in our community health concern (after asking you some important receives the best care possible, realistically and questions) and ensure that your health needs are within the resources available to us. Thank you met efficiently and with the right professional on for your help, our team.

Dr Karen Crawford Clarke, Senior Partner Henfield This new system works in the following way: Medical Practice • The receptionist taking your call will assess if you need an administrator or a clinician. They The Henfield Hall Extraordinary may be able to direct you straight to an appointmeeting ment with a first contact physio, pharmacist, The Henfield Hall is now an incorporated charity. nurse or a GP Triage phone call.

An extraordinary meeting to inaugurate the new • All patients requesting a GP appointment will constitution will be held on Friday 27 May in receive a GP Triage call (if possible, your own GP the Hall at 7.30pm. Please contact Diane Fuell for continuity). This important call will assess the (01273 492701 or dianefuell@gmail,com) if you need for a face-to-face appointment. Your issue want more information or to become a member of may be resolved during this first call, which saves the new organisation. you considerable time and the Surgery considerThe Hall belongs to the people of Henfield and we able resources. want to encourage as many of these as possible • Your call may be signposted to other services to become members. Membership is free and and other clinical professionals (you can see all ensures you have a vote for Trustees. You will be the services we provide on our website under kept aware of what is happening in the hall and ‘Clinics & Services’.) The aim being that you see attend and vote at general meetings, when rethe most appropriate professional at your first quired, to ensure your voice is heard. Finally once appointment. all the assets of the hall have been transferred • You will be encouraged to use the ‘e-consult’ into the new CIO we will formally terminate the system, which allows the quick ‘housekeeping’ old constitution.

Diane Fuell

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Henfield’s Festival Gardens and Art

Henfield’s own Festival of Gardens and Art is back in full this year over the weekend of Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 June 2022. We welcome you, your family and friends to come and take delight in the Festival that showcases our local community. There will be opportunities to eat, drink, converse and relax. So do make a note of the dates and please send out invitations your friends and family.

Walking between the over 35 venues is easy. Our PSA Testing map is in the free ‘blue leaflet’ that will be availWell done to all our brilliant members of the able in the centre of the village, gardens centres Henfield BP Guild for organising the hugely sucand participating venues and is downloadable cessful PSA test event on Saturday 2 April in con- from our website www.henfieldgardensandarts. junction with the charity PCaSO. The event saw net . On the day an information point will be at over 450 men tested for PSA levels which can BN5 Gallery and the car parks in the village will be an early indication of prostate cancer. There be free on both days. is another free testing event in Haywards Heath Many venues will include displays by local artists Saturday 14 May. If you would like to donate to and crafts people, the work of photographers, this incredible charity you can do so online at musicians and dancers which will enhance the pcaso.org/donate/ beauty that our hard-working gardeners will have Stan Renals created. Refreshments and food will be available at some venues as well as in the pubs, and other eateries in the village. We look forward to seeing you.

Suzanne Fisher & Kenneth McIntosh, G&A Organising Group

Chief Scout Silver awards

This month saw three of our Cubs from 1st Henfield Arun Cub Pack each complete their Chief Scout Silver awards. This is a hard award to achieve in normal times, but the fact that these three achieved it over some of the most disruptive times ever for Scouting, (where because of Covid we were on zoom sessions or socially distanced) is a great accomplishment, to which they should be justly proud. Congratulations to Sylvie Frampton, Barney Harris and Euan Devlin, all of whom will shortly be moving on to the exciting challenge of Henfield Scouts. Well done all.

Mark Williams

Henfield Bowling Club

Will you miss our Open Morning on Sunday 15 May or have other plans? Not to worry - contact Maureen at maureen.ellarby@gmail.com or ring on 07950 395418. Arrangements can be made for new or experienced bowlers to come and try our first class green and meet our members in a relaxed setting.

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Keep-fit-a-thon for Ukraine

On 7 May my class members and I are doing a three hour keep-fit-a-thon to raise money for the Red Cross Ukraine appeal. We will start at 10am and exercise until 1pm at the Henfield Hall. Anyone can sponsor us or come along and donate, for more information please contact me sally. marples@hotmail.co.uk

Sally Marples

Weekly workshops offer: Nutritional advice to help you lose weight; Interactive sessions; A toolkit of resources to help you make sustainable changes including an Eat Well Guide, food & exercise diary, weight tracker card, measuring tape, recipe and exercise booklets along with a resistance band; Support from a small group of like-minded individuals; Access to free weekly exercise; Support after the course finishes.

The next course in Henfield is starting on Monday 9 May at 1pm in Henfield Hall. To find our more or book your place please contact Horsham Wellbeing on 01403 215111, info@horshamdistrictwellbeing.org. uk or complete an enquiry form online at www. horshamdistrictwellbeing.org.uk.

Tess Davison

On your marks… get set… race!

The community in the Parish of Shipley, West Sussex are preparing for a ‘wheely’ long bank holiday weekend in June to celebrate the PlatiAntiques & Collectables Fair num Jubilee. Folk are ‘gearing up’ to enter the villages first ever Soapbox Derby on the 3 June The Henfield Weekly Market hosted a very successful Antiques & Collectables Fair in the Village 22. Race classes will include ‘Children’s class- for ages 7-17’ an adults ‘Wacky Racer’ and a corpoHall on Saturday 19 February. An eclectic range of silverware, china and glass, jewellery, pictures, rate class for local businesses wishing to enter and advertise at the same time! The soapboxes furniture and many other treasures was on offer will have to navigate their self-propelled gravity and eagerly snapped up by visitors from a wide driven creations down the hill towards the school radius, as well as our Henfield regulars. Proin the bid to be the fastest, most impressive or ceeds from entry fees and the sale of hot drinks funniest on the day! Spaces are limited to a ‘first amounted to £200, to be donated to the Red come first served basis either online or by request Cross in aid of their Ukraine appeal. of an entry form. Application date closes (on if Our next event will be a Vintage & Retro market not before) on 13 May 22. on Saturday 11 June, and we are planning other Spectators are welcome to come and watch free special fairs throughout the year. If you have of charge from 11.30am on the day, with parking suggestions for any future event, we’d love to hear from you! Stalls at the weekly market - every available in the field usually reserved for church events for a donation to the church repairs fund, Monday in the Village Hall - are just £10, so please get in touch if you have anything interest- before proceeding on foot to the school. There’ll be hot food by local food producers Sussex ing or unusual to sell. Please contact: henfieldLamb, and Conscious Cow, two licenced bars, weeklymarket@gmail.com and candy floss and soft drinks for the kids. Any henfieldweeklymarket@gmail.com if you have money raised from soapbox entries will go to anything interesting or unusual to sell.

Shipley CE Primary school. The organisers are Angela Manuel looking for volunteer marshals to help with the event. If you are interested in getting involved New Weight Off Workshop in Henfield contact the organisers via shipleysoapboxderby@ gmail.com Are you fed up with calorie counting? Do you want to know how to lose weight and not feel Sarah Cuthbertson like you are on a diet? If you are ready to create healthier habits then our free Weight off WorkHymns and Pimms shops (WOW) could be the course for you (refundable deposit required). Over 12 weeks WOW We are holding our annual ‘Songs of Praise’ focuses on healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle, service in our beautiful Downland Church of St Andrews Church in Edburton on Sunday 29 not on restriction and calorie counting. Our May at 6pm. All welcome to join us in singing course is designed to help you sustain healthy some favourite hymns whilst drinking a glass of behaviours and achieve a healthy weight loss.

Pimms - it will make a lovely start to the Jubilee Our workshops focus on weight loss, physicelebrations! cal and emotional wellbeing along with advice Jane Warne and tips for sustainable lifestyle improvements.

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fun packed evening of celebration. We do expect this to be a sell out so hurry along and get your tickets.

Tickets cost £15, are cash only and available from Marcus Grimes and Christina’s in the High Street.

Seats are unreserved. A pre-concert curry meal at £7.50 is also bookable when purchasing the concert tickets. Tickets are also available online at www.ent24.com. Select Henfield/Henfield Hall. For online bookings there is a £1.50 service charge.

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Concert on 3 June to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

If you were at the great Henfield Summer of Love back in 2019 you know that you’re in for a great night. In conjunction with Henfield Parish Council we are bringing back the Brighton Beach Boys on Friday 3 June for a fabulous evening of Platinum Hits across all the decades of Her Majesty’s reign.

The Brighton Beach Boys are made up of professional musicians and have been entertaining the public at all the largest venues in Sussex and further afield for over twenty years. They regularly play during the Brighton Festival to sell out audiences. To celebrate this great occasion and the lifting of restrictions, forget today’s problems for a while, put on your dancing shoes and join in a

The Henfield Club Jubilee celebrations

Come along to The Henfield Club Open Day for non-members on Saturday 4 June from 12 - 4pm to have a look round and see what your village Club has to offer. Learn about the history of the Club whilst viewing some old photos of Henfield, and see if you can spot anyone you know from days gone by!

We’ll have a Jubilee colouring competition for the children, and a chance to play some traditional games upstairs in the Don Scutt room. A special Jubilee Ale, from a local brewery, will be available to buy from our well stocked bar. We look forward to seeing you. Any queries please contact us by email at thehenfieldclub@gmail.com

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fter a three-year gap due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Henfield Football Club are excited for the return of its youth football tournament which is set to be bigger and better than ever.

This year’s tournament, which is the eighth the club has hosted since its inaugural tournament in 2012, is taking place on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 May on the Kingsfield, and will see 138 youth teams from 51 clubs from across Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire taking part.

The tournament, whose headline sponsor is Pagoda Security, will feature matches across nine age groups ranging from age six to 16. Henfield Football Club will be strongly represented with both boys’ and girls’ teams across all age groups of the competition.

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As well as watching the exciting football action on the pitches across the Kingsfield and at St Peter’s C of E Primary School, there will also be lots of other attractions to keep tournament visitors entertained including a bouncy castle, Horsebox Coffee, bar, ice creams, burgers, Goodness smoothies and sweet and cakes stalls.

Tournament director Joe Warner said: “The number of clubs signing up to the tournament has been unprecedented. There is so much buzz and excitement for it, including from many Henfield players who have never had the chance to play in a home tournament due to the pandemic.”

The club warmly welcomes everyone to come along and enjoy the football action and great atmosphere of the event, but parking is very limited, so if you live locally you are advised to walk to the Kingsfield if possible. If you need to drive please park responsibly in designated car parks. The first matches will start at 9am on both days, with games until 5pm on Saturday and 4pm on Sunday.

Sam Witherden, Henfield Football Club co-chair, said: “We are thrilled to bring the tournament back this year, an event which has been over a year in the planning. We can’t wait to welcome visitors to our wonderful football club and to our beautiful village over the tournament weekend.” www.henfieldbn5.co.uk

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He adds: “We are delighted to have had such brilliant support from local businesses who are helping to sponsor each age group’s trophies and medals, which will mean so much to the players. The club is also very grateful to Henfield Parish Council, Henfield Leisure Centre and Henfield Medical Centre for their support over the tournament weekend.”

If you want any more information about the tournament please contact henfieldfcjoe@ gmail.com or follow the club on Facebook at Henfield Football Club and on Instagram at henfieldfootballclub.

Henfield teams across a range of age groups have had great seasons and we are ending the season on a high, with the U14 girls team, managed by Gavin Williams representing the county in the national FA Youth Futsal Cup 20/21 in Kent later this month.

The team have also reached the semi-finals of the league cup. The U10s, managed by Tom Wilson, also won the Henfield & District Youth League Cup Final (plate competition) hosted at Horsham FC in early April.

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Henfield Museum are also gathering photos for their Jubilee exhibition (and to keep for posterity) so we’ll be asking your permission to pass your photos on to the team at the Museum too.

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Over the last few years Sussex has seen an enterprising array of small rural businesses popping up all over the county. Foot of the Downs is one of these – about to celebrate its first anniversary.

food comes from, of what farmers are doing for nature, and welcoming visitors to enjoy the fabulous countryside that is our workplace” says Annie Brown (nee Harris), founder of the new project.

Run by a long-established Sussex farming family based near Edburton, Foot of the Downs is a small enterprise that offers sustainable glamping for up to 10 people in its two very stylish pods and shepherd’s hut. Views of the Downs and Weald from the site are simply glorious and couples and families can expect full modern eco-friendly facilities, each unit is self contained with its own loo, shower and kitchenette. A fire pit is ideal for barbecues. A welcome pack contains local produce including tea, coffee, cookies, body wash, and more.

There are a variety of breakfast and BBQ packs which can be pre-ordered and left in your accommodation ready for you to cook during your stay. A free booklet outlines local walks and activities but, of course, the site’s proximity to the South Downs is its main attraction.

Beyond offering very stylish rural accommodation with full facilities, the Harris family is appealing to everyone to make the most of the countryside. The farm manager, David Ellin, is passionate about wildlife and downland birds such as Lapwing and Corn Bunting are flourishing on the farm.

“We are custodians of this landscape; alongside running a mixed farming enterprise, producing meat and grain, we feed the birds during the ‘hungry gap’ from January to March and keep a protective eye on our local flora and fauna,” adds Annie.

Over the last 100 years, three generations of the Harris family have been farming on the South Downs; they have watched the rural economy suffer due to a number of factors quite beyond their control. Their future now depends on diversification and through Foot of the Downs they are reaching out to an increasing number of people searching out sustainable staycations.

David’s wife, Angela, is the site manager. She is busy building links with local enterprises to promote a whole raft of activities for families and friends to make the most of their stay – Dark Skies Festival, cycling and walking, photography, local history and much more... there is huge scope to share what is available right on our doorstep.

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Foot of the Downs offers visitors the opportunity to stay on a working farm, and make the most of the fantastic public access in the area. They are embracing the pledge to follow the Countryside Code: Enjoy, Protect and Preserve.

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hile amateur theatre sometimes struggles to recruit young members, Henfield Theatre Company (HTC) is blessed with a very talented and immensely capable youth wing. Their last production was shown only to invited audiences who were enthralled by the exuberance and dramatic sensitivity shown by the young people on stage.

Now the public are going to have the opportunity to see them in action. Henfield Youth Theatre Company will be staging a one act play which will be part of an exciting double bill coming to The Henfield Hall on 21 May. The youth play is ‘The Real Inspector Hound’, by Tom Stoppard, a classic ‘whodunnit?’, but with a twist. This is a play within a play which explores reality versus illusion… two theatre critics get mixed up in the performance on stage, engaging alongside the fictional characters as themselves! This unusual play was masterfully crafted by Stoppard in the early 1960s and is an absorbing mixture of farce and satire. The Henfield production is directed by Karen Blunden who is experienced with drama education and has been largely responsible for furthering the development of the HTC youth wing.

The second play in the double bill, featuring some of the more senior members of HTC, is ‘A Cold Supper Behind Harrods’ by David Morley. The author was inspired to write this play when he met veterans of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and became aware of undercurrents of animosity amongst them. Invited to the Special Forces Club – an ‘anonymous building behind

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In the play, which is based on true events, three former SOE operatives are reunited in 1997 when the BBC are making a television series about heroes and heroines of World War II. As they await their turn to be interviewed, they discuss the circumstances surrounding the death of a lovely, spirited, young woman who was arrested as soon as she had landed in occupied France.

Set in the garden of an English country house, what appears at first to be a gentle story of three elderly people reminiscing, becomes an intriguing one of unfinished business, guilt and revenge. This production is directed by Malcolm Harrington, one of Henfield’s well known and very experienced actors and directors.

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Most people are responsible for the cost of their care if their assets exceed £23,250 (although the home may sometimes be disregarded). Due to worries about the cost of care, I’m often asked how to protect assets in order to leave a healthy inheritance.

Often, clients want advice on locally advertised ‘wealth preservation trusts’ or ‘property protection trusts’. Marketed under a range of names, they typically cost £2,000-£8,000. Usually, the trusts are set up to hold the family home, claiming to reduce inheritance tax (‘IHT’) and protect assets from care fees. These arrangements are troubling though because, in my experience, they are often wholly inappropriate, especially now that the Ministry of Justice has scrapped the planned probate fee rise.

It’s rarely a good idea to give your property away, even to a trust, as it can leave you without full control of the property and difficulty in arranging future finance.

Most trusts I’ve seen were sold to save IHT, even when the client had no IHT problem. Broadly, spouses or civil partners can, between them, give up £650,000 tax-free, and a further £350,000 if their main residence passes to direct lineal descendants. In nearly all trust cases I’ve seen, these exemptions meant that no IHT was payable anyway.

The other (misleading) selling point of these trusts is that they will ‘protect the home from care fees’.

A ‘Deliberate Deprivation of Assets’ is where a person intentionally diminishes their wealth to accelerate contributions by a local authority towards the cost of care. Wherever possible, local authorities try to use such an argument to refuse to make payments.

A local authority’s case is much easier to prove as a person ages, where there is a relevant diagnosis or if the scheme itself is advertised to ‘save care fees’! In addition, one can’t rely on an IHT planning argument if there isn’t an IHT problem in the first place.

As a result, unwitting clients can pay thousands for an unsuitable scheme, provided by an unregulated company, often with insufficient insurance. As such, there is little recourse if things go wrong.

There are a number of ways to limit care fees, including simply having the right type of will. Such wills cost a fraction of the price of these trusts and you won’t be parting with your home. So please, before you commit to a lifetime trust, do some research and decide if it’s right for you.

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On 6 February this year Her Majesty the Queen became the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, with an amazing 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. She came to the throne in 1952 aged just 25 after the death of her father King George VI. All across the country communities are planning to come together to celebrate this unique anniversary over the bank holiday weekend, from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th June. Henfield is no exception with a range of activities and events planned, even starting the proceeding weekend! Here is a snapshot of what is planned next month so that you can save some dates in your diary; we’ll be publishing more extensive information in the June issue of BN5.

Preceded at 4.30pm with tea embracing the Jubilee theme.

Free entry and activities, including sports, children’s games, arts & crafts, Jubilee crown making, trampolining, Karaoke in Henfield Youth Club, outdoor skills from Henfield guides and skateboard classes from a professional. There will be refreshments to purchase.

In line with instructions from the Palace and echoing similar celebrations across the country, the Beacon will be lit at 9.45pm on Thursday 2nd June. All are welcome to come and enjoy the famous B-P Guild beer tent and BBQ, which will start earlier in the evening (exact times tbc). There are plans for some musical entertainment. Please try to walk or park in the village car parks as parking is extremely limited.

Local knitters have made beautiful bunting for this Afternoon Tea, all are welcome to come along.

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Henfield Community Partnership and Henfield Parish Council are pleased to bring the Brighton Beach Boys back to the village for a fabulous evening of Platinum Hits across all the decades of Her Majesty’s reign. The Brighton Beach Boys regularly play to sell out audiences and were a huge hit when they performed at Henfield’s Summer of Love concert in 2019. Put on your dancing shoes and join in a fun packed evening of celebration!

Tickets are £15, available from Marcus Grimes and Christina’s in the High Street (cash payment). A pre-concert curry at £7.50 is also bookable when purchasing the concert tickets.

Tickets are also available online at www.ents24.com/henfieldevents/the-henfield-hall. Any proceeds will go to Henfield Youth Club and the Henfield Haven.

You’ll find Henfield High Street bedecked with bunting and decorated windows, with many of the shops and businesses joining in the celebrations! There’s a Coronation themed afternoon tea at Christina’s; crown making and regal smoothies at Goodness; an exhibition of Henfield photos at the Henfield Club and the bar open serving Jubilee ale; a singing display outside Aspirations Dance School; a street party with ice cream and tea at Stokes; fun children’s activities outside R&H Pets; a Coronation celebration at the Post House café garden with royal themed food with beers, wine and prosecco; children’s face-painting at the Evangelical Church; Indian tasters outside Little India and paella at Relish, plus lots more!

Organised by Henfield Parish council, this is the real Jubilee headliner! Family fun with traditional games, your own picnics and afternoon teas on the Memorial Field.

Everyone is encouraged to dress up in vintage and fancy dress from the last 70 years with ‘styles of the decades’ and lots of prizes There are children’s fancy dress competitions in three age categories (pre-school, KS1 and KS2). Homemade costumes are really encouraged so let your creative skills blossom!

Bring your own picnic (various Henfield cafes are providing picnic items or pre-ordered picnics, or you can purchase from the Artisan Food Market) and there are food stalls from Rushfields, Goodness and a pizza van plus delicious afternoon teas from the LadyBirds and an ice cream van.

Traditional games take place in the arena for children and adults (with prizes), there’s a great trail through the woods from Henfield Joggers and Patcham Silver Band are providing the musical accompaniment. Bring your own rugs or chairs Parking is very limited, so please walk or you can or catch the Community Minibus (departing from the Henfield Hall).

The talented bellringers from St Peter’s Church, Henfield will be spending two and a half hours ringing the bells between the highly symbolic times of 19.52 and 20.22!

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This Magical Place

M

y expedition to Antarctica was in 2019.

The big day started on Sunday 25 February. Did I get to Scott’s base…?

It started well and then due to weather conditions it was decided to make two landings over a four hour period. I was supposed to be on the second landing but sneaked on the first boat to leave.

I was not going to wait when we were only 300 metres from the beach and I could see Scott’s hut. So near yet so far. I could not believe I was here! What a moment for me to actually step inside his hut. I paused at the door that Scott had emerged from to start his trek to the south pole. A very moving experience.

I had been thinking about putting this show together ever since 2014 when Henfield Theatre Company performed Terra Nova. I wanted to use more visual techniques then to give a sense of beauty and poignancy to the story of Scott of the Antarctic. Technically it was difficult, so this production gives me a chance to experiment with those ideas. Following my emotional expedition to Antarctica and Scott’s hut on Ross Island in 2019, I came back with a lot of video footage and stills that could present Antarctica in all its glory.

This combined with a lifetime obsession with the Golden Age of Antarctic Exploration gave me the impetus to produce this piece of theatre.

Antarctica: This Magical Place is an experience using the Edwardian explorer Captain Scott to tell the story of 120 years of exploration, discovery and science. From the early 20th Century, to the present day. Captain Scott’s tragic expedition and subsequent legacy has helped to establish this vast continent as a constant light in the life of our planet. Using unique video and still images

from Antarctica, he takes us through the ages showing how this vast continent has been explored and gives an insight to the people who have investigated its valuable climate. One we need to protect for future generations.

There have been many books written about Antarctica, its explorer’s and its secrets and recently the discovery of Shackleton’s ship Endurance has shown the amount of interest we still have in this magical place.

This will be the world premiere of this production at the Brighton Fringe Festival 2022. Performance dates are: 6,7,8 May 2022 at 6.15pm; 27,28,29 May 2022 at 6.15pm; 2,3 June at 7.45pm. Tickets are now available at: Rotundatheatre.com or Brightonfringe.org I would like to thank the following for their help and contributions to this production; The Scott Polar Research Institute; Doug Parrott for the sledge construction; StageProjections.uk; Peter Ingledew; BBC; Ian Henham; TimeStorm Films; Susan Solomon; BFI (British Film Institute); Heritage Expeditions.

Any profit from the performances will be donated to The Scott Polar Research Institute Field Team, to support their work in Antarctica.

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Are you in crisis?

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Ask for the Food Bank and tell them you live in Henfield.

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By calling the number above. An adviser will be able to get you help and support.

What will Horsham Matters ask me?

The trained food bank adviser will ask you a few questions to assess your situation.

Do I need to be on benefits or claiming Pension Credits to access support?

No, there is no set criteria, other than being unable to afford to buy basic food.

Will I have to obtain a referral voucher?

The Food Bank adviser will assess your situation and either give you a voucher code to be redeemed in the Horsham Matters Hub van which visits the Henfield Library Car Park every Friday morning between 11.45am-12.45pm, or refer you for a delivery of an Emergency Food Parcel.

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Do I need to travel to access my food parcel?

If your need is not urgent and you’re able to visit the Horsham Matters Hub van you can come and select your own food parcel. If however your need is urgent or you cannot travel then local volunteers will arrange for it to be delivered discreetly to your home.

Do you need donations of food?

Horsham Matters welcome the donation of non-perishable food items in the collection baskets placed in Budgens Supermarket and in the porch of St Peter’s Church.

For up to date lists of what they need please see horshamdistrict.foodbank. org.uk/give-help/donate-food/

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ince 2019, at BN5 we have been successfully collaborating with Horsham Matters to provide essential food parcels for people if they are struggling to buy food in Henfield. A delivery service of Food Bank essentials has been a real lifeline for many people with short-term problems and we’re really grateful for the hard work of the Henfield B-P Guild who have helped with deliveries.

Recently, there have been a few small changes to the way emergency food provision is managed in Henfield which we think will enhance the service.

People in need of emergency food and necessities in Henfield are still encouraged to call Horsham District Food Bank (Horsham Matters) on 0300 124 0204. After individuals needs are assessed by a trained operator at Horsham Matters, they will be offered one of two options: 1. If the person has transport, is well enough to travel and if their need is not immediate, they will be given a voucher code and directed to the Horsham Matters Hub van which visits the Henfield Library Car Park every Friday morning between 11.45am-12.45pm. The van contains store-cupboard essentials and toiletries and a knowledgeable Horsham Matters professional is on hand to give advice on debt help, benefits advice and other challenges. However, they cannot allocate food without a voucher code anyone needing food must call the Horsham

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Matters 0300 124 0204 number in advance.

If the caller is in immediate need (for example their cupboard is entirely empty, they are incapacitated, or are unable to transport themselves), then a pre-packed emergency parcel of nutritionally-balanced store-cupboard essentials, and possibly a monetary voucher for fresh produce, will be delivered to their doorstep as soon as possible. This is short term, emergency help.

We are proud to say that the collection of foodstuffs in the village to support Horsham Matters which started in early 2020 is going from strength-to-strength. The people of Henfield have been incredibly generous with around 10,000 items donated during this past two years via the collection baskets in Budgens and at St Peter’s Church. A huge thank you to Roger Bentley who tirelessly empties the baskets and sorts & transports the goods to Horsham each week.

Separately, Stokes Newsagents and Corpus Christi Church have also collected independently and donated extensively.

Food poverty and insecurity is an increasing problem for both individuals and families through no fault of their own. If you are affected, please don’t suffer in silence but get in touch with Horsham Matters on 0300 124 0204 who will be able to help you.

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Estate Planning

When the then Chancellor, Philip Hammond, asked the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) back in January 2018 to consider how to simplify Inheritance Tax (IHT), two reports followed. The second, issued in July 2019, proposed a range of significant reforms to IHT. Then all went silent.

Finally on 30 November last year, a letter from the Treasury to the OTS was published stating, “…the Government has decided not to proceed with any IHT changes at the moment, but will bear your very valuable work in mind if the Government considers reform of IHT in the future”.

survive seven years after making them. If you do not reach the seven year point, any IHT liability on the gift is reduced by 20% a year from the start of the fourth year, e.g. at 5½ years only 40% of the full IHT is payable on death. The OTS had proposed that the sliding scale of tax should be abolished, commenting that “taper relief is complicated and not well understood”.

Pensions - While the OTS did not make any specific recommendations on the IHT treatment of pensions, its report did say “….it appears anomalous that some pension policies can be included within in an Estate for Inheritance Tax purposes, while other comparable pension By the time clarity had arrived, the current Chancellor had frozen the IHT nil rate bands until savings are not.” The pension flexibility regime at least April 2026. By then the main nil rate band introduced in 2015 has increased the value of some pension arrangements in IHT planning. will have been stuck at £325,000 for 17 years.

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In highlighting several features of the current IHT rules that it felt needed reform, ironically the OTS report supplied a list of planning opportunities worth considering. These included: Normal expenditure gifts – If you make gifts that are regular, out of your income (including ISA income) and do not reduce your standard of living, then they are exempt from IHT, regardless of their size.

In its second report, the OTS said it had heard “…from a few respondents that the exemption has on occasion been used to exempt gifts worth than £1 million for individuals with a very high annual income”.

At more modest levels the exemption could mean, for example, that if your regular spending pattern has fallen because of the pandemic, you could use the savings to make gifts free of IHT. Similarly, any investment income usually automatically reinvested is a potential source of normal expenditure gifts.

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Index of advertisers | MAY 2022 ACCOUNTANCY, TAX & BOOKKEEPING

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BIKE REPAIRS

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PAINTING & DECORATING

AJG Interiors 42 Keltons 40 Trim Decorating 49

PEST CONTROL

ACT Pest Control

PETS & PET CARE

Gray Cat Animal Home Visiting Service Hawthorn Veterinary Surgeries R&H Pet Supplies

PLANT AND TOOL HIRE & SALES Acacia Groundcare AMP Groundcare Machinery Services King & Stevens

PLASTERING

Salamander Group & JG Plastering

43 42 49 42 31 41 38 45

PLUMBING & HEATING

Aquatec 58 CJ Plumbing 59 MC Services Gas Plumbing & Heating 59 Perry Plumbing 17

PROPERTY FOR SALE

Marcus Grimes Stevens

REMOVALS & STORAGE

Contain Yourself Storage

RESTAURANTS, PUBS & CAFÉS Henfield Tea Garden Post House Cafe Relish Cafe Tottington Manor

ROOFING & ROOF MAINTENANCE G Standing Roofing G & S Roofing Ltd

SCHOOLS, NURSERIES, TUTORS Bluebells Day Nursery Good Start School Dove Nursery Oscar Bears Day Care Warren Playgroup

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SECURITY & ALARMS

Secured 24/7 35

SOLICITORS & WILL WRITERS Amanda Shaw Solicitors Cognitive Law Setfords Solicitors The Sussex Wills Office

07 29 42 55

TAXI, COACH & CHAUFFEUR SERVICES Henfield Village Cars Holts Premium Coaches

TREE SURGERY

Southern Beeches Ltd.

VETERINARY SURGERIES Hawthorn Veterinary Surgeries

WINDOW CLEANING

PPC Windows

GARAGE HENFIELD

VEHICLE SERVICING

01273 492059

WELDING REPAIRS

THE STEAM MILL LOWER STATION ROAD HENFIELD BN5 9UQ

TYRES & EXHAUSTS

59 28 54 49 57

BATTERIES DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE

www.braziersgarage.co.uk 62 |620 local businesses are listed on www.henfieldbn5.co.uk

01273 494002

01903 879338 01273 430073 01273 584800