Etchingham

Please could everyone vote, and ask family and friends to do so. You do not have to be an Aviva customer to vote, and it makes no difference to the vote-counting; so though you have to give your name you are signing up to nothing - just registering to vote. Each person who registers has 10 votes; so please use ALL your votes! If you are on Facebook you can sign up quickly with your Facebook log in. The project is no 2563; title “A New Heart for a Rural Community” to register and cast your votes go to https://community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voting/project/view/2563/ you will also find a link on the home page of the village website. So, use all ten of your votes to support the project and spread the word so that as many people as possible register and cast all ten of their votes. You have until tomorrow to get your votes in. Ask all your friends to votes as well.

ETCHINGHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL: The 2015 Etchingham Music Festival, held in the Church, starts on Saturday July 4, 7.30pm, with Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins - Four hands one piano. Sunday July 5, 7pm, Libby Burgess and the Wiek Ensemble. Wednesday July 8, 7.30pm, Florian Mitrea and Cavendish Winds. Saturday July 11, 7.30pm, is the Supper Concert with songs from musicals. Ticket prices are £16 and £14 for concessions, except for the Supper Concert which is £20 to include supper. Full details of the concerts and booking form are on the Music Festival website www.etchinghammusicfestival.co.uk or by post Etchingham Music Festival, P.O. Box 100, Etchingham, East sussex, TN19 7US. Telephone 01580 819384 email; [email protected] . The Festival finishes on Sunday July 12 at 6pm with a free concert featuring The Ashdown Singers.

VILLAGE WEBSITE: Memories - the village website has a section for village memories www.etchinghamvillage.co.uk/memories for people to contribute items about times gone by in the village, perhaps you have lived in the village all your life and have memories of school days or your first day at work, or perhaps visiting grandparents in the village as a child. Any interesting stories on almost any subject is welcome. Take a look at the article submitted so far then write some memories of your own. the length of the article is not important it can be a few pages or just a couple of paragraphs, do not worry too much about layout and grammar that can all be adjusted before adding to the site, the stories are the main thing. You can email your contributions to [email protected] or deliver to 2 Park Farm Close.

EVENTS CALENDAR: There is a calendar on the village website for residents and organisations to enter details of forthcoming events, this helps organisers check if an event has already been planned for a date they have chosen, and act as advertising for all village events. The idea of the calendar is for village residents and organisations to add details to the calendar themselves to reduce the workload of website admin.

To view or add to the calendar start on this page and follow the instructions www.etchinghamvillage.co.uk/calendar you will need a password to complete your entry, this is just a safeguard against the calendar getting filled up with spam posts. The password is the same for everyone if you do not have it ask me to supply it or ask someone who has already added to the calendar.

If everyone gets into the habit of adding their events to the calendar it will hopefully avoid too many clashes of events and people having to decide which event they will support. If you have any problems adding to the calendar contact me at [email protected] and I will get it added, but I do not want to have to add every event to the calendar.

MOBILE LIBRARY: The Mobile Library now visits Etchingham once every three weeks, on Tuesday mornings 9.55am to 10.35am outside the new village halls.

You might like to put these dates in your diary; June 2, June 23.

If these times are not convenient, or you miss the Library when it visits, it will be at Hurst Green village hall, 1.30pm to 2.15pm on the following dates; June 4, June 25.

PROMOTE YOUR ORGANISATION: Do you want to get new members for your group or organisation? Want to tell people what your group does? If you are connected with a village group or organisation send me some details and I will publicise your group in this column. Send me details of what your organisation does, when you meet, how to join, who to contact and any other details that you would like to add, I will then add details of your organisation, as space allows, over the coming weeks.

INFORMATION: If you have given me details of your event to put in this column, please remember to send me some details after the event so I can let your supporters know how successful the event was, how much you raised, interesting facts etc. Your supporters will be interested to know how you did. Get information for this column to me as soon as possible, if you have a diary of events planned for the year let me have the dates and I will put in a list of village events for the year so that people can put the dates in their diaries. There are several ways to get your info to me, but email is preferred because there is less chance of errors during copying. I need information by 10pm on Monday to be sure it will be in time for inclusion, I can sometimes add extra items on Tuesday morning, but this cannot be guaranteed. Just a little reminder, I get plenty of information about events that are taking place, but I get very little follow up information, after your event try and remember to send me brief account of how successful your event was, it can be as simple as a thank you to those that attended and how much money was raised etc. You can deliver to 2 Park Farm Close, telephone 01580 819532 or 07941 786244 or email [email protected] .