Netherfield

Come & have your say – Residents, what do you want in your community? Loads more houses? No buses? Decisions on what happens in your community taken only by Battle Town Council? A reduction in the number of open spaces for the children? If you want the chance to shape the future of your village there will be a meeting at Netherfield Village Hall on Wednesday May 20 at 7pm. Send an email to register your support and be informed of what is going on in the future to: Maurice Holmes e mail [email protected] .

Brightling Park: Walled garden music fest 2015. Saturday & Sunday July 18 & 19. If your favourite music includes Pink Floyd, Yes, Phil Collins & David Bowie then Brightling Park nr Robertsbridge is the place. Nick van Eede’s band 3 Wise Men & a Virgin are also performing Cutting Crew’s famous songs together with tracks from their new album Gallivant. A weekend of hugely talented musicians, performing in the very unique setting of the Georgian Walled Garden at Brightling Park. Our music festival offers day or weekend tickets, corporate entertaining with own hospitality areas, campsite within the park grounds with full facilities, ‘Pop Up’ restaurants, traditional festival foods, festival bar offering local micro brewery beers, ciders and French wines. For more info & tickets www.walledgardenmusicfest.co.uk

Shoe Bin: This is located outside the shop, please recycle all your unwanted shoes, boots and wellies.

Netherfield Post Office: we hold Euros in stock, all other currencies can be order for the next day. Health Lottery tickets also available 50p per ticket win up to £25000, £1 per ticket win up to £100000.

The Mobile Library: will be outside the shop from 12.45 to 13.05 on Tuesday May 26.

Battle Hard of Hearing Support Group: the next meeting will be held on Monday June 1 2015, from 2pm to 3:30pm at St Martins, (ground floor lounge), Mount Street, Battle, TN33 0DR. This is an excellent opportunity to meet other hard of hearing people and to make new friends in a relaxed and welcoming environment and to learn from their personal experience of living with hearing loss. It’s also an ideal opportunity to learn some useful communication skills that will help to reduce the feeling of isolation. Free refreshments and raffle. All welcome so put a note in your diary. For more information please contact East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre on 01323 722505.

East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre: is a registered charity working in partnership with Adult Social Care to provide a no charge mobile information and advice service for Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people living in East Sussex. The vehicle, which is funded by the Big Lottery, is equipped to offer demonstrations of assistive equipment and hearing screening tests (if time permits). The mobile unit will be visiting Battle on Thursday June 11 2015, and will be in Market Square from 10.30am – 3.30pm. The bus is accessible to wheelchair users and representatives from both the East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre and Adult Social Care will be available to provide individual information and advice on all aspects of hearing loss. For further information please contact: East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre, Tel: 01323 722505 (voice/text/fax) e-mail: [email protected]

Contact me - I’d love to hear from any local groups, clubs or individuals with any news on upcoming events or reports on past events they would like included in this column, Email: [email protected]