Newick Badminton Club
New Season!
Newick Badminton Club play every Tuesday evening at Newick Village Hall.
We are a friendly club and welcome players of all abilities including beginners. You can drop in anytime between 7.45pm and 10.00pm to try us out. Racquets can be provided, and your first session is free! If you are interested in coming along, please call 07801 079334 or email secretary@newickbadmintonclub.co.uk.
Newick Cinema
A Community-based Venture for Sunday Evenings
Our next show is on 22nd JUNE 2025.
We hope that many of you will be able to come and enjoy
“MR BURTON”
As always there is a licensed bar, teas, coffees, cakes and ice cream plus an interval so that there is an opportunity to meet up with friends and have an enjoyable evening out in the village.
Booking in advance will secure seats in the front rows. You can also just come along at 7pm and buy a ticket on the door; the film will start at 7:30pm.
JUNE’S FILM: MR BURTON (12A)
STARRING: Toby Jones, Harry Lawley
22nd June 2025 in Newick Village Hall, Western Road, Newick BN8 4LY. Licensed bar and refreshments from 7.00 pm. Film starts 7.30 pm. Tickets: £8.00 (cash only) on the door, or by emailing detailed request to newickcinema@outlook.com
Subtitles and hearing loop in place.
The story of the wild school boy Rich Jenkins, son of a boozy miner - and an English teacher who recognised his talent, Philip Burton. A moving, untold story of how Rich Jenkins became Richard Burton, the biggest star Wales has ever produced.
Uckfield, Lewes & Newick Arts Society
June 11th, 2025 ~ 2.30 p.m. in the Civic Hall, Uckfield
Creating the Golden Era of the Transatlantic Liner
Lecturer: Howard Smith
This was a truly wonderful time for opportunities in superb design and art. A world you could step into and enjoy unlimited luxury, depending of course on your class and wealth!
Great ships like the Mauritania, Lusitania and of course the Titanic will be discussed. So much beauty lost to the sea. Cunard, The White Star Line, these companies all competed to be the best and most luxurious way to cross the Atlantic. Apart from the ships, marvellous posters were displayed, promising untold luxury ad style, heralding a new age of travel.
Howard Smith’s lectures are renowned for stunning graphics and vintage films of interiors, launches and actual building of these wonderful ships. His special interest is 20th Century icons, and he has published several books, including one on Rupert Bear.
We look forward to welcoming you. If you want to become a member of our society, please contact me for further information. Visitors of course are always welcome, £8 on the day please.
Annette Shelford, annette@shelford.net
Getting ready for Summer
Our May Repair Café brought us a huge range of challenges – we restrung a violin, repaired several irons, tackled your mowers and strimmers, sharpened your garden tools, fixed a broken teapot, persuaded a cuckoo clock to cuckoo again, repaired a garden parasol, mended your clothing and much, much more…
This was all in a days work for our team of 28 talented volunteers, who tackled all those repairs in 3 hours, with an impressive 78% success rate. With visitors from all over West and East Sussex and Kent our reputation is spreading!!
We now have a good line in Repair Café merchandise! Our 2025 posters and flyers are now across the region - if you would like to help us by display a few around your area, you can collect them at the Repair Café, together with car stickers and our much sought after bamboo pens!
We are often invited to make presentations to local groups about the work of Repair Cafes worldwide and Chailey’s in particular - if you would like to arrange a presentation (usually less than 1 hour) or run a display at an event with which you are involved, do get in touch and we’ll see what we can do…...
We were delighted to receive a Certificate from Lewes District Council recently in recognition of the work we have done for the local community over the past
7 years.
Chailey Repair Café is part of a world-wide movement where volunteer experts repair things
free of charge – although a donation towards running costs is invited. Anyone can bring along broken items or clothing needing repair from home, and have a cuppa and a cake and then watch while your repairs is done in front of you..
You’ll find us at St Peter’s Church, Chailey on the A275 at Chailey Green on the second Saturday of each month (14th June, 12th July, 9th August and so on) between 1000hrs and 1300hrs where we have a full Café service including our legendary cakes! We get busy, so please be patient if you have to wait for a while!
Contact us at chaileyrc@gmail.com and we’ll see what we can do to help.
See you very soon!!
Bryan McAlley and the Chailey Repair Café team
Chailey Windmill
Sunday, 27th April dawned a bright and sunny day and it was with great pleasure that we were able to open Chailey Windmill for the first time in 2025. We had a good number of visitors throughout the afternoon, and it was great to see the interest in the Windmill from our younger visitors in particular.
Chailey Windmill is a Grade II listed smock mill and stands on an historic site beside the yew tree said to mark the centre of Sussex. Records show that a mill has stood here since at least 1590.
Although the site was originally occupied by a post mill, the present windmill is a smock mill with a cap sitting on a spindle and sweeps which are turned into the wind by a fantail. She was erected by Thomas Beard of Chailey in 1864.
Chailey Windmill is also available for community activities, and we welcome contact from local groups that would like to arrange a visit. Though the Mill will be closed until next April, private tours can be arranged outside of these dates.
Please email gailwickens75@gmail.com. We hope to see you at our wonderful local landmark soon. For more information please look at our Facebook page @ChaileyWindmill.
Chailey Tractor Club
The VE Day celebrations at the Five Bells at Chailey on Monday 5th May, was a great success despite the slightly inclement weather. Over 150 people along eith 40 vintage vehicles attended the event, many of those in period dress.
There were speeches by the local Sussex regiment, local vicar, pub landlord and Howard Venters - Chairman of the Chailey Classic & Vintage Tractor Club. Churchill’s victory speech was played out as a reminder of what occurred on this day 80 years ago, It was a very moving moment.
Our local MP, Mimms Davies attended and presented awards for best dressed, best cake and best vintage vehicle.