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OATHALL FARM SHOP

By way of introduction, I have just started here at the farm(September) and one part of my role is to bring the shop into a new era, making fresh produce more regularly available and increasing product lines so that there is a range of farm shop items that will complement our existing meat sales. 

Although the official relaunch is some time away, the shop will open regularly on a Friday afternoon
and within a few weeks on Saturday mornings too. 

If you have any queries please email me, visit the website or, please do come in and say hello!

Clare Christian,Oathall Farm Operations 01444 883211

Welcome to the Oathall Farm Shop Weekly Update! 

Specials this week include: 

Boned, rolled and stuffed shoulder of lamb
Moroccan-style pork medallions 
New Fanfare Sausages
Chili sausages (we are upping the chili content!)
Moroccan lamb sausages 
Plus all the usual cuts and joints.

 We have frozen half lamb boxes available - £60.00 each 
We also have mixed frozen pork boxes available at £45.00 each. 

We have a few spring daffodils left. We are selling them in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care. All proceeds will be donated to them. 

Opening hours are as follows: 

Friday 3rd February                    1.00-5.00pm

Saturday 4th February                 9.00-2.00pm

VILLAGE DIARY & WHAT'S ON

click on the calendar icon to the left to view the village calendar.

then click on 'add event' to make and save an entry

GEORGE HUNTER
is training for the Brighton Marathon (Sunday 15th April 2012).
He is running in memory of Angus Rowland
and raising money for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research.

http://www.justgiving.com/George-Hunter1

VILLAGE LUNCHES

Village Hall, 12.30 for 1

Tickets £6

Book with Carole Hayward or Andrew Wimbush
tel 413571

click here for 1991 photos

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Staplefield and Ansty Parish Visioning events - Everyone Welcome.

18th February 10-1             - Staplefield Village Hall

25th February 10-2             - Ansty Village Hall.  

These events are part of the consultation for the Neighbourhood Plan that the Parish Council is working on.  A working party has been put together with some councillors and representatives from the villages. Ben Drake and Maria Fielding are the representatives from Staplefield.

In addition to the Visioning Days,  a questionnaire will be sent to every household. The questionnaire is reasonably detailed and asks lots of specific questions.  The Visioning Days will supplement the information gathered in the questionnaire by enabling people to expand on their views, put forward suggestions and also receive information on how the process will work.  It will be attended by representatives from the Neighbourhood Plan working party and the Parish Council. Information from the both the questionnaire and Visioning Days will be fed in to the plan

 The Neighbourhood Plan is an opportunity to influence development and land use in the area, although there are limitations on what it can achieve. For example, it has to comply with national planning policy and also the strategic policies in the MSDC District Plan.  It cannot be used to prevent development that is included in the District Plan, but it can be used to influence use and development of land and also to identify and prioritise infrastructure such as play parks, schools, sports pitches etc.

Link to the Parish Plan Website

A23 HANDCROSS-WARNINGLID

ROADWORKS

click here for details

LONDON TO BRIGHTON 2011

We just wanted to let you know that 2nd event to raise money for Angus Rowland FMN fund within Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research which took place on Sunday 6th November was a great success raising a grand total of £924.35.

£710.44 was raised by a group of friends and family who cooked fantastic bacon, egg and sausage sandwiches, burgers and served cake and hot drinks to warm the spectators that turned out to watch the cars on the London to Brighton veteran car run as they drove through Staplefield. The crowd were very generous giving a further  £213.91 to a bucket collection that went around Staplefield common.

This brings the total raised on Angus page to £13 825.35

Follow the link for some great photos taken by James Rowland, Jonathan's brother.

Thank you to Tim and Alison who did a fantastic job planning and organising the event and for all the people who turned up to help, put up marquees, shopping, cooking, baking, shaking buckets, fetching and carrying and putting everything away at the end.

It is difficult to find words to thank you all for everything you do for us as a family and support our fundraising. It helps us to keep Angus memory alive and feel that perhaps we can make a difference to other families who are faced with this devastating illness

Thank you all.

Elizabeth, Jonathan and Edward

Make a date to donate

We have a particular interest in the issue of blood donation, as our son Angus needed 20 pints of blood during his treatment for leukaemia. We tend to think of blood being used in operations and to replace blood lost in accidents etc, but in fact many cancer patients need blood transfusions too as their treatment reduces their ability to produce enough blood. The NHS needs 7,000 voluntary donations of blood daily and national blood stocks are presently 8 to 9 days.

However new data from NHS Blood and Transplant Service highlights an alarming generation gap amongst regular blood donors. Only 14% of regular donors are aged under thirty, more than two thirds of regular donors are over the age of forty, and 200,000 donors drop off the register each year.

First time donors should be aged between 17‐65, weighing at least 50 kg (7 stone 12lbs) and in general good health. In addition the first time you donate blood you are asked if you would like to be on the bone marrow register. Donating bone marrow offers the opportunity of cure for a number of blood cancers. A match could not be found for Angus in the UK so we would have had to look worldwide.

If you would like to donate blood clinics take place in Haywards Heath Clair Hall every other month. 
Appointments can be made by calling 0300 123 2323 or booking online at www.blood.co.uk

Free tea and biscuits are on offer.

more details... click here

University of Brighton

'Our World in Motion'

13 March 2012

 Free entry with registration to:  Subject: ‘National Science Week’  ccp@brighton.ac.uk

The 'Our World in Motion' event on Tuesday, 13 March 2012 has been designed to dovetail the theme of National Science and Engineering Week 2012 with disciplines associated with the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Chelsea School of Sport at the University of Brighton. Five speakers (three external and two in-house) will deliver keynote lectures on a broad spectrum of subjects including global epidemics (Pharmacy), electromobility (Engineering), mobility in sport (Sport Science), faunal and floral migration (Ecology) and cryospheric change (Geology) to a mixed audience of academics, university and sixth form students, U3A members and the general public, all of whom will be invited to participate in wide-ranging discussions of the issues. The venue is the Cockcroft hall on the Moulsecoomb Site of the university. This is the fourth meeting arranged by these organisers, the second related specifically to the National Science and Engineering Week theme.

In case of emergency, the need to collect
prescriptions etc you may be able to call
on one of the kind volunteers below who
have access to 4x4 vehicles.

Ron and Gill Stevenson: 401168, Ron's mobile is 07732 618617

Lesley and Tony Hextall: 400281

Ben Drake: 400311, e-mail: bd@maven-ventures.co.uk

Gordon Diaz: 401688

Peter Charlton: 400642 (patients of Handcross surgery only)

Please don't call them for a lift to the pub etc
(unless it is an emergency)

POT HOLES

Here's an easy way to report potholes...

click here

The site is run by CTC, one of the national cycling groups which obviously has an interest in reducing accidents
caused by potholes.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

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