Lindfield Bonfire Night

Welcome to Lindfield Life’s Lindfield Bonfire Night event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything bonfire and fireworks.

See also, Lindfield Bonfire Society

Lindfield will once again celebrate bonfire night on Tuesday 5th November 2024

Celebrating its 130th anniversary, a year of fundraising and planning by Lindfield Bonfire Society (LBS) culminates on Tuesday 5th November. Starting at 7.30pm outside The Stand Up Inn, the torchlit procession with the Guy goes through the village, heading eventually to the common. There the traditional bonfire prayer will be said, followed by the lighting of the bonfire and ending with a grand f irework display.

This year LBS is also commemorating the dismantling of the toll gates across the High Street 140 years ago. In 1884, Bonfire Boys helped with the dismantling and disposal – via the bonfire!

Various road closures will be in effect on the night from 6.30pm until 9.30pm. During this time, it will not be possible to use these roads with vehicles. Please do not attempt to drive through closed roads as you endanger the safety of pedestrians and will be reported to the authorities.

The event as usual is free to attend but on the night LBS holds a street collection in aid of local children’s charities. If every person that attended gave just £1 LBS would raise a phenomenal amount for its chosen charities. Scan the QR code to donate any amount.

For full details check the LBS Facebook page, and website (www.lindfieldbonfiresociety.co.uk). Information is also available in the 2024 Bonfire programme which is available from Cottenhams, The Stand Up, Sarah Lacey Dry Cleaning, The Witch, The Bent Arms, Lindfield Club, or from the LBS website for a minimum donation of £2. LBS regrets that as it gets nearer to the fifth, they may be unable to respond to specific queries as they will be busy preparing for the night.

If you are attending on the night, remember:
• Please do not bring sparklers or fireworks. It is illegal to light them in a public area
• Please do not pick up torches that have been discarded at the side of the road. Only Bonfire Society members, and invited societies are permitted to hold them
• Leave pets at home
• Bring your loose change to donate to our street collection. LBS also has the ability to donate digitally via SumUp QR codes, so there’s no excuse!
• Please take your litter home with you
• Please obey the directions of Marshals

And finally, have a fun and safe night! To make a donation to LBS to contribute to its costs of staging Lindfield’s Bonfire Night visit: https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/QE6B1X4Z

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Lindfield Village Run

Welcome to Lindfield Life’s Lindfield Village Run event page. Here you will find our most recent information for the race.

The Lindfield Village Run is a well-established event that sets out two cross county runs: a 10k Village Run and a 5k Family Run. Both take place mostly on paths and tracks through the West Sussex countryside in the immediate vicinity of the village of Lindfield. They are old fashioned cross-country runs with multi-terrain, some slippery surfaces and the odd cow in fields!

See also, King Edward Hall
Village Run Facebook page

Information for 2025’s Lindfield Village Run coming early in 2025!

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2023’s Village Run…

On Sunday 21st May, more than 500 runners and their supporters turned up at Hickmans Lane Playing Field for the Lindfield Village Run.

The 5k (aka ‘family fun run’) and 10k races were both well-supported on what was near-perfect weather conditions for running. The event, which is a fundraiser for registered charity King Edward Hall, was supported by two Lindfield businesses: Potential Personal Training and Six Physio. The annual community event is well-supported by individuals too, as it took over 30 volunteers all giving their time, to bring the run together on the day, whether marshalling out on the course, setting up or registering participants on arrival.

Podium finishers for the 5k race were Paul Nixon (20:50) in third place, Nate Donougher (20:40) as runner up, and Dan Celani taking the top spot with a time of 18.49.

For the 10k race, Ian Kenton (44:17) took third place, Michael Priest (43:28) was second and the winner was Ben Gibson with a time of 42:40.

For the full results listing, see www.kingedwardhall.org.uk, and if you’d like to offer your time to help at next year’s event, please email the team via run@kingedwardhall.org.uk.

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2022’s Village Run…

The organisers of this year’s Lindfield Village Run are pleased to announce that booking will open later this month, for the fundraising event for King Edward Hall.

Participants for this year’s run, being held on Sunday 22nd May 2022 in order to move it away from the extra jubilee bank holidays over half term, will soon be able to sign up on the website:
www.kingedwardhall.org.uk/village-run

2022 will mark the return of the event since Covid. Last year a virtual run was held.

As normal, the run is a traditional cross country route around the village, and there will be two distances: 5k and 10k. The cost to take part is £7 and £15 respectively, with the runners starting at 10.30am.

One of the organisers Colette Cannon explained: “We are encouraging as many as possible to book their place in advance on the website – which should mean the process of registering on the day is easier. We will have as many volunteers on the sign-in desks as possible – thank you in advance to all those who give up their time on the day.”

See the website for details of the run routes, as it can change, even nearer the time – due to external factors like weather conditions in the weeks up to the event. Runners are reminded that some of the route is on private land, for which specific permission has been sought for 22nd May – therefore please don’t practise on these areas.

Lindfield Village Run is a community fundraising event for Lindfield’s King Edward Hall – a registered charity. Three local businesses have agreed to sponsor this year’s run, which helps to keep costs down. They are: Potential Personal Training, Jackson-Stops and Six Physio. Co-chair David Tingley said: “We are extremely grateful to these businesses for putting their hand in their pockets to help KEH, and facilitate such a fantastic community event.”

Online bookings are due to open in March:
www.kingedwardhall.org.uk/village-run

Lindfield Dramatic Club presents Deckchairs and Village Fairs

Lindfield Dramatic Club

Lindfield Dramatic Club will present a triple bill entitled Deckchairs and Village Fairs as its spring production at the end of May. Pairing two comic duologues from Jean McConnell’s popular Deckchairs series with Alan Ayckbourn’s evergreen short farce Gosforth’s Fete this promises to be a thoroughly entertaining evening with lots of laughs. The opener is Day Trippers in which a seaside outing takes an unexpected turn. This is followed by Cruise Missile where opposites collide on a holiday afloat. Rounding off the event is the hilarious Gosforth’s Fete which throws five disparate characters together in a damp tea tent as they try their best to run a successful village fair despite the surrounding chaos and confusion. Deckchairs and Village Fairs will be performed on Thursday 30th and Friday 31st May at King Edward Hall, starting at 8pm, with the bar open from 7.30pm. Tickets are available priced £12 from Caragon at 69 High Street, Lindfield, or online from www.tickettailor.com/events/lindfielddramaticclub

Lindfield Horticultural Society's Autumn Show a success this September 2022

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Her Majesty the Queen was remembered and celebrated at this year’s Lindfield Horticultural Society Autumn Show. After making the decision to continue with the show, following the announcement of the death of the Queen, organisers gave exhibitors and visitors the chance to reflect on Her Majesty’s reign with a photograph, painting, floral tribute and a minute’s silence before the trophies were presented. Artist Julie Craig, who has Parkinsons and took up painting at an Art Therapy class, created her picture of the Queen the day before the show. “I thought it would be nice do a painting of the Queen, using mixed media - acrylics, water colours, and pastels, to display at the LHS Autumn show,” said Julie. “When I brought it along, it was a funny coincidence to find that someone had produced a large photo of exactly the same image I had based my painting on!” Julie was also delighted to win best in show for photography, while her logo design was chosen, following a public vote, as the new branding for the Horticultural Society. The annual show attracted large numbers of entries, with judges impressed with how the Lindfield gardeners had coped with this summer’s extreme weather conditions. First time exhibitors included Brian Dean who won the most humorous vegetable class with his Tromboncino squash! Caroline Cogle was thrilled to pick up three awards for her dahlias, while Jeff Essen triumphed in the floral art and handicrafts classes.

The photography classes attracted a wide range of entries, with judge Alex Rickards keen to encourage more young residents to take part and show off their photography skills next year, while two Lindfield cooks created a dilemma for judges who couldn’t decide on their favourite pumpkin soup, awarding a joint first prize!

Results
Dahlia Cup – Caroline Cogle
Dahlia Championship Cup – Caroline Cogle
Harry Tester Cup – Sue Stockwell
Huddart Cup – Tim Richardson
Massey Dawson Cup – Tim Richardson
Helena Hall Cup – Tim Richardson
Ian Cooper Pumpkin Cup – Richard Watson
Penney Cup – Jeff Essen Kieron
James Toy Shield – Sam Kremer
Cumulative awards for three shows
George Murrell Photographic Cup – Jocasta Fearn
Shepherd Cup (vegetables) – Tim Richardson
Proctor Cup (pot plants) – Sue Stockwell
Ron Pickett Trophy (trug classes) – Andrea Fall
Lady Wilkinson Silver Tray (cookery) – Anne Hall Morecombe
White Cup (handicrafts) – Jess Essen
LHS Junior Perpetual Shield (aged 10 and under) – Sam Kremer
Shepherd Perpetual Shield (aged 10 to 15) – Florence Fearn-Hughes
Logo Competition – Julie Craig

The Great Big Green Week in Lindfield

Get ready for Great Big Green Week

By Peter Desmond

Our local climate and ecological action group, Fairer World Lindfield, is holding a week full of events as part of the nationwide GREAT BIG GREEN WEEK. It will run from Monday 20th to Sunday 26th September 2021.

Keep your eye out for more information but here’s a taster of what’s to come:

• Talk on home insulation & energy savings

• Vegetarian/vegan cooking demo

• Film Night – “The Race is On”

• Lindfield Parish Council’s Climate Change Working Group

• Nature walk

• Visit to a local farm

• Impact of climate change on the Global South

• Community event on Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle

Also, if you’re keen to be part of starting a Lindfield Repair Café and you can share any repair skills at the community event; we’d love to hear from you. To find out more about GBGW, or if you want to be involved, please contact Chris Lee by email: fairerworldlindfield@gmail.com.