Newick Cinema
Just to let you know that our summer break will be a bit longer than usual this year and there will be no film screening in July and August.
Usually it is just August that we miss but Cinemobile are unable to bring a film to us in July, hence the longer break. Our next film will be shown on Sunday 28th September - details of the film will be on posters and in the parish magazines in good time for the screening.
As always thank you for your support and wishing you a happy summer - let’s hope the weather is kind and the sun didn’t get used up
in the lovely April we had!
Ben and David
Uckfield, Lewes & Newick Arts Society
New Season - September 2025 - June 2026
June is the end of our season, so there are no lectures in July and August. However, don’t worry we have lots of wonderful lectures arranged for you. Come and hear about the superb collection of Impressionist Paintings held at the Courtauld Institute. Or if your interest is in modern furniture design, ‘Britain vs Bauhaus’ might be tempting. Lively music? ‘ Joy and Energy in Music of the Latin American Baroque’ in December with Graham Griffiths should have you dancing around the Civic Hall! We plan our programme with great care and try to have something for everyone
Our lectures are always on the second Wednesday of the month beginning on September 10th at 2.30 in the Civic Hall Uckfield. Guests are always welcome, £8 on the door, but of course it would be splendid if you could join our society. Members do get advantages, for example at the moment we are busy organising a visit to Leighton and Sambourne House. Enjoy the rest of the summer!
Annette Shelford
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 day's 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.
Bryan McAlley
There is so much to see at this wonderful piece of local history, please do come along and support us. It’s free to look around, though any donation you can make is gratefully received to help us with the upkeep of our 195 year old Mill.
We are looking for a volunteer to take over the publicity for the Mill, running the facebook page and writing articles for the newsletter. If this is of interest to you, please contact
Gail Wickens on gailwickens75@gmail.com to find out more.
Uckfield Art Group
After The Exhibition – The Results……….
Thank you everyone who supported the recent Art Exhibition and Sale held by Uckfield Art Group. The Exhibition was bursting at the seams with a record one hundred and eighty six pictures displayed and lots of visitors found it difficult to choose their favourite one.
The Artist with the most votes for a single image (ten votes) was Michael Raho with his picture of a Seal and the clever title of “Seal The Deal”! Michael was awarded the Tom Broad Trophy to treasure until the next Exhibition on 1st November at the Luxford Centre, Library Way Uckfield TN22 1AR. Please note - date for the diary!!
In joint second with nine votes were Penelope Parker “Winter Sunrise” and Julie Masters with “Pink Delight”. Votes were very close this time. In joint third with eight votes were Fiona Flower “The Dancer”, Samantha Bromley with “Homeward Bound”, Bethany Wright with “Almost Abyssinian” and “Sky High” and Michael Raho with “Windswept”.
Twenty paintings were snapped up at the Exhibition and have gone to live in their “Forever Homes” with their excited new owners! Lots of cards and craft items sold too.
Children were thrilled to take home their paintings on wooden boards and shells from the “Have A Go Table”. The delicious homemade refreshments were so popular there were only two slices of cake left at the end of the Exhibition!
Thank you for continuing to choose and support Uckfield Art Group through the Wealden Community Lottery. This year the Art Group has received eighty seven pounds through a percentage of donations.
The Theme Corner next time is portraits. Come and see if you can match up some of the paintings with people in the room! Look out for more details nearer the time, but please make a note of the date and tell your friends and family!
Fiona Flower
Chailey Windmill
It’s been lovely to see so many faces, old and new visiting the Windmill already this year, please do spread the word and remind those you know about the Windmill and all that it houses inside.
The Windmill will be opening its doors on the following dates this year:: June 15th, June 29th, July 13th, July 27th, August 17th, August 31st, September 28th. We will be open from 3pm-5pm on each of the above dates.