HOOE COMMUNITY NEWS REPORTS.
Our April Coffee Morning.
Was the biggest ever, with some 60 people attending over the morning, please click on the below pictures for greater detail. The Children's Easter Egg hunt and games were extremely popular. The sausage rolls sold out as did some of the cakes; the books and puzzles were again a big favourite, as was the raffle. We were delighted to present a cheque for £250 to pay towards the Hooe Stoolball Club Team Shirts. Linda and Judy modelled them for us. We are pleased to have given the club a dedicated page for them on this Website. We also donated £500 to the Friends of Sussex Hospices to sponser their Gruffalo Fun Event to be held on the 28th and 29th of May, and £400 to the Myanmar Earthquake Appeal. The generous donations that are still being received will be added to this amount.
Every year HVCG organises the Village Community Clean up, and every year our lanes and verges give up loads of discarded rubbish. Fast food wrappers, bottles and cans, tyres and signs, dumped household items, road cones and builders boards, and so the list goes on... and on... and on! Please see below the photo of the concerned and caring members of the community who took part, and the photos of the dumped rubbish that they collected. Please click on the images for a larger version.
Localism Plus!
The Hooe Common Nature Reserve, known locally as The Bogs, is an area little touched for many centuries, and because of its marshy undulating nature, has only been grazed. Consequently, it's one of the few remaining UK habitats for rare flora and fauna. Thanks to the active support local people give to HVCG, we were able to ask the Herstmonceux Men's Shed to build bird boxes and bat boxes in return for a small donation of £100. We presented these to Owen, from the Powdermill Trust for Nature Conservation, and assisted in installing them at the Bogs immediately! We are grateful to Owen and his Team who managed The Bogs on our behalf.
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At our Coffee Mornings we often have some 50 to 60 people enjoying each other's company, the coffee and cakes and the lending book and jigsaw free to use libraries. The images attached are from our March Coffee Morning. Please click on them for a larger image.
Our January Morning was well attended.
At this event we were delighted to be able to present a £500 cheque to the Bexhill Food Bank. You can read about the work of this important organisation HERE.
Road and Rural Issues
On Friday 10th January HVCG was delighted to welcome our MP, Dr Kieran Mullan to Hooe. A group of 14 residents spent an hour and a half with Kieren outlining the concerns and problems experienced in the village and chewed over possible solutions. We started our road safety campaign way back in 2007 but sadly, since then our problems have increased. The opening of the new road and the designation of the Top Road as a dispersal route has added to the weight and speed of traffic using the rural road. Some of the topics we raised with Kieran were speeding vehicles and speed limits, rat runs, heavy vehicles, unsocial driving, use by oversized heavy vehicles, the dangerous junction with the A.259 at The Lamb Inn, lack of clear diversion routes in the event of unexpected closure of the A259 as a result of accidents or road works. And of course, potholes and the general state of the road surfaces. We all left the meeting with ‘homework! Kieran has agreed to meet with us again in a few months to enable us to compare progress which we hope we will have been able to make.
At our December Coffee morning, we were joined by Sherrie from the East Sussex Deaf Children’s Society and were pleased to make a £500 donation to this important cause. You can learn more about the work of this important society >HERE<
Remembrance at Hooe
HVCG was delighted to be able to help Dick Cary and Jane Vitler prepare and dress the Flag Green ready for the annual time of remembrance. We are all very proud of our Remembrance Display which is admired and appreciated by many who pass by. The whole display has been made in Hooe which celebrates not only the skills of Hooe residents but also their commitment to the village. A tradition we hope will be repeated in years to come.
