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30 Jul 2025

Volunteer Feedback

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 Thanks to Amy Thurston for her lovely feedback about joining the working parties as part of her DofE award. If you're interested in com...
28 Jul 2025

Working Party Update 26th July 2025

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 Today’s session concentrated on the pond, fencing and edges! Alder trees growing from the dam wall were identified as needing attention. Wh...
26 May 2025

Working Party Update 17th May 2025

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Today saw another split session of working in the woods with clearance of the left hand side of the main ride from the Church continuing and...
1 Apr 2025

April 2025 Working Party Dates

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We’re there - the end of March, the start of bird nesting season and the clearance of area 1C is complete! A big ‘Thank You’ to all of our v...

Notice of Annual AGM - 24th April

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 CROSS-IN-HAND AMENITIES SOCIETY Charity Trust Registration No.  269818 52nd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING  LUCAS MEMORIAL HALL,  WALDRON  ON 24th ...
23 Feb 2025

Working Parties Update.

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As it’s been some considerable time since the last update (May 2024), its timely to bring you up to speed on the huge amount of work underta...

A Notable Morning In The Wood

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  In January we had the pleasure of welcoming Doug Edworthy to Darch’s Wood. Doug is the tree warden for Brightling and Dallington parishes ...
2 May 2024

Today In The Woods

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Today (27/4/2024) the volunteers returned to an area of the upper woods that was too wet to work on earlier in the year, this being the emba...
16 Mar 2024

Notice of Annual AGM

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 Cross-in-Hand Amenities Society -NOTICE- 51st Annual General Meeting to be held at the Lucas Memorial Hall, Waldron on 25th April 2024 at 1...
12 Jan 2024

Coverage in the Sussex Express

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We were as pleased as we were surprised to see the hard work of our our volunteers recognised in the Sussex Express today in their 12/01/202...
9 Oct 2023

Darch's Wood Work Parties: Saturday 14th and Saturday 28th October

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After a humungous clearance effort on our last outing, we’re continuing our laser-like focus on clearing brash from Plot 1A.  Last session w...
19 Sept 2023

Darch's Wood Work Parties: Saturday 23rd and 30th September 2023

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We’ve got a couple of work party sessions planned for the remainder of September if you’d like to join us.   After a really hot (and subsequ...
10 Aug 2023

Recent Sightings

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This Spring and Summer we have had some exciting new species turn up in the wood!  Grey Wagtail ( Motacilla cinerea ) are a species of bird ...
27 Feb 2023

Volunteers Needed! Darch's Wood Working Party 04/03/2023

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The woods have been a hive of activity of late: those venturing into the wood since last Thursday, you might have noticed a few changes. The...
22 Feb 2023

Non-Native Invasive Species Clearance

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A s I am sure you will all have noticed, our amazing community of volunteers have been very busy maintaining and improving Darch’s Wood, ens...
4 Oct 2022

It's Funghi Season!

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It's funghi season, and after the driest summer in many, many years the recent rains have caused the funghi in Darch's Wood to reall...
15 Apr 2022

MINUTES OF THE 49TH AGM OF THE CROSS IN HAND AMENITIES SOCIETY

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  MINUTES OF THE 49 TH  AGM OF THE CROSS IN HAND AMENITIES SOCIETY HELD ON 7 TH  APRIL 2022 AT THE LUCAS HALL, WALDRON 1.      Apologies for...