The date for the 2025 social, supper & AGM are as follows:
Date: Tuesday 21.October 2025.
Venue: Cyprus Hall, Cyprus Road, Burgess Hill, RH15 8DX.
Time: 7.00 – 7.30 pm.
Supper: Our usual homemade chili beef with a vegetarian option and our delicious deserts.
Our guest speaker this year will be Adrian Kirkpatrick, who is the team leader for the West Sussex Fire & Rescue Services ‘ Technical Rescue Unit, a small team who provide water, animal and rope rescue skills to the public and to support the rest of the fire service.
The team attend a wide variety of incidents but the majority involve horses or large farm animals, and these can be in all manner of situations from the basics, such as horses down in the stable unable to get up, to others trapped in swimming pools, rivers and ditches. They have recently attended a number of incidents alongside bridleways, including horses fallen through wooden bridges on paths. In the past their work has included going overseas to earthquake disaster relief, although this is no longer part of this national response unit work.
