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Football pitch development and maintenance

We are working hard with our site partners TD Shipley FC to improve the quality and drainage of all three of our playing surfaces.  These are the main pitch, the walking football pitch and the new junior football pitch, which will also double up from the summer of 2018 onwards as a training zone for […]

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Winter walking football

Through the worst of the Winter months, Walking Football meets at 10.00am on Tuesday mornings at the Holbrook Club in Horsham. Between 14 and 23 members of Hills Farm Lane FC’s walking football section turn up each week to enjoy a good run out (or should that be ‘walk out’) on the 3G surface. The […]

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Christmas lunch for the Project members

Arranged by the ever energetic and well organised Ray Hambling, the vast majority of our regular walking footballers teamed up ahead of the December break with Shipley Petanque Club and the Men’s Shed team to enjoy an excellent Christmas lunch at the Boars Head, Horsham. Following an active morning of walking football and petanque the […]

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MacMillan coffee morning fun

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the MacMillan Coffee Morning. Lovely home baked cakes and biscuits and fantastic music from a proper, original record player (thanks Tony and Judith)…which initiated some impromptu waltzing and tangos! We raised £260 for a fantastic cause and had a fun morning, joined by the walking footballers, the petanquers and […]

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Junior 9-a-side pitch development

Have a look at the stages of development of the 9-a-side pitch we have built at one end of the site.  This is a project which has required long-term vision and patience! Starting from an area of dense undergrowth, virtually no drainage on the heavy clay soil, and a horribly uneven, sloping surface, we have […]

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Wood Mackenzie community support day

Our very grateful thanks to all to Wood Mackenzie Ltd who came to the site to help achieve an amazing amount!  The team tackled with gusto clearing ditches, digging huge holes (in clay soil) for the petanque fence, strimming back the undergrowth, clearing a new flower bed, and so much more. The weather just about […]

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Defibrillator arrives on site

Thanks to the generous support of the Billingshurst & District Lions Club, we are proud to announce the installation of a defibrillator on site.  The life-saving device is to be found on the outside of the green Men’s Shed.  The number needed to open the case containing the device, is written on the outside of […]

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