St Swithuns are in negotiation to sell the St Barnabas building to the Town Council, this is following requests from residents in the Dunnings area to keep the building in community use. The Council is aware of repeated calls for a venue for a youth club, men’s shed, and ‘mother & toddler’ groups and feels this venue would be suitable to be retained in the community.

In order to finance the purchase, the Council is looking to borrow £90,000 from the Public Works Loan Board for 10 years but needs to show that the community supports the purchase of the building. For more information, the reports have been taken through the Finance and General Purposes Committee and can be found on the Council’s website.

If you wish to comment on the proposal please email townclerk@eastgrinstead.gov.uk or write to Town Clerk East Grinstead Town Council, College Lane, East Grinstead by 1 July 2022.

East Grinstead Town Council and Town Twinning invite you to join us From 4pm bring your picnics along and enjoy Meridian FM entertaining you with music. There are also some inflatables for the youngsters to have a go on (all for free)!

From 6pm-8pm we have some community activities in the ring : Scouts and Guides will pitch themselves against each other to see who can get a tent up quickest, then Town Twinning are going to host a dog show, who has to most regal or best dressed doggie in town! (with thanks to Portland Vets East Grinstead for sponsoring the prizes).

From 8pm-9:30pm Meridian FM will keep you entertained with the music until the build up to the Beacon Lighting from 9:35pm with the Town Mayor reading the proclamation, followed by a playing of Diu Regnare for the bagpipes and then “Majesty” for the cornet and then at 9:45pm the Town Mayor will light the Beacon.

Join us all afternoon or just for the Beacon lighting, as we join the nation in marking the Queens Platinum Jubilee.

New Town Mayor Cllr Adam Peacock and his Deputy Cllr Frazer Visser were invested at the Annual Town Council on Monday 9 May. Cllr Peacock’s charities in his Mayoral year are East Grinstead Lions Club and Being Neighbourly EG.  The new mayor saying that there were many worthy local causes and he wanted to support two that were directly supporting families and individuals during this difficult economic time.

The Mayormaking (Annual Council Meeting) was the first to be held in person for two years following the disruption from Covid during 2020 and 2021.  Outgoing Mayor Cllr John Dabell had been invested at the end of September 2020 following his predecessor completing an elongated stint of 15 months, and was re-elected in May 2021 with the hope that the year would be more normal,  sadly more lockdowns and restrictions meant that 2021/22 also had its challenges.

Cllr Dabell had however, hosted a quiz, murder mystery and hoedown and raised £3,105 for each of his two charities. Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) and St Catherine’s Hospice.