Hurst Rethink groups are busy over the next few months with several projects on the go. Here’s a round-up of our main activities.

First up is Hurst Village Market, a collaboration between the Hurst Rethink Green Consumer group and The New Inn. The market will take place on the first Saturday of each month until July, when St Lawrence Fair takes over the village.
The market has two halves; in the covered marquee in the back garden, we have food and drink stalls, all featuring local Sussex produce. In the function room of the pub, we have homewares, beauty, jewellery and arts/crafts. If you’re after a present or a treat, it’s the perfect place to go and you’ll be supporting a local business run by one from our community. Please support our market as a huge amount of effort goes into putting it on from the Hurst Rethink team. Equally, if you have any suggestions for improvements, we’d love to hear them.

Secondly, our Biodiversity group is launching a ‘Save Our Swifts’ project. With funding from SOS - the Sussex Ornithological Society, we are installing ten nest boxes in the Weald Close area, to help migrating swifts breed successfully this year. The boxes are being installed by Attic Asset on Saturday 11th March and we will have a team in Weald Close that day to chat to locals about the project. Please come down if you can. We also hope to hold a swift event later this year so watch this space.

The Hurst Rethink Community Group are also busy organising a follow up to last year’s incredibly successful Hurst Jumble Trail. This village wide event will take place on Sunday 2nd April and is the perfect chance to declutter and have a spring clear out. We had over 130 households take part last year and would love the same, if not more, this time. To get involved, please email your name, address and postcode to hurstjumbletrail@gmail.com by 5th March. For all details on our events, check our website: www.hurstrethink.org