Cuckfield Evening Flower Club

Cuckfield Evening Flower Club

Cuckfield Evening Flower Club recently celebrated 45 years with an afternoon tea, demonstration and garden tour kindly hosted by Sue Flight at her home in Framfield.

The club was founded in March 1981 by a small group of village residents with a shared love of flowers and creativity. The club’s aim was, and remains, simple: to bring together people who enjoy floral design and artistic expression in a friendly, welcoming environment.

The first meeting was well attended and featured a demonstration using spring flowers and foliage. From this successful beginning, the club became firmly established and has continued to meet on the second Friday of every month, except January.

Over the years, the club has welcomed demonstrators from across the country, all sharing their expertise, skills and enthusiasm for the art of flower arranging. In its early years, membership grew to around 70, including children, reflecting the club’s broad appeal. It has always been an active and vibrant organisation, offering a varied programme of demonstrations, talks, workshops and outings throughout the year.

In addition to learning new techniques, members value the club as an important social space where friendships are formed and creativity is encouraged. The club remains an active part of the local community and regularly decorates a tree at the Cuckfield Church Christmas Tree Festival.

The next meeting will take place on Friday 11th September from 7.15pm at the Methodist Church in Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath.

For further information please contact Sue on 01444 831602.

Cuckfield Mayoral Elections and Mayor's Procession

Welcome to Cuckfield Life’s Mayoral Election and Procession event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything mayoral.

Held on the third Friday in October, the Mayor’s Election prides itself on being completely and openly corrupt – whichever candidate buys the most votes is declared the winner and elected as the next Mayor of The Independent State of Cuckfield. Votes cost one penny each
The  Saturday morning after election night sees the The Mayor’s Procession through the village.

See also, The Independent State of Cuckfield

The count for the 2026 election will be held on Friday, October 16th .  Why not and come see the candidates buying their last votes… or perhaps it could be you dressing in the scarlet robes? Next year’s candidates are already planning their electioneering fundraising!

The day after the count, the new mayor will lead the procession through the village on the Saturday afternoon  (roads will be closed for the floats and marchers) and will then receive the keys to the village at The Talbot.

16th October 2026 is the election night at The Talbot this year.

To find out more about taking part in the election, or entering a float in the procession email info@cuckfieldstate.org or call Mike on 07736 910344.

Cuckfield Defibrillators update - How to use a defib machine

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At Cuckfield Life, we’d like to encourage everyone living and working in the village to familiarise themselves with the sites of the life-saving defibrillator machines in Cuckfield and Bolnore and learn how to use them.

Inside defibrillators:
Golf Centre on Staplefield Rd
Rugby Club Whitemans Green
Cosmos Football Club (Portable) Whitemans Green
Holy Trinity School on Glebe Rd
Warden Park, Broad Street
Holy Trinity Church on Church St
The Queen’s Hall on High Street

Outside defibrillators:
Whitemans Green playing fields
Cuckfield Baptist Church, Polestub Ln
Mansell McTaggart, High Street
Cricket Club, South Street
Staplefield Village Hall, Cuckfield Road
Staplefield Old phone box, Cuckfield Road
Bolnore School, Updown Hill
The Woodside, 120 Middle Village in Bolnore
Deaks Paddock, Ansty

We need your help to keep our defibrillators operational for the future.
We have two defibrillators paid for by our Cuckfield community. One is located on Whitemans Green (widely used for sports, picnics and recreational activities for all our residents from footballers to dog walkers), the other is located in the heart of the High Street, adjacent to The Talbot pub on the wall of Mansell McTaggart. We need £900 every six years to fund the pads and batteries and in the future we will need to fundraise to replace the actual units when they get too old. We now have a dedicated ISOC defibrillator facility for donations towards keeping these essential units operational.
If you would like to contribute to the upkeep of these units, you can make a bank transfer direct to Independent State of Cuckfield - who will ringfence any donations made with a reference ‘defibs’. ISOC Bank Account: Sort Code 20-49-76, Acc No. 20513253

Why are defibrillators so essential in our communities?
Defibrillators AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) are the only treatment for outside hospital cardiac arrest, when available and used alongside CPR, (chest compressions) they will give our residents the very best chance of survival. The more units we have available in our community, the better the chances of survival are, as deploying them is time-critical. Every minute of delay to CPR and defibrillation will reduce the probability of survival by 10%.

Any local clubs should aim to register their details with the South East Coast Ambulance Service to enable any 999 call handlers to tell them where their nearest unit is in the village.

For those readers who aren’t sure what they would do, should they be needed to use a defibrillator in an emergency - there is an app recommended by the Resuscitation Council. To download the app, visit the website: www.resus.org.uk/apps/lifesaver

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