Live Music
| Saturday | August 7th | 9.00pm | The Amazing Soul Dogs |
| Sunday | August 29th | 9.00pm | Chan |
| Friday | September 17th | 9.00pm | Justine |
| Saturday | November 13th | 9.00pm | Andy Foster |
| Saturday | December 4th | 9.00pm | Straight 6 |
| Friday | December 24th | 9.00pm | Chan |
Wheatsheaf Golf Society
Click here for the Golf Society page
Wheatsheaf Leek Club
Click here for our Leek Club page
The Wheatsheaf Fun Dog Show - September 2010
Our dog shows have been a fantastic success, appealing as they do to the whole family (especially the dogs!), so our third Dog Show will be held on Sunday the 19th September, starting around 2pm. As in the last two years, we will have categories such as Waggiest Tail, Best Friend Lookalike, Musical Carpet Squares, the Obstacle Course, and Temptation Alley – we’ll try and think up a couple of new ones too. Let’s hope for another fine day and lots of fun …………… |
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The new season for our two league teams, Stookies and Jesters, begins on 5th May with Stookies in Division 1 following their well deserved promotion last year, and Jesters in Division 2. Matches will be played home and away with teams of 6 – 8 players until the season ends in September, and anyone interested is welcome to come along, try their hand in practice and join if they wish. Most league teams are situated in Crowborough, but there are also teams in Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Uckfield. The petanque piste is also available for use by groups or organisations, provided they bring their own boules. |
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Oh dear - it's a good job crib is 90% luck or our team would have an almighty inferiority complex, as it is they can justly blame the wretched cards they were dealt all season meaning that with 2 matches to go they are already looking forward to relegation and life in Division 2. Never mind, new players always welcome and maybe they'll change our luck.
Charity Events
We have always been supportive of charitable causes with a number of regular functions and events, such as the Wheatsheaf v Baldwin Boxall Golf Day, Football and Music Quizzes, the weekly bonus ball competition, Fire Walking, running the London Marathon and the Crocus Walk to name but a few. All in all, we estimate that between 2004 and 2008 we raised in the region of £40,000 from the above, and events which used the Wheatsheaf as a base for their fundraising activity. In 2009 we added significantly to this with our first (and probably last) 3 Peaks Challenge!
THE WHEATSHEAF 3 PEAKS CHALLENGE – 25th/26th July 2009
Ted’s endeavours to avoid having a birthday party are the stuff of legend, but since it was the big Six Oh this year we knew we’d have to do something special, so twelve blokes and two ladies spanning the ages 29 - 59 going on 60, with little in common other than they frequent this little pub, decided on a whim last October that they would attempt the 3 Peaks 24 hour challenge, for charity, when half of them had never even heard of it, and those that had had never done anything like it. (For those who don’t know, this challenge involves going up and down the highest mountains in Scotland (Ben Nevis), England (Scafell Pike) and Wales (Snowdon) all within 24 hours.)
Between then and the end of July this group spent time exercising as individuals, in small groups, and on training walks as a big group to get to know one another. They researched, planned and agonised over routes, provisioning and first aid kit; each individual personally spent £300 - £700 covering accommodation, transport, fuel and food, and lots of very expensive equipment. They took time off work to complete the event, during which they cursed, swore, cajoled and shoved to get everyone up and down the mountains, and they approached friends, family, work colleagues and customers to raise a simply amazing amount of money for great charities. |
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These people were funny, focused and absolutely committed, they achieved mightily and they can be proud, they have been an inspiration, they have raised a fabulous £20,000 for the Hospice in the Weald and Sands UK. Ted and Maggie feel immensely privileged to have been a part of it, and would like to thank all of them for their efforts, and also of course everybody who sponsored them with such generosity.
If you want to know what happened, check out the blog by clicking here. These are the people who took part:–
| Ted Hirst | Andy Diplock | Mick Scarlett | Simon Relf |
| Roger Cottenham | Dave Gurden | Jonny Adams | Neil Wood |
| Rick Clark | Pete Rich | Marcus Isaacson | Keith Smith |
| Maggie Hirst | Jan Scarlett |
The Dwile Flonking Challenge 2009
The Wheatsheaf hosted a historic Dwile Flonking match against Crowborough RFC on 12th July (historic because no one has ever heard of it, let alone played it before). The pictures probably tell the story, so suffice to say it is a kind of wet and beery grown up Ring a Ring o’ Roses. All participants, musicians and spectators enjoyed an hilarious and mercifully warm, sunny afternoon while beer and barbecue flowed, watching these two teams flonk themselves to a standstill. The result? An honourable draw at 6 points all - there are actually some rules, but since the umpire largely invented his own as the match progressed they are not worth committing to print!
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