By Ray Gower

After Halloween and a fantastic bonfire night here in Lindfield, it is now time to look forward to the next special day in the event calendar. We are delighted to announce that the Denmans Lane Dash will be back in full swing this Boxing Day!

We will be following the same format as previous years - meeting as usual in the Stand Up at midday for the race to start at 1pm. Everyone in festive or fancy dress, we will be running a ladies’ race and a men’s race. There will also be a prize for best fancy dress. Sadly, we do require competitors to be over 18.

This great event has given us an opportunity to raise money for a charity and this year I have chosen what I think is a very worthy cause. It has been a horrible time over the last 18 months. We have all been hit by this awful pandemic but some more than others, and I wanted to help those people who have been hardest hit. So, this year we’ll be raising funds for the wonderful Bentswood Hub Food Bank.

The Denmans Lane Dash has a Facebook page and we will be posting all the information for this year’s event on there. We will also be putting the information up in the Stand Up. We are also looking to set up a JustGiving page at the beginning of December to start raising money for food bank. We really hope we can raise a good amount of funds to help support the Food Bank. The amazing Brett Hudson has kindly produced our poster this year. He has also produced a black and white version for colouring in which we will sell for 50p. These can be purchased from the Stand Up. We are very excited to be able to bring this fun event back to the Lindfield calendar.