2024

Film Club presents Lost in Paris – Thursday 20th June

Lost in Paris is a 2016 French-Belgian comedy film written, directed and co-produced by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon. In the film Gordon plays a small town Canadian librarian who receives a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha living in Paris. She hops on the first plane only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of disasters, she meets Dom, a seductive homeless guy, played by Abel, who won’t leave her alone.   “A funny little gem”  – The Guardian.  Info and tickets http://www.webcollect.org.uk/sheetfilms

OLYMPIAD de SHEET – Saturday 22nd June

FUN, GAMES AND RACES ON THE RECREATION GROUND

COME JOIN A TEAM AND WIN A MEDAL!

BBQ ou picnic à 12.00 heures

12 – 1.30 – Registration for Team Races / 4.45 – Prize Giving / 5 ish – Raffle Draw

AND MORE – Look out for full Programme of Events nearer the day on Recreation Ground gateposts

Dress Code – À la française – Ooh la la!

   Event organised by The Sheet Village Community Trust – Supported by Sheet Parish Council and East Hants District Council

The Rude Mechanicals – The Dressing Book – Saturday 29th June – Sheet Recreation Ground

It is variously both an hilarious comedy, but equally provocative, poetic and tender. It is set in the late 18th Century in Tunbridge Wells but plays games with time and social status and has a twist in the tail. It follows the ‘social round’ of Maybelline Erstwhile who records which dresses she wears for each event in her ‘dressing book’ – and the men she encounters while wearing them. The play opens a window on the way clothes were – and still are – a means by which men could control the separated public and private worlds of women. Has anything changed? Through a process of ‘magic realism’ the action changes to the 1960’s and Maybelline’s clothes, which had been her prison, now set her free.  To book tickets https://www.therudes.co.uk/booking-page

MAY 2024

Sheet Annual Parish Assembly 2024 – Wednesday 29th May at 7pm.

This year the Annual Parish Assembly is being held on Wednesday, 29th May at 7.00 p.m. at Sheet Village Hall and our speaker is Tim Slaney, CEO of the South Downs National Park Authority who will be talking about National Parks – Past, Present and Future. Residents are very welcome to join us for the talk and an update on the work of the Parish Council over the past year. The Annual Parish Assembly is also an opportunity for you to raise any local issues and talk to members of the Parish, District and County Council over a glass of wine.

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Don’t forget to Save the Date for THE SHEET OLYMPICS – Saturday 22nd June.  Many of you will have received The Sheet Olympics Flyer through your letterbox and we’ll be updating the programme on this website nearer the time.

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It’s great to see the Horse Chestnut tree starting to sprout. Photo – Lucy Pringle

FOSS FLIX – Saturday 11th May.

Click here for everything you need to know about this event: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/petersfield/sheet-primary-school/foss-flix-2024/e-gdlzal

Film Club presents The Breadwinner – Thursday 16th May 2024

The Breadwinner is a 2017 animated drama film from Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon directed by Nora Twomey. Based on the best-selling novel by Deborah Ellis, the film tells the story of a young girl Parvana, living in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban, who is forced to assume the identity of a young boy in order to provide food for her family after her father is forcibly taken from their family home by the Taliban. Info and tickets http://www.webcollect.org.uk/sheetfilms

Film Club presents A Knight’s Tale – Thursday 18th April 2024

A Knight’s Tale is a 2001 US medieval action comedy film, written and directed by Brian Helgeland. The film stars Heath Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire who poses as a knight and competes in tournaments, winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as Edward the Black Prince and Geoffrey Chaucer. Its 14th-century story is intentionally anachronistic, with many modern pop culture references and a soundtrack featuring 1970s music. Info and tickets http://www.webcollect.org.uk/sheetfilms

APRIL 2024

The Film Club Quiz

The Film Club Quiz on 8th March was a fun event.  Thanks to the compilers of the question rounds -Frank Jennings, Brian Bird, Andrew Sydenham, Rachel Gorvin and Nicole Small, and thanks to the bar tenders Elaine Ballantine and Nicole for keeping us hydrated! And thanks to the excellent and most professional presenters, Frank, Brian and Andrew.   The event raised £1200 to be split equally between the Rosemary Foundation and Cancer Research UK.

Images show a full house at the Film Club Quiz Night. Beautifully wrapped Raffle prizes by Nicole Small. And Jayne Flatt of the Film Club presenting Wendy Smith of The Rosemary Foundation with a cheque for £600.

March 2024

Save The Date

The Sheet Olympics!  Saturday 22nd June. 


Scout Hut Defibrillator

We have an additional defibrillator, courtesy of The Sheet Scout Group, who have purchased and installed this on the exterior of the Scout Hut – the side facing Inmans Lane.  The other defibrillator remains in the porch of the Village Hall.


Valentines’ Film Club

Preparations for the Valentines’ Film Club evening on 15th February.

Film Club presents ‘Official Secrets’ – Thursday Mar 21st 2024

Official Secrets is a 2019 British drama film based on the case of whistleblower Katharine Gun, who leaked a memo exposing an illegal spying operation by American and British intelligence services to potentially blackmail United Nations diplomats tasked to vote on a resolution regarding the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The film is directed by Gavin Hood, and Gun is portrayed by Keira Knightley. The film also stars Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Adam Bakri, Indira Varma and Ralph Fiennes.

For further information and to buy tickets visit: webcollect.org.uk/sheetfilms

February 2024

Millennium Field Tree Planting Scheme

Sheet residents joined The Hampshire Monday Group and The South Downs National Park Volunteer Group at the Parish Council’s tree planting scheme, in the field adjoining the Millennium Field.  The trees were planted in three copses and one avenue, plus hedging. A full report of the extent of the planting will be available soon on the Parish Council website.

Film Club presents ‘Horseman on the Roof’ – Thursday Feb 15th 2024

This is our Valentine’s themed showing and the hall will be set up with candle-lit tables. Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez. Based on the 1951 French novel Le hussard sur le toit by Jean Giono, the film follows the adventures of a young Italian nobleman in France raising money for the Italian revolution against Austria during a time of cholera. The Italian struggle for independence and the cholera pandemic in southern France in 1832 are historical events.

For further information and to buy tickets visit: webcollect.org.uk/sheetfilms

January 2024

Millennium Field Tree Planting Scheme

The Parish Council have asked us to remind you about the Millennium Field Tree Planting Scheme – Monday, 29th January and/or Tuesday, 30th January.  We would love it if parishioners could come along to help  plant the whips – please let us know in advance if you are able to make  it (clerk@sheetparishcouncil.gov.uk) and please bring your own spade!   It is intended to start with the avenue and hedge on the south border of the field – the location of each species of whips will be marked out.  On Monday 29th we have the Hampshire Monday Group booked (approx. 12-15 in number) who have plenty of experience planting and laying  hedgerows and on Tuesday we have a South Downs National Park Volunteer  group (approx. 10–12 in number) – however, we would love to see  residents as well.


The Parish Priority Statement Survey

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Community Meeting on Saturday, 25th November to discuss the survey responses – all the feedback and discussion was very welcome.  Sheet Parish Council approved the Parish Priority Statement response to SDNPA at their meeting on 12th December.  Notes from the meeting can be found here.

Film Club presents ‘Rear Window’ – Thursday Jan 18th 2024


Rear Window
 is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film, staring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr, is based on the 1942 short story “It Had to Be Murder” in which a professional photographer with a broken leg whiles away the time by spying on his neighbours through his window. However, his pastime becomes serious when he witnesses an apparent murder. 

The film is considered by many to be one of Hitchcock’s best and one of the greatest films ever made. 

For further information and to buy tickets visit: webcollect.org.uk/sheetfilms