7 April 2025
Family Flaming Fun Day Planning
Our regular society members spent time at our monthly meeting planning our Flaming Fun Day.
This event will be help on Sunday 29 June on Western Road Recreation ground. This will be a fantastic event with Music, Bar, stalls, displays and much much more. If you have a stall and would like to be part of this day and help us raise the funds needed to hold our annual bonfire event. then let us know. Email our fundraising team with details of your stall and what you have:
Fundraising@hailshambonfire.co.uk
10 January 2025
Annual General Meeting
HBS held their AGM in January and discussed the forthcoming year and vote in our committee. The overall success of the society is built around its members and there is no shortage of support to make the magic happen. We voted in our new committee and captains, some old and some new, and started the planning for 2025.
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HBS Social Evenings
HBS Darts Evening @ The Crown Hailsham
HBS Socials Captain, Jo Salmons, organised a fantastic evening event at The Crown Pub in Hailsham on 21 Feb 2026. The night consisted of rounds of darts played by pairs randomly picked from the society members. This was the first night of this type and was a huge success. The outright winners were our Captain of Street Collections, Liz and our very own Chairman, Bob. There were other prizes up for grabs throughout the night and it was well represented by our society members. The society is not all about the bonfire celebrations in October and November, there are many events we get involved in and great get togethers like this one to have a great time!
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Sussex Bonfire Carol Service
HBS members attended the Sussex Bonfire Society Annual Carol Service in Uckfield, 14 December 2025. The society was well represented with a number of members attending in their Smuggler or Victorian dress. The service was preceded with a colourful procession and then Christmas Carols at the church. Also the new banner for Christmas was revealed, a great addition to our many banners throughout the years and proudly carried by our Captain of Banners, Richard Harris. HBS Juniors banner was carried in by Dylan Lloyd, a long standing junior member and now YouTuber for the society.
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2025 Season finale
The evening of 22 November brought the 2025 bonfire season to an end for Hailsham Bonfire Society. Our final outmeeting was at Chiddingly and whilst the weather was cold and wet we were offered a warm welcome from our hosts. HBS had a great turnout from the membership and we certainly all had a great evening with fantastic bonfire and firework display to end.
2025 has been a great year for the society with new members joining and new societies visited. We are always looking for new members to join the society and help maintain our high standards when putting our own evening together. This event takes a great deal of work to prepare and execute however all members who support this have a great evening and work hard to give our visiting societies and public an event to remember. If you would like to be part of this fantastic family visit our memberships page. Want to help in other ways? Visit our fundraising page where you can contact us.