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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.

  • HAILSHAM HERO AWARDS

    HAILSHAM BONFIRE SOCIETY WINS AT AWARDS

    For the last few months Hailsham residents have been voting for their Hailsham Hero’s.  The initiative was launched in 2024 by Hailsham News and Hailsham FM and saw a number of local Heroes awarded for their efforts in the town.

    The Hailsham Hero Award is a perfect way to acknowledge someone truly deserving person who has made a real difference through their generous spirit and tireless work with the Hailsham area.

    The event was held on the evening of October 14 2025 at The Kings Head in Horsebridge with our Chairman, Bob Sandalls, invited as HBS was shortlisted as a contender for the award “Group Organisation Award”

    The voting closed on October 30 and we are pleased to announce that HBS won this award. This award recognises all the hard work that our society members, who are all volunteers, do to help raise funds for not only the fantastic free event which is held every year but also local charities. We would like to thank all of those who voted for us and also those businesses which have supported us throughout the year to do what we do.

  • 2025 HBS Bonfire Celebrations

    On October 18 2025 HBS hosted their Guy Fawkes and Fireworks spectacular. The business of preparing the bonfire and making sure that everything was ready stated early on Saturday morning at 7am….. Our fantastic society members were all ready to help out on what is a very long day.
    With 17 visiting societies and 4 fantastic bands the night was an amazing success. Support was offered from other societies and we really appreciated it as this helped us make our event as successful as it was. The event hosted a record number of visitors which shows how popular this is in the Hailsham calendar of events throughout the year. We are now looking forward to our event in 2026 which we plan to be even better than this one! Want to support then you can join the society by clicking on the link below.

  • 2025 Bonfire Season……

    We are only a short time away from HBS Guy Fawkes Celebrations on October 18 2025! Society members have been busy putting together a great event programme for you all to enjoy. Whilst we have all been busy for our evening we have also been visitors to a number of local Bonfire events across Sussex. The society has a great deal of active members who attend these events and represent HBS, where needed we will support the host if needed. This takes a great deal of commitment and time to make an event to remember. If you would like to support or contribute to the society in anyway please visit our Fundraising page here on our website. All support is gratefully received and appreciated