Forest Row Film Society

Forest Row Film Society has reached its fundraising target for new digital equipment with the grant of £6605 from Awards for All, the lottery provider.

The lottery award adds to those from the Gatwick Area Community Trust, Screen South, Wealden District Council and the East Grinstead Courier/Axa PPP Heart of the Community awards that the organisation has received over the last year.

Film Society president Robert Evans said “This is fantastic news. Together with our reserves and donations from members we know we can now plan our future.

“We will be acquiring our new equipment in the next few weeks. It will include a high-powered digital projector, a large screen and new sound system, which, together with the new chairs in the village hall will make for a vastly improved cinema experience in Forest Row.”

Treasurer Marie-Claire Thomson said “The new equipment will mean we can choose from a much wider range of films; in the future we will be able to devise more diverse and exciting programmes including very recent releases.”

The new season begins with a screening of Fellini’s Ginger and Fred on Friday 19th September at 8pm in the village hall.

Forest Row Film Society are pleased to announce that we have been awarded £1000 from the Gatwick Airport Community Trust towards our digital equipment fund. We have also just received money from Screen South, which is to support our fundraising activities. As a consequence of this we have just submitted an application to the lottery in the shape of the Awards for All scheme.

Forest Row Film Society have been awarded £3015 from Wealden District Council as part of their community fund.

We have been awarded £1000 as part of the Axa PPP/East Grinstead Courier Heart of the Community awards; this is the first grant award towards our new digital projection equipment.

The committee attended the awards dinner in Tunbridge Wells. Thank you to all our members who voted for us.

The opening weekend of the season was part of Forest Row Festival, a series of arts and music events. The Forest Row Film Society events were enabled by Screen South and the RIFE lottery funding programme.