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Things To Do For FREE 
Weekends
Saturday mornings
FREE FOOTBALL TRAINING for boys and girls aged 4-6.
Sovereign Saints Football Club, behind the lakeside Cafe,
Hampden Park, Eastbourne. 9.45-11am. Parental attendance
required. (01323) 461040.
Most
Saturdays at 7.30pm
EASTBOURNE EAGLES SPEEDWAY.
Arlington
Stadium, nr Hailsham. Adult
£16, child (6-15) £8,
FREE child admission for
under 12s per full
paying adult with advert in Kids Fun File, family £40, under
6s
FREE. (01323)
841642. Saturdays
and Sundays
FREE FAMILY LEARNING PACK and materials available in the
Learning Area of the Towner Art Gallery, College Road, Eastbourne.
10am -5pm, just drop in. (01323) 434660. 
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Daily
VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
You can borrow a book, a tape or even a DVD. It'll cost
either nothing or very little (for tapes and DVDs) plus you're house
won't be all cluttered up when you've finished with the stuff
because you can just take it back. The ultimate recycling
opportunity!
GLASS SCULPTURES. The Glass Studio on Eastbourne Pier. 10am -
6pm. Watch the craftsmen sculpting miniature models out of glass.
FREE demonstrations. www.pierglassstudio.co.uk
EASTBOURNE LIFEBOAT MUSEUM. At the foot of the Wish Tower slopes
on the seafront. 10am-4pm. A museum covering the history of
Eastbourne’s lifeboats from 1822 to the present. FREE entry, gift
shop attached. The Eastbourne RNLI also have a really
comprehensive website at: www.eastbournernli.org.uk
so if you visit it before you go to the museum, you'll feel even
more involved.
BEACHY HEAD COUNTRYSIDE CENTRE. Top of Beachy Head. 10am-4pm.
Enjoy the Downland Experience: meet the Talking Shepherd and the
Saxon Man, plus experience the feel and sound of local wildlife.
FREE entry - this is too good to be free - so make the most of it!
(01323) 737 273.
FRISTON FOREST. Park either at the Litlington Road car park
(signposted from the A259 at Seven Sisters Country Park, or at the
Butchershole car park off the B2105, approx 1 mile north of Friston
village. (These are ‘pay and display’ car parks £1 per hour,
max £2.) Walk, cycle, go nature-spotting, build shelters out of
fallen wood, picnic or even try your hand at orienteering (maps are
available from the Seven Sisters visitor centre). Trails are
waymarked by coloured circles, stick to the one colour and you
shouldn’t get (too) lost!
THE BEACHY HEAD WALK. Starts from East Dean village or from
Birling Gap. Whole walk lasts approx. 1 ½ hours at adult walking
speed, you may want to attempt just a part of it with kids. Click on
this link:
www.beachyhead.org.uk/documents/beachy_walk.pdf
and download a wonderful guide with nature and history notes
as well as directions.
Farmers'
Markets
While only the entry to these is FREE, a visit to a farmer’s
market is a much more of an event than a visit to a supermarket, and
a lot less stressful. There is also usually something you can buy to
keep the children happy - homemade cakes and buns for instance!
Community Wise Farmers' Market.
Last Saturday of every month. 10am-2pm. Ocklynge Rd, Eastbourne. Local produce, homemade cakes.
(01323) 722924.
East Dean Village Market
Every Wednesday 10.30am-12.30pm. East Dean Village Hall. Tel: 01323
423481 or 07730 325398.
Hailsham Market
2nd Saturday in every month 9am-12.30pm. Hailsham Cattle Market.
Tel: 01323 833359.
Pevensey Bay Country Market
Every Friday from the end of March until Christmas.
10.15am-11.30am.
St Wilfrid's Hall, Eastbourne Road.
Home-baked cakes and pies, jams, preserves, local fresh fruit and
veg, plus crafts.
Any mums looking for extra income and who would like to become a
stallholder, can contact Fiona Roberts:
Tel: 01323 460178.
Lewes
1st Saturday every month. 9am-1pm. Cliffe Pedestrian Precinct,
Lewes.
Seaford
3rd Thursday every month. Saxon Lane car park at the bottom of
Broad St.
Or (weather permitting) ...
Fly a kite up on the Downs.
Pretend you are a tourist. Sit on the beach,
paddle in the sea, go rock-pooling, eat a picnic (or take a flask of
hot soup - depending on aforementioned weather!)
Take a stroll around the marina and admire
all the boats.
Rollerskate / cycle along the Eastern end of
the seafront, where you’re in a car free zone.
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