Website with all you need to know about Graffham

Graffham Parish Council has a new website – with a section all about the village itself – complete with new email addresses for its councillors.

Published: 20 October 2025

The new website replaces the old one shared with East Lavington Parish Council that had proved difficult to update and maintain and which did not meet latest nationally recommended standards for parish councils.  The replacement – and the new email have as the final segment of their addresses the gov.uk designator preferred for national and local government bodies.  Check it out at graffham-pc.gov.uk

Besides a cornucopia of information about Graffham Parish Council, the new website includes everything residents and visitors might need to know about the village.  Its ‘All about Graffham’ section has chapters covering the community’s key assets like the recreation ground, play park, war memorial and Empire Hall, along with ‘chapters’ on the village’s clubs, schools, public transport and more, as well a guide to who to contact about what or where to find more information.  Full of web links and hundreds of pictures, it also lists where to eat, drink and stay and what attractions to visit locally.

It is built on a platform created by the not-for-profit agency Parish Online, which supports websites for hundreds of councils across the country.

The new email addresses for councillors use the initial of their first name then their surname followed by the @ symbol then the domain name, for example acouncillor@graffham-pc.gov.uk

Graffham Parish Council Chairman Gillian Charlesworth said: “Our key aims in building the new website were to create a cost-effective and simple-to-maintain platform that enables residents easily to find anything they need to know about the parish council – and also an attractive shopwindow that reflects what a vibrant and beautiful village Graffham is.”

Graffham Village Diary  One element introduced as part of the new website is a Graffham village diary – an expanded version of the ‘what’s on’ pages carried in the back of each edition of Graffham Parish News and produced by its editorial team.

It covers a full year ahead, to help anyone in the community planning events to avoid clashing with activities already scheduled.  The Village Diary can be found from a link on the home pages of both graffham-pc.gov.uk and our church website stgilesgraffham.org

Graffham Parish Council thanks Graffham Parish News editor Michael Blunt for his enormous help in preparing the new website for its launch.

If you spot anything that needs updating on the website, or if there are activities you would like included in the village diary, email editor.graffhamparishnews@gmail.com