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Welcome to June Edition..

Hello Welcome to the June edition of The Village Living.

This month’s issue has the latest from our wonderful contributors. I hope that you will find our articles interesting and informative as well as helpful. We have the latest for you from local theatre, local charities and developments in the area.

Wishing you a fabulous month and we will see you in July. We are here to help you connect up with local businesses and of course your continued support is very important to us.

Please do write or email us about any local events or activities or charity events you may be running or would like to promote locally. We would be happy to put it in the magazine. The dead line for the July edition is the 14th of June.

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Horsham Artists is staging an Art Trail Exhibition over the week-ends 3rd/4th and 10th/11th July

With an especially designed map of the local area available to view and download at: www. horshamartists.org , you will be able to plan your visits to the Covid-secure studios and exhibition venues where you will be able to talk with the artists and makers about their choice of materials and the different ways in which they approach their work.

As you will see from the map, a number of artists and makers in the Storrington area are opening their venues. So, this is a real opportunity to find out what is going on both across the Horsham district and closer to home.

The map will also provide you with a list of artists and makers with an accompanying thumbnail image of their work so you will be able to plan your route.

Please note that the Horsham Artists stands in the Carfax will only appear on both Saturdays.

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Storrington & Pulborough District Rotary Club in action In the Community Hundreds of punters turned out in the sunshine to browse and buy the bric-a-brac, plants, books, clothes and curios etc on offer at the first Rotary Club of Storrington and Pulborough District’s Bank Holiday Car Boot Sale of the year in Storrington.

Rotary charities benefited as almost £900 was raised and stall holders enjoyed some much appreciated business.

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Storrington Bowling Club Centenay Year 1921 - 2021 This year is a very special year for us. Our bowling club has been in the heart of Storrington since 1921. To celebrate our anniversary we have planned many extra events, the summer will be busier than ever. There are no strangers at this club, only friends you have yet to meet.

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People wanted from every town and city in Great Britain to help make a new national walking network During the Spring 2020 lockdown volunteers from across the nation plotted a network of walking routes that connect all of Great Britain’s towns and cities.

Without leaving home over 7,000 ‘Slow Ways’ walking routes were mapped using existing paths, trails and roads. Combined, the routes stretch for 100,000km and lap the equator twice.

The team behind Slow Ways is now looking for people from every town and city in Great Britain to walk and review the routes to make sure they work in practice.

Dan Raven-Ellison started the Slow Ways initiative just before the country went into lockdown at the start of last year.

“The Slow Ways walking network will be something we can all enjoy for generations to come. Working from their living rooms and kitchens, volunteers have done an incredible job of drafting the network, but now we need to make sure it works on the ground, quite literally.

“To do that, we need people to head out and walk all the proposed routes to check them.

“Making use of country paths, under-used ways and city streets, the idea is to make it easier for people to plan walking journeys between neighbouring places and combine routes to go on longer distance walks.

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“Millions of us love walking - it’s such a simple thing, and it benefits so many of us in so many different ways. What if we had a proper national walking network that inspired more people to walk more often, further, and for more purposes?”

Thousands of people are needed to put the Slow Ways network through its paces whilst assessing routes for accuracy, safety and accessibility. To find out more and to help simply visit the Slow Ways website (www. slowways.org), choose a route, walk it and leave a review.

All of the kilometres walked and feedback shared by users will help to establish a network that’s not only trusted, but widely used to connect people and communities across Great Britain.

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Margaret Frost Margaret Frost was born in the rectory at Kingston by Sea on the 26th of November 1920. Her father was the Reverend Ernest Isaac Frost, her mother Olive Jessie Frost and her brother Ernest Julian Frost.

The family moved to the rectory at Pulborough, and a governess, who lived in the village, educated Margaret from the age of five. At eight years old, Margaret was sent to boarding school in Bognor Regis. Two years later, at the age of ten she stood at Shoreham airfield watching as her mother, a keen aviator took to the skies. It wasn’t until Margaret was eleven that her mother took her up for her very first ride in a plane.

During the Second World War, Margaret joined the W.R.N.S. in 1940 and on the 25th of November 1942, the Air Transport In 1938, when Margaret was eighteen and Auxiliary, women’s ferry pool. She was the onset of World War Two was drawing ever though considered to have accrued too closer, her father reluctantly allowed her to few flying hours to pilot a plane, and at take flying lessons. Brooklands, the famous five foot three, was under the height limit. motorcar racing circuit and aerodrome had Also Margaret had poor eyesight and whilst established a flying club at Parham House taking off had never a problem, landing near Pulborough. However Margaret had to a plane was. Margaret was unable to be wait until April 1939 for a vacancy to arise on given glasses, instead being prescribed two its training course. By then the Civil Air Guard months of eye exercises by a specialist. She had been set up with flying lessons being was temporarily grounded, but when finally offered at half price because of a government passed medically fit, she was trained to fly subsidy, due to the urgent need to find fighter again. Margaret Frost began by piloting the pilots for the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Hawker Hart, which was a two-seater biAir Arm. Even with the subsidy, Margaret had plane and then moved on to the Tiger Moth. to spend every penny she had to learn to fly.

Margaret could then fly the famous bi-plane Training in a ‘Gypsy Moth’ plane she notched fighters of the Fleet Air Arm: the Gloster up ten flying hours before being allowed to fly Gladiator and the Fairy Swordfish Torpedo solo.

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Margaret became a ferry pilot and was one of the one hundred and sixty-eight Spitfire Women tasked with delivering the combat planes from the factory to frontline airfields.

The government believed the ferry pilots should fly the planes with their guns empty, despite the very high risk of them being shot down by marauding German fighters. The Spitfire women also had to fly in horrendous weather conditions and beyond the usual safety limit set for flying hours. The aircraft they flew had to be urgently delivered, armed, refuelled and scrambled into action to combat the German fighter and bomber raids. After delivering a Spitfire to Dumfries in Scotland Margaret took the train back to London. A passing gentleman helped her off the train with her large heavy bag and was baffled when Margaret told him it was her parachute.

Like most people at the time, he was unaware of the vital role women like Margaret Frost were playing.

After the war, when she was demobbed in September 1945, Margaret went to live with her mother in Henfield. She then enlisted as one of the first pilots in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Volunteer Reserve. By then she had notched up six hundred and fifty flying hours. International newspapers featured a photograph of her sitting at in the cockpit of a Spitfire. In 1950 Margaret took a job at the War Office where she was engaged in topsecret work at the Fighter Control Unit during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Margaret retired in the mid 1970s, but rarely spoke about being a pilot during the Second World War. When interviewed by the BBC for the documentary ‘Spitfire Women’ in September 2010, eighty-nine year old Margaret acknowledged too the men of Air Transport 12

Auxiliary who were rarely covered by the media. Many were severely disabled by war injuries, but continued to fly as ferry pilots, alongside their female colleagues, delivering planes to the active combat squadrons and well as working as ground crew.

Judy Upton Refs: ‘The Female Few: Spitfire Heroines of the ATA’ by Jacky Hyams.

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Storrington & Pulborough District Rotary Club in action In the Community Although Covid has restricted community interaction and curtailed many of the Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District’s usual local involvement over the past year, Club members have been meeting online via Zoom to plan future events and introduce new fund raising ideas.

A Rotary Club monthly lottery has been launched with three monthly prizes of up to £80 which will increase as support grows.

A new Storrington Rotary eBay shop raised over £1500 worth of sales from the Community by selling nearly new vintage and designer clothes. Jewellery, Collectables, Old mobiles/ cameras, DVD’s, Photograph frames, Children’s toys and equipment and much more.

We have been able to provide funding support for caring organisations including Chestnut Tree House, Turning Tides, Mary How, District Food Bank and Mercy Ships. Our public collection in August raised over £1000 for victims of the devastating Beirut disaster and we were able to continue our support for the Rotary ‘End Polio Now’ world wide campaign with a donation and planting thousands of Crocuses at Storrington Memorial Pond that provided a burst of purple colour in Spring.

The Rotary Christmas Tree Recycling scheme had to be cancelled but, thanks to the generosity of so many people, we were able to complete our distribution of 50 Christmas Sacks containing gifts, Christmas goodies, clothing and a cash voucher to those less fortunate in our community.

challenges to grow a variety of skills. Pupils at Steyning Grammar School link with the Club through the Rotary Interact Club there that helps them to develop leadership skills while discovering the power of Service Above Self. Further afield we have close links with the St Michael School in Kilolo, Tanzania where the club donates annual school fees for a pupil and a number of Members give private support to children of the rural poor people living in that area of Africa.

As Covid restrictions are lifted we are re-introducing Rotary events, the first being our popular Bank Holiday Car Boot Sales in Storrington Library Car Park. Lots of bric-a-brac, plants, books, clothes & curios will be on sale from 8.00am ‘till Noon on Monday 31 May.

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Time’s running out for local businesses to apply for vital restart funding Vital funding is still available to support local businesses to get up and running again as further sectors reopen in line with the latest easing of COVID restrictions.

The Restart Grant, which closes for applications on 30th June 2021, is one of several financial support packages that in the last year have been created for businesses impacted by the COVID pandemic.

Applications, which can be done online via an easy-to-use portal, can be completed at on our Coronavirus (COVID-19): Business Support page.

Scheme of up to £6,000.

Further discretionary funding is also available for local businesses, particularly those in the Adur district. The Additional Restrictions Grant is for businesses and organisations that have been severely impacted by the The Grant is primarily designed for businesses in the hospitality, accommodation, restrictions and have not been eligible for leisure, personal care and gym sectors, which other funding support or are in need of additional support. make up a high proportion of the business Cllr Brian Boggis, Executive Member for profile of Adur and Worthing and are the Regeneration for Adur District Council, said: latest to open in line with the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown. These sectors “We know many businesses, sole traders are some of the worst hit financially due to and freelancers have been impacted by the the length of time they have had to remain Covid pandemic but may not realise they are closed. eligible for financial support. We encourage businesses in Adur to get in touch to find out The purpose of the Restart Grant is to what they may be entitled to.” support businesses to reopen safely. Many businesses have had to adapt their way of Cllr Kevin Jenkins, Executive Member for working to be able to operate in line with Regeneration for Worthing Borough Council, COVID safety restrictions, and have been said: supported by Adur & Worthing Councils’ “The Restart Grant has made a vital COVID Information Officers to help them difference to many local businesses to help do so. This includes the hospitality sector them to get up and running again - it’s great which has had to put in place a range of to see our town bouncing back from this safety measures to be able to welcome their challenging last year.” customers back.

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