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WHEN CAN YOU ACCESS YOUR PENSION? IT MIGHT BE FURTHER AWAY THAN YOU THINK The age you can access defined contribution (DC) pensions is rising. Research suggests that many people are unaware of this, but it could affect your retirement plans.
your pension back by two years. In some cases, these two years may make little difference to your overall lifestyle and goals. Change your plans: Depending on what your plans are, adjustments may mean they’re still achievable At the moment, you can access money saved into without having your pension to tap into. Reviewing a DC pension scheme from the age of 55. However, what your goals are can help you figure out what from 2028, this will rise to 57. If you’d hoped to access your pension at 55, whether you plan to retire changes make sense for you. then or not, the additional two years may mean you Increase your savings now: If your 50s are still some time away, knowing that the pension age is rising gives need to rethink your plans. 7 in 10 adults aren’t aware of the rising pension age you time to act. Putting more money away in a savings While 83% of UK adults are aware there is a minimum or investment account that will cover your plans means you won’t have to make changes in the future. age to access a DC pension, just 22% knew that the Use other assets to bridge the gap: You may be able minimum pension age will increase to 57 in 2028, to use other assets to fill the pension gap. This could according to an Aegon survey. include savings, investments, or property. However, keep You don’t have to be planning to retire at 55 to be the bigger picture in mind: could using these assets now affected. Perhaps you’d hoped to take a lump sum from your pension to pay off the mortgage early. Or affect longer-term plans or your financial security? you may have been hoping to cut back your working If the rising pension age could affect you, we’re here to help. Please get in touch and hours, using your pension to bridge the gap. quote reference PFSVL to discuss your Two years may not seem like much, but if you’d retirement aspirations and how your assets can planned to use your pension in some way before be used to help you achieve them. Your initial turning 57 it can leave a hole in your finances. consultation with us is free. So, what can you do? SUSSEX’S PREMIER INDEPENDENT Push your plans back: The simplest solution is to simply push back your plans that relied on accessing FINANCIAL ADVISERS. The tax implications of pension withdrawals will be based on your individual circumstances, tax legislation and regulation, which are subject to change in the future. A pension is a long-term investment. The fund value may fluctuate and can go down, which would have an impact on the level of pension benefits available. T. 01273 774855 E. advice@pembrokefs.co.uk W. www.pembrokefinancial.co.uk
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Welcome to the October Edition.. Hello Welcome to the October edition of The Village Living Magazine.
Contents
This month’s issue has the latest from our wonderful contributors. Many thanks to all of them.
When can you access your pension? The Ouse and Adur River Trust Architecture, Patterns and Shapes Granny Lila’s children books ‘Out of the Frying Pan’ Storrington film nights Farnefold versus Farden Ropetackle Cinema Gingerbread house fun Sausage Sizzle event raises funds for the Rotary Polio Plus Programme
Wishing you a fabulous month and we will see you in November. We are here to help you connect up with local businesses and of course your continued support is very important to us in terms of using local services in your area. 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 promote them in the magazine. The dead line for the November edition is the 20th of October.
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The Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust The Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust and Environment Agency have begun a partnership project which will assess how working with natural processes can help reduce the impact of heavy rainfall on properties and infrastructure across the River Adur catchment Over the next 18 months we will work with landowners, farmers, and communities to increase knowledge not only of where flooding occurs but also to collect thoughts and insight as to where flood “wet-spots” might be. This will enable the development of a co-designed strategy to help secure the funding needed to achieve the project’s ambitious goals. Working with natural processes such as the implementation of Natural Flood Management (NFM) techniques is based on the principle of working with the river system and its floodplains to slow and store water in a more natural way. This can also provide multiple benefits to land-
management. • Supporting improvements to soil structure and rebuilding levels of organic matter to increase landscape permeability. • Modifying flood embankments to improve channel diversity, water holding capacity and/or re-connecting rivers with their floodplains. Additional benefits which these interventions will provide include: • Reduced soil erosion and sedimentation loss to streams and rivers • Increased carbon capture and storage • Improved water quality • Creation of new habitat to help restore biological diversity laying the foundations for a River Adur Nature Recovery Network. If you are affected by flooding or are interested in getting involved in creating a more resilient landscape, then please get in touch. Tara Dawson – NFM Project Officer
owners, farmers, communities, and wildlife. Examples of NFM techniques include: • Introducing leaky woody debris dams to slow the flow and create in-channel habitat. • Introducing wetlands, ponds, and scrapes as features in the floodplain to provide increased water storage, providing both flood and drought resilience. • Seeking opportunities to create floodplain woodland or reinstate historic cross-slope hedgerows, both known to benefit flood risk Have a local editorial item? email: Villagelivingmagazine@gmail.com October 2021
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Architecture, Patterns and Shapes My images this month feature architecture in many forms. You don’t have to show an entire building, just select an interesting shape, design or reflection. You can create an abstract or a distorted, refracted view of the world. Look for light. Side lighting emphasises texture, top lighting will give shadow, adding darker tones to the colour palette or contrast to monochrome conversions. Monochrome can remove images from reality and when photographing reflections, can create a fantasy world, an illusion.
passionate photographers that look for unusual angles so when non photographers see your images they will question how you captured the shot, it will amaze or puzzle them, especially if they are familiar with the building. The colour images here were taken at Brighton Marina so you may recognise the
Look for lines, straight, angled or curved, to lead the eye around the frame, to create shape and form. Choose what you include in the frame and what you leave out, whether this is done in camera at the taking stage or a crop in post processing is up to you.
Experiment, take lots of pictures of the same subject but vary what appears in the frame, alter the angle by moving yourself around. If you have a DSLR, change lenses or zoom in and out. Change aperture to alter the depth of field and select parts of the image to be sharp whilst backgrounds ease into a slight blur. Perhaps you can change the height of the camera by getting down low or perhaps standing on a wall or just on higher ground. Try to record your image from a viewpoint that people are not familiar with because it is only
snippets of construction but I wonder if you have ever considered their pictorial potential. The window reflection is from Somerset House and the archway from Marrakesh. If you would like to be added to may mailing list for details of my workshops, please email me : steveboylephotos@gmail.com Steve Boyle
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Granny Lila’s Childrens books New local author - Lila-Ann Gray has lived in the beautiful village of Steyning since 1995, often visiting before that as a child. She ran a shop and BnB in the High Street for some years. “I’ve always wanted to write childrens stories but life just kept getting in the way even during retirement. At 72 and with 2 great grandchildren I realised I had to make the dream a reality. My eldest great granddaughter aged 3 shares my passion for fairies, magic and animals that talk and whenever we are out we get lost in the wonderful world of our imaginations. To date I have written 11 childrens books for ages up to 6 years. The illustrations by Lancing artist Jean Darling really bring to life the magic of the stories. My first book is called The Lonely Christmas Tree and is a Christmas story with a twist. A little Christmas tree finds himself left in a wood by his human family. Find out what happens to him over the coming year until they return for him on Christmas Eve. A story
that brings to life the wonderful world of childrens imaginations, teaching them that nothing is impossible. “ Look out too for the start of a new series: The First Magical Adventure With Granny. ‘Crystal the Fairy’ due out soon. Lila is on FB and Instagram Granny Lila’s Childrens books or email grannylilaschildrensbooks@gmail.com for more information.
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‘Out of The Frying Pan - Judy Upton has her first novel published! Shoreham-by-Sea playwright and writer of the monthly history article for Inside Shoreham magazine has just had her first novel published by Hobart Books. ‘Out Of The Frying Pan’ is a lively and lighthearted crime novel that centres on sculptor Vonnie Sharpe, who aided by her arty friends and a hapless bank robber, investigates a kidnapping. With wry observations and colourful characters, ‘Out Of The Frying Pan’ is a roller-coaster ride through the local artistic community. Previously Judy has had plays produced at venues including the Royal Court and National Theatre and on BBC Radio 4, but this is the first time she has turned her hand to writing a novel. ‘Out Of The Frying Pan’ is out now and available from Hobart Books: www.hobartbooks.com/product-page/out-ofthe-frying-pan and from all main booksellers.
La Serenissima - The Golden Era of Music in Venice: October 11th 2021:
Patrick Craig will explore the rich musical traditions of Venice, Claudio Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Lotti, Cavalli and Albinoni. We will hear music from Antonio Vivaldi, the other towering figure of Venetian music, who created music both for the opera stage and the female musicians of the Ospidale della Pietà. Have a local editorial item? email: Villagelivingmagazine@gmail.com October 2021
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Storrington Film Nights Storrington Film Night is organised by the Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District. The next film on Wednesday October 13th, will be “Dream Horse”, starring Toni Collette and Damian Lewis. The film tells the inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town Welsh bartender and his neighbours.
The showing commences at 7.30pm, at Sullington Hall, Thakeham Road, RH20 3PP. All Government Covid guidance will be Observed.
The November film, on Wednesday 10, will be “The Good Liar”, starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen. Tickets are £5, and are available from the Card Shop in Storrington. Any unsold tickets will be available on the door, on the night. There is a Bar and a Raffle during the interval. Anyone requiring transport should contact Roger Jamieson 01798 813956 For further information please contact Ken Collins 01903 740745.
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Farnefold versus Farden Sir Thomas Farnefold of Steyning, Sussex was born in 1599. His father was Richard Farnefold and his mother Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Parson, a Steyning yeoman.
The Farnefold family had resided at Gatewick House Steyning since the 1540s and Thomas inherited the estate in 1611 at the age of 12. However he became a ward of the Crown with Sir Thomas Leedes appointed the wardship. In 1613 Leedes moved to the Netherlands with the Farnefold estate being transferred to Sir Edward Sackville and then to Bartholomew Rogers, usher of the Court of Wards. Rogers married Farnefold to his eldest daughter Dorothy in 1616. Bartholomew Rogers got permission from William Knollys the Viscount Wallingford, and Master of the Wards to cut down the estate’s timber. In 1621, upon the death of Rogers, Sir Thomas Farnefold now aged twenty-two, petitioned parliament that his estate had been left bare of trees and that a sum of £3000 had been embezzled from him. However the unresolved dispute with Knollys resulted in Sir Thomas Farnefold being imprisoned in 1622 in the Marshalsea Prison. This did not stop Sir Thomas Farnefold, upon his release, being elected Member of Parliament for Steyning in 1624 and then again in 1625. In 1627 he contested the appointment of a Bartholomew Rogers heir as usher to the Court of Wards, repeating the claim that his Farnefold estate had been embezzled. Sir Thomas Farnefold was then himself made Usher of the Court of the Wards. In 1628 he was elected to parliament again. In 1634 Sir Thomas Farnefold, while in prison for a second time, complained that William Winchell, arms painter and stainer of St George’s parish, London, had falsified and fabricated the genealogy of a Peter Farnden of Sedlescombe Sussex. Peter Farnden was an ironmaster who owned the iron forges at Crowhurst, Brede, Westfield and Beckley. Winchell had given Farnden the ancient shield of arms and genealogy that actually belonged to Sir Thomas Farnefold. Representing Sir Thomas Farnfold in the case held in the Court of Chivalry on the 26th of April, the 3rd and of 21st of May 1634 was the solicitor Doctor Arthur Duck. In a statement of evidence, Doctor
Gatewick House Duck explained, “many individuals of plebeian origins and parentage, frequently and daily bear and display the arms and insignia of ancient gentry on their shields, windows, seals and in their funeral pomp, against the law of arms and to the disgrace and injury of the ancient nobility and gentry of this kingdom. Through this practice many errors and abuses were perpetrated to the injury of the nobility and gentry.” Winchell, the arms painter, in testimony claimed he knew of no coat of arms being falsified until he was shown his work. He then confessed that the Farnden brothers Peter and Richard had originally shown him the coat of arms and commissioned him to paint it for their father’s funeral. Doctor Duck called for Winchell to be suspended from his position as licensed arms painter to the Earl Marshall and requested that Winchell was committed to the custody of the knight marshal Edmund Verney. The coat of arms in question when painted upon a shield was coloured purple with two leopard heads about a yellow chevron filled with red shields, and beneath was a third leopard’s head. In April 1640, Sir Thomas Farnefold was elected to the short parliament, as the House of Commons sat until November the same year. He was then elected again as MP for Steyning in what became known as the long parliament, as the session lasted until March 1644. However ill health prevented him from sitting as an MP this time around and he died in 1643. He was buried at Steyning in March 1644 Author: Judy Upton
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ROPETACKLE CINEMA October 2021 ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents a MATINEE FILM SUMMERLAND Alice is a writer who prizes her solitude. In 1940, she occupies herself with her work and when Frank, an evacuee from the Blitz, is placed in her care, she resolves to be rid of him. But as the boy opens up to her, Alice begins to reconsider her past and her own way forward. Starring Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton. Cert 12A, duration 99 mins. Tuesday 19th October, 2.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office £4. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements. ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents MY FIRST CINEMA THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE A tiny snail goes on an amazing journey by hitching a ride on the tail of a huge humpback whale. Based on the book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, designed to entertain and delight your 3-5-year olds. Cert U, duration 26 mins. Animation. Friday 22nd October, 11.00 am. £4.00 child & adult pair, £3 per additional child or adult, under 18 months old free - tickets from Box Office. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements. ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents a FAMILY FILM A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON When an alien with amazing powers crashlands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her. Oscar and BAFTA nominee for best animation. Cert U, duration 86 mins. Animation. Tuesday 26th October, 2.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office £4. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.
LET’S GET QUIZZICAL One of Ropetackle Cinema’s highlights of the year! Quizmaster supreme Colin Johnson has devised devilish new rounds and added fresh twists to old ones. You may be challenged (in the friendliest way) but you don’t have to be a cinema buff to take part - just come along on your own or with friends and join a table of four. A light supper will be served. Thursday 28th October, 7.30 pm. Tickets available from Box Office £12 (including supper). See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.
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Gingerbread House Fun This will be the 4th year of having gingerbread house fun. After the amazing success of selling 613 houses last year, Safe in Sussex wants to take the event to another dimension. They are adding 3 more competitions and hosting a public Gingerbread House Event to show as many of the houses off as possible! The event will be on Saturday 11th December at St Oscar Romero Catholic School in Goring-by-Sea; there will be 3 competitions being judged at the event. One will be an adult and children’s Gingerbread House Decorating Competition (packs will have been preordered and decorated by the event) and another a Freestyle Gingerbread House Decorating Competition for anyone who makes their own gingerbread house creations from scratch every year and would like a chance to show it off. Finally, our main signature event, the business/ community groups Gingerbread House Competition, is back for the 4th year, but this event will be held on Friday 10th December at 12 noon on Zoom. However,
we hope that as many business entries as possible will be on show at the event on the Saturday. All the competitions will be judged on Imagination, Inspiration & Appearance. Debbie West one of the Corporate & Community Fundraisers for Safe in Sussex said “It’s so exciting that we have a public event planned this year for the Gingerbread House Fun. We are delighted and thankful that our event is growing each year with many more people getting involved and helping raise much needed funds and awareness of the vital work Safe in Sussex does to end domestic abuse in our community.” For details of how to get involved in this year’s Gingerbread House Fun, please email Debbie on fundraising@safeinsussex.org.uk
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The Rotary International Polio Plus Programme provides polio vaccines, mobilizes community resources and supports operational costs related to international efforts to immunize children, detect and track cases, and eradicate polio worldwide. To support this Worldwide action, Storrington and Pulborough District Rotary Club held a World’s Greatest Meal Sausage Sizzle event in a Member’s garden. The ‘World’s Greatest Meal’, is a program in which Rotarians host meals - anything from two people having lunch to elaborate gourmet dinners or even sausage suppers - and ask for donations to raise funds to help end Polio. With matching funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WGM has raised over $7 million to date.
33 people attended the Sausage Sizzle raising £600 including donations received from many Club Members who were unable to attend. This becomes £1,800 when the Gates Foundation trebles the donation and will fund 4,140 vaccines to immunise children in the last two countries in the World - Pakistan and Afghanistan - reporting wild polio cases. Organiser, Rotarian Penny Barnes, said: was so good to get together again after this difficult year - the weather was perfect and we had a wonderful day. This was our 4th annual Sausage Sizzle for WGM - last year’s we had to do it on zoom! Club of Storrington & Pulborough District
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