Village Living Magazine May 2022

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WHY IT PAYS TO USE YOUR 2022/23 ISA ALLOWANCE RIGHT NOW The 2022/23 tax year has only just started, but you should already start thinking about how you’ll use your allowances over the next 12 months. It can help maximise your assets.

In the 2022/23 tax year you can deposit up to £20,000 into ISAs. If you don’t use this allowance before the end of the tax year, you lose it. You can save or invest tax-efficiently through an ISA, so making full use of your allowance can help your money go further.

If you left using your 2021/22 ISA allowance until the deadline was near, don’t let your ISA slip your mind now.

Drip-feeding your deposits can make your ISA goal part of your budget: If you want to maximise your ISA allowance or have a goal for how much you want to put in, making regular deposits a part of your budget can help.

Depositing £1,666 into your ISA each month can be more manageable than adding a lump sum at the end of the tax year. If you don’t have a lump sum to add to your ISA, breaking down your end goal can make sense.

In addition to making deposits more manageable, drip-feeding your money can be useful if you’ll be investing through an ISA. Investment markets will rise and fall throughout the year. So, by spreading out deposits, you’ll be buying at different points throughout the market cycle. It’s an approach that can remove the temptation to try and time the markets.

Depositing a lump sum now means you have longer to earn interest or returns If you already have a lump sum available to deposit, doing so now means you could have an extra 12

months of interest or returns than you would if you waited until April 2023.

If you’ll be saving through a Cash ISA, the extra interest added to your account over the year can really add up.

Adding a lump sum if you’ll be using a Stocks and Shares ISA to invest means you can potentially benefit from an additional 12 months of investment returns.

The graph below shows how investing £5,000 each tax year delivers different returns if you invested on the first working day of the tax year compared to the last working day. £200,000 £150,000 £100,000 £50,000 £0 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 Source: Hargreaves Lansdown

2012

2014

2016 2018 2020 First day Last day

While both options have done well and returned over 99% growth, you would be better off by investing at the start of the tax year overall. However, you should keep in mind that investment performance cannot be guaranteed.

Please contact us on 01273 774855 or email advice@pembrokefs.co.uk to discuss your financial plan and the steps you should be taking in the 2022/23 tax year. Please quote reference PFSVL.

The value of your investment can go down as well as up and you may not get back the full amount you invested. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Investing in shares should be regarded as a long-term investment and should fit in with your overall attitude to risk and financial circumstances.

T. 01273 774855 E. advice@pembrokefs.co.uk W. www.pembrokefinancial.co.uk

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Keith Relf & Keith Bonner - Managing Partners Pembroke Financial Services Limited is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We are entered in the Financial Services Register under number 228341, www.fca.org.uk. Registered and Incorporated in England & Wales at Atlas Chambers, 33 West Street, Brighton, BN1 2RE under number 2518721.

The FCA does not regulate National Savings, or some forms of Mortgage, Tax Planning, Offshore Investments or School Fees Planning.

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Editor’s Comment Hello, Welcome to the latest edition of Village Living.

This month’s issue has the latest from our contributors. Big thankyou!.

I hope that you will find our articles helpful with local events We also have the latest from the local theatres, local charities and events,as well as, local groups that are starting up again.

The magazine also has many local business services. Additionally, we have included some local community events.

As always, 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.

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Why it pays to use your 2022/23 ISA Allowance right not ......................2 Pauline Quirke Academy .............4 Vintage Returns........................... 5 Annual Sussex Car & Motorcycle Jumble..........................................5 Photography Exhibitions.............. 7 What’s On. ...................................9 Margaret Barber.........................10/11 Ropetackle Cinema Presents.......13 Ukrainian Appeal..........................15 Storrington Film Nights.................15 Steyning Bowling Club..................17 Steyning Holistic Fair....................17 Southdown Nursery & Forest School...........................................18 Rotary - Lodge Hill Sky Activities........................................18 Shocling Shirts Funky Frock Days ...................................20 Green Fingers - Alan Titchmarsh..21 Book Review ................................22 Steyning Festival 2022 ................22 Information correct at time of going to press. May be subject to change. All rights reserved and is the property of the publisher. © Village Living 2020. Reprinting any part or matter appearing in Village Living is strictly forbidden except by permission of the publisher. All copyright of images/content remains that of its photographer/author. Every effort has been made to gain permission to publish copyright material however, where efforts have been exhausted, we have published on the basis of ‘Fair Use’ to comment factual based material where by its use is not central or plays a significant part to the entire publication but to act as an aid for historical and educational purposes only. This publication is offered as a limited print run. The publisher makes every effort to ensure that the magazine’s contents are correct. However, it cannot take responsibility for any effects from errors or omissions. Village Living does not accept any responsibility or liability for any of the services or products provided by the advertisers. Buyers should make their own checks.

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The Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts Brighton West Opens New Afternoon Academy watch the classes.

PQA Brighton West is opening a new afternoon academy this May, following the success of the morning academy.

Children and young people aged 6-18 years are invited to come along on 21st May, from 1:30pm for free, full 3-hour session, giving the opportunity to experience the new afternoon academy.

PQA Brighton West’s afternoon academy is an addition to its current successful Saturday morning academy. Both take place at Southwick Community Centre.

Led by experienced teachers, potential students get to try Comedy & Drama, Musical Theatre, and PQA’s unique Film & Television module, in groups according to their age.

The PQA team will be on hand to answer any questions, and one lucky attendee will also win a term’s free membership.

PQA was started by actress Pauline Quirke and her producer husband Steve Sheen in 2007 with an academy in their local town, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. This very successful venture led to further openings over the years, now totalling just over 195 academies nationwide.

Principal Becca Goffin will warmly welcome children to the taster session, while parents are invited to stay for refreshments and to

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Family Vintage Festival in Shoreham-by-Sea celebrating the Queens 70th Jubilee The Shoreham-by-Sea Vintage Festival will take place at the Adur Recreational ground from 2nd to 5th June 2022, during the Queens Jubilee Bank Holiday Weekend.

It promises to be a great event for all the family. There is everything vintage to enjoy, from style to antiques, superb live music, dance, a vintage funfair and car display. A huge festival bar offering great food delights from all over the world.

To top all of that, you also have three nights of open-air cinema, showing sing-a-long versions of Grease on Thursday 2nd June. The Greatest Showman on Friday 3rd June and to celebrate 50 years of ABBA, Mamma Mia on Saturday night.

Book your tickets now at: https://www. shorehambysea-vintagefestival.co.uk/ tickets

Annual Sussex Car and Motorcycle Jumble A friendly event with many stalls and a display area of Vintage and Classic Cars pre 1975, also a World War 2 Tent Museum. Adult public £2 and children under 12 free.

Plenty of free parking and all day wrefreshments available in the Clubhouse, along with a licensed bar.

Stalls are available inside and outside from £20 which includes a free breakfast bap.

Stallholders can set up from 7am.

This is a charity event and we are kindly sponsored by Amberley Hulme Wealth Management. charity event on Sunday 29th May 2022.

Held at Worthing Rugby Club, Roundstone Lane, Angmering, BN164AX from 9am2.30pm. For further details contact Paul or Sheila on 07760793912 or paulgoulet@ hotmail.co.uk

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Whether you’re in need of routine foot care or would like to address more specific foot health issues, our registered practitioners can assess and treat a range of foot care concerns.

Do you have mobility issues?

We can come and treat you in the comfort of your own home 5 days a week at a time that suits you.

01903 813500

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We can help you with a wide variety of foot problems: • Hard skin, callus & corns • Verrucae • Thickened & fungal toenails • Athlete’s Foot • Plantar Fasciitis • Running & sports injuries • Nail trauma & reconstruction • Ingrowing toenails • Diabetic foot assessment & care • Biomechanical & gait assessment • Orthotics & insoles • Pampering & pedicures

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Photography Exhibitions I have just purchased my ticket for a photographic event in May that, for me, not to be missed.

The Photo London Exhibition was established in 2004 but only ran for 3 years. It was relaunched in 2015 and has since been held at Somerset House. It is a showcase for photographic sales galleries to show and sell photographers’ work with curated exhibitions

neutral coloured backdrop which works well with splashes of strong colour in the foreground to make a photograph which attracts the eye.

Events like this can provide inspiration for photographers. Classic photographs from the past are displayed for sale, some for many thousands of pounds but plenty

and talks by famous photographers.

I have been to this annual event a few times and it is a really great day out. Somerset House is a warren of rooms on several levels of the main building plus a temporary pavilion constructed in the courtyard exhibiting photographs inside and displaying large photographs outside.

This provides visitors with photo opportunities of their own. I have published images here that I hope give a flavour of the event. The basement

of up and coming photographers are also showcased.

Last year each individual exhibition had a QR code on the wall which visitors could scan ith their smart phone to be taken to a website which gave a greater insight into the work of that photographer or of the gallery that represented them. I will finally be restarting my workshops in Shoreham this month (April) so if you wish to be added to my mailing list please email me: steveboylephotos@gmail.com provides a low light area which is ideal for the showing of film and projected images.

Somerset House is a wonderful venue and the light coloured Italian stone facades give a

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What’s On - Local Groups Farmers Market in Steyning High Street Car park (Opposite the clock tower) 9am until 1pm on the first Saturday of the month

Our award-winning Farmers Market sells high quality local produce including a delicious selection of vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, bread and cakes, fruit juices and dairy products etc.

We are proud to announce that the Steyning Farmers Market won the Sussex Food and Drink Awards BEST Farmers Market in 2015 and if you have not yet visited our farmers market (held on the first Saturday of every month) you are definitely missing out on a wonderful experience.

Samuel Courtauld and His Collection

by Natalia Murray: Monday 9th May 2022

One of the finest collections of Impressionism anywhere in the world was assembled by the English industrialist and philanthropist Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947) who established The Courtauld Institute and Gallery in London. This lecture will explore Courtauld’s collection and his role in promoting Impressionism in the United Kingdom. The Steyning Centre, Fletchers Croft, BN44 3XZ 10:00am - 12:00. Free to members, £10 donation for visitors. steyning@theartssociety.org www.theartssocietysteyning.org.uk The Steyning Centre, Fletchers Croft, BN44 3XZ 10:00am - 12:00.

Free to members, £10 donation for visitors. steyning@theartssociety.org www.theartssocietysteyning.org.ukwww. theartssocietysteyning.org.uk

‘YEAR’S GONE BY IN ASHINGTON’ WHY NOT COME ALONG AND SEE WHAT ASHINGTON WAS LIKE YEARS AGO. FRIDAY 3rd JUNE 11am-5pm.

At ASHINGTON COMMUNITY CENTRE, FOSTER LANE, RH20 3PG.

COME AND JOIN US FOR A CHARITY EVENING IN AID OF THE ALZHEIMERS SOCIETY with ‘CREATIVE COVERS’ PLAYING MUSIC THROUGH THE DECADES.

LOTS OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS, NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS, AREIL PHOTOS AND ASHINGTON MEMORBILIA.

SATURDAY 14th MAY 7.30pm-11.30pm £8 pay on the Door At ASHINGTON COMMUNITY CENTRE, FOSTER LANE, RH20 3PG. GRAND DRAW, LICENCED BAR

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Margaret Barber Margaret Barber was born in Rastrick, Brighouse, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the 7th of May 1869. She was the youngest of three daughters and like all of them was educated at home by her mother, Maria Louisa Barber.

When Margaret’s father Fairless Barber, a solicitor and archaeologist, died in 1881, Margaret was sent away to live with relatives in Torquay. She attended the local school where was discovered that Margaret suffered from a debilitating spinal condition. She then moved to Suffolk to live with her mother. In 1884 Margaret moved to London to train and qualify as a nurse. She worked in a children’s hospital and became a district nurse for charity in the East End, still regularly journeying to Torquay to look after a relative.

While on holiday in 1889 and staying her with friend Elinor Dowson at Mockbridge House, Shermanbury, two miles north of Henfield, West Sussex, Margaret’s health deteriorated.

Elinor shared Margaret’s interest in art and sculpture. Margaret’s failing eyesight and a paralysis down one side that meant she was losing the use of her right hand, meant she could no longer sculpt. Bedridden, she lay with a notebook on her chest and learned to write with her left hand. From her bed she was able to observe the Mock Bridge, which crossed the River Adur by the main road beside the old mill and the Bull Inn. Combining her observations of local life with memories of being a district nurse in the East End slums, she become an author.

of Margaret, but the age of thirty-three Margaret died on the 24th of August that same year, in Henfield. She was buried in nearby St. James’ churchyard, Ashurst. Soon after her death the first ‘Michael Fairless’ book received public acclaim. It was the religious romance ‘The Gathering of Brother Hilarius’ and was published that same year.

Her second book ‘The Roadmender’ was published in 1902 and a third book ‘The Grey Brethren’, in 1905. This was a book of short fairy tales among them were ‘A German Christmas Eve’, ‘The Manifestation’, ‘The Dreadful Griffin’, ‘The Discontented Daffodils’, and ‘The Fairy Fluffikins.’

It was ‘The Roadmender’ though that became a global literary classic. It was reprinted thirty-one times in ten years. It was a collected series of articles on theology and a commentary of current affairs interspersed with vivid descriptions of the Sussex countryside. It is a beautifully written account Margaret Barber’s Christianity influenced her of a man whose job it is to break stones and writing and she used the pseudonym ‘Michael repair the road surface in the days before Fairless’ combining the name of her father tarmac. It presents the reality of hard manual with that of her childhood friend Michael labour, the beauty of his rural surroundings, McDonnell. At this time, writing was still seen his observations on local life and his faith. as more of a man’s profession and like many ‘The Roadmender’ describes a series of female writers before her, Margaret chose to encounters and conversations with various obscure her identity. people who meet the road mender as they In July 1901 Elinor drew a portrait sketch pass by, as well as the man’s memories of 10

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his own travels and reflections on the world around him. The road itself is a significant aspect of the book, representing the journey we all make through life.

Sources: Wikipedia ‘Historic Buildings Of West Sussex’ ‘The Roadmender’.

It was originally intended for magazine publication and it confounded many a critic for not having a traditional run-through storyline and narrative. Instead it was considered faultless in its poetic style. Many a traveller and artist clamoured to know where the picturesque locations were, and many made enquiries to the publisher as to the true identity of the author. Such was the speculation that built up around book that the works of ‘Michael Fairless’ became the subject of published literature study.

Margaret’s inspiring life and courage in overcoming disability were finally revealed in 1912. ‘The Roadmender’ has been continually reprinted with various editions available including illustrated versions.

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Ropetackle Cinema Presents May 2022

An EVENING FILM WEST SIDE STORY Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed adaptation of the classic tale based on Romeo and Juliet breathes new life into the story and still has the unforgettable score by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. A turf war between the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks is inflamed by the forbidden romance between reformed Jet Tony and Maria, sister of Sharks leader Bernardo.

Cert 12A, duration 156 mins.

Tuesday 3rd May, 7.30 pm. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £7. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.

A RELAXED AND FRIENDLY FILM open to all HARD DAY’S NIGHT Presented in relaxed and friendly conditions suitable for all, especially people with any form of memory loss. The Beatles travel from Liverpool to London to perform various concerts but realise their drummer, Ringo, has gone missing.

Stars the Fab Four and a host of British comedy actors of the time.

Cert 12A, duration 87 mins.

Monday 16th May, 2.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £5. Carers free/refreshments included See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.

A MATINEE FILM NO TIME TO DIE James (Daniel Craig in his fifth and final outing as Bond) has left active service but his peace is shattered when his old CIA friend, Felix Leiter, turns up asking for help to track bioweapons designer, Obruchev, who also has ties to his old enemy and nemesis, Blofeld. Cert 12A, duration 163 mins.

Tuesday 24th May, 2.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £5. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.

AN EXHIBITION ON SCREEN PISARRO Without Camille Pissarro, there is no Impressionist movement. He is rightfully known as the father of Impressionism. It was a dramatic path that Pissarro followed, and throughout it all he wrote extensively to his family. It is

through these intimate and revealing letters that this illustrated film reveals Pissarro’s life and work. Duration 90 mins.

Wednesday 25th May, 7.30 pm, £12. Please pre-book tickets at the Box Office or on-line.

See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.

MY FIRST CINEMA SUPERWORM Superworm is super-long and super-strong. With his amazing skills and his big heart, he is always helping out all the other animals and insects but who can save him when he gets captured by the evil Wizard Lizard? Based on a story by Julia Donaldson. Cert U, duration 25 mins. Animation.

Friday 27th March, 11.00 am. £4.00 child & adult pair, £3 per additional child or adult, under 18 months old free - tickets from Box Office or on-line. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.

A FAMILY FILM ENCANTO Welcome to the Madrigals who live in wondrous Encanto hidden in in the mountains of Colombia.

Encanto has blessed all the family members with magical powers – except for Mirabel, who has none. But Mirabel may hold the key to saving the family’s threatened magical power. A Disney production.

Cert U, duration 102 mins. Animation.

Wednesday 30th May, 2.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £4. See RopLittle High Street, Shoreham by Sea, W. Sussex BN43 5NG. 01273 464440 www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk

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Visit our website www.Meadowcroft.care Please call Vanessa on 01273 452582 for more information.

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Storrington Film Nights Storrington Film Night is organised by the Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District.

The Final film of this season, on Wednesday May 11th, will be “No Time To Die”, the latest action-packed James Bond movie. Starring Daniel Craig.

The showing commences at 7.00pm, at Sullington Hall, Thakeham Road, RH20 3PP. (Note. Earlier start time!)

All Government Covid guidance will be Observed.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.

Next Season commences Wed 14th September.

See You Then!

Rotary support for Ukrainian Humanitarian appeal The military invasion into Ukraine in February, has caused over nine hundred civilian deaths and pushed millions of Ukrainians to flee from their homes to neighbouring countries.

To meet the increasing needs of Ukrainian families, Storrington & Pulborough District Rotary Club Members were out in force in Storrington on 5th March at their bookstall in Place Villerest and at Old Mill Square Storrington on 12th March collecting £1,456 and £1,545 respectively.

These amounts will be increased with gift aid payments and a number of separate donations.

In addition, the Rotary Club itself has donated £1,000. Collections are continuing and the final total is expected to exceed £5,000.

Club of Storrington & Pulborough District Rotary organiser Tony Vaughan said: “We are very grateful to all the generous residents of Storrington and surrounding villages who have donated”.

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Spring into something new.

Spring has arrived and our thoughts turn to enjoying more time outdoors.

What better way to do this than with a new activity with friendly people.

Bowls is great fun and gives you gentle exercise.

Steyning Bowls Club are offering free taster sessions every Thursday evening, during May, starting at 6.00pm. All the equipment is provided so you just need flat shoes or trainers.

To give it a try just come along to our green, in the Memorial recreation ground at the end of Mill Road. I f you would like more details see our website www.steyningbowls.com or telephone Mary on 01273 887953. We look forward to meeting you.

Steyning Holistic Fair Saturday April 30th 2022 10am - 4pm With lots of exciting stalls in the main hall, healing therapies in the Therapy Room and inspirational Talks in the Talk/Workshop Room you are sure to have an uplifting day.

Exhibitors include local Artists and Artisans

Natural Products, Health Products Readings, Psychic Art, Spiritual Products

Crystals, Jewellery, Spiritual & Life Coaching,

Crystal Healing, Energy Healing, Massage, Acupressure Rune Readings, Aura Photography, Unique Gifts, and much more....meet like-minded souls while enjoying raw chocolate, home made cakes, refreshments and delicious veggie food, all at the Steyning Holistic Fair. £3 Entry (includes all Talks) Children Free

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Southdown Nursery & Forest School

Clive Gravett from the Budding Foundation with Jodie Bryan, trustee and fundraiser for Southdown Nursery & Forest School, receiving the vital supply of seeds, pots and compost at Old Barn in Dial Post.

A unique school in the heart of Steyning has received a valuable boost to its outdoor education, thanks to a Sussex charity and local garden centre.

Southdown Nursery & Forest School boasts a large, secure outdoor environment, with sensory garden and vegetable patch, which the children use for discovery and play.

The Forest School trained staff in Jarvis Lane asked for help to establish their vegetable and shine", he said. flower beds, and the Budding Foundation was Clive invited the school to the family-run there to assist.

Old Barn garden centre at Dial Post so they Working with family-run Tates Garden could selected all they needed for the exciting Centres, Clive Gravett, the charity's foundproject. er, visited the nursery school. “I was really impressed with the school's garden and the encouragement the teachers give to involve the children in outdoor activities come rain or

Rotary enables Lodge Hill to offer night sky activities

The ambition of the Lodge Hill outdoor Activity Centre for schools and young people to introduce night sky star gazing to the Centre’s activities programme owes much to its hilltop location near Pulborough in the South Downs National Park, designated as an International Dark Sky Reserve.

clubs belong.

With guidance from Dan Oakley, who leads the Dark Skies team at the South Downs National Park, as well as involvement from the Chichester Planetarium, a Celestion CPC Delux 800 telescope was selected. This model not only has excellent optics to enable easy viewing of celestial bodies but is also one with a "go to" design, containing navigational software compatible with those optics.

This is a great help for beginners as it quickly helps them find and track objects they would not otherwise see. Dan also gave a Night When the Storrington & Pulborough District Rotary Club learnt of Lodge Hill’s ambition the Sky presentation at the inauguration of the Club agreed to finance £3,000 to purchase an telescope on February 28. on-site telescope. This came largely from its Storrington & Pulborough District Rotary own charitable funds, topped up by contriPresident Paul Weaver (pafw@live.co.uk) butions from Rotary clubs in Arundel, Billingwho assisted with the inauguration of the shurst and Chichester Priory - plus a grant telescope commented: “It has been good to from the Rotary South District to which these work with our neighbouring Clubs to support 18

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the purchase of this telescope, which should I hope bring much enjoyment to Lodge Hill’s astronomers.”

Lisa May, CEO of Lodge Hill (www.lodgehill. org.uk) said: “I am extremely grateful to the Rotarians who raised the funds to purchase this wonderful telescope for Lodge Hill. It will be a superb addition to our outdoor educational activities.

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Children, young people, and adults of all abilities will be able to enjoy not only learning about our solar system but actually using the telescope to view it for themselves. The activity sessions will also include education about the importance of protecting our dark skies environment here in the South Downs National Park.”

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Greenfingers… the Alan Titchmarsh column He’s a brilliant presenter, accomplished gardener, talented novelist and all-round horticultural inspiration. This month, Alan Titchmarsh talks about the impact his iconic Ground Force series had on the nation.

I get asked a lot about Ground Force, the TV programme I fronted for five years from 1997, and the impact it made on gardening, as a whole. To be honest, I don’t like to talk up my achievements too much, but I will admit this was one of the real successes I will always look back on with fondness.

That’s not so much for any personal reasons, and I certainly don’t think my horticultural knowledge was called on in the same way it has been with other gardening shows I’ve done over the years.

Instead, the pride I have for Ground Force stems from a place where we managed to start something of an outdoors revolution.

Not only were we at the forefront of a new brand of reality TV (that wasn’t a talent show or a singing contest). It was in people’s homes, in their lives, and focused on the idea that people could come together from all over to make a difference.

All the people involved in Ground Force came from different backgrounds and offered very different ideas in the process of transforming a chosen family’s back garden, but it worked. My role was probably one of the easiest – almost just an anchor man pulling the whole thing together, however clumsily!

The show’s success provoked a whole raft of other home reality programmes where people’s dreams came true… usually. And I say that on the basis of some of the awkward transformations Changing Rooms embarked on! Yet for the most part, this brand of telly was incredibly successful – think DIY SOS, Property Ladder, Amazing Spaces, Grand Designs, Location Location Location and others.

At the heart of it is exploring human nature and putting

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ordinary people in extraordinary situations, and seeing how they react. Everyone who agrees to take part is looking for something, and the lucky ones are the ones who find it and know when they have found it. After all, our gardens will never be absolutely perfect places – nature sees to that – but Ground Force certainly got them close to that for a time.

As the TV crews departed, I would always suggest to the homeowners they should just sit in or look out over their garden without feeling conditioned to keep it in a certain way. Life isn’t like that – it evolves, as do our outside spaces, and we should let it.

As John Lennon said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”… or tidying the garden!

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Far-flung action This month, a voyage back into the world of fiction, with a selection of books that can whisk us away to far-off places.

Book Lovers by Emily Henry (May 3rd) When hardworking Nora Stephens agrees to go to Sunshine Falls for the month of August with her sister, she has visions of picnics and relaxation.

Instead, she meets Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin (May 12th) A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting is

a smart tome from Sophie Irwin – a debut novel from the London-based author that combines intelligence with craft.

In the plot, lead character Kitty Talbot needs a fortune, with only 12 weeks until the bailiffs call. She launches herself into London society and must use every ounce of cunning and ingenuity she possesses to climb the ranks and save her sisters from poverty.

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi (June 2nd) Akwaeke Emezi’s You

Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is a deeply heartfelt romance novel about a woman named Feyi who eases back into the dating scene after an accident killed the love of her life five years prior.

The book has courted not just the imagination of the book-reading public, but screenplay writers as well, and is already being adapted into a movie.

Steyning Festival 2022 27TH May - 5th June We are ready and raring to go with our usual packed programme of events, with something for everyone.

The Big Top will take centre stage on Fletchers Croft with the bar and cafe open throughout the ten days of fun and frolics.

Steyning will once again be alive with music, walks and talks, art and books, theatre and comedy and lots of opportunities to get together to laugh, learn and mingle. We will have the usual favourites, lots of activities for all the family, Green Day, mind, body, soul and planet with a huge inflatable whale taking centre stage; Art in the Park, paint a portrait, contribute to our mural, knit and natter; June Jubilations, with all the fun of the fair, puppet show, coconut shy and classic car display.

Celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by joining one of two parties – the Big Lunch on the High Street or the Big Picnic on the Green.

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Back by popular demand - Craig Charles who will have the Big Top jumping to a mix of big beats, banging brass and boogaloo. Dance the night away to Flash, the ultimate Queen tribute band, who will kick start the long weekend. Lots of other music throughout the Festival, folk, jazz, rock.

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Walks, talks and authors a plenty. There will of course be the usual favourites; Theatre, Walks and Tours including Wiston Wines, Graveyard Gossip; Talks and Literature events from among others, Andy Coulson, Danny Dorling, Jonathan Aitkin, Justin Webb and John Simpson, plus a Crime Writers evening to include Paula Hawkins (Girl on a Train). All in all a cornucopia of opinions, attitudes and ideas.

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Events for all ages, Manga Drawing, Nick Sharratt and Friends Big Draw at the Big Top, Circus Skills, Drumming Workshops and a Festival Big Top Quiz.

Comedy evening with Lucy Porter and guests and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette but with a difference.

Crown Making with young people and golden oldies, followed by a Jubilee tea and music. The Festival goes out with a bang with a party at the Big Top on our last evening.

Come along after the Jubilee celebrations to dance the evening away.

Tickets available from: www.steyningfestival.co.uk

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