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WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER INVOLVING YOUR FAMILY IN YOUR FINANCIAL PLAN When you consider your financial plan, who do you involve? Often, it is done independently or with a partner, but there could be advantages to making your wider family part of the process.

It could encourage younger generations to consider their own financial plan: Being involved in your financial plan can mean loved ones start thinking about their own long-term financial security. It could mean they consider things they may have overlooked before, such as the need for financial protection, or when to choose investments over savings.

It can help you understand how to help your family reach their goals: You may know what your loved ones are hoping to achieve, but do you know the details? After talking through their goals, you may want to change your own financial plan. According to an FTAdviser report, just 13% of parents over the age of sixty plan to pass on wealth to their children during their lifetime. However, in some cases, a gift now can have a far greater impact on their life than an inheritance will have.

Discussing inheritances can lead to better financial decisions: The report also found 72% of parents plan to pass on wealth to their children after their death. However, two-thirds said they rarely or never discuss inheritance with their children. Talking about inheritance can be difficult and can bring up many emotions. Yet, it can help your loved ones plan their own futures more effectively.

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It can improve your later-life plans and provide confidence in them: Later-life planning is an important part of creating a long-term financial plan.

Yet, 4 in 10 parents have not discussed their later-life plans with their children. Again, it can be difficult to think about how your lifestyle and needs will change in your later years, but it is important. By involving them in the financial planning process sooner, they will be in a better position to make decisions on your behalf should they need to.

It can help you create an effective estate plan: Almost 80% of families do not have any estate planning strategy in place. Of those that do, less than half of parents said their children knew exactly what the plan was. An effective estate plan can help you ensure that loved one’s benefit from your wealth when you pass away.

If you want advice on getting your finances in order, we can help. From helping you to create a financial plan to organising your pensions and other assets, and estate planning. Please contact us to discuss your financial plan and the steps you should be taking to secure your financial future and the financial future of your children.

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Welcome to the November Edition..

Hello Welcome to the November edition of The Village Living Magazine.

Contents

This month’s issue has the latest from our contributors. Many thanks to all of them.

Why you should consider involving your family in your financial plan Gingerbread House pack Light in photography The Cheer Up Mollys Storrington film nights Model cars in Steyning Ropetackle Cinema

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.

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Domestic abuse charity use modern student design for their large Gingerbread house pack this year & announce event times Students from a local secondary school have designed a modern gingerbread house kit to raise funds for a domestic abuse charity. Safe in Sussex are using a design created by the Year 10 students from St Oscar Romeros, Worthing for their large Gingerbread House pack this year.

The pack will be on offer to businesses and the public. The Year 10 students had a competition to design a gingerbread house with the winning house to be used by local charity Safe in Sussex at their annual event.

The modern house design will be available exclusively through Safe in Sussex and will raise much needed to funds to support the charity’s work helping those affected by domestic abuse.

Now in it’s fourth year, the gingerbread house event is a fantastic way to get involved in the charity while unleashing creativity at the same time.

gingerbread kits for Safe in Sussex again this year and think the design created by the students at St Romeros is absolutely fabulous.

It’s nice to see a more modern take on the traditional gingerbread house and I can’t wait to see all the different designs people come up with.

I hope more and more people get involved, get creative and have fun helping so support the charity and its very important work.”

Phil Dean, Extended Learning Leader for St Oscar Romero said “We are so pleased that Safe in Sussex is using our Year 10’s design for the House packs this year. I think it is so important House packs (build and decorate your own) are available to buy from November with a variety of that young people have the opportunity to ways to get involved this year from sponsorship, support local charities and causes. It is also really important that they can develop their competitions, an event to visit or just buying employability and lifelong skills.” a pack to enjoying making with your friends, family or as a team bonding activity with your Debbie West one of the Corporate & Community business.

Fundraisers for Safe in Sussex said “Safe in Sussex The judging of the public competitions will be provides a range of services to support those in at held at Safe in Sussex’s Gingerbread House our community experiencing domestic abuse th event on Saturday 11 December, 11.30-1.30 at and we have seen a huge increase in use of our St Oscar Romeros Catholic Secondary School, services and so it’s more important than ever Worthing where members of the public and we raise funds to support our work. The annual those participating will be able to view lots of gingerbread fun event is a fantastic way to get wonderful houses. People without Gingerbread involved and get creative. We are delighted to Houses will be able to visit from 12-1. have had the input from St Romeros’ students Fay Millar from Gingerbread World who makes and have been so impressed with the designs the packs said “I am so excited to be doing they have come up with.”

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Light I have written before about the importance of light in photograpghy. The word photograph means to draw with light At this time of year, even though the number of sunny days may be declining, the sun appears lower in the sky which can add emphasise to the texture on a variety of surfaces.

Peeling paint is a photographer’s favourite, depicted here in the shot of the wheelbarrows.

The fourth image was taken in the Summer but this shows how bright light can bring colours alive. The composition of this image has been chosen to just give a hint of the surrounding activities. All four photographs give a sense of place and a sense of human involvement even if no people appear in the frame or when they are not providing the main focal point.

The light is enhancing the weave of the straw hat and accounts for the lengthening of the shadows in the image taken from above at the promenade in Brighton.

The rather surreal and unexpected scene shot through the metal railings at a Shoreham industrial estate is brightened by the sunlight shining through the orange overalls that have presumably been hung out to dry.

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‘A Cheer Up Christmas’ – feelgood festive folk with The Cheer Up Mollys and Friends Saturday 4th December, Beeding and Bramber Village Hall

LIVE MUSIC IS BACK! It’s been a busy year for local favourites The Cheer Up Mollys.

Having had their 2020 bookings cancelled or postponed, 2021 has thankfully seen a cautious return to live music for the all-female six-piece folk, acoustic and Americana band, who will be hosting A Cheer Up Christmas – an evening of feel-good festive folk and seasonal songs at Beeding and Bramber Village Hall on Saturday 4th December.

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in woodlands, helped fundraise for Steyning Museum with two musical cream-teas at the Steyning Centre, and closed out September’s Steyning Festival. Gigs in Brighton have included a welcome return to popular live music venue The Brunswick, and they are honoured to be taking part in A Service of Compassion at Brighton Dome on October 17th – an inspirational event paying tribute to the people of our city and the lives lost from the coronavirus pandemic.

Lockdown inspired an original song, Clockwatching, written by ukulele player Seffy about escaping to the Downs – “High above this lockdown city, we do our singing on the wing” – which segues into a joyful fiddle-fuelled jig that always gets audiences up on their feet. She says “It’s been so lovely to see live music bringing people together again – people have been telling us how much they’d missed it – we even had someone in tears of joy!”

‘BIG IN STEYNING’ Bramber resident, guitarist and banjo player Carol explains why they’ve chosen to bring their seasonal celebration to the Village. “The local community have been so supportive of us so it seemed a great idea to have our show here. Our first gigs as a band were at the annual Winter Wassail at the cricket club and the Rising Sun’s Open Mic night - we like to joke that we’re ‘Big in Steyning’ – we’ve even been recognised in the pet shop!”

80s pop hits, The Cheer Up Mollys have been playing together for five years (although many of the band members have known each other for more than 30!) Described as “…joyful to watch and listen to. Their stunning harmonies gave me goose bumps.” (Brighton Folk, Roots & Acoustic club).

DETAILS • A Cheer Up Christmas – The Cheer Up Mollys and Friends •

Beeding and Bramber Village Hall, High St, Upper Beeding, West Sussex BN44 3WN

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Saturday 4th December, doors 7pm, music 7.30pm

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Tickets £10 available from www. wegottickets.com/event/527244/

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No bar – please bring your own drinks

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Fundraising for The Hub, Beeding

Bass player Stephie, who lives in Upper Beeding, adds, “We decided we wanted the gig to be fundraiser for The Hub in Beeding – it does so much for the local community, so we’re delighted to have the chance to support them.”

The event promises a fun uplifting evening of songs in the Mollys’ inimitable style including a couple of seasonal numbers and plenty of opportunities to sing along. The band will also be collaborating with some of their local musical friends including Shoreham-based songwriter Nicola Bloom and Beeding’s own jazz and blues singer Eileen Dibble.

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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 December 15th, will be “The Last Bus”, starring Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan. An old man whose wife has just passed away uses his free local bus pass to travel to the other end of the UK. By the end of his trip, he’s a celebrity.

The showing commences at 7.30pm, at Sullington Hall, Thakeham Road, RH20 3PP. All Government Covid guidance will be There is a Bar and a Raffle during the interval.

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Model Cars made in Steyning To drive a winning racing car was a rare ambition and to own a highly detailed scale model of one was to have a rare prize in itself. Living in Steyning, Rex Hays was an engineer who had apprenticed in a bus and truck factory before working for MG cars at the famous Brooklands racing circuit.

Rex Hays had from the age of eleven in 1921 been scratch-building his exquisite intricate models of racing cars and what we now call classic cars. He built them in different scales: 1:20, 1:12, and 1:10 and his models had opening doors, bonnets and boots with the finest of engine detail that seemed miraculous to replicate in miniature. With skills similar to those of a watchmaker, Rex Hays’ models were so prized that some were commissioned and presented as trophies drivers in major races.

One model, the E.R.C. Club Trophy consisted of a replica of an E.R.A. car exhibited with its bonnet removed to show the four thousand metal parts in its engine construction. This model is now on display at the Steering Wheel Club in London.

Car manufacturers, transport museums, Formula 1 constructors and royal families from across the world commissioned Rex Hays. For King Faisal, Rex built a model of a 1929 Mercedes.

So notable was the work of Rex Hays that in 1952 the Duke Of Edinburgh was asked during the planning of the Model Engineer Exhibition what he would like to see there. He requested a work

by Rex Hays. Rex arrived at the show bringing his model in two trucks. He had surpassed himself with this design, which was a four hundred foot long slot-racing Grand Prix track. The electric model cars raced between authentic-looking model crowd stands complete with advertising boards, in which the spaces had been sold in advance to real companies. The exhibit proved extremely popular with the Duke, the organisers, visitors and the sixty thousand pupils at the later held Schoolboys’ Exhibition.

In 1955, it took Rex Hays seven weeks to perfect his model of a D-type Jaguar commissioned

as a present for the young Prince Charles who was accompanying the Queen to the Jaguar works at Coventry. He made it with the finest detail that included genuine green upholstery and authentic dashboard material used in the real car. Rex Hays would study a car and draw up his own blueprints for a model, as he knew the manufacturer’s blueprints never completely matched the finished version of an actual car.

The bodywork for Rex Hays’ models was wood, a French Lime that was meticulously chiselled and scalpel-shaved to the millimetre. He insisted that, “The complicated and subtle contours of a modern sports-racing car can be reproduced better by carving than in any other way.”

Rex Hays didn’t believe in metal bodywork, calling it “phoney realism,” if a modeller wasn’t prepared to use the exact mineral content as used in the original car. A model was brushed with two-coats of Shellac and when dry was sandpapered. The process was repeated until the wood was indistinguishable from metal.

The model was then painted and then sprayed with a minimum of six coats of cellulose. Rex Hays photographed each intricately detailed miniature upon a modelled road surface with a replica house brick wall in the background. The photographs of the model car were compared to photographs of the real vehicle. He would only consider a model finished if people couldn’t tell which was the model and which was the actual car.

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Model Cars made in Steyning In 1957, for possibly his finest work, Rex Hays visited the London Science Museum to study its 1894 Panhard Et Lavassor. It was Britain’s first petrol engine car and consisted of just seats behind an engine, with no bodywork and large, gun-carriage style wheels. Rex Hays photographed, measured and sketched the car, filling fifty-six pages of a notebook. At his Steyning home he then drew up blueprints and spent five weeks constructing the model.

It was mounted on a base and sealed in a glass presentation case. In March 1957 it was given to the Queen during a visit to mark the Royal Automobile Club’s diamond jubilee.

On the 11th of June 2005, Rex Hays’ 1938 model of the Mercedes-Benz W163 racing car was auctioned at Christie’s. The model featured metal and brass parts to detail the suspension, steering, twin-supercharged engine, wire-spoke wheels with knock-off hub-nuts; chrome-plated inlet manifolds and exhaust pipes. The model was eighteen inches in size and despite showing its age, was sold with its drawings, related correspondence and two volumes of ‘Motor Modelling’ for £1,410.

In 1958, Macgibbon and Kee published Rex Hays’ drawings in ‘Tribute By Trophy’. Rex Hays also wrote ‘Motor Modelling’ published by Arco and ‘Racing Cars In Miniature’ published by Percival. These books still inspire model makers to scratch build model cars today.

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Cert 12A, duration 107 mins.

Tuesday 2nd November, 7.30 pm. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £6. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.

ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents a MATINEE FILM SOUND OF METAL Heavy-metal drummer and ex-addict Ruben’s world is thrown into turmoil when he realises that his fading hearing has taken a sudden and devastating turn for the worse.

Ruben must choose between his new deaf community and fighting to hold on to what has always defined him. A poignant portrait of a man finding his way to a new revelation.

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Tuesday 23rd November, 2.00 pm, £4. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £4. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.

ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents MY FIRST CINEMA TICK MAN Stickman lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their Stick children three and he’s heading out on an epic adventure. Will he get back in time for Christmas? Based on the book written by Julia Donaldson, designed to entertain and delight your 3-5-year olds.

Cert U, duration 27 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

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