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Horsham Sports Club celebrates their success as The Big Gig reaches record numbers Horsham Sports Club was the place to be this weekend, as nearly three thousand of our party loving community gathered to celebrate Horsham’s family tribute music festival, The Big Gig ’18 on Saturday 16th June. Following on from last year’s success, the club took all feedback seriously and delivered a slick operation from start to finish. With a large team of generous volunteers, led by Mike Manktelow (Event Lead) Chris Wassell (Chairman), Dave Baxter (Musical Direction) and Chris Shambrook (Bar Manager) the team worked hard to exceed expectations resulting in a superb day out for the whole community. With outstanding performances from Flairz, A Touch Of Little Mix, Forever Jackson, The Blunter Brothers & Pure Queen, held together with an expert balance of humour, interaction and frivolity from compere and comedian John O’Sullivan, supporters were in high spirits and full of praise. Festival go-er Julie enthused “Fantastic day, well done all. Loved it last year and this year was even better! Excellent music, great atmosphere, yummy food, hilarious compere and small loo queues. So excited for next year already” Sensational street food filled the arena, children had the time of their lives enjoying the music, chasing the compere, and loving the inflatables and activities provided by Colin’s Amusements,
and hardly a face or beard was left un-glittered by the superb efforts of Jess and the crew at Beauty and the Rest by Jess. Horsham Sports Club would like to thank their Sponsors, XA Digital and Business Pulse for their generous contribution towards the success of the day, e-social butterflies for their fantastic promotional work, Bright Brothers Production for Videography and Cheryl Zimmerman and Lily O’Driscoll for photography. In addition, a big thanks to Local Brewery Hepworths for their support, and most importantly the whole community for making The Big Gig one very happy place to be. Horsham Sports Club Chairman Chris Wassell thanked the team and supporters saying; “Huge appreciation to all who supported us this year. You did us proud Horsham. What a fun, music-loving and spirited community. Long may The Big Gig continue” The Big Gig was a fundraising event for Horsham Sport Club and in addition supporting St Catherine’s Hospice & The Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity. Date for your diary! Plans are already underway for next year’s event – so save the date Saturday 22nd June 2019, and follow social media pages to see what’s in store @thebiggighorsham Photograph credit: Cheryl Zimmerman and Lily O’Driscoll
Horsham’s Day in Support of our Armed Forces and their families
Horsham Branch of the Royal British Legion has once again joined with Horsham District Council to organise Horsham Armed Forces Sunday, which will take place between 10.30am and 2pm on Sunday 1 July in and around the Carfax, Horsham Town Centre. The event will feature static displays of historic military vehicles, thanks to the organisers of the Capel Military Show, a band parade followed by a ceremony, displays by local cadets from the Army, Navy, and Air Force, as well as the Royal Naval Association and Horsham
Community Responders. The Royal British Legion Band will be providing further musical entertainment on the bandstand. At 11.15am there will be a parade of Royal British Legion Standards, veterans and local cadets, led by the Surrey and Sussex Drum and Bugle Corps, will march from East Street into the Carfax where there will be a ceremony at the War Memorial with addresses by Horsham District Council Chairman, Cllr Peter Burgess, and Royal British Legion Chairman, Nigel Caplin. SSDB Corps will then perform in front of the War Memorial.
The Carfax and East Street will be closed to traffic from 7am to 5pm, to facilitate this and the display of militaryvehicles. The event will close with the flag lowering ceremony at 2pm. The event will also highlight the role and work of Royal British Legion in supporting the ex-Armed Forces community and their families, with members of the Horsham Branch on hand to answer any questions. Chairman of the Council, Cllr Peter Burgess, said: “With the current focus on the commemorations of the end of World War One, now
is a great time for us all to be reaffirming our support for current, and past, service personnel and their families in our community. “I urge as many of you as possible to join with us on Sunday 1 July to take the opportunity to learn more about this aspect of the community and country in which we live, and make this a great day in support of our armed forces.” On 8 August, two representatives from the Horsham Branch of the Royal British Legion will take part in the Great Pilgrimage 90, the Legion’s biggest membership event in its history. The event
commemorates the pilgrimage of veterans and war widows who visited the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres, before marching to the Menin Gate in Ypres on 8 August 1928. Over 1150 Legion branches will take part in the parade to the Menin Gate, where a wreath from each branch will be placed on the memorial. The representatives from Horsham will be Standard Bearer, Jon Salmon, and Wreath Layer, Crawford Butler. A march past will then take place, observed by civic and military guests from the UK, Europe, and common-