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Contents

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Comment

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Vaccination Centre in Clair Hall

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Set Your Pace Launches For 2021

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Stay Safe at Home

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West Sussex Mediation Service

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Personal Tax

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Recipe

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Gardening

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Seasonal

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Support For Vulnerable People

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Sussex Miscellany

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Home Interiors

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Community Information Board

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Humour

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Puzzle Page

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Advertisement Index & Puzzle Answers

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COMMENT

LET’S HOPE THE END IS IN SIGHT s we go to press with this March edition we’re

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gradually get our lives back together we will be able to

all desperately wondering when the Lockdown

keep the best bits from Lockdown. Be it, more working

restrictions will eventually ease. The only thing

from home and a better work/life balance, less rushing

we have learnt over the last year is not to try and

around and thereby reducing our carbon foot print,

predict too far into the future and try and take each

helping the vulnerable and being more considerate to

day at a time. But that’s easier said than done when

all sections of society, keeping up excercise regimes to

you’re worried about your job, your business, your

taking a more mindful approach to life.

child’s education, putting food on the table and more crucially, your health.

When restrictions do ease we must support our local businesses, high streets and the advertisers in

There is definitely Lockdown fatigue as we come up

this magazine. This will help the whole region to get

to the anniversary of restrictions being enforced but

back on its feet as quickly as possible and provide

one thing that is incredibly positive at the moment is

the jobs and security we all desperately need. Now

the speed of the vaccination roll out. The supplies of

that the end is in sight and we adjust to a new

vaccines appear to be good and a chance that the

normal, let’s not forget some of the lessons we’ve

restrictions will start to be eased by the time you read

learnt. Stay safe and well.

this magazine. This whole period has certainly taught us

Richard Milbourn, Editor

to take nothing for granted and I hope that as we

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MID SUSSEX DISTRICT COUNCIL

VACCINATION CENTRE IN CLAIR HALL

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id Sussex District Council (MSDC) has granted a licence to the NHS for use of the old Clair Hall building in Perrymount Road as a Covid-19 Vaccination Service.

MSDC closed Clair Hall in September last year as it was deemed no longer fit for purpose. Since that decision the pandemic has worsened, and the vaccination programme is now a national priority. In this context, the Council received a request from the NHS to use the site as a Vaccination Centre, to which the Council readily agreed with the first vaccination in the building taking place in December of 2020. While detail of the full vaccination programme is still emerging, it is not known how long the NHS will need the building for. As a result, the Council has provided a flexible licence that can accommodate whatever the NHS needs.

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Councillor Jonathan Ash-Edwards, Leader of MSDC said: “Unfortunately, the Coronavirus pandemic has worsened considerably in recent weeks, but the vaccination programme gives reason to be hopeful.

The District Council has reopened the Clair Hall building in Haywards Heath for the NHS to use as a COVID-19 Vaccination Service and has now agreed the license. I’m delighted that the first vaccination happened here in December and that people in our community are being protected. The NHS continues to ask residents to wait to be called forward for a vaccine, which will be offered to the most vulnerable first.

Councillor Judy Llewellyn-Burke, Deputy Leader of MSDC added, “At this stage it is not clear how long the NHS will require the site for, so the Council has offered the NHS a flexible licence. This means the NHS will be able to use the building for as long as they need to complete the vaccination programme.

When the NHS use comes to an end, we may again review the future use of the site informed by further public consultation to complement that done recently on the Haywards Heath Masterplan.”

The Vaccination rollout is being run by the NHS and is the largest vaccination programme in its history. While it is being rolled out, it is vitally important that everyone follows the Government’s advice to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.

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W E S T S U S S E X M E D I AT I O N S E RV I C E

WHY A MEDIATION SERVICE STARTED

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ur service was the brainchild of a Crime

and others. As well as community mediation which is

Prevention Officer in Horsham back in around

free of charge, we also cover intergenerational

1999-2000 (Nigel Tickler) who, through some

disputes, family (pre-divorce) mediation, workplace

research, determined that about 5% of frontline Police

mediation and civil mediation and these are currently

time was spent going to repeat calls to the same

being delivered online when self distancing requires it.

addresses/neighbourhoods regarding neighbour

How important are donations and fundraising for

disputes, giving words of advice or ‘banging heads

your organisation? We don’t have a high profile and

together’ but not having to ‘feel collars’. However, this

provide our confidential services quietly in the

was not addressing the underlying causes of those

background. We are not the sort of charity that

conflicts. He believed that by forming a mediation

individuals would naturally gravitate towards. This

services these cycles of conflict could be broken and

makes fundraising difficult. We have a very small office

the demand on Police time reduced. He secured some

staff - our service co-ordinator, Nick, plus three part-

‘pump priming’ funding from the Police, Council and

time colleagues who help manage the 330+ annual

WSCC to train 9 mediators and launch the service. We

referrals - hence the challenge of fundraising support

now have 50+ mediators and cover the whole county.

as we don’t have a team of dedicated fundraisers.

In addition to the police, the bulk of our referrals are

Every pound we receive is important to us.

self reported and from housing associations, the council

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P E R S O NA L TA X

TAX RELIEF ON CHARITABLE DONATIONS QUESTION:

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fter Christmas I often end up with a pile of unwanted items such as jumpers, scarves and CDs. As a higher rate tax payer can I get tax

relief for donating these items to a charity?

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aybe. It depends whether the charity you donate the items to operates the relevant scheme and actually sells the items you

donate.

are a UK tax payer. So there should be some paperwork Legislation summarises tax relief on charitable donations

to complete when you take unwanted items to the

as: ‘Relief for some gifts of money to charities by

shop. Charities usually provide annual or quarterly

individuals’. Since your unwanted jumpers etc are not

statements showing dates of goods sold, amount of cash

money they would generally not qualify for tax relief.

donated and the tax claimed. You will need these statements to claim tax relief on the donation on your

However, some charities operate a system that allows for

tax return.

any income generated from the sale of goods to be considered under the Gift Aid scheme.

It is worth also bearing in mind that as the charity is acting as agent, if you already have a business of retailing

To summarise the scheme, you would allow the charity

jumpers, scarves etc or you have a vast quantity of goods

to act as agent to sell the goods on your behalf. The

for sale, this could be viewed as trading by HMRC.

goods in the shop are still legally your property, so when

Although likely to be rare, if frequent or connected to a

the goods are sold, the income received after selling

trade, the income generated could be liable to income

costs, belongs to you and not the charity. It is after the

tax even if all proceeds are donated to the charity.

sale that you can agree to donate all or part of the net cash proceeds to the charity. This would meet the first

Full details of how these systems operate can be found in

condition for gift aid, that the donation is ‘a gift in the

HMRC’s guidance. Search the internet for “charities:

form of a payment of money’. However, to receive the

detailed guidance notes on how the tax system

tax relief you must make a valid gift aid declaration to

operates” and see chapter 3 Gift Aid, subsection 3.42

cover the cash donations you wish to make.

There are also further conditions to satisfy for people who are “connected” with the charity. I assume this doesn’t apply to you but those conditions can be found by searching the internet for “conditions B - E section 416 Income Tax Act 2007”.

You may wish to contact charities in your area to see if they operate this scheme. The items, sales and donations will need to be logged and you will need to confirm you

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Sweet peppers, especially the red ones, are very high in vitamin A and both red and green peppers are high in vitamin C. Chilli peppers also contain both beta-carotene and something called capsaicin which is believed to have a positive effect on blood cholesterol levels.

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pots for extra drainage, and make sure that the pot is 30cm (12in) or more in diameter. Once there is no danger of late frosts, ideally by early June when temperatures are also warming up, you can put the plants outside.

Some sweet pepper plants can get quite tall and rather ungainly, so be ready to give them a bit of extra support if necessary. A bamboo cane will usually do the trick – tie the plant in loosely with twine, string or any other soft garden tie.

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During the long, dark winter, when the sun is low in the sky and the perpetual cloud blanket obliterates its light anyway, dust and dirt are able to hide themselves very effectively in the corners, on the surfaces and even on the windows of our homes.

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It must be time for a spring clean.

An article in the Manufacturer and Builder magazine of 1872 (a ‘practical journal of industrial progress’) describes spring cleaning as “The season of general cleaning, when all the corners and closets are overturned and hidden things are brought to light”.

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for spring cleaning. During the holiday the faithful are instructed to refrain from eating any leavened foodstuffs (‘chametz’). The Bible commands that even tiny crumbs must be removed from the house and this results in a ritual hunt for crumbs by candlelight during the evening before the holiday begins.

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DODGY DIETS AND DRINKS

By Kevin Newman, a Sussex-born author, historian, tour guide and history teacher ith lockdown 17 hopefully ended by the time you

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removing a comb from the island Chieftain’s hair. Although

read this (I think that’s the right one – have lost

to be fair the Viti Levuians were also rebelling against the

count) and the latest COVID variant vaccinated

encroach of Christianity at this time. This was apparently

away, I might have a new problem. It isn’t the fact I’ve lost

punishable by death by eating, but Sussexians should not try

sleep at night wondering why each new variant isn’t called

to lose weight by travelling to Fiji and eating one of the

COVID 20, 21 etc. Nor is it my endless internal monologue as

tribe’s descendants in revenge as the current chief back in

to why we shouldn’t name the variants the way the Met

2003 issued a formal apology on behalf of his ancestors’

Office does with storms – after people. This is as I do think

behaviour. The museum in Fiji still has the soles of the

that ‘COVID Geoffrey’ or ‘COVID Margery’ sounds much

Reverend’s sandals, which were boiled by the tribe but, it

nicer than ‘the South African variant’. No, my problem is

seems, were more unpalatable than the munchable

after working from home and remote teaching for many

missionary as they turned the potential footwear foodstuff

months I need to lose weight. My children often now

down. So, should my barf-inducing banquet not have turned

mistake me for a budget bouncy castle but I’m sure I’m not

your stomach so far, you might want to, unlike the Fijians,

alone, and so, valued reader I’ve decided to help us all with

try eating footwear instead?

tales of revolting recipes and disgusting drinks from Sussex’s

Perhaps try some revolting remedies instead to lose

past. Nausea will spread across the county and our scales will

weight post-lockdown? An ancient Sussex remedy was to

all stop groaning as we can’t face food and drink. Let the

‘roast one mouse’ for whooping cough, but, who knows, it

upchucking commence!

might work for obesity? Don’t forget though if you do try

We’ll start with the man who put Brighton on the map as

this, local medics suggested you needed to dry another two

a heathy seaside resort, Dr Richard Russell. The hypocritical

mice in the oven and crumble them into a powder. This

Hippocrates follower wasn’t exactly a paragon of health as

lousy mousey medicine then needed to be added to your

you’ll see if you look at portraits of the portly physician. His

drink morning and night. Should remedies not rectify your

1750s book on the uses of seawater may have helped many

rotundity, how about a bit of poverty and fighting? Perhaps

Londoners with his suggestions of Sussex seabathing and

recreate for your family a Littlehampton dish that once

sea air, but his suggestion of mixing seawater with milk? It

existed called a ‘Swimmer’. This got its name as it was where

may well be your first port of call to lose the contents of

a whole poor family had to share a bowl of gravy with just

your stomach, even if not a few pounds. I’ve also mentioned

one dumpling in it – which the children had to fight for.

before the Sussex drink of Bumboo, also a drink from the

Being blessed with a ‘chopper’ would have helped out a

1750s in East Hoathly and made of brandy and beer. This

family in this situation and may also be your route to

sounds a bit more palatable than the Doctor’s drink but

roundness reduction. It was nothing to do axes though to

unfortunately the effects were said to be regrettable. I

help you fight (or even a 1970s bike), but the old Sussex

know which one I’d prefer though, despite the name.

name for a dried pig’s face. Mmmmmmmn!

If seawater and awful alcoholic mixes aren’t your thing,

For zoom or (eventually) group Sussex talks and motorised

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info@allinclusivehistory.org. Other tours, talks and events are

era feast where the chief ingredient was one of our clergy,

available including ‘Spooky Worthing, ‘Brilliant Brighton’, ‘Super

who became a tasty dish for people from a Fijian Island. The

Sussex’ and ‘Scrumptious Sussex’. Kevin’s next book, ‘Celebrating

Reverend Thomas Baker, who hailed from Playden in Sussex

Brighton and Hove’, out in June can be pre-ordered from

was eaten by tribesmen from Nivosa, which is on Viti Levu

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01444 451157 email swim@hhlionsswim.co.uk www.hhlionsswim.co.uk Haywards Heath District Table Tennis League Sunday - September - April enquiries@haywardsheathttl.co.uk www.haywardsheathttl.org.uk Haywards Heath Harriers membership@haywardsheathharriers.co.uk www.haywardsheathharriers.co.uk Haywards Heath Horticultural Society Third Thursday of each month - Sept to May alan.colgate@talktalk.net www.hhhs.org.uk Haywards Heath Junior Parkrun Sunday – 9.am haywardsheath-juniors@parkrun.com www.parkrun.org.uk/haywardsheath-juniors Haywards Heath Movie Makers www.haywardsheathmoviemakers.org.uk Mid Sussex Marlins info@midsussexmarlins.org www.midsussexmarlins.org Harlequin Bridge Club Haywards Heath Town Hall Wednesday - 7.15pm andrew@harlequinbridge.co.uk www.bridgewebs.com/harlequin Haywards Heath Music Society www.haywardsheathmusicsociety.org.uk Haywards Heath RFC Tuesday & Thursdays - 7pm rugby@hhrfc.co.uk www.hhrfc.co.uk Haywards Heath Rotary Birch Hotel, Lewes Road, Haywards Heath Twice a month - first and third Mondays (except Bank Holidays) – 6pm for 6.30pm www.rotary-ribi.org Haywards Heath Tennis Club Membership Secretary - Lynda - 01444 450883 lynda.jeyes@sky.com Haywards Heath Tuesday Club Haywards Heath Town Hall, 40 Boltro Road, Haywards Heath

Second Tuesday of every month 10am -12pm Haywards Heath U3A www.haywardsheathu3a.org.uk Lindfield Badminton Club Dolphin Leisure Centre, Haywards Heath Monday - 8pm-10pm www.lindfieldbadmintonclubs.co.uk Mid Sussex Choir Methodist Church, Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath RH16 3DN Wednesday - 7.45 pm between September and May contact@midsussexchoir.org.uk www.midsussexchoir.org.uk Mid Sussex District Scouts www.midsussexdistrictscouts.com Mid Sussex Ramblers Saturdays, Sundays, Tuesdays and Bank Holidays Wednesday evening during the summer months www.midsussexramblers.co.uk Mumpreneurs Networking Club 01273 681484 info@mumpreneursnetworkingclub.co.uk www.mumpreneursnetworkingclub.co.uk Relax with Colouring Haywards Heath Library, 34 Boltro Road, RH16 1BN Second Wednesday of the month - 2pm-3pm 01444 255444.

Sussex Mineral & Lapidary Society Methodist Church in Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath RH16 3DN First Friday of the month - 7.30pm - 10.30pm www.smls.online Sussex Mountaineering Federation The Swan in Falmer First Wednesday of each month - 8pm info2@sussexmountaineeringfederation.org.uk www.sussexmountaineeringfederation.org.uk Sussex Pathfinders Saturday & Sundays 07842 792962 www.sussex-pathfinders.co.uk The Art Society Mid Sussex info@theartssocietymidsussex.org.uk www.theartssocietymidsussex.org.uk

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HUMOUR

The Zen of Chickens

by Derek Thompson

You can learn a lot about life from a chicken.

Behind that beak and those golden eyes lies a creature bristling with poultry wisdom.

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Eat your greens – and give peas a chance.

Impressionable children the world over would have no qualms about devouring chard, lettuce or spinach (to name but three) if they had a chicken for a role model. And, being life’s gourmet connoisseurs, chickens will also happily try tomatoes, grapes, porridge, roast potatoes, bananas, raisins and spaghetti. Although someone we once met, who declared that she fed her hens leftover bacon and eggs, did, I feel, overstep the mark a little.

The early bird really does get the worm.

Although the slightly delayed bird may succeed in taking it off you, if you don’t pay attention.

Opportunity not only knocks, it grabs too.

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1. Paso Doble, 2. The Owl And The Pussycat (by Edward Lear), 3. Macarena, 4.

Foxtrot and Tango, 5. Footloose, 6. Michael Flatley, 7. Oops Up Side Your Head, 8.

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MISCREANT

Across: 1 Charmed, 5 Edged, 8 Eases, 9 Vicious, 10 Perpendicular, 11 Easily, 12 Molars, 15 Demonstration, 18 Explode, 19 Deals, 20 Steps, 21 Deafens.

Down: 1 Creep, 2 Absorbs, 3 Miscellaneous, 4 Divide, 5 Encyclopaedia, 6 Growl, 7 Deserts, 11 Endless, 13 Agitate, 14 Attend, 16 Maple, 17 Noses.

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