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Dear Residents, Whats inside this month Welcome to the March issue.

Happily Spring is nearly upon us! With Easter just round the corner now too.

In this issue we have a interesting feature about the history of March from Dorothy Hatswell of the East Grinstead Museum. Did you know that the idea of the National Garden Scheme was initiated Recipe by a former well known East Grinstead resident? And as the NGS is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year we have a feature about its history. We also have a wonderful article about all the fantastic work that local chapters of the RDA charity undertake.

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Wishing you all the best for a great start to March.

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Ingredients • 300g beef sirloin • 3 cloves garlic, crushed • 150g wild mushrooms • 4 large baking potatoes • 500ml double cream • 2 garlic cloves, whole • 100g grated gruyere cheese • 200 g baby spinach • ½ bunch of thyme

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5. Remove the foil, sprinkle the grated gruyere on top and place under a hot grill until golden brown. Sprinkle with chopped parsley before serving.

1. Season the beef with salt and pepper. In a hot pan, add a dash of olive oil and place the beef in, sealing all sides.

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7. Brush any dirt off the wild mushrooms with a paint brush (do not wash them in water), then cut them down into evenly sized pieces.

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3. Peel the potatoes and slice very finely on a mandolin or with a very sharp knife. Warm the cream with a pinch of salt and pepper, 2 cloves of garlic and a couple of springs of thyme, then pass through a sieve to remove garlic and thyme pieces.

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LOCAL GOOD NEWS STORIES

Back to School As Mothers Day is just around the corner.

Here are a few possibly helpful reminders of life-advice-for-the-kids for mummies (and daddies) out there: Never stop learning - if you learn even just a little something each day, it will add up over time immensely. Learn to love healthy food by finding dishes that are tolerable to your tastebuds and trying to expand tastebud-horizons. Find active sports or activities that can be enjoyed for a lifetime - now that the fight for childhood has become screens vs. activities, this one is more important than ever. Be able to tolerate some discomfort - obviously we try to avoid it but it’s unavoidable in this life, so learning to be tolerable of a bit of discomfort can help get through tough times. Need no one else to make you happy or validate you - feeling valuable and loved is a good thing but when it’s incessantly craved above all else it can make you unnecessarily reliant.

Photo of two ex-students with Bob Darvill, Chair of Governors at Imberhorne School - with four of our Year 9 student leaders.

Martin Brown, Imberhorne School Headteacher: “We had a visit from 2 ex-students on 15th February, Mr Gordon Aylward and Mr John Baldwin, they completed Year 11 in 1947!

“They have previously visited the school once, in the 1970's, and returned again today. Our Y9 leading students hosted them, chatting to them about life at the East Grinstead County Grammar School (the former name of the Windmill Lane site).

“Many of their school year group have been holding annual reunions, in different destinations, for 70 years. “

The real list is far longer of course but these are a few good’uns.

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”

The East Grinstead Living will be printing more local good news stories in the coming months. If you have any which you’d like to send us, please email info@egliving.co.uk. Thank you.

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History of March LOCAL HISTORY NOTES

by Dorothy Hatswell of the East Grinstead Museum

March, now the third month in our year, was named after Mars, the Roman God of War. It was then the first month of the year and signalled the start of both the agricultural cycle and the beginning of the combat season. March is the meteorologists’ start of spring and so the better weather promised and the longer days after the equinox meant more favourable conditions for both these activities. The spring equinox is either on March 20th or the 21st, depending on where we are in the fouryearly cycle of leap years.

Spring is heralded in this country by an explosion of flowers. Snowdrops and other blooms such as aconites arrive earlier, but they are small and have to be looked for low down on the ground. Daffodils - not just our modern cultivars, but even the more humble, and to my mind more attractive, native, wild Lent Lily - are more prominent, being taller and more obvious. From then onwards the explosion continues with the “May flowers” brought forward with assistance from the “April showers”.

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March. It was not until 1752, when England adopted the Gregorian calendar, that January became the beginning of the year. The change was necessary because the old calendar had gradually become out of step with the astronomical time. It meant “losing” eleven days from the calendar, so Wednesday, September 2nd, was followed immediately

by Thursday, September 14th, 1752. No days were, of course, lost, only dates.

The stories of people rioting in the streets appear to be apocryphal. The myth seems to have arisen, years later,

by Hogarth printing a scene where banners bearing the slogan, “Give us back our eleven days”, appear. There is no historical evidence of any riots.

The month contains several important days, the most important being March 25th, Lady Day, called in honour of the mother of Christ. It is the main one of our quarter days, particularly significant in previous centuries, as it was the day on which rents were due and hiring and firing took place. This generally had an unsettling effect on the poorer members of society. March 25th was also the beginning

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of the financial year for the government and is still true today, as March 25th became April 6th after 1752. Two of the countries which make up Great Britain celebrate their patron saint’s day in March.

St David for Wales is on the first of the month and has as his emblem the daffodil. St Patrick in Ireland adopted the shamrock which starts to grow in abundance at this time; his day falls on March 17th.

If Easter, a truly moveable feast, is late in April, as it is this year, two other significant days fall in March: Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday, and Mothering Sunday. Shrove Tuesday, a time to confess and seek absolution, or be shriven, is the last day before the start of Lent. It was designed to use up the last items in the larder before Ash Wednesday. Several towns have well publicised races in which individuals compete, tossing their pancakes, as they go. Olney, in Buckinghamshire, is probably the best known of these. The House of Commons have one as well.

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HISTORY OF MARCH CONTINUED

a race in the Queens Walk which was well supported by local groups including schools from around the area; it was discontinued after 2001.

Mothering Sunday, as opposed to the now very commercialised Mother’s Day, started from the practice of returning to your “mother church” on the fourth Sunday in Lent. This was the church you were baptised in or the nearest cathedral. It became the day on which those in service could return home and meet up with their families, for the first time possibly in a year.

Until the beginning of the First World War Easter was the time to play games in the street. Not only children, but women too, skipped using their clothes lines as the rope.

Long lines of them would queue up to join in. Not many boys skipped; playing marbles was their favourite game. Some girls played as well but it was mainly the boys. The men traditionally planted their potatoes in the morning of Good Friday and played marbles in the afternoon. The latter practice is kept up in Tinsley Green near Crawley, when the World Championship is held in the car park of The Greyhound

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on Good Friday. Until 1962 clay marbles or “tolleys” were used, but now they play with the more modern glass ones.

Hares are well known for their strange behaviour in March. Usually shy retiring animals, they put on a display as a prelude to their mating season. They are seen to box.

It was once thought to be competing males but it is now known that females also indulge in the practice. This is the origin of the saying “mad as a March hare”.

Altogether, March is an interesting month, leading us into the prospect of brighter days ahead.

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East Grinstead and the National Gardens Scheme Later in the late nineteenth century, based on this idea of local nursing set up by Rathbone, `district` nursing spread across the country, with support from Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria, and the movement became a national voluntary organisation setting standards and training nurses.

By 1926 the organisation, now well established, decided to raise a special fund in memory of their patron, Queen Alexandra, who had recently died. The fund would pay for training and would also support nurses who were retiring.

This is when gardening entered the scene. A council member and East Grinstead resident, Miss Elsie Wagg, came up with the novel idea of raising money for charity through the nation’s obsession with gardening. By asking people to open their gardens to visitors a modest fee could be charged that would be donated to this fund. Elsie was, like her brother Alfred, a philanthropist. Alfred was an important figure in the international banking world and they were both part of London high society with many connections, but they still made a point of caring for their community.

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2017 marks the 90th anniversary of the first 600 gardens to open on behalf of the National Gardens Scheme in 1927 set up to raise money for nurses. These days the scheme has around 3,800 gardens open each year raising money for national nursing and caring charities.

Thus the National Gardens Scheme was founded and Elsie would later receive an MBE due largely to this revolutionary brainwave.

Individuals were asked to open up their gardens for 'a shilling a head'. And in the first year 609 gardens raised over £8,000. Many of Elsie’s contemporaries were delighted by the public’s reaction to their private gardens being opened, one of whom was novelist and passionate gardener Vita Sackville West who, writing in the New Statesman, stated: “These mild gentlemen and women who invade one’s

But what of its rich history and how does it relate to our town?

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garden after putting their silver token into the bowl ... are some of the people I most gladly welcome and salute. Between them and myself a particular form of courtesy survives, a gardener’s courtesy, in a world where courtesy is giving place to rougher things.”

having been held at one shilling despite much inflation. The gardens began to raise significant donations.

Into the 1980s and through the 90s other charities such as Macmillan Cancer Support and Help the Hospices joined the list of beneficiary charities.

In the following years leading up to the outbreak of World War Two a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of the nation’s landed gentry joined this new 'National Gardens Scheme' led by names such as Princess Mary and her husband the Earl of Harewood.

Since its foundation, the National Gardens Scheme has donated over £45 million, of which nearly £23 million has been donated within the last ten years!

The National Gardens Scheme’s commitment to nursing and caring remains constant, and the charity continues to grow and flourish.

By the early thirties a network of volunteer County Organisers had been set up and over 1,000 private gardens were open. Country Life magazine produced a handbook that would become known as 'The Yellow Book' because of its bright cover.

We wonder if Miss Wagg quite knew what would come to pass when this inspirational fundraising idea was plucked from her mind.

After the Second World War, as we all know, the National Health Service took on the duty of District Nursing Service, but money was still needed to care for retired nurses and invest in training. And so the National Gardens Scheme offered to donate funding to the National Trust to restore and preserve important gardens. In return, the National Trust opened many of its most prestigious gardens for the NGS.

In 2017 over 60 of those 1927 gardens will open again for us throughout the year. Five of these are in Sussex: Borde Hill Garden, Gravetye Manor, Gardens & Grounds of Herstmonceux Castle, Newtimber Place, Highdown Gardens.

Nearly 380 gardens will open during the NGS's 90th anniversary weekend which is on the Whitsun bank holiday weekend in May (27th – 29th) to help celebrate.

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Mother o’ Mine Rudyard Kipling, 1865 - 1936

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

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If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

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Help & Hope The ‘Tubakunde Project’ is a small, organically-grown charity supported by many local people in the East Grinstead area. We have a Q&A with Chairman of the Trustees Malcolm Claridge and his wife Jeanne, who live in Crawley Down, about the incredible work this small but passionate charity undertakes.

HOW DID THE CHARITY START? A friend of ours, Pam Hajnasrollah, who trained in childcare with over thirty years’ experience, went to Rwanda in 2001 to work with orphans at a boarding school. She established the Tubakunde project in 2004 with Nathan Rulinda, a young Rwandese man, who is qualified in Environmental Health Science.

‘Tubakunde’ means ‘Let’s love them’ in the Kinyarwandan language.

They’d heard that a tiny baby had been found down a ‘long-drop’ toilet, and wondered who would take care of him. Orphaned babies are often abandoned when their mother dies during childbirth; others suffer severe malnourishment because of stricken poverty.

Pam and Nathan started providing these children with loving care, food, medical treatment and a safe environment. And so in August 2006, a house was secured and renovated to provide a homely atmosphere and spacious garden - the first of its kind in Rwanda.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF TUBAKUNDE PROJECT? The aim of the project is to bring children of all backgrounds together creating a positive and balanced environment that will encourage each child to reach their full potential. The intention is to extend love and help to the community in the Christian tradition.

FROM ITS INCEPTION TO THE PRESENT DAY HOW HAS IT PROGRESSED? Tubakunde House initially provided day-care just for vulnerable babies up to pre-school children. Orphaned, abandoned, extremely poor and some fee-paying (when possible) children were cared for and able to learn in a safe environment. During the first year, it was quickly realised that it would be necessary to create more space as some of the children reached primary school age.

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Excel School became one of the top achieving primary schools in Rwanda.

WHAT LOCAL SUPPORT HAVE YOU HAD AND HOW CAN PEOPLE HELP?

Their expansion has gone from strength to strength. In 2009 the official ‘Excel School’ was opened, comprising three nursery classes (lower, middle, upper) and primary class one. In February 2010, primary two (P2) opened and once again there was need of more classrooms. So by January 2011 another block of four classrooms was built in time for the new academic year. The pattern continued in 2012 and 2013 with further classrooms to accommodate P3, P4 and P5 and a meeting hall/chapel being built.

One more class, P6, and more staff rooms will complete the primary school. In 2013 there were 305 registered pupils at Excel School. In 2016 a bank loan was obtained by the school and a three-storey school block was built. The school itself is seeking ways to raise funds to clear this loan. Now in 2017 there are over 600 nursery and primary aged pupils!

A house, just down the road, COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY has also been rented since 2012 as a hostel for about fifty living

children who have no home or live a long way off.

The school bus makes four round trips each morning and afternoon, to collect and drop off children. Children are served breakfast and lunch, and also given a fruity snack mid-morning and a milky tea before going home. Routine health checks are given and sick children are taken to the local hospital.

Extra-curricular activities include playing football both girls and boys - learning traditional Rwandan singing and dancing, art and crafts.

In 2015 the first group of pupils graduated from year six and went on to secondary education, many with very

One of the major ways of raising funds to support the work in Rwanda is by selling knitted items which my wife Jeanne and a group of her friends who live around East Grinstead make.

These are mainly baby and children’s clothes - the price of cardigans starts at £4.50 for instance. These are sold at local craft fairs and sales.

If people would like to help, they can: donate via the website (www.tubakunde. org), sponsor a child, purchase knitted items from Jeanne (jeanneclaridge@ gmail.com), let Jeanne have any new wool which you no longer require, arrange a table top sale and donate the income to Tubakunde Trust, take part in a sponsored event and donate the income to Tubakunde Trust.

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What’s On in March

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SATURDAY 4TH MARCH

you to celebrate the lambing season! Come and see the lambs and their mothers in the barn. 11am - 4pm, Tablehurst Farm, London Road, Forest Row, RH18 5DP.

Quiz Evening for Sussex Wildlife Trust. Quiz evening raising funds for Sussex Wildlife Trust.

Teams of six, £7.50 per person. Please bring own refreshments, drinks, etc., 7:30pm, Estcots School, East Grinstead.

SATURDAY 1ST APRIL St Matthew Passion East Grinstead Choral Society is honoured and delighted to be joined by internationally celebrated tenor Mark Padmore as Evangelist for this masterpiece of sacred Baroque music. Musical Director Richard Jenkinson, Meridian Ensemble (leader George Clifford) on period instruments. It will be sung in German. Tickets: Adult £15 / £7 student available from Bullfrog Music, Ship Street, East Grinstead or on our website. www. egcs.co.uk. At 6pm, Jubilee Community Centre, Charlwoods Road, RH19 2HL.

SATURDAY 11TH MARCH Mansion Market. Parking and admission are free to this interesting market with its host of unusual stalls in a beautiful setting. From plants, pottery and produce to clothing, curries and cheeses. Puppet shows and all-day café.11am - 4pm, Kidbrooke Park, Priory Road, Forest Row, RH18 5JB. SATURDAY 11TH & SUNDAY 12TH MARCH The East Grinstead Model Railway Club will be holding their annual Model Railway Exhibition at Sackville School, East Grinstead. Sat 10am -5pm, Sun 10am-4pm. 17 layouts, traders. Bluebell Railway.

Adults £4.50. Concessions £3.50. Children (5-16) £3.50, Family (2+2) £15, children under 5 free.

Refreshments. Wheelchair access. Free parking.

SUNDAY 2ND APRIL RSPCA South Godstone Easter Fayre Games and competitions for all the family and our Easter Egg Hunt for the kids. BBQ, hot & cold food and cakes. Entrance to the fayre is free but donations appreciated. Easter Egg Hunt £3 per child. 11am - 4pm, RSPCA South Godstone Animal Centre, Eastbourne Road/A22, RH9 8JB.

WEDNESDAY 15TH MARCH Collectors Fair. Established mid-week fair with 15 dealers selling (and buying) stamps, coins, postcards and other collectables, from 10am - 3pm, Chequer Mead Arts Centre, RH19 3BS.

WHAT’S ON AT CHEQUER MEAD THURSDAY 9TH MARCH AT 7PM

FRIDAY 17TH MARCH

NT Live presents Hedda Gabler. “I’ve no talent for life.” Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free. Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Tickets: £12, Concessions: £10.

East Grinstead Society. Open Forum - an open discussion on planning, development and heritage issues affecting the town, followed by a talk by Tony Cox, Foodbank Project Manager. At 7:30pm, Main Hall, East Court Mansion, College Lane, RH19 3LT.

FRIDAY 10TH MARCH AT 7:30PM

SUNDAY 19TH MARCH Concert of Hit Music from Stage, Screen and TV. St John’s League of Friends proudly presents this heartstirring programme by the internationally acclaimed Slinfold Concert Band, at 3pm. Tickets now on sale at £10 for adults and £5 for under-10s. Contact Wendy Rose on 01342 870681. St John’s Church, High Street, Dormansland, RH7 6RA. MONDAY 20TH MARCH Ontario, Canada. A talk by a local resident, Phil Holland, at 7:45pm, The East Grinstead Natural History Society. St Barnabas Church Hall, Dunnings Road, RH19 4AT. COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY

SATURDAY 25TH MARCH

One Night of Adele starring Sarah Evans from BBC’s “Adele at the BBC”. Tickets: £18.

SATURDAY 11TH MARCH AT 2PM LP Creatives present Treasure Island. This hilarious trio are the stars of the popular hit CBeebies TV show ‘SPOT BOTS’ and also recently ‘Justin’s House’! Tickets: £12, Family of 4: £40.

FRIDAY 17TH MARCH AT 7:30PM AIM presents The King of Pop, staring Navi. There are other tribute shows to Michael Jackson currently touring the globe, but only one performance will have you believing that just for a moment. Tickets: £19.50, Under-15s and Concessions: £15, Family of 4 £60.

Lambing Celebration. Tablehurst Farm welcomes

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SATURDAY 18TH MARCH AT 7:30PM Sandarac Productions presents The Floyd Effect: The Dark Side of the Moon & Beyond. Tickets: £18.50.

full of “secret plans and clever tricks”, as he tries to trick children and eat them for his lunch! (A youth production.) Tickets: £8, Concessions: £5.

TUESDAY 21ST MARCH AT 7:30PM

TUESDAY 28TH MARCH AT 7:30PM

The Fureys. For over 39 years, Ireland’s legends the Fureys have been selling out concerts worldwide.

Hear them sing their timeless classics including ‘When you were sweet 16’, ‘I will love you’, ‘The Green Fields of France’, etc. £19.

An Evening with Ann Widdecombe. From her straight-talking and quick-witted appearances on Have I Got News For You to her unforgettable and star-turning performances on Strictly Come Dancing, Ann has been heralded as a ‘national living treasure’ by the Guardian. Tickets: £18.

THURSDAY 23RD MARCH AT 7PM Griffin Tales presents Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile and The Minpins. The Enormous Crocodile, performed by our younger Griffin Tales members, tells the tale of a cheeky giant crocodile

THURSDAY 30TH MARCH AT 7:30PM Chequer Mead Silver Screen presents Dad’s Army.

Tickets: £5, Concessions: £4, Platoon of 4 adults: £15.

EG Dates for your Diary

By Dawn Spalding, Town’s Promotions Manager

Hopefully we’ll all soon be hanging up our coats and scarves as spring arrives, and the great big outdoor world starts to beckon once again. So it’s a good time to give you all some advance information on the events and things to do in and around East Grinstead over the next couple of months.

A visit to Standen National Trust is a treat at any time of year, but the gardens really start to come to life now and will gladden the soul. The exhibition of textiles by Kaffe Fassett is on view inside the house until April 23rd so try to see it if you can. In case you haven’t heard yet, the Bluebell Railway will be welcoming the Flying Scotsman 13th – 19th April and this is sure to bring much attention to the town. Tickets are likely to be sold out very quickly, but as locals, perhaps you know of a favourite vantage point to watch this iconic train pass by. Please make sure it is safe and legal though!

Our first big outdoor events of the year is the East Grinstead leg of the Mid Sussex Marathon taking place on Saturday 29th of April from the Rugby Club. This is followed by the Vintage COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY Bus Running Day, which takes place in the High Street on Sunday April 30th, 9am -4pm.

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It’s a firm favourite and the town is filled with wonderful, restored vintage buses re-creating the bus routes of yesteryear. It’s a rare chance to travel by bus for free on roads that these days have no bus connections, and if you wish you can hop on and off the different routes.

Don’t worry though, your journey will return you to the High Street eventually.

Then on Monday 1st of May the East Grinstead Lions are bringing us another brilliant May Fair. The High Street is closed to traffic and the crowds pour in for this highly popular event.

There is something for everyone including live performances in the Market Square area through the day.

If all of this is a bit energetic, why not pop into the Museum for ‘Restoring Bodies and Souls’ the exhibition of the pioneering work by Archibald McIndoe and the story of the Guinea Pig Club.

For more information on these or other events visit the Tourist information desk in East Grinstead Library 01342 410121 tourism@eastgrinstead.gov.uk www. visiteastgrinstead.com @visitEG Hope to see you all out and about!

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Sussex Healthcare is an award winning group of care homes providing over 30 years of healthcare in Sussex. The Group operates 20 homes, predominantly in the West Sussex area, providing over 600 placements, incorporating specialist care provision as well as care for older people.

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