Winticketstosee'Mumsthe Word'attheRegisCentre

The stuff nobody tells you about parenthood… until it’s too late

An uplifting, honest, heart-warming show that will have you both roaring with laughter and reaching for the tissues. Mums The Word takes you on an emotional ride through pregnancy pitfalls to teenage tantrums. We have a pair of tickets available to see Mums the Word at the Alexandra Theatre, Regis Centre on 16th September at 7.30pm. www.alexandratheatre.co.uk

Starring Coronation Street’s Tracy Shaw, the comic actress Sarah Dearlove from Housewives on Holiday and introducing the talented Amy Ambrose. Whether it’s leaving the house without your bra, crying in the Supermarket aisles for no reason, or secretly thinking you had given birth to E.T. You won’t feel alone when listening to these women portray the “beauty” of bringing new life into the world…or forgetting where they left it.

Win a pair of tickets to see Mums the Word

To enter answer the following question: Q: Which seaside resort is The Regis Centre located in? a) Worthing b) Bognor Regis c) Hove

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Plan for the inevitable

Community Interest Company offering legal services in Arundel

Making a will is something many people will put off, not wishing to think about later life and death. It is important to remember, however, that when a person dies intestate (without a will) the rules of intestacy will designate how the estate will be allocated and this may not be in accordance with the deceased's wishes and can lead to disharmony and acrimony within families. If cost is a worry then Sussex Wills CIC could provide an answer as Radford Chancellor explained to Sussex Local that they offer a range of highly affordable services including single and mirrored wills, trusts, Power of Attorney, Probate and legacy planning. Being a “not for profit” Community Interest Company means that 70% of profit is reinvested in their community interest activities. For those in financial hardship or with a terminal prognosis, a free will writing service is available. Radford is fully aware that some legal services are simply unaffordable to some low income families and he feels strongly that the establishment of this social enterprise will go some way to address this inadequacy so that crucial guidance to complicated issues will become more readily available. Sussex Wills he confirmed are full members of the Society of Will Writers and Estate Planning Practitioners and are regulated by them. They aspire to their objectives of advancement, education and ethical standards within the Estate Planning Practitioners profession. In today's society, divorce, re-marriage, children and step children can have a pivotal effect on families so the importance of making suitable arrangements for the future is paramount. Outside of his business, Radford enjoys cycling, skiing, cooking and is an active member of the historic House Association. Sussex Wills CIC, 3 Castle Mews, Tarrant Street, Arundel BN18 9DG 0800 8870475 sussexwills.org

By Allen Misselbrook, Yapton & Ford local history

New village hall under construction - 1988 - David Ruffle

Yapton’s sports clubs had a problem. The lack of changing facilities was embarrassing at best and for Yapton FC it prevented them from progressing up into the higher divisions. The facilities available were changing in the top room of the old village hall which had a full-size snooker table in the middle, down stairs in the ante-room to the main hall or in the Youth Centre (the building behind the present village hall). Finally, enough was enough, and all the sports clubs of Yapton joined forces and approached the Village Hall Committee in 1979 to see if there was any possibility that the hall could be sold and a new one built on the playing field. The answer was a resounding no. Not to be beaten, the sports clubs sought and received permission to build a Sports Pavilion on the playing field instead. A committee was formed with a member of each club represented and fund raising began in earnest with a target of £30,000.00. Events were organised which included Car-Boot Sales, Race Nights, Raffles but the most profitable were Lottery Ticket sales and the resurrection of the Yapton Walk which, over the next few years, raised thousands of pounds. A windfall grant of £1,000 was received from Southern Television through the Pavilion Club’s Chairman at the time, Duncan Goodhew. The target was reached, plans were drawn up and planning permission granted by Arun District Council. But wait, the Village Hall Committee had a change of mind and decided that they would sell the existing hall and build a new one. The reason for this change of mind could have been the high cost of renovation work needed to bring the Hall in line with current safety laws and regulations. Monies from the sale, along with loans taken out by Yapton and Ford Parish Councils, grants from WSCC and ADC as well as the Pavilion Club’s funds, allowed a new hall to be designed and built. The proviso was that all the sports clubs would be accommodated and public access toilets included as the old ones would have to be demolished. Sadly, the Public Toilets had to be closed due to being constantly vandalised. The design included changing rooms and showers on the ground floor while upstairs would be the snooker room and Clubroom for socialising. A problem with this layout arose as the snooker table could not be man-handled up the stairs so the design was reversed with the changing rooms and showers being moved onto the top floor and the ground floor becoming the Club Room as it is today. This design change was disastrous, especially as the Snooker Club folded before the hall was completed, the showers continually leaked into the rooms below. Building started in 1988 and completed in 1989, with Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk officially opening the building on 25th April of that year. The Sports Clubs continued to raise money to enable the Hall to be furnished as much as possible. Cabarets, Dances and other events continued to raise these funds. Other events were organised including monthly Junior Discos, New Year’s Eve parties, Christmas Bazaars and once a year a dinner and entertainments for the Senior Citizens of the Villages. Eventually the fund-raising ceased without achieving the original aim of totally fitting out the new hall. Today, that is just a distant memory. The intervening years has seen a decline in the village sporting clubs. Yapton FC, Bilsham FC, Youth Club FC and the Junior boys football team, Yapton Ladies Stoolball Club, Bilsham Mixed Stoolball Club, the Badminton Club have all ceased to exist or moved away from the village to pastures new. To contact Allen Misselbrook on a local history matter please email: allen@yaptonhistory.org.uk