September 2016
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WILD ABOUT WILDLIFE Sussex Wildlife Trust’s new chairman Carole Nicholson
ARUNDEL HISTORY The port of Arundel
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September 2016
Cover Photo Arundel castle. By Arundel born local historian Mark Phillips
Welcome... The schools go back this month - good luck to all the new starters, including our youngest! There’s still time to get in some outdoor swimming as the Arundel Lido have extended their summer swimming times - see page 10. For more things to do this month see our What’s On guide starting on page 4 - with more events listed on our website, don’t forget to add yours at www.sussexlocal.net - it’s free! September often brings good weather, along with conkers and blackberries, the latter seem to have come early this year. Why not go ‘blackberrying’ then try our simple blackberry fool recipe on page 26. This month you can win tickets to see ’King of Pop’. This outstanding tribute is not to be missed for any Michael Jackson fans and it stars Michael’s main ‘body double’ Navi and his original guitarist who accompanied him on three world tours. See page 32. Our main feature this month is on the Sussex Wildlife Trust and we talk to their new chairman Carole Nicholson. See page 28. Andrew from Glorious Gardens talks colour in our gardening article page 15, along with other things to do this month. Our local history article on page 12 is about the old port of Arundel. Thanks so much to our guest writer Adge Roberts, Mark Philips will be back next month but meanwhile we can enjoy his stunning cover photo. Thanks for reading,
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...........................................................................What’s On .............................................................Arundel Lido news ................................Arundel History - The Port of Arundel ...................................................................In Your Garden ........................................................................Local Walks ..............................................Charity & Community News .................................................................Prize Crossword .................................................................................Recipe .........................................................Sussex Wildlife Trust ........................................Win tickets to see ‘King of Pop’ ..............................................................Business Directory ...........................................................Index of Advertisers
October Deadlines Bookings, editorial - 1st September Finished artwork, events - 7th September
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Swim in the sunshine! Much is going on at Arundel Lido Our local Lido was recently listed 2nd by The Times in its article on “The 20 best lidos….” in Britain. As you will see from the Lido’s advertisement in this edition, the Summer Swimming Season has been extended by two weeks (until Friday 16th September) and will be followed by daytime and evening parties on Saturday 17th September and the return of its popular Dog Show (“Fido at the Lido”) on Sunday 18th September. Its trial run in April proved so popular that “Fido” is now set to become an annual event, at the end of each Summer Season at the Lido. And there will be more Lido events coming up in October, November and December. Watch these pages for more details of “Trick or Treat” in October, “Wine Bluffs” in November and “Festive Swimming” in December! And there will be still more events and activities to come over the Winter period!
Meantime, the Lido’s Extended Activities Plan (Project LEAP) is moving ahead. This plan - for a new building providing a Gym/Wellbeing Fitness Suite, a multipurpose hall, a café and heated changing rooms - is supported by both Arun District Council and Arundel Town Council, and a Community Survey has shown local people to be extremely supportive. An exhibition at Arundel Lido includes an artist’s impressions of the possible new building and everyone is welcome to come along and see it for themselves. For more details of Arundel Lido’s activities, events and future plans, contact 01903 884772 visit the website at www.arundel-lido.com or follow us on Facebook or Twitter
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The port of Arundel By Adge Roberts Port of Arundel Painting c1820 Ship moored by shipyard
The yard continued in business up to the mid 19thc. but as the use of Arundel Port became restricted by bridges built downstream, so the size of ships reaching it would lessen and the yard concentrated on smaller vessels. Goods transported in and out of the port varied greatly and the following list from 1497 includes Exports; Timber, grain, cattle, horses, cloth, tanned calf skins, tallow,
It is believed that there was a small port in Arundel before the Norman conquest of 1066 and that Roger de Montgomery (the founder of Arundel Castle in 1067) received income from this port. It is also recorded that William II landed at Arundel in 1087 after the death of his father. It should be noted that some historians believe that the original Port of Arundel could have been situated at Ford some two miles downstream.
Imports; Salt, apples, hops, fish, nuts, wine, oil and soap, tar, glass, canvas, paper, brass, paving tiles, and painted cloth. Among the more unusual exports were in 1678 when 60 swans were sent to France by Lord Montague as a present. View of Port and town from chimney of the Swallow Brewery c1889
By the 14th century the port was used by both cross channel and coastal trading vessels which would have docked at what today is known as the Town Quay which was earlier known as the Mayor’s quay. By the 16th century. the quays had stretched part way down what is known today as River Road, and by the 19th c they extended down to the end of Surrey wharf and Tarrant Street. By the end of the 17th century the Town Quay could accommodate vessels of up to 2 to 300 tons displacement with a draft of 20 feet. Trade in the port was supported by the Nineveh Ship Yard which built ships up to a similar size to the one above, as well as building smaller vessels such as Hoys (small coastal vessels) and sailing barges. Port c1820 shows surviving old 'Salt Warehouse' in centre of picture
In the 17th century imports included: grocery wares, white salt and bay salt, hops, fish, coal, iron, soap, lead, stone pots, sails and anchors and luxury goods such as, tobacco pipes, cut glass, French wine and much more including muskets. As the town grew so did the industry and in the late 18thc. three docks were cut into the south bank just below the bridge one of which served the Swallow Brewery. By 1875 two of these had silted up due to disuse, and the third one followed by 1896.The brigantine EBENEZER was a regular visitor to Arundel delivering coal both to the gas works just below the relief road and to the Swallow Brewery. By 1910 it was said the river trade was virtually extinct. The last sailing ship called in 1917. In 1938 the railway was electrified and it was no longer possible to open the centre section of the bridge at Ford, but by then large shipping to Arundel had ceased. Today the Town Quay is mainly used for pleasure boat trips.
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In Your Garden Monthly gardening ideas and tasks by Andrew Staib of Glorious Gardens Ornamental grasses can really come into their own in September with Miscanthus throwing up enormous plumes of pink seed heads. Try growing Japanese anemonies amongst them. Both are bullet proof and will give a grace to that part of the garden.
Colour up your September! September heralds that paradox of seasons where the sunshine is still strong, nature is still lush, memories of the Summer holiday still fresh yet the light starts to brighten and thin out, the air becomes heavy with that Autumn musty scent and the night arrives earlier each day. Nature offers up all it’s hard work during the Summer in the form of fruit and vegetables. However sometimes a garden can start to look faded before its time. Your garden should still look sumptuous and colourful in this month. Let’s start with your herbaceous borders... Dahlias, Chrysanthemums and Asters can be dotted about and each species has a selection of heights so you can weave them in and out of your planting combinations. As long as you have kept up with dead heading, Pennstemons can flower well into November and can give you a wistful romantic quality, with bright whites, pinks and deep purples to balance the fading of other plants as Autumn starts to suck green and colour from the beds. I like some splashes of Erigeron Karvinskianus with its bright daisy flowers that self seed at the front of areas of the beds. These are nice amongst Verbena rigida and is a combination that will flower well into Autumn. In pots you can have Autumn/Winter pansies and Winter Cherries that can last up till Christmas providing the frosts are kind.
For your shrub borders, look to the enormous range of Hydrangeas and ones like Paniculata ‘Unique’ which loves semi shade. What goes well with these are the Rosa rugosa range, with their bright red rose hips. Ceratostigma plumbaganoides puts out the most ultra violet blue flowers which you can see from down the road and is an excellent mid border choice. The architectural Sedum range, with their bright pink or reddish plate like seed heads start to sing out loud this month and can be included in both a shrub and a herbaceous border.
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Things to do in September Time to visit Parham house As well as a 4 acre walled garden, glasshouse,
orchard and veg garden you can buy a good selection of perennials. You can also have tours of the house and gardens. 4th September - Open Air Theatre with the Lord Chamberlain’s Men 24th-25th September the Parham Harvest Fair - with live cookery demonstrations, deer walks, gun dog displays, fungi foraging, working horse cart rides in the Parkland, falconry displays, Tudor cooking demonstrations and Tudor dancing in the House. Wide array of stalls selling food, drink and country wares.
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What to do in September Don’t forget to plant bulbs now! If you aim to plant a lot, which will make the best display, look on line to order from the bigger companies. And always plant in generous clumps in your beds- 12 tulips here, 12 in another area. Better clumps than lots of little single ones which can look a threadbare and lonely.
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Other things to do: Divide any of your favourite Perennials (the RHS web site often has videos to show you how to divide particular species)
Ideally you will consult your little Spring note book which you assiduously marked down where you needed to put more Daffodils, Tulips and Alliums! As well as the usual suspects if you have really good free draining soil, a raised bed or a pot near the front door try planting Crown Imperials. They will amaze visitors and herald the Spring like no other bulb. And though they seem to have gone out of fashion, bedeck your lawn with Crocus bulbs. All your neighbours with their astro turf will peer over the fence jealously (unless they have developed a plastic version of them that you screw in for Spring!)
Keep on eye on the weather and if early frosts set in gather the rest of your outdoor tomatoes indoors and let them ripen in a bowl (Greenhouse tomatoes should be ok till October) Harvest the rest of your potatoes You can still sow lettuce and start planning the beds if you want to sow winter salads. You might like to net up your pond if you have big trees nearby so the water won’t get chocked with rotting leaves all winter.
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Local Walks - September These walks are supported by Chichester District Council, are led by volunteers and are designed to cater for all ages and abilities. No booking is required but please arrive 10 mins before the walk is due to start. Dogs are welcome unless otherwise stated but must be kept on the lead. If the weather is poor the walk may be cancelled, if unsure please check. 01243 534589 health@chichester.gov.uk www.chichesterwellbeing.org.uk. L = Walk Leader Thurs 1st 10.30am Amberley Village L: Peter 2 hours Walk back round the castle and along the river Arun. Meet: Car park at Amberley Station
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Mon 5th 10.30am Rowlands Castle L: Anne 1hr 30 minutes Hilly, some stiles. Not suitable for beginners. Meet: Recreation Ground off Links Lane
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Tue 6th 10.30am Durford Heath & Wood L: Fiona 2 hours Walk through parts of the Sussex border trail and the Serpentine Trail. Fiona 07767 400039
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Wed 7th 10.30am Angmering L: Peter 2 hrs Mainly flat walk through woods and meadows. Meet: Car park in the woods at the Dover
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Fri 9th 9.30am Walderton to Compton L: Jane 2hrs 30 minutes 5 miles 3 steep climbs with some gentle slopes and stiles. Stop at village teashop before catching the bus back Mon 12th 10.30am North Marden L: Andrew 2hrs 4 miles Over early autumnal Downs to Telegraph House; views of Uppark; hilly. Meet: Hidden layby on right of B2141. 400 yards past turning on left to North Marden Mon 12th 10.30am Emsworth Boatyard L: Anne 2 hrs Flat but could be muddy. 2 stiles. Meet: Emsworth Town Square. Park in public car park
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Tues 13th 10.30am Sidlesham L: John 1 hour Flat, 3 stiles, can be muddy when wet. Meet: Pagham Nature Reserve car park PO20 7NE
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Wed 14th 10.30am Bognor to Felpham Meet: Bognor Regis pier on the seafront
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Fri 16th 10.30am Chichester Canal Basin L: Janet 1hr 30minutes 3.5 miles A level walk. Return by bus. Can be muddy in places when wet. Meet: Chichester Canal, PO19 8DT Sunday 18th 10.30am Black Rabbit L : Dominic 2 hrs Easy, flat riverside walk, no stiles Meet: Mill Road car park by river in town centre (charge)
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Thurs 22nd 10.30am Pagham to Hunston L: Jane 2 hrs 30minutes 5 miles This flat linear walk takes in fields and lanes, finishing at the canal at Hunston. Return to Pagham by bus Fri 23rd 10.30am Eartham and Stane Street L: Peter 2 hrs Meet: Forestry Commission CP on the right, ž of a mile north of The George PH at Eartham
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Mon 26th 10.30am Emsworth to Langstone L: Anne 2hrs 30 mins Level walk along the foreshore to Langstone returning via the fields and Warblington church. Car park though town on the right
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Wed 28th 10.30am Lordsworth L: Bruce 2 hrs Ascent 125m. Heads east to the banks of the river Rother and into River Common. Meet: Lodsworth Village Shop / Hollist Arms, GU28 9BZ
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Fri 30th 10.30am Pagham L: Jane 2 hrs 4 miles A flat walk taking in parts of Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve and seashore. Some stiles and can be muddy and slippery underfoot. Meet: Car park at the junction of Sea Lane and The Parade
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Sussex Snippets Sussex Wildlife Trust (SWT) is making an urgent appeal to its members and supporters to help protect dormice living in the county and, to give dormice a fighting chance of survival, is hoping to raise £40,000 to improve woodlands on their nature reserves providing ideal habitat for the nocturnal mammals to breed and thrive. Dormouse numbers have plummeted throughout Britain during the past hundred years and they are now vulnerable to extinction because of habitat loss. www.sussexwildlifetrust.or.uk/dormice or donate by phone 01273 497532. ‘Shake Up September’ is a national activity logging challenge run by Workplace Challenge, which aims to encourage employees to bring physical activity into the workplace by trying out as many Olympic or Paralympic sports as possible throughout the month. Inspired by Team GB, workers across the region are being urged to sign up to Workplace Challenge for free and try at least five different sports throughout ‘Shake Up September,’ - the more activities they log via the Workplace Challenge website or mobile app, the more points they will earn for their workplace as they go for gold on a national challenge leaderboard. www.workplacechallenge.org.uk/shakeup.
SUSSEX LOCAL Beating Bowel Cancer is looking for budding bakers in Sussex to help beat the UK’s second biggest cancer killer, and wants volunteers to whip up cakes or biscuits for a bake sale fundraiser at work, home, social club or sports club. The challenge is taking place anytime over the summer, and the charity aims to raise £10,000 towards its Hidden Heartache appeal, so they can support more patients and families - the money could cover the cost of the charity’s nurse helpline for three months, which could support over 600 bowel cancer patients, families and friends. bakeit@beatingbowelcancer.org, Tel:Sarah Webster, Community Fundraiser, on 07780 000996 or email: sarah.webster@beatingbowelcancer.org www.beatingbowelcancer.org. Following the success of the first Horsham District Jobs and Skills Fair in September 2015, employers offering jobs, apprenticeships and career opportunities will once again advertise their opportunities and meet with local job hunters at the Drill Hall, Denne Road, Horsham on Wednesday 14 September from 11am to 5pm. The fair, organised by Horsham District Council in partnership with The District Post, Horsham Jobcentre Plus and The College of Richard Collyer, provides an opportunity for those seeking a job, thinking of changing their existing one or considering on-the-job training through an apprenticeship to meet a wide range of employers eager to recruit and grow their organisations. As part of the National Citizen Service (NCS) summer programme, groups of West Sussex teenagers have come together to build skills for work and life while taking on new challenges: this year’s Midhurst NCS team have helped with three different projects renovating Stedham Campsite, a video to raise awareness of teen suicide, and a sponsored sleepout without tents to understand the feeling of isolation through mental illness. NCS is a country wide programme which brings together groups of 1617 year olds to help build their confidence, mix with different social groups and inspire long term change through local community-based action projects, including residential trips and a Social Action Project. www.yourspacewestsussex.co.uk From Saturday 3rd September, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery examine the ‘beauty and the beast’ in nature and human nature in their latest Main Gallery exhibition Our Nature: from Poetic to Grotesque. With a deliberately ambiguous title, the exhibition is an exploration of the constant struggle between good and evil ever present in both human nature and the natural world and how ultimately, people tread a fine line between light and dark, and the idea that beauty exists on both sides.
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By-Pass - Bending the Truth Bypass Protest groups have been slowly manoeuvring over the last six months, Emma & Mike Tristam have their group called Arundel Bypass Neighbourhood Committee, but they are based in Binsted so it’s a misnomer. There have been innocuous groups popping up on Facebook, including Arundel Chat and anyone connected to Arundel or the surrounding area has been given invitations and made members. This is in effect a Trojan horse for the protest group, and members are being corralled ready for anti by-pass spin. All households in Arundel have been bombarded with purple leaflets mentioning a Purple route, which is in effect an on-line solution e.g. a Dual carriageway through Arundel. Just under three years ago we were being told that the Pink Blue route would result in Shoreham-like concrete monstrosities being built over the Arun valley, despite evidence that the By-Pass would be on earth bunds (mounds) with vegetation to mitigate the effect. The lie regarding the flyover becomes apparent when you look at the Purple route leaflet which shows earth bunds, so if the Purple route can have earth bunds why can't the Pink Blue route? Michael Tu, when he was Mayor (of Arundel) , made a deal with Walberton Parish that they wouldn’t support
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an online solution if Arundel Town Council didn’t support the Binsted route. That agreement still stands, so the Binsted group are going against the spirit of that agreement by supporting an online solution. For the record I am against an online bypass solution (Purple route). I am against the Binsted route. I am in favour of the Pink Blue route which is still registered as the preferred route with the Department of Transport, I was elected on that manifesto pledge so I feel that I have a mandate to campaign on that basis. Many of these groups are being controlled and funded by Brighton environmentalists rather than local Arundel residents. Let's have an open and factual debate based on the true facts and not half truths. Some of the half truths are: a) “Local Traffic” protesters say that the vast majority of Arundel traffic is local traffic, but they use West Sussex County Council’s definition of local traffic as being a fifteen miles radius. b) Binsted is an Ancient Cultivated woodland, currently planted with conifers which will be harvested as other trees, going back 500 years, have been. c) Environmental Impact - it is well known that air quality will improve rather than deteriorate if the bypass is built. Storrington has some of the worst air quality measurements in the UK thanks to rat running to avoid the Arundel log jam. Paul Dendle is Arundel & Walberton Ward & Cabinet member on Arun DC. Email Cllr.paul.dendle@arun.gov.uk. Www.pauldendle.org
Home is where the Heart is Can you imagine how you would feel if it was suggested that you leave your home and loved one and move to an “old people’s home”… Panic, anger, fear, betrayal are some words that come to mind. When the time comes for residential specialist dementia care, it is ROOM AVAILABLE NOW! when the quality of life for both sufferer and carer can be improved. Woodlands offers twenty-four hour professional care with the majority of staff having the equivalent of NVQ 3 and 4 with continuous updated courses provided. Families are able to take their loved one out or enjoy home made tea and cake in a relaxed atmosphere within the home daily or when ever is possible for them. This allows for quality social time, and families know that the personal, nutritional and complex care needs of their loved ones are being provided for every hour of the day. There is however one fact that is not frequently admitted. This is… that the earlier this move takes place, the better the result for the resident as they are able to cope with the changes to their lifestyle. No-one wants to make this sad decision, and in reality the temptation is to wait and “see how it goes”. Unfortunately, what so often happens is a catastrophe! A fall, midnight walk, not to mention all the little things that can play havoc with Dementia - lack of nutrition, hydration, cleanliness leading to infections and indeed the appearance that the actual Dementia is worse than it is! Why would we want minimum care at home, instead of the continuously caring atmosphere where a sufferer of Dementia is protected from all of the fear, indignity and complete isolation they experience most of the time. Come and visit Woodlands and see the difference professional family care could make for your loved one. We have a saying at Woodlands, “Enable a person to be the best they can be!” For further information and to visit Woodlands House contact me Oonagh Cacioppo Manager/ Proprietor: house.woodlands@gmail.com 01903725458 or 07815762623
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Equine ‘Legend’ saves foal Much-loved pet horse Legend lived up to his name when he stepped in to help a foal who needed an emergency blood transfusion. The 16-year-old Danish Warmblood Chestnut Gelding, belonging to Allison Blake, Racing and Event Executive at Plumpton Racecourse, was at the vets when a foal was brought in that desperately needed a transfusion to survive. Luck would have it that Legend was a blood match and became the foal’s donor, saving her life. Following the transfusion, the days-old foal, who has yet to be named, and Legend are both doing well. Allison said, “He (Legend) was very brave and came through the procedure well. It just seemed like fate that he was in the hospital as the foal came in and was a good blood match.”
SUSSEX LOCAL doctors, nurses and other allied health professionals as well as non-medical or lay members of the public from all walks of life who have been trained to deliver CPR. Little LifeSavers aim is to reach as many schoolchildren (over the age of nine years) as they can, to pass on these essential skills and so improve
Creating Little LifeSavers Little LifeSavers is a new organisation teaching essential Basic Life Support and Life Saving skills to schoolchildren in West Sussex. The organisation is a product of the positive public response to the drop-in “meet the doctors” public CPR training sessions delivered by Junior Doctors during the recent Junior Doctors Strike, coupled with recent press coverage of tragedies such as the death of Christopher Sears. Little LifeSavers consists of volunteers who are
on the ten percent chance of receiving bystander CPR, which is the current national average. The first teaching session took place at West Chiltington School and created 30 Little LifeSavers in West Sussex. Contact: barbara@littlelifesavers.org or Twitter @littlifesavers or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/LittleLifeSaversWS/
Peter Pan Auditions Open Paul Holman Associates and Worthing Theatres are seeking boy actors to play the roles of John Darling, Michael Darling and the Lost Boys, in their 2016 production The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan at the Pavilion Theatre. Applicants must be enthusiastic, confident, disciplined and have clear speaking voices with some singing and dancing ability. Boys between 9 and 15 may apply, and should not exceed 5’7” in height. Successful children must be available for the whole of the rehearsal and performance period, from Monday 21 November to Sunday 8 January, and should live within a maximum of 30 minutes traveling distance of the Pavilion Theatre. Auditions will be held at the Pavilion Theatre in Worthing on Sunday 11th September, with registration at 11am. Children should only attend if accompanied by an adult able to give parental consent for participation and media coverage. Contact: Stephen Sheldrake: Press & Media Officer for Worthing Theatres. Tel: 01903 231 227 Email: stephen.sheldrake@adur-worthing.gov.uk
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Arundel September 16 July 2016 solution shown below. Across: 7 Concentration, 8 Calories, 9 Dyed, 10 Density, 12 You've, 14 Being, 16 Prayers, 19 Stew, 20 Launches, 22 Possibilities. Down: 1 Sofa, 2 Echoes, 3 Anxiety, 4 Irish, 5 Studio, 6 Moreover, 11 Election, 13 Proudly, 15 Newest, 17 Yachts, 18 Globe, 21 Ever. Winner: T Pethers from Barnham Congratulations and thank you to all who entered. Entries to: Sussex Local Crossword, PO Box 2237 Pulborough, RH20 9AH or scan and email the page to crosswords@sussexlocal.net
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Simple Blackberry Fool Delicious, fresh blackberries are a late summer treat and, what’s more, there are plenty available for free in our local lanes and gardens, mind the prickles though! Ingredients Serves 8
1L whipping cream 125g icing sugar, halved 125ml soured cream, (room temperature) 6 drops almond extract (optional) 2 punnets of fresh blackberries 8 strips of lemon zest, for garnish 8 sprigs mint for garnish
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Pour the cream into a large bowl with 1/2 of the icing sugar and almond extract. Whip until stiff. Fold in soured cream. Refrigerate.
In a separate bowl, toss washed blackberries
with remaining icing sugar. Let stand at room temperature for about 15 minutes.
In 8 glasses, layer whipped cream and
blackberries, beginning and ending with whipped cream. Garnish with a strip of lemon zest, a few blackberries and a sprig of mint.
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Wild about Wildlife - Sussex Wildlife Trust Veronica Cowan speaks to new chairman Carole Nicholson Many threats face the British countryside. Don't take my word for it: experts at the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, said in a recent policy paper that biodiversity - the sheer variety of life on earth - is declining, and up to a third of animals are threatened with extinction. It states: “In England, much of our biodiverCarole Nicholson sity, including many of our birds, butterflies and plants, is declining. Our wildlife areas are too disjointed and fragmented, which makes it harder for wildlife to flourish and respond to climate change and other pressures, like pollution. All countries need to act to improve biodiversity and preserve natural ecosystems. Otherwise the natural environment, wildlife and human life - as we know it - are all at risk.�
Wildlife Trusts want to eradicate, or, at the very least, significantly reduce such threats, and there is a Wildlife Trust working for wildlife and wild places in many local communities, 38 in England alone, 6 in Wales and Trusts in Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and Alderney. Each are independent, autonomous charities with their own trustees. Their primary concern is the conservation of nature within their own geographical area. Sussex Wildlife Trust is the largest nature conservation organisation in the county of Sussex, and is the only conservation charity solely concentrating on the habitats and wildlife for the people of Sussex. It has 30,000 members, but would love you to join if you are not already a member. Its work includes environmental education, working with landowners, businesses and local communities and the care of downland, woodland, wetland and heath. Carole Nicholson is its new chairman. She lives in Plumpton with her husband, Paul, and whilst she is interested in the countryside, she doesn't let the grass grow under her feet. She played a leading role in the Plumpton Village Action Plan, which achieved an 82% response rate in its original questionnaire, and had 80 volunteers helping to make the aspirations of the community become reality. One of the achievements has been the foundation of a thriving Wildlife and Habitat Group in the village. She had been a trustee of the Sussex Wildlife Trust since 2011, and for the past four years held the role of honorary treasurer of the registered charity, based
through the door at Henfield, West Sussex: "This melded in with my accountancy skills,” she observed. Her professional background is in finance, and she spent 14 years with MEPC plc, a leading British-based property investment and development business, where she was group treasurer and finance director of the UK operation. She then spent ten years in consulting and finance director roles, including at the Excel Exhibition Centre in Docklands and BPD plc, a start-up pharmaceutical business. She has also been a non-executive director and chairman of audit committees in several Ministry of Defence departments, and in 2009, became a nonexecutive director on the Board, and chairman of the audit committee of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. With all that business and financial acumen, she clearly knows how to manage money, but how does the Trust raise funds, and are there governmental grants it can access? "We have been in receipt of an EU grant for managing land in the countryside, a stewardship role but we don't do a lot of that and it is not a huge part of our income. The mainstay of the charity is its members, appeals and legacy income. We have also received charitable trust grants.” The Trust is having its inaugural fundraising ball on 17 September, in the grounds of Folkington Manor, in the heart of the South Downs National Park near Eastbourne. It is also keen to ensure that nature conservation is given proper consideration in a post-Brexit economy, and that funding for environmentally friendly farming will be retained and developed, and that legislation to protect wildlife will be strengthened in an independent UK. Mrs. Nicholson said that, as a member of a group of 47 other wildlife trusts around the country, they will lobby to get at least as much protection as before. Does the Trust need more volunteers, and what kind of work is done by volunteers? "Volunteers are very important and we currently have over 400,” she said, explaining that they can work outdoors, doing jobs such as scrub clearing, or work with groups of children and young people, or help in an office environment. Mrs Nicholson reports that the Trust has recently taken on a volunteer development manager to make it a centre of excellence for those who help with the environment. The aim is also to develop and expand volunteer opportunities throughout the Trust to enable it to increase capacity in delivering its aims, including fundraising and professional skills. Examples of its work appear in the Trust’s regular newsletters, and July’s edition reported that Graffham Common, in West Sussex, was to pass a significant milestone over the summer, with the arrival of some of the Trust’s British White cattle. This would be the first time this site has been grazed in decades. The Trust had acquired the nature reserve in two phases.
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It was a pine plantation with enough heather to show its potential, but needed a lot of work to restore the heathland. Another nature reserve, known for its spring displays of Wild Daffodil and coppice management, is West Dean Woods. Under Richard Ede, its Volunteer Reserve Manager, the volunteer group continued to thrive, and although he recently stood down, he will remain involved as a volunteer. As well as being Chairman of the Trust, Mrs Nicholson uses any spare time to volunteer for it, doing fixedpoint photography on its nature reserves to support the work of its Land Management team and is one of
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30 Local Charity/Finance a team of ‘lookerers’ who play a vital role in ensuring the Trust’s livestock are checked regularly. She and her husband have been members for seventeen years, and her becoming chairman coincides with the rewriting of the Trust’s vision for Sussex. She sees herself as the lead motivator in the new strategy, but stresses: ”It is a shared endeavour as we are all in this together. No one part of the organisation can do it alone.”
Sussex Wildlife Trust has a thriving department working with children and young people, and teaches around 20,000 children a year, and Mrs. Nicholson explains: “A crucial challenge is to create and maintain a living landscape, and we need to bring people with us. There is a vital connection between people and nature and we want to get children enthused about nature.” Social media is one way of doing this, because one problem is reaching young people. “We need to get them as young as possible but getting schools to put this on the curriculum, with all the other demands on schools, is difficult,” she explains.
Woods Mill, Henfield, West Sussex BN5 9SD 01273 492630 Email: enquiries@sussexwt.org.uk WildCall: 01273 494777 To volunteer contact Liz Francis, Volunteer Administrator Tel. 01273 497562 E-mail: lizfrancis@sussexwt.org.uk. Fundraising Ball enquiries, contact Anne Weinhold, Corporate & Community Fundraising Officer on 01273 497522
Pensions Freedoms Threat By Richard Cohen JP FPFS ACII MCSI Chartered Financial Planner Less than two years after the “pensions freedoms” regulations came in and there are already suggestions that members of final salary and other defined benefit schemes could see their freedoms curtailed. In 2015, at the same time as most of the population were being given new flexibility in how and when they could access their pensions, those in public sector “unfunded” schemes, such as members of the uniformed services, teachers, doctors etc had their right to transfer and with it their rights to exercise these freedoms withdrawn. This means they would not benefit from the ability to spend their pension pot when and how they want whilst leaving the remainder, which can be hundreds of thousands of pounds, to their family. There are fears that an inquiry by the Work and Pension Select Committee could recommend giving all defined benefit schemes the right to stop transfers. The fear from the is that as more and more people transfer out of schemes that are in deficit there is less and less in the pot to pay the pensions of those who remain. Over time transfers out mean the schemes deficit gets bigger and potentially unsustainable for the employer backing the scheme. Graham Vidler, head of
policy at the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association, a trade body which represents final salary schemes said that suspending savers' ability to transfer funds may prove a "necessary" step, despite "directly contradicting" the Government's pension freedoms. Furthermore, to assist schemes to manage their ever increasing liabilities it has been suggested that they should be able to retrospectively reduce pensions of those who aren’t yet in receipt of their pension without going through the courts. This could save schemes but could therefore cost members millions of pounds. Despite all this, defined benefit pensions remain an excellent benefit for those fortunate enough to have access to one. It is exceptionally rare that employees who have access to such schemes should opt out whilst an active member. However, the fact that transfer values are at record highs, combined with these threats mean those who have pensions with former employers really should see a pension transfer specialist sooner rather than later. See www.nsurefinancial.co.uk or to arrange a free review call Sarah Gray on 01903 821010
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