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Your guide to what’s on in and around Storrington. There are many community groups, organisations, societies and sports clubs which meet regularly and hold public events. These listings are created by them and include film shows, markets, live music, and other community events.
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Join us for the Space Chase, Summer Reading Challenge 2019 at Storrington Library.
Get ready for an out-of-this-world adventure! Join us at our ‘Out of this World!’ event for children with fun space stories, crafts and more! Free tickets, which must be booked in advance, are available from Storrington Library on 01903 839050. This event will sell out, so book now to avoid disappointment!
This year’s Summer Reading Challenge takes place in space, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. The Rockets are a futuristic family living in space and they are hot on the trail of a mischievous band of aliens. Books have mysteriously started to vanish from the Moon Library but the Rockets are on the case and, with lots of help from children taking part in the challenge, they hope to find the missing books.
Space Chase: the Summer Reading Challenge starts in your local library on Saturday 13 July 2019 and continues until 14th September. It’s free for families to take part and a great way to encourage children to read for enjoyment during the long summer holiday. Children can collect fun rewards as they read but, best of all, children are free to choose which library books they would like to read.
There is a great selection of books to choose from – including stories for every age group; comic books; audio books; and information books about every topic – the choice is theirs!
After registering online for the challenge children will receive a special Space Chase wristband at their library. They have all summer to read six books so they can read at their own pace. As children read their books through the summer they return to the library to talk about the books they have read, collecting colourful, smelly stickers along the way and everyone who reads six books will be rewarded with a special Space Chase certificate and medal.
The main challenge is for children aged 4-11 years but younger children can take part in the Space Chase Mini Challenge, collecting stickers as they share library books and collecting a special ‘gold medal sticker’ and a certificate when they complete.
Grown-ups may like to pick up a few books for themselves on their family visit to the library. Research shows that children enjoy reading and improve their skills when adults around them read too. This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Summer Reading Challenge so some parents may even remember taking part in the challenge when they were young.
We also recruit volunteers aged 14+ to help with the challenge. Volunteers explain how things work to families, chat with the children about the books they have read, give out rewards and encourage children to make further visits to the library to progress through the challenge. Volunteering offers an invaluable opportunity to develop communication and interpersonal skills and a chance to give something back to your local community.
Are you ready for blast off? Space Chase is free – you just need a library card to register – and if you don’t have one yet you can arrange one of those for free too. Visit your local library or www.westsussex.gov.uk/src to find out more. Let the Space Chase begin!
The Seed Room, 2.00 – 5.00pm
‘ACCENTS ON THE LANDSCAPE’
Ancient Churches of West Sussex
– watercolours by Gordon Rushmer
As part of the celebrations for Horsham Year of Culture, Parham will be hosting a Watercolour Exhibition on local painter, Gordon Rushmer on 1- 15 September. An award-winning landscape painter, Rushmer’s work has been exhibited in collections at Tate Britain, the Imperial War Museum, The National Library of Wales and more.
In a painting career spanning fifty years Gordon has displayed a great diversity of interests and skills. Producing archaeological reconstructions, glassware designs, limited edition prints and landscape paintings of his beloved South Country.
With works in major national collections he has been described by one art critic as a contemporary English artist whose simple compositional elements and nostalgic pastoral scenery convey a comforting sense of calm.
This open welcoming style is a fascinating contrast to the graphic, disturbing images that he has created during fifteen years on call as a war artist with the Royal Marines and the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, recording firsthand the ravages of conflict in Bosnia, Eritrea, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2013 he was winner of the Rowland Hilder Award from the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours for one of his Afghanistan war paintings. Since then he has returned to exploring his home surroundings and with this exhibition of some of his favourite churches, is proud to be part of the Horsham Year of Culture.
Not only are there buildings but also landscapes, wall paintings, monuments, interiors and details that have taken Gordon’s eye.
OPEN TO GENERAL ADMISSION HOUSE VISITORS
Would you like to come out and help look after Sullington Warren?
Our conservation volunteer group will be meeting to carry out invaluable work around the site to improve habitats and conserve wildlife. We meet at Sullington Warren or Warren Hill at 10.00am have tea and coffee at 11.00 and finish at 12.00 noon.
The work is varied and includes: thinning and planting trees; coppicing; clearing footpaths, tending the heather along with many other interesting tasks. We welcome newcomers and whatever the weather the more the merrier. We supply the tools and safety equipment and the all important tea, coffee and cake!
Please look on our website for ongoing information about work parties and special projects that we undertake from time to time. www.sandgate-conservation.org.uk
Future Plans
We go in to the next phase of our Higher Level Stewardship scheme, in which we will look to expand the heathland element of both Warren Hill and Sullington Warren, and to change the age structure of the heather on Sullington Warren to make it more resilient to environmental threats such as the heather beetle.
We will continue to graze Old Washington Common and the Rough Land with Belted Galloway cattle and with sheep. Via the path network we will create stronger links between Warren Hill and Sullington Warren.
See visiting exhibitors with their working miniature steam engines.
… also enjoy our steam days with our resident steam trains riding the railway around the site.
Join us for the Space Chase, Summer Reading Challenge 2019 at Storrington Library.
Get ready for an out-of-this-world adventure! Join us at our ‘Out of this World!’ event for children with fun space stories, crafts and more! Free tickets, which must be booked in advance, are available from Storrington Library on 01903 839050. This event will sell out, so book now to avoid disappointment!
This year’s Summer Reading Challenge takes place in space, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. The Rockets are a futuristic family living in space and they are hot on the trail of a mischievous band of aliens. Books have mysteriously started to vanish from the Moon Library but the Rockets are on the case and, with lots of help from children taking part in the challenge, they hope to find the missing books.
Space Chase: the Summer Reading Challenge starts in your local library on Saturday 13 July 2019 and continues until 14th September. It’s free for families to take part and a great way to encourage children to read for enjoyment during the long summer holiday. Children can collect fun rewards as they read but, best of all, children are free to choose which library books they would like to read.
There is a great selection of books to choose from – including stories for every age group; comic books; audio books; and information books about every topic – the choice is theirs!
After registering online for the challenge children will receive a special Space Chase wristband at their library. They have all summer to read six books so they can read at their own pace. As children read their books through the summer they return to the library to talk about the books they have read, collecting colourful, smelly stickers along the way and everyone who reads six books will be rewarded with a special Space Chase certificate and medal.
The main challenge is for children aged 4-11 years but younger children can take part in the Space Chase Mini Challenge, collecting stickers as they share library books and collecting a special ‘gold medal sticker’ and a certificate when they complete.
Grown-ups may like to pick up a few books for themselves on their family visit to the library. Research shows that children enjoy reading and improve their skills when adults around them read too. This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Summer Reading Challenge so some parents may even remember taking part in the challenge when they were young.
We also recruit volunteers aged 14+ to help with the challenge. Volunteers explain how things work to families, chat with the children about the books they have read, give out rewards and encourage children to make further visits to the library to progress through the challenge. Volunteering offers an invaluable opportunity to develop communication and interpersonal skills and a chance to give something back to your local community.
Are you ready for blast off? Space Chase is free – you just need a library card to register – and if you don’t have one yet you can arrange one of those for free too. Visit your local library or www.westsussex.gov.uk/src to find out more. Let the Space Chase begin!
Health Walk – Findon Valley and Chanctonbury Ring
Findon Valley and Chanctonbury Ring 6.5 miles 2 hrs 30 mins
Meet at Washington South Downs Way car park (TQ120119). Drive south on the A24 from Washington roundabout and take the first left into Washington Borstal. Take the rough track on the right to the car park.
Walk 3015. Explore the downland from Washington in the direction of Church Wood, Findon Park, and return via Chanctonbury Ring and the South Downs Way.
Mick 01903 745971
See visiting exhibitors with their working miniature steam engines.
… also enjoy our steam days with our resident steam trains riding the railway around the site.
The Seed Room, 2.00 – 5.00pm
‘ACCENTS ON THE LANDSCAPE’
Ancient Churches of West Sussex
– watercolours by Gordon Rushmer
As part of the celebrations for Horsham Year of Culture, Parham will be hosting a Watercolour Exhibition on local painter, Gordon Rushmer on 1- 15 September. An award-winning landscape painter, Rushmer’s work has been exhibited in collections at Tate Britain, the Imperial War Museum, The National Library of Wales and more.
In a painting career spanning fifty years Gordon has displayed a great diversity of interests and skills. Producing archaeological reconstructions, glassware designs, limited edition prints and landscape paintings of his beloved South Country.
With works in major national collections he has been described by one art critic as a contemporary English artist whose simple compositional elements and nostalgic pastoral scenery convey a comforting sense of calm.
This open welcoming style is a fascinating contrast to the graphic, disturbing images that he has created during fifteen years on call as a war artist with the Royal Marines and the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, recording firsthand the ravages of conflict in Bosnia, Eritrea, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2013 he was winner of the Rowland Hilder Award from the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours for one of his Afghanistan war paintings. Since then he has returned to exploring his home surroundings and with this exhibition of some of his favourite churches, is proud to be part of the Horsham Year of Culture.
Not only are there buildings but also landscapes, wall paintings, monuments, interiors and details that have taken Gordon’s eye.
OPEN TO GENERAL ADMISSION HOUSE VISITORS
Please join our Storrington In Bloom monthly work party, meeting on the third Wednesday of the month at 2.30pm. We will be weeding and maintaining the various flower beds throughout the village.
We meet at the area in the Waitrose car park outside Mr Chips. Bring any tools you think might be useful.
“Minepits, Mud and Mayhem – Recent Archaeological Work at Horam, East Sussex”. Simon Stevens BA, MCIfA, Senior Archaeologist with Archaeology South-East.
A recent archaeological excavation on a site at Horam in the Weald of East Sussex has revealed a landscape pockmarked with deep minepits used for the extraction of iron ore.
This illustrated talk will look at these discoveries and their place in the ongoing study of the Wealden iron industry and experimental archaeology.
All welcome!
Brighton Road Baptist Church, Horsham. RH13 5BD. Non members £3