What’s On?
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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Storrington Conservation Society Work Morning: Dyke Farm
Our task at Dyke Farm is to improve and enhance its wildlife value. Nicola Peel is encouraging the local community groups to come and use the site for various activities. Our work on the site on different visits will involve tree planting and maintenance, meadow management and Himalayan balsam pulling.
Tools and refreshments are provided
Sussex Wildlife Trust (Storrington and Arun Valley Regional Group) are pleased to announce our first regional online event of 2022.
With only around 50 butterfly species found in Sussex, it should be a manageable task to get to know this group of insects well. Let’s find out together, through the creative learning of a talk plus quiz format, just how much we know. No prior knowledge is needed – just join in the fun and allow this online experience to drive you forward.
It is free to join and you can book your place on the Eventbrite page. You can also scan the QR code on the image above. This online event held via Zoom. Details will be sent following registration.
It is with the kind permission of Storrington resident, Martin Kalaher and the Sussex Butterfly Conservation that it is possible to run this quiz. With grateful thanks.
At a critical time for declining numbers of pollinators generally, we will find out more of these beautiful insects. Anyone with even a small strip of garden can make a difference. If we stop using chemicals, actively encourage native plants and leave sections of our gardens wilder, we can already play a big part. Even without your own back garden, you can help our group in various ways: you can influence the management of road verges in urban settings, get inspired to help create a corner of wildflower meadow and join our Garden Pollinator project in 2022. These all help to stall the steep decline in our insect pollinators.
“If butterflies do not survive and hopefully thrive, over the next few decades,
then neither will we!“
Sussex Wildlife Trust Storrington & Arun Valley Regional Group are delighted to invite you to an online event on March 22nd during which George Reekie, one of our group members, will talk to us about his pre-lockdown visit to Costa Rica and show us some of his stunning photographs from this trip.
For anyone who has been to Central America this will bring back some fantastic memories and, for those that haven’t yet, this is a great opportunity to find out more about this part of our natural world.
Please register for the event using the link HERE. It is free to join and please only register once per household.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica has an amazingly abundant and diverse ecosystem. It sets a good example of managing its bio-diversity to the rest of the world. For the photographer there are wonderful opportunities.
This talk aims to give a flavour of the country and its wildlife. In Costa Rica one cannot fail to be overwhelmed by the colour and sheer number of different species. In this respect the talk covers numerous species but concentrates on the exuberant colour to be found everywhere you look.
George Reekie
George has been a serious amateur photographer for many years. He has won many national and international awards in salons of photography. He is involved heavily in the camera club scene, both as a judge and as a lecturer. He has used his photography to give talks to all kinds of local organisations, raising money for charity.
George has achieved Distinction level with the Photographic Association of Great Britain and is an Associate of British Photographic Exhibitions.
George’s interests in photography are wide ranging, but his favourite area is wildlife. This started while living in Zambia and he wishes modern equipment had been available at that time! More lately he has travelled to many countries in the world to photograph the local wildlife and has experienced much of the amazing diversity this planet has to offer.
Recently George has moved to West Sussex from Somerset and is enjoying exploring the area and photographing the wildlife.
The groups email address is: swtstorringtonregion@gmail.com
Website: Storrington & Arun Valley Regional Group | Sussex Wildlife Trust
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/
The aim of Repair Cafes is to encourage mending items so they are not thrown away needlessly. This will reduce what goes to landfill by Reusing, Repairing and, as a last resort, Recycling.
Come along with any of your items that need mending.
The Repair Cafe is open on the 3rd Saturday of each month, from 10am – 12 noon.
For more info, email askstorringtonrepaircafe@outlook.com
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“Sussex Green Living”
A Talk by Carrie Cort – CEO of Sussex Green Living
Sussex Green Living is a fast growing, multi-award environmental awareness and education charity. With the help of volunteers, they run the Sussex Green Hub, the Horsham Repair Café, Sussex Green Ideas and their Youth Eco Forum. Green living is a hot topic, so come and hear their aims, activities and lessons we can all use.
Carrie Cort set up Sussex Green Living out of concern for the way we humans are treating the planet which sustains us: with motherhood in 2008 came concern about environmental sustainability and a burning desire to learn how we can live more environmentally friendly lifestyles, in harmony with nature.
She has always had a passion for the countryside, animals and the natural environment. Most of her career has been spent in marketing and communications, mainly within education and the land based industries, latterly using the power of video communications. In an effort to help create a climate for change, she decided to use her knowledge and digital skills to share ideas which anyone can adopt, saving money and the planet.
She says she is not an expert, just an ordinary person who is on a greening journey and wanting to pass on what she’s learnt to others. Let’s all make some simple changes, become more resilient and try to lead simpler, less materialistic and consumerist way of life.
All welcome
The aim of Repair Cafes is to encourage mending items so they are not thrown away needlessly. This will reduce what goes to landfill by Reusing, Repairing and, as a last resort, Recycling.
Come along with any of your items that need mending.
The Repair Cafe is open on the 3rd Saturday of each month, from 10am – 12 noon.
For more info, email askstorringtonrepaircafe@outlook.com
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“An Introduction to Insect Pollinators” – an online talk by Alice Parfitt, presented by Sussex Wildlife Trust (Storrington & Arun Valley Regional Group)
There are over 6000 species of Insect Pollinators in the UK including bees, flies, butterflies, moths and butterflies. Join us to learn more about the diversity of these insects, some tips on how to identify them, the threats facing them and what we can all do to help. You need to register to attend this free event using the highlighted button above.
Our guest speaker is a local (Storrington based) ecologist and conservationist, Alice Parfitt, who has over 20 years of experience working for a range of nature conservation organisations such as Buglife, Sussex Wildlife Trust and RSPB. She is currently a Conservation Officer with Buglife working on a project called Changing Chalk on the Eastern Downs advising landowners, farmers, and communities how they can get involved with pollinator conservation. Alice is passionate about biological recording, and loves all invertebrates, especially hoverflies.
There will be time at the end of her talk for any questions, which Alice will be happy to answer.
Alice Parfitt
The aim of Repair Cafes is to encourage mending items so they are not thrown away needlessly. This will reduce what goes to landfill by Reusing, Repairing and, as a last resort, Recycling.
Come along with any of your items that need mending.
The Repair Cafe is open on the 3rd Saturday of each month, from 10am – 12 noon.
For more info, email askstorringtonrepaircafe@outlook.com
DON’T THROW IT AWAY. FIX IT!
The aim of Repair Cafes is to encourage mending items so they are not thrown away needlessly. This will reduce what goes to landfill by Reusing, Repairing and, as a last resort, Recycling.
Come along with any of your items that need mending.
The Repair Cafe is open on the 3rd Saturday of each month, from 10am – 12 noon.
For more info, email askstorringtonrepaircafe@outlook.com
DON’T THROW IT AWAY. FIX IT!
The aim of Repair Cafes is to encourage mending items so they are not thrown away needlessly. This will reduce what goes to landfill by Reusing, Repairing and, as a last resort, Recycling.
Come along with any of your items that need mending.
The Repair Cafe is open on the 3rd Saturday of each month, from 10am – 12 noon.
For more info, email askstorringtonrepaircafe@outlook.com
DON’T THROW IT AWAY. FIX IT!
The aim of Repair Cafes is to encourage mending items so they are not thrown away needlessly. This will reduce what goes to landfill by Reusing, Repairing and, as a last resort, Recycling.
Come along with any of your items that need mending.
The Repair Cafe is open on the 3rd Saturday of each month, from 10am – 12 noon.
For more info, email askstorringtonrepaircafe@outlook.com
DON’T THROW IT AWAY. FIX IT!
The aim of Repair Cafes is to encourage mending items so they are not thrown away needlessly. This will reduce what goes to landfill by Reusing, Repairing and, as a last resort, Recycling.
Come along with any of your items that need mending.
The Repair Cafe is open on the 3rd Saturday of each month, from 10am – 12 noon.
For more info, email askstorringtonrepaircafe@outlook.com
DON’T THROW IT AWAY. FIX IT!
Sandgate Conservation Society Talk: “Water under the Bridge” by Tony Pratt (Wey & Arun Canal Trust)
The talk will take place on Wednesday 26th October at 7:30pm at Storrington and Sullington Parish Hall, Thakeham Road, RH20 3PP.
The talk is based on picture postcards from 1900-1930 plus press reports from the period, genealogy research and illustrated with contemporary video clips. All welcome.
Entrance is £2 for Society members, £4 for non-members.
Light refreshments after talk (expected to last about 1 hour).
Submitted to the Storrington Community Website using the Event contact form.