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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Darts! At Leisure Centre for ages 11+ !
All Abilities Welcome!
Tuesday’s 4pm to 6pm during term time.
PORTSMOUTH & THE MARY ROSE
Talk by FRANCES FARRER-BROWN
SEPTEMBER 3rd at 7.30 p.m. at Storrington Museum,
Old School, School Lane, Storrington RH20 4LL.
Why did the Mary Rose sink? What did the men in Nelson’s navy have for lunch? How much did a Second Class Boy earn on the Warrior? Find the answers to these and many other questions in the talk which takes you through the history of the Royal dockyards.
Frances Farrer-Brown was born and brought up on a mixed farm. Rural affairs, the countryside, gardens, history and literature have always been an abiding interest.
In addition to and complementing her skills as a public speaker, in 1999 Frances became a qualified and registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide. As a Blue badge Guide Frances covers the South east, namely Kent, Surrey & Sussex as well as the East End of London for the 2012 Olympics.
Venue: Old School, School Lane, Storrington RH20 4LL.
Members £6. Non Members £8. All welcome
No booking required
Registered Charity: 1084853
Submitted to the Storrington Community Website using the Event contact form.
The Old Vicarage Washington
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/21793/the-old-vicarage
The 3½ acre garden at The Old Vicarage is set around an 1832 Regency house (not open) in the pretty village of Washington, West Sussex. As well as the stunning views looking towards the North Downs, enhanced by mature and various specimen trees, the garden has many pockets of interest. There is a Japanese garden with its waterfall, pond, bamboo and grasses, a further large water garden and numerous creatively planted herbaceous borders. A working kitchen garden has glasshouses, fruit cages, orchard and vegetables. The Italianate gazebo with green oak columns and lead roof offers a wonderfully comfortable place to sit and contemplate the beauty of this garden. Throughout, there are well placed seating areas to take in the stunning scenery. The treehouse is much loved by young and old alike, from here the nature viewing platform opens on to the woodland copse area which incorporates a stream and architectural stumpery. Everyone loves the topiary of characters who watch over the tennis court. In the spring there is an abundance of bulbs throughout: snowdrops, daffodils, tulips, fritillaria, camassia and bluebells. Whatever the weather, there is a haven in the conservatory where refreshments are available.
The Old Vicarage The Street Washington, Sussex RH20 4AS is open for the National Garden Scheme every Thursday 8th February to 10th October 2024 (10am-5pm) Admission £7, children free. Pre-book on the National Garden Scheme website https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/21793/the-old-vicarage. Also open on other dates in April, May, June, August and by arrangement, see National Garden Scheme website for details. Self-service light refreshments, Picnics Welcome.
The National Garden Scheme
Founded in 1927 by the Queen’s Nursing Institute to raise funds for community nursing means that gardens, health and community are at the heart of what we do at the National Garden Scheme. Every ticket bought, every garden visited, and every cake and cup of tea savoured translates into millions of pounds in donations not only to some of the UK’s best loved nursing and health charities but to garden charities and community projects too.
In 2022 we made donations of 3.11 million. Beneficiaries include Marie Curie, Macmillan Cancer Support and Parkinson’s UK.
Visit https://ngs.org.uk for more information about the work of the National Garden Scheme, to search for gardens opening in your area or to find out how to open your own garden for the National Garden Scheme.
Submitted to the Storrington Community Website using the Event contact form.
STORRINGTON TRAFFIC GROUP
Are you joining us at our next public meeting?
5th September 2024
7:30pm, Storrington Village Hall
We will be giving an update on progress since the last public meeting, (there’s been lots going on), sharing our list of potential short-term solutions to address Storrington’s traffic issues.
More shocking stats for July 2024
West Street
- 566,898 vehicles (average of 18,287 vehicles every day)
- Over 30mph = 24,951 (805 on average every day at >30mph)
- 36mph and over = 3,960 (119 on average every day at >36mph)
Manley’s Hill
- 486,000 vehicles (average of 15,677 vehicles every day)
- Over 30mph = 197,013 (40.5%) (6,355 on average every day at >30mph)
- 36mph and over = 60,646 (12.4%) (1,956 on average every day at >36mph)
Unfortunately Amberley Road data is STILL not available at the moment, because Highways have not fixed the sensing equipment.
IMPORTANT – Please email StorringtonTrafficGroup@gmail.com to let us know that you are coming as, although we would like as many people to attend as possible, the hall capacity is limited.
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
Did you know there is a Storrington Traffic Facebook Group to engage with residents, gather evidence and share experiences has been set up – you can join it here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2964128787080776
Tell us what matters to you and how you can help
Please fill in our survey to share what concerns you most about Storrington’s traffic and how you can help. Please share it with friends, neighbours, colleagues and family too
https://forms.gle/qDVfjfHmDkcKMSdG7
Best wishes,
Storrington Traffic Group
Submitted to the Storrington Community Website using the Event contact form.
The National Garden Scheme: The Cottage Pulborough
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/45521/the-cottage
Visit this beautiful little cottage garden set in the heart of Pulborough, open for the first time for the National Garden Scheme.
A quintessential English cottage garden, jam packed with a mix of perennials and bulbs on a potentially challenging multi layered site. Comprising four distinct rooms including a small roof terrace, top terrace sitting above the house garden and a vegetable garden built in what was a small swimming pool. This is not a huge garden, however every square inch has been used!
The Cottage, on Potts Lane Pulborough (RH20 2BT) is open for the National Garden Scheme Saturday 18 May and Saturday 7th September (10am – 6pm). Admission £6, children free.
Pre-booking is essential, please visit www.ngs.org.uk for information & booking. Home-made teas.
Two hour timed slots at 10am, 12pm, 2pm & 4pm.
Visits also by arrangement 6 May to 7 Oct for groups of 10 to 20. Home-made teas included.
National Garden Scheme
The National Garden Scheme gives visitors unique access to over 3,500 exceptional private gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, and raises impressive amounts of money for some of the UK’s best-loved nursing and health charities through admissions, teas and cake.
Thanks to the generosity of garden owners, volunteers and visitors we have donated more than £70 million to our beneficiary charities, and in 2023 made donations of over £3.4 million. Founded in 1927 to support district nurses, we are now the most significant charitable funder of nursing in the UK and our beneficiaries include Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK and The Queen’s Nursing Institute.
The National Garden Scheme doesn’t just open beautiful gardens for charity – we are passionate about the physical and mental health benefits of gardens too. We fund projects which promote gardens and gardening as therapy, and in 2017, we launched our annual Gardens and Health Week to raise awareness of the topic. Our funding also supports the training of gardeners and offers respite to horticultural workers who have fallen on difficult times.
To learn more about the National Garden Scheme, discover your perfect garden or find out how to open your own garden, visit ngs.org.uk, download the National Garden Scheme app or purchase the National Garden Scheme’s Garden Visitor’s Handbook, which is published annually and available via ngs.org.uk/shop and at all good book retailers.
For more see www.ngs.org.uk
For other West Sussex NGS gardens opening in Spring 2024 click on the following link https://ngs.org.uk/west-sussex-spring-gardens/
Submitted to the Storrington Community Website using the Event contact form.
Darts! At Leisure Centre for ages 11+ !
All Abilities Welcome!
Tuesday’s 4pm to 6pm during term time.
Planning & Development Committee
The main areas covered by this Committee are:
- Submission of comments to the appropriate authority on planning applications, appeals, local development framework, structure plans and effect of infrastructure.
- Maintenance of Trees owned by Storrington Parish Council.
- The committee will be responsible for ensuring that its spending remains within budget and that any excesses are brought to the immediate attention of the Full Council.
Should you have any queries regarding Tree Preservation Orders, please contact the Parish Office.
Members of the public are welcome.
Dates and times may be subject to change.
Meeting minutes and the full agenda can be found on the Storrington & Sullington Parish website Planning and Development committee page.
Submitted to the Storrington Community Website using the Event contact form.
“The Holdovers”
11th September
The Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District, are pleased to announce that the New Season of the popular Film Nights will recommence on September 11th.
The first film, on Wednesday 11th September will be “The Holdovers”, starring
Paul Giamatti, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker and with the school’s cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam war.
The showing commences at 7.30pm, at Sullington Hall, Thakeham Road, RH20 3PP.
The October film, on Wednesday 9th, will be “Red Joan”, starring Judi Dench.
Tickets are £5, and are available from the Card Shop in Storrington. Any unsold tickets will be available on the door, on the night.
There is a Bar and a Raffle during the interval.
Anyone requiring transport should contact John Ollerton 07523 322554
For further information please contact Ken Collins 01903 740745.
Storrington Film Night is organised by the Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District.
All proceeds go to charitable causes supported by Rotary. Registered Charity No. 1029115.
Submitted to the Storrington Community Website using the Event contact form.
The Old Vicarage Washington
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/21793/the-old-vicarage
The 3½ acre garden at The Old Vicarage is set around an 1832 Regency house (not open) in the pretty village of Washington, West Sussex. As well as the stunning views looking towards the North Downs, enhanced by mature and various specimen trees, the garden has many pockets of interest. There is a Japanese garden with its waterfall, pond, bamboo and grasses, a further large water garden and numerous creatively planted herbaceous borders. A working kitchen garden has glasshouses, fruit cages, orchard and vegetables. The Italianate gazebo with green oak columns and lead roof offers a wonderfully comfortable place to sit and contemplate the beauty of this garden. Throughout, there are well placed seating areas to take in the stunning scenery. The treehouse is much loved by young and old alike, from here the nature viewing platform opens on to the woodland copse area which incorporates a stream and architectural stumpery. Everyone loves the topiary of characters who watch over the tennis court. In the spring there is an abundance of bulbs throughout: snowdrops, daffodils, tulips, fritillaria, camassia and bluebells. Whatever the weather, there is a haven in the conservatory where refreshments are available.
The Old Vicarage The Street Washington, Sussex RH20 4AS is open for the National Garden Scheme every Thursday 8th February to 10th October 2024 (10am-5pm) Admission £7, children free. Pre-book on the National Garden Scheme website https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/21793/the-old-vicarage. Also open on other dates in April, May, June, August and by arrangement, see National Garden Scheme website for details. Self-service light refreshments, Picnics Welcome.
The National Garden Scheme
Founded in 1927 by the Queen’s Nursing Institute to raise funds for community nursing means that gardens, health and community are at the heart of what we do at the National Garden Scheme. Every ticket bought, every garden visited, and every cake and cup of tea savoured translates into millions of pounds in donations not only to some of the UK’s best loved nursing and health charities but to garden charities and community projects too.
In 2022 we made donations of 3.11 million. Beneficiaries include Marie Curie, Macmillan Cancer Support and Parkinson’s UK.
Visit https://ngs.org.uk for more information about the work of the National Garden Scheme, to search for gardens opening in your area or to find out how to open your own garden for the National Garden Scheme.
Submitted to the Storrington Community Website using the Event contact form.
Use your imagination to design and build using Lego and other great construction materials!
Suitable for children age 6+. Children must be accompanied by a parent/carer during this activity. Contact Storrington Library for more details. Please check that the activity is running by going to the library website outside of term times.
Storrington Library
Ryecroft Lane, Storrington RH20 4PA
Submitted to the Storrington Community Website using the Event contact form.