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SPRING 2023 | The Bell Dear Readers by Gill Farquharson – Editor The Bell Editorial Team AFTER ten years, this will be my last issue of The Bell. It’s been a huge Clare Toole-Mackson, privilege, great fun and a steep learning curve editing the magazine for all Oliver Hawkins, Pauline Allen this time. I owe enormous thanks to everyone who has contributed to the (advertising) and magazine over the years. Special thanks go to the editorial team - Clare Gill Farquharson (Editor). Toole- Mackson, Pauline Allen and Oliver Hawkins - the photographers Nigel Cull and Charlie Waring and our designer and typesetter Jess Streeter. Huge The Bell is the town magazine thanks are also due to our loyal advertisers who fund the publication. of Arundel. It is an ecumenical publication produced quarterly What really makes The Bell so special is of course Arundel itself and the people by an unincorporated group who live here. I have never struggled for content because of the variety of of volunteers. It is posted to groups, people, businesses, schools and Churches that operate here. This issue 3000 homes and businesses is no exception. We have award-winning photographer Christian Doyle sharing within the BN18 9 postcode some of the moving portraits from her successful show featured at the National and an additional 500 copies Portrait Gallery ‘Quietly Going On’ (Page 24). Marian Stevenson writes from are distributed by hand within personal experience of the author, Michael de Larrabeiti, who wrote ‘Foxes the town and its environs. The Oven,’ a book which arguably put Arundel on the literary map (Page 28). A publishers have the sole right to second book to feature is ‘What in Life Were Wings’ written by local author accept, refuse, edit or abridge Barbara Isbister. It is a gripping account of her mother’s wartime experiences in any article, notice, letter or Poland, with many parallels to Ukraine’s situation today. Clare Toole-Mackson advertisement and do not profiles Barbara and her reasons for writing the book (Page 26). A profile of accept any liability. The views Anne Symes and Gallery 57; a feature on the popular local charity Snowdrop expressed by contributors are Trust and the launch of a new pharmacy in the High Street are just some of the not necessarily those of the other features in this issue. Plus of course all the regular schools and churches publishers. content, with messages for Easter from the clergy. Our cover picture by As to the future, I’m delighted to say that the Town Council have agreed to Charlie Waring. form a working group under the chairmanship of the Mayor, Tony Hunt, to take over the magazine. I will of course be here to help with the handover and I wish Designed by JAS Design email: them every success. [email protected] Printed by Bishops email: If you feel you could contribute to the group, please do get in touch with Tony [email protected] at [email protected] TO SUBSCRIBE to The Bell In the meantime, Happy Easter! People living outside post code BN18-9 can subscribe Email Gill at [email protected] by cheque: or call on 01903 889918 UK £15, Europe £20, rest of world £25. Cheques to The Bell, 1 Tarrant Wharf, Arundel, West Sussex BN18 9NY. 3

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C ontents SPRINGSpring 2023 2023 | The Bell 26 18 about arundel | for arundel | by arundel 28 03 Dear Readers 11 22 06 About Town 39 11 Ann Symes and Gallery 57 14 Arundel’s New Pharmacy 44 Entertaining Arundel 16 Arundel Town Council 46 Helplines 18 ‘Living life to the full’ 48 Directory of Groups 22 Quietly Getting On 50 Useful Numbers 26 What in Life Were Wings 28 Michael de Larrabeiti 14 30 Messages from the Churches 32 Churches & Happenings 34 School Bell – ACE 36 School Bell – St Philip’s 38 ASCA 39 Letters 5

The Bell | SPRING 2023 Arundel Community Land Trust ATobwount ACLT was set up in 2019 to support the Neighbourhood Plan. The Neighbourhood Plan has Green Shoots at the Arundel already bought benefits to Arundel in the form of Community Forest winning an appeal against the unsuitable development by Renaissance Homes on Fitzalan Road and influencing THE frosty weather this winter hasn’t deterred the development off Ford Road. ACLT is appealing Arundel’s Oak and Acorns toddler group, which meets for new members. We are community-owned and every Wednesday morning in woods near Binsted. controlled and we welcome all Arundel residents to join With a campfire and hot chocolate to keep warm, little us to support our work, have a say in our next projects ones and their parents have been enjoying a range of and hold our board to account. Please download the outdoor activities – from painting and clay leaf-printing Application Form from our website www.arundelclt.org to making bird sculptures out of leaves. The highlight and return it to the Town Hall. of the season, though, was a special appearance from Father Christmas, who popped up in the woods to Development off Ford Road give out presents, share a mince pie with the children and listen as they sang festive songs. The joy on the AT the time of writing (January) the scheme is proceeding children’s faces made it a magical moment for everyone, through the planning process. A number of beneficial young and old. modifications to the proposals had been made as a result Oaks and Acorns is one of the key initiatives of Arundel of local representations and input from consultees such as Community Forest School. Another long-term project is the the South Downs National Park and Heritage England. Community Forest, which will be planted on land off Ford Road. Children from both primary schools and the toddler o This is a legacy scheme for the Norfolk Estate- they group have already begun the planting process. The are committed to what is there after the ‘developer’ schoolchildren engaged with nature by learning all about hands over at the end of the construction period. The the noble oak, gathering acorns to plant in plastic bottles. housebuilder, Esquire Developments, are a quality Already, some of the acorns are beginning to sprout. housebuilder with green credentials. At the time the magazine went to press, Friends of Priory Pocket Park received the exciting news that their bid for o Affordable housing for local people: there will be 20 funds had been approved to buy natural play equipment new Social Rent homes and 7 Shared Ownership homes, for the small recreation area off Priory Road. The artist’s allocated in line with Arundel CLT’s Local Lettings Policy. impression below shows what is expected to be built. The estate will be ‘design-blind’ – it will not be obvious to external viewer which homes are private, which are Plans are afoot for more exciting environmental Social Rent. experiences in Arundel. If you would like to be involved, o Public realm- half of the site will be a new amenity contact Mary Peach at [email protected] for everyone, not just residents on the estate: the 6 developers have signalled their commitment to working with the community, for example through the Community Forest project. o Arundel Town Council Planning Committee submitted comments about clustering/pepper potting the affordable homes, parking and the Construction Management Plan, all of which have had beneficial impact. Attention now turns to setting up the Steering Group of key partners in the development, including ACLT, to guide and inform things from hereon. If you know local people interested in the social rent or shared ownership homes who have not yet registered, please direct them to our website Ford Road Project (arundelclt.org) The ACLT board is giving thought to our next project. The current cost of living crisis reminds us of the importance of truly affordable housing for Arundel. Within the Neighbourhood Plan, there are brownfield sites allocated for housing and we are now turning our attention in this direction.

SPRING 2023 | The Bell New Bell-Ringer ‘I SIMPLY took it for granted. The Bell came So, apprehensively, the Town Council has stepped in, through the letterbox four times a year, and rather as we did a few years ago to keep the Farmers I expected it to carry on doing so. Until Gill Market running. The Bell will remain 100% editorially Farquharson told me it might not-that The Bell independent. It has a great editorial committee and might be pealing for the last time. we will add some new faces to it. Together we will do our utmost to carry on producing an outstanding The Bell is like a relay race. Since it began in 1995, quarterly magazine. I have certainly got pre-race each editor has handed on the baton to their chosen nerves about our taking on The Bell. Has anyone successor. The Editor’s baton passed from founder published a Dummies Guide to Magazine Editing? John Munro (Community Award Winner 2021) to But in the words of The Beatles I hope to get by with former Mayor Joe Hayes to Marian Webb to Gill a little help from my friends. Correction: in my case, Farquharson (Community Award Winner, jointly with with a lot of help from my friends. Malcolm Farquharson, 2022). For 28 years it was seamless. Until, after ten years, Gill herself held out In the meantime please join the brave editorial group the baton and no-one took it from her. by emailing me at [email protected]. There are numerous roles to fill.’ Race over? Bell silenced? Unthinkable. The Bell matters. It shows us the very best face of our town. Tony Hunt Every issue reminds us how lucky we are to live here. The writing and photography are outstanding. Mayor of Arundel & Bell Ringer Canon David Twinley Receives © Nigel Cull British Empire Medal in King Charles’ first Honours List THE congregation at St. Nicholas’ Church and, we hope, the whole of Arundel were delighted to learn on New Year’s Day that Canon David Twinley, our Vicar, had been awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to Arundel during the pandemic. Readers will remember that Canon David, in conjunction with the Town Council, established a support scheme for the whole Arundel community. He said, “I am truly humbled that His Majesty the King has awarded me the honour of a British Empire Medal. My delight, however, is that it recognises the extra mile given so readily by the people of St. Nicholas’ and the wider community of Arundel during a time of great need; it recognises the wonderful work of our faithful and hard-working parish administrator, Fiona Maxwell, the steadfast support of Arundel Town Council and the near two hundred volunteers who answered my call to help their neighbours at a time when help, love and compassion were so badly needed”. The BEM, formerly British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service, is a British and Commonwealth award for meritorious or military service worthy of recognition by the Crown. The current honour was created in 1922 to replace the original medal, which had been established in 1917 as part of the Order of the British Empire. 7

The Bell | SPRING 2023 your business wish to present at any of these meetings, please do let us know. THANK you to all those who attended our first networking meeting of the year, held on Wednesday 1st Arundel at Christmas proved a success across the month February at Digby Fine English. As ever, it was a great of December with social media reaching more than opportunity to catch-up with everyone, welcome new 20,000 people and there being a real buzz in town, with members and hear updates from a variety of businesses, greater footfall and businesses enjoying a much busier including plans for the year ahead from Visit Arundel and time than last year. Trialing different ‘live’ events and also from ‘Tarrant Street Independents’, a collective of collating valuable feedback as part of a bigger review, all the wonderful and independent businesses found on is all helping to shape events for the future and ensure Tarrant Street. sustainability and the most effective results. In addition, We were also very pleased to welcome Martin Chisanga considerable funds were raised for a number of local who has opened the new Arundel Pharmacy on the charities. Plans for the Coronation weekend, Summer High Street, an excellent addition to our town centre Festival and Arundel at Christmas are already underway for both residents and also the many, many tourists and and if you would like to participate as a Sponsor, make a visitors to our town centre who are always asking where donation or volunteer, please get in touch at volunteers@ the chemist is! Martin is not yet able to dispense NHS arundelfestival.co.uk or visit @ArundelFestival prescriptions, but many businesses are supporting him in his campaign to obtain an NHS contract. In other news, Juniper café and restaurant on Tarrant The list of venues for our networking breakfast and Street, is spearheading a great new initiative to help evening meetings will be released shortly; they will reduce the amount of coffee ground waste going continue to be held on the first Wednesday of the month into rubbish bins. Instead, they are offering to be the at a variety of different venues across the town. Should central hub for a collection service, so any businesses that serve coffees can drop off their waste coffee grounds weekly, and these will then be taken for composting at Arundel’s allotments. As Flis from Juniper says, “It is a small aspect of waste reduction- but every little helps, and it would be a good way to take steps towards reducing coffee waste and 01903 883882 info@premier – nursing.co.uk What can Premier Provide? Are you a kind and Caring person? • Domiciliary Care • Live In / 24 Hour care We offer flexible working • Respite hours: • Rehabilitation • Sleeping Nights / Awake Nights • Weekday • Medical Support • Weekends • Nursing / Clinical Care • Mornings • End of Life Care • Afternoons • Evenings Please call for a pack of information or to Competitive rates of pay discuss your needs plus mileage further 2 Arun Street, Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 9DL Premier-nursing.co.uk 8

SPRING 2023 | The Bell also connecting the cafe community. If we can get this Dorset House School at Arundel small system in place to begin with, it can then become Farmers Market a possibility that we could propose a more substantial plan… About not only coffee waste but more general ON 19th November last year, Year 7 of Dorset House food waste collection.”. School had a stall at the Farmers Market to help in their fundraising in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. Chamber Chair Sharon comments “it’s so important for Work had been going on in school for weeks beforehand everyone to support small businesses on our high streets but even so, on the morning children arrived early in as well as the many new initiatives taking place within our order to help set up or to deliver delicious baked goods. town. 2023 promises to be an exciting year!” Max wins the prize for the earliest start as he was up at 4.30 am, making delicious Ukrainian pastries (Pyroshky) Arundel Museum Celebrates Its filled with poppy seeds or cherries. These were 10th Birthday delivered warm and were the first thing to sell out. 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of Arundel Museum All the children took a turn manning the stall and they opening in Mill Road and to mark this significant really enjoyed speaking to members of the public about milestone, there are special events and exhibitions being the goods on sale and the project in general. planned in the hope that they will be of interest not only to Arundel residents but also to visitors to Arundel. At the end of the day, they had all but sold out and raised £1,050 for GOSH. Firstly, from mid-March to the beginning of May, there will be an exhibition entitled Ralph Ellis: Artist and Inn This was the third time a Year 7 group had taken part Sign Designer. Many of you will have noticed the blue in a Business Enterprise project and each group has plaque dedicated to Ralph Ellis in Maltravers Street. learnt something from the group before. Mrs Harrison This exhibition will look at his life, Great War experience congratulated the children and said that they should and his career as an inn sign designer and painter. Ellis feel very proud of themselves and that their great result painted hundreds of signs, along with many paintings of just showed them what they can do as a team and the local area. An example is below. individually with determination and hard work. This is followed from 8rd to 30th July by an exhibition The team had tried to recycle as much as possible. Fabric marking 150 years since the building of Arundel off-cuts were used for draft excluders and a wonderful silk Cathedral, showcasing information from the original fabric sample booklet was cut up to make luxury lavender construction to the work bags- filled with lavender from children’s gardens. that continues today. Greenery and herbs from gardens were used for jam jar flowers bolstered by some bought roses. Finally, from October, a third exhibition will At the evaluation meeting, every child filled in a form examine the rebuilding – answering several questions about what they had of Arundel Castle during enjoyed and what could be improved upon. the 15th Duke’s time- a major restoration which As one happy customer told the Head, ‘Well, I have just took over 30 years to been very pleasantly fleeced; they could sell coals to complete! With electric Newcastle!” lights and central heating being installed, the work NB Dorset House is holding an Open Morning on aimed to secure the castle Saturday 18th March from 10.00 am to 12.00 noon – building for the next 1000 years. just drop in. Manager of the Museum, Heather Gayler, adds: An Apology ‘Running alongside this are many other talks, fundraising events and all the details will be announced IN the feature in our Winter edition about Juniper, on our website www.arundelmuseum.org mention was made of chefs Ollie and Laurence working during lockdown at the Fig Tree in Partridge Green. They We really hope that you can join us for many of were in fact working at The Garlic Wood Farm Butchery these events. All these exhibitions are included in in Partridge Green, a supplier of ethically produced meat your museum entry ticket, or you may like to join as who now supply Juniper. Our apologies for the error and, a member so you can visit free throughout the year, if you would like to know more about the butchery, go to enjoy discounted events, and support your local, award www.garlicwoodfarm.co.uk winning, Museum.’ 9

The Bell | SPRING 2023 ARUNDEL LIDO OPENS 29TH APRIL 2023 The 2023 Season promised to be fun packed with activities for you and your family. Our Heated pools will open daily from Saturday 29th April to Sunday 17th September 2023 WHAT DO YOU DO DURING THE WINTER? I GET ASKED THIS A LOT! We may only be open for 20 weeks a year, but maintaining a swimming pool and site is continuous. Our big jobs this winter have included a full refurbishment of our Filter. This was over 16 ton of different grades of sand emptied, the filter repainted and then replaced with new media. Removal of our wooden play boat to be replaced with a play castle. Repointing of the main pool, launched a new booking system and website, and replaced our reception serving area. We also hosted our first Trail race with BigFeatEvents. Finally we have an exciting new experience with Delta Combat taking place on our opening day! ELEVENSES ‘THE COMMUNITY CUPPA’ ‘Elevenses’ has become a real Community hub, with a variety of activities and guests along with products form the Community Fridge. Join us every Monday (except Bank Holidays) for a chat from 11am – 1pm in the Marquee. MEMBERSHIPS In 2022 we teamed up with Chanctonbury Leisure Centre, Storrington to offer you the benefits of member prices and use their state-of-the-art facilities. This season we are proud to offer a wider variety of memberships including Family, Junior and All Inclusive Gold Memberships for swimming sessions! CIRCUITS WITH PEAK PERFORMANCE Join the Peak team every Saturday Morning from 8:45-9:30 and Thursday evening from 19:15 – 20:00 in the Marquee or on the field. Book online. JOIN OUR TEAM – ARE YOU 16+? Arundel Lido will be recruiting new staff for the 2023 season from March, and we are planning a Lifeguard course in May. For more information, please contact Nikki [email protected] 01903 884772 STAY UP TO DATE Website: www.arundel-lido.com Facebook: ArundelLido Instagram: LidoArundel Make your home an Oakland Care is a family owned business Oakland Care home with 25 years experience in caring for the elderly. We offer two beautiful care homes in West Sussex, with luxurious accommodation and first class care facilities to ensure that your loved ones are well looked after during their retirement years. Our team of committed staff offer a personal care service delivered 24 hours a day. We invest in training for staff to support a quality of care in which we can all feel proud. visit: www.oaklandcare.co.uk Oakland Grange, St Floras Road, Littlehampton Oakland Court, Admiralty Road, Felpham, Bognor Regis West Sussex BN17 6BB West Sussex PO22 7DW phone: 01903 715995 email: [email protected] phone: 01243 842400 email: [email protected] 10

SPRING 2023 | The Bell Ann Symes and Gallery 57 by Sue Marsh family increased and she chose to be a full-time mother. When more free time became available, she began I SHALL never forget that evening in March 2016 exploring her creative side again by attending short when I first saw a pale ceramic horse in the window courses and she remains forever grateful to her mother of 57 Tarrant Street. It was for me the centrepiece of for steering her to art school and instilling in her curiosity an exhibition that was the first of a series of ground- and the need to learn. She borrowed library books breaking shows at Gallery 57 and Ann, at the age of and, inspired by one of these, bought a large sofa with 70, was embarking on the career that would mark the scroll arms so that she could completely re-upholster it! culmination of all her training and life skills. Following a one-day course on silk painting, she bought all the equipment needed to make silk scarves and then Growing up, she was aware of her mother’s need to began stretching five yards of silk onto a frame, covering it learn new things, things that included a range of crafts, with intricate designs before steaming the material to set and from the age of 12 she taught Ann to make her own the dyes and make it into kimonos. She cut an intricate clothes. At school her best subjects were art and maths, stencil design and printed a repeat pattern onto yards of and her mother insisted she should go to art college fabric on the dining room table for making into curtains. in Guildford, where Geoff Metcalf, who lived in King Having learnt pattern cutting from another book, she was Street and, with his wife Amanda, curated wonderful persuaded to make a fully tailored tail coat suit with shot shows during the Gallery Trail, was a fine art tutor in her silk lining for a lady whose husband was in Phantom of foundation year! Ann graduated in graphic design and the Opera. She wanted to wear it on opening night – and went on to work in various publicity departments of the it challenged Ann at every stage. Other projects followed Financial Times and its other publications, followed by and Ann knew then that she would always jump in at the similar jobs in Leeds before returning to London. deep end! Her second marriage brought her to Sussex, where the 11

The Bell | SPRING 2023 But what really changed her life was joining a weekly of all her artistic endeavours. contemporary art group when she was about 50. She discovered how to explore her creativity, to take risks From the start Ann wanted no. 57 to be a gallery for and to experiment with different materials and ways artists, a place to inspire other artists and a place where of working. It was an exciting way to discover how to both the artist and the viewer would feel at home, while express herself; to rely on her imagination. She and her the artists’ careers would be encouraged. She never husband converted an outbuilding into a large studio considers whether a piece will sell, its importance is in the middle of the woods, an idyllic setting and one the excellence of its making and whether it will add to where she worked happily almost every day. the whole exhibition. Because she is an artist, Ann has always felt sympathy with others in the profession and, When her husband died Ann knew she didn’t want to when she receives submissions from artists that don’t remain living in isolation and began looking for a small meet with the gallery aesthetic, she will take time to town with accessible amenities and where, as a woman respond and offer advice. on her own, she felt safe. She had regularly visited Arundel and the Gallery Trail and, when 57 Tarrant She knows too that curation is the key to a successful Street came on the market, everything fell into place. show, and, while she acknowledges the role of her Her friend Sylvia Quinnell, whose jewellery is shown trained designer’s eye, she has found intuition to be her at the gallery and whom Ann had first met at the art guiding principle. group twenty years earlier, assured her it would make a marvellous gallery. The seed was sown! It felt exactly the Exhibitions are planned a year or so in advance and right thing to do and so, with no business experience, have a theme for which work is selected. Local, national she took another flying leap. She knew it would be hard or international artists are invited to take part. The work, she knew it would be a risk, but she needed a new importance of craftsmanship and integrity, together challenge and she also knew that everything she had with a sympathetic understanding of their materials learnt over the years had culminated in this, the greatest are the qualities for which Ann looks and her chosen artists may be starting on their careers, be mid-career or 12

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell established in their field. Often it is one piece that will Quality be the lodestar of a show and she and Sylvia will spend Care several days setting up a display that achieves the flow and balance that create the calm space for which the CraŌsmanship gallery has become known. Reliable Friendly As Ann’s experience has grown, so has her self- confidence. She was surprised to find that work she Reputable produced for her 2018 show, Unfolding, based on Ethical the folding and unfolding of paper, including drawing and print making metamorphosing into sculpture and General Builders, CreaƟng and painting, was unexpectedly strong. Her experience Improving Homes for Over 70 years and joy in her gallery being the cause of her own “unfolding”! In 2020 the quality of work on display www.tunmoredesign.co.uk and the curation of exhibitions was recognised by the Michelangelo Foundation in Zurich, who invited her to E: [email protected] be one of their European galleries represented through T: 01903 723791 their Homo Faber Guide website. The Foundation is F: 01903 731825 a non-profit organisation celebrating creativity and craftsmanship to which one is invited as an individual Unit 2 Hollyacre, Award winner artist, gallery or museum. Toddington Lane LiƩlehampton, This is a rare and very special honour, but Ann has West Sussex BN17 7PP found the pleasure she gets from helping artists who are showing work in a gallery for the first time gives ARUNDEL CATHEDRAL CENTRE her equal joy. Such an artist will be guided through what is required, he or she will be promoted and given The ideal venue to cater for your confidence to approach other galleries – and all the time special occasion or event! making it as enjoyable an experience for them as it is for her. One such artist had two sell out exhibitions in St. Mary's Hall, seating 100 - 120 Gallery 57 last year, with the majority of his work going St. Philip Howard Hall, seating 60 to collectors in the US. There has been many a morning when I have called into Gallery 57 for the calm beauty Cashman Room, seating 30 and intelligence of the place when Ann has just put her phone down, having received yet another international Hire includes heating, use of kitchen call. It is very exciting! and equipment, PA and loop system. Every show seems more special than the one before; Please call 01903 882 297 there is always something new to learn, another surprise or email [email protected] at which to marvel. In the current show, Earth Materials, for information on prices,availability, there are contemporary basketry vessels woven from iris leaves combined with willow bark, another constructed terms and conditions. with hundreds of drilled and threaded sunflower seeds: perfection in every aspect, not least because the artist London Road, Arundel, W. Sussex BN18 9BA has grown the plants from which the work is made. There are pots so beautiful they could have come from 13 the pristine centre of the earth – and fired several times to create the surface the artist wanted. Ann does not expect us to buy, she wants to show us what excellence is and what joy there is to be had in the contemplation of beautiful work seriously made, and in a wide variety of materials brought together in harmony and calm. Gallery 57 is a place to grow and feel better about oneself. From the calm elegance of the pale horse in 2016 to the delight of tiny seeds today, Gallery 57 is one of the places that makes our beloved town so special.

The Bell | SPRING 2023 Arundel’s New Pharmacy On January 27th the new Arundel Pharmacy was opened in the High Street pharmacies are under great pressure at the moment - the result of a tireless and lengthy but Martin Chisanga, the owner and pharmacist behind campaign by June Barker and Colin the opening, is confident that he and his wife Debbie Stepney. Gill Farquharson went along to can overcome underfunding and establish a thriving meet the owners, Martin Chisanga and business. Debbie Makinka. Martin explains: ‘Pharmacies have been facing huge THE arrival of a pharmacy onto Arundel High Street is funding cuts from the government- it is being reduced very welcome, both for residents and the thousands of pretty much every year. Pharmacies are reimbursed for visitors who come to Arundel every year. Community the cost of the drug dispensed from the government’s approved list but if, as is the case, wholesalers put up 14 the cost of their drugs, the pharmacist have to fund the difference.’ Although initially Martin is not able to dispense NHS prescriptions, he is hopeful this will change once he is up and running. Staffing is also an issue, as anyone who has stood in a long queue in a pharmacy recently will attest. ‘Traditionally, with the focus on dispensing prescriptions and with the government making funding cuts, the only place for pharmacies to make reductions is in staffing levels, Martin continues. ‘It is my opinion that a quality service is possible with the right adequate staffing and customer service. We are both committed to the business and together with our team, we hope to make this additional service a success for all the residents and visitors alike’. Martin believes he can overcome the lack of NHS prescribing in the short term by focusing on the retail and private aspect of pharmacy. However, in order to provide a comprehensive and inclusive service NHS prescription services will need to be applied for. ‘A lot of patients can be seen and dealt with over the counter thereby helping relieve pressure from other healthcare providers. It’s important to be here on the High Street.’ (As if to prove his point, two different customers come in while we are talking and yet, at the time, the shop was

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell clearly still not yet open for business.) ‘Being an additional pharmacy in Arundel. It provides residents independent allows us to be flexible with and visitors options for pharmaceutical supplies and managing our stock. If a patient or customer services. “It has always been our intention to set up as needs a certain product we can try and order an additional service to the current existing providers. it in. We have a delivery arrangement with our Our focus is to provide a service that is patient wholesalers that makes it possible to go the centred, accessible to all and of benefit to the Arundel extra mile for patients, depending on when community. It is hoped that in collaboration with both and what is ordered. ‘ the local and wider healthcare providers we can assist in alleviating various pressures.’ There is also a specially built, soundproof He discovered the existence of the Arundel campaign consultation room in the pharmacy to allow run by June and Colin through a post on Arundel Sussex. patients to have private and confidential ‘I think one of misconceptions of the campaign faced conversations with Martin should they wish to was that people thought it had to be one or the other. In and where he can advise them on treatment fact, I would like it to be run in tandem with the existing and signpost accordingly. The use of the pharmacy and that is what Colin and June always consultation room is free for anyone who wanted too. We will work with all the other healthcare wishes to speak about their health-related providers in the area as we are an additional service concerns in private. for the community. In addition to prescriptions, we are here to help with over-the-counter queries, advice and Martin arrived in the UK from Zambia with his signposting where appropriate.’ family in 2005. They settled in Chichester and The Arundel community wishes them well and hopes Martin did his A levels at Chichester College they will have the success they deserve. Debbie sums followed by his pharmacy degree at Kingston it up when she says: ‘We couldn’t have wished to start University in London, graduating in 2015. There up in a better community than Arundel. The first time then followed a pre-registration placement we came we fell in love with the place and, although and a ‘very challenging exam’, after which his it’s taken us some time, we’ve finally found the right qualification and registration as a pharmacist premises. We are so excited to be here and would like was complete with the regulatory body, the to thank the Arundel community for welcoming and General Pharmaceutical Council (GPHC). supporting Arundel Pharmacy’. In 2010 Martin had reconnected with Debbie, a 15 childhood friend who also came to the UK from Zambia, and in 2012 they got married. They moved to Sutton where they lived for 10 years; Martin worked as a Pharmacy Manager for a growing independent pharmacy chain. During the pandemic, when face to face access to healthcare was restricted, pharmacists like Martin were seeing more patients and filling an important gap. ‘I worked full time for two years during the pandemic’, Martin recalls, ‘we were a team of three and we got through it. We were in fact given an award in recognition for the work we did during the pandemic by the Hackbridge Community’. The couple moved to Tangmere in January 2022. Martin has worked as a locum pharmacist for several pharmacies in West Sussex, Greater London, Surrey and Hampshire, but his passion has always been to run an independent community pharmacy. Debbie had been a dental nurse for 10 years but is now in the process of changing her career. Having completed her BSc in Psychology, she is training to become a Psychological Coach. ‘It’s all on pause at the moment though’, she says ‘because of the pharmacy. But I volunteer as an emotional support worker at the Young People’s Shop in Chichester- a free counselling and support organisation for young people aged 11-25yrs old’. It is Martin’s belief that there is sufficient demand for

© Charlie Waring The Bell | SPRING 2023 © Charlie WaringArundel Town Council © Charlie Waring Extracts from the diary of MAYOR Tony Hunt Autumn-Winter 2022/3 Climate Change Workshop November 7th 70 people attended our Climate Change workshop and we considered what we could do for the Climate Emergency that we have declared. Food waste and recycling are priorities. We learnt that there are special ways in which we can arrange to recycle things like crisp packets, ballpens and toothpaste tubes that can’t go into our normal Biffa recycling bins. Community Awards December 1st award goes to Teddy Graddon-Sims for raising money for the British Red Cross Ukraine appeal and to Madeline Lewis for fundraising for the Festival. Reverse Father Christmas December 17th The Community Cup goes to Malcolm and Gill Farquharson. Gill has built The Bell into a great magazine. Gill tells me that in addition to his work for Arundel Museum and St. Nicholas, Malcolm has proof-read every word of The Bell for the last ten years! Community Recognition certificates go to Nigel Cull and Charlie Waring for creating a wonderful photographic archive of Arundel and to Karen Snewin for 23 years as a Guide Leader. A Young Peoples’ 16

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell demanding year. Together the group looks back on the year’s many unforeseen events, including flying Ukraine’s flag in the High Street (and raising a remarkable amount of money for the work of the British Red Cross) and seeing Olivia Colman filming in the town. All are recorded in the Time Capsule. I explain that it will be opened in 70 years’ time. I will be unavoidably absent, but I hope that some of the young people whose work is in the Time Capsule will be present when it is opened. River Road Airbnb January 13th © Charlie Waring Arundel is a town with a huge heart and today and Over sixty residents gather in River Road to throughout December we collect an enormous demonstrate their objections to Arun District quantity of donations of food and gifts for Home-Start Council’s proposal to build an Airbnb on the garage and local families who are struggling this Christmas. site. Over 700 residents have already signed the Home-Start later write to us “The number and petition asking ADC to withdraw the scheme. What quality of the donations was simply staggering. Such the town needs is off-street parking with EV charging. donations make a world of difference to our families and their children.” We have been fighting several campaigns this year. Some have been successful. The Boundary Time Capsule Commission have now dropped the proposal to December 31st change our parliamentary constituency to ‘Arundel and Littlehampton,’ which would have seen our Mid-day we gather in the rain to bury the 2022 interests swamped by those of the larger coastal Platinum Jubilee Time Capsule. Doughty Town Crier, town. West Sussex County Council have agreed to Angela Standing, does her last proclamation of a replace the inappropriate bollard they placed at the top of Kings Arms Hill with a proper replica. But we are still campaigning for the Arundel-Ford safe cycle and walking path, for the prohibition on people living in camper vans on Mill Road and for the protection of our heritage street lamps. The Wombles January 10th The ‘Wombles’ from Sussex Green Living come and train us for our recycling project. Arundel won’t save the world, but we can play our part. ARUNDEL TOWN COUNCIL “The Town inspired by Heritage and Nature” 17

The Bell | SPRING 2023 ‘Living life to the full’ Gill Farquharson meets Di Levantine, Trust, she has selflessly devoted the last 30 years of her Chair of The Snowdrop Trust which life to running this local charity that funds care at home celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. for local children who have a life limiting or terminal illness- supporting their families with nursing, emotional DEDICATION - Di Levantine absolutely epitomises the and financial help. (Sadly, through bereavement, she has word. One of the three founders of The Sussex Snowdrop solely headed the charity for the past 15 years). 18

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell The recognition she has received as a result includes outcomes, all in the familiar environment of their an Honorary Fellowship of Chichester College (Lifetime own home. They needed this nurse to then liaise Achievement Award), an Honorary Degree from with other health professionals for further support Chichester University; a Chichester Civic Award; one of should it be necessary; and in addition, financial Sussex Life’s 100 most inspirational people in Sussex; the help was often required as one parent would have Rotary’s Paul Harris Award and the Trust itself has won to give up work to look after the child. Hospital the Queen’s Award for Volunteers – quite a list! treatments such as chemotherapy can require a six NHS trained nurse Di, was a Ward Sister at the Whipps to seven week stay in hospital. Cross University Hospital in London when she met her husband Ashley, a doctor and they moved to Unfortunately, ‘The Friends of St Richard’s Hospital’ West Sussex when Ashley took a consultant role at St were unable to secure funds to pay for this pioneering Richard’s and Worthing Hospitals. There were only a few service and so Frank Snell, Kate Shaw and I, launched a options for nurses with children in the 1970’s, so instead charity to fulfil this need.’ she involved herself with voluntary positions which included being a volunteer at St. Wilfrid’s Hospice; Snowdrop has always becoming Chair of The Young Wives in Walberton and worked in collaboration with later ‘Save the Children’ in Arundel; a Member of the NHS managers to provide Friends of Chichester Hospitals; and more recently the best possible care for a Governor of Walberton village school for 21 years, their families in need. during which she became Chairman of the Board. While a member of The Friends of St Richard’s Hospitals Snowdrop has always worked in collaboration with NHS Committee, managers from the hospital would attend managers to provide the best possible care for their the meetings to ask for funding for pieces of medical families in need. equipment or projects. At one such meeting Dr Ann Wallace, the Paediatric Community Consultant and Beth For the first few years Snowdrop funded nurses who Connolly, Sister on the children’s ward, put forward a were already working in the NHS, to make home request for funding for a team of nurses to care for local visits. When they had raised enough money, they children in their own homes. They were convinced that employed their first nurse, Jane Evans, and after further the children in their care who had a life threatening or fundraising, including £16,000 from Goodwood Festival terminal illness, would benefit greatly from being at of Speed bucket collections, they were able to employ home, rather than in the busy, often noisy hospital ward. a second nurse, Rosy Turner. ‘I can’t explain what these Di explains: ‘The changes over the last 30 years exceptional nurses have – it’s a calm professionalism but have been incredible as treatments and operations they are caring and compassionate as well. You need all have changed the life expectancy of many children. these qualities when looking after a child going through Children’s community nursing was not a concept 32 such dark times, especially when working so closely with years ago and parents were often sent home after the family in their own homes.’ a diagnosis of a life-threatening disease with little understanding of their child’s condition and left to ‘Counselling is also available from Phil and Julie, who cope on their own. Back then, twenty-five families not only help the children, but also their siblings and were asked what support they would require should parents, who may need support as a result of the their child be cared for at home, rather than in illness. Their counsellor Phil has been with the charity the hospital. It was agreed that they would need for seventeen years and Di says, ‘He is ‘one of a kind’ a trained paediatric nurse; somebody who totally and compassionate, with many years of counselling understood the medication and treatments needed experience. He is also able to guide our families through by the child and who was able to have meaningful the darkness that comes with bereavement.’ conversations with the parents about treatment and ‘Twenty-five years ago children died of conditions which today are no longer considered terminal, and prognosis and diagnosis have changed enormously. Cystic fibrosis, heart and lung problems, cancer, leukaemia – all of these were once life limiting. Miracles happen every day – most children survive now and where possible live life to the full. Mothers and fathers are enabled and willing to assist with the care of their poorly child, with the guidance of the nurses in their home.’ Di is obviously very close to all the families and cares 19

The Bell | SPRING 2023 4 Queen Street Open Arundel BN18 9JG 9am-4pm www.betulas.co.uk Tue-Sat We have a large collection Open of paintings, glass, ceramics, 9am-4pm coins, antiquities, furniture Tue-Sat and much more... 6 Queen Street Arundel BN18 9JG www.gaskyns.co.uk A wide range of Organic, Vegan, Gluten Free and local products & Faith in Nature and Ecover refills wanbourne Lunches & CreamTeas by the lakeside in Arundel Park SWANBOURNE LODGE 01903 884293 www.swanbournelodge.co.uk 20

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell hugely about them - so how does she cope with the WELCOME inevitable pain and emotion that she experiences? ‘I TO was a nurse for many years and saw the most awful things,’ she says. ‘And my brother died when he was 27, ARUNDEL killed on manoeuvres in Germany, and I think that’s had POST an enormous impact on my life and showed me, as a sibling, how devastating it was for my whole family.’ OFFICE The charity is currently supporting 8 nurses and must Arundel Post Office offers the usual PO raise in the region of £380,000 per year to continue services including Royal Mail/ funding the Care at Home Team. Parcelforce, UK & international services, Every year, £40,000 is given to the Snowdrop families, Mail Redirection and Drop & Go, which makes such a difference to those struggling to pay for the essentials such as food and petrol for banking/cash withdrawals, bill payments, hospital visits. travel money, passport check & send, moneygram, DVLA vehicle licensing. Whilst the majority of their income is generated through legacies, the fundraising team led by Lucy Ashworth, A new and enhanced range of greetings intend to make the most of their 30th anniversary. A cards is available and a wide selection special dinner will be held in March at the Arundel Town of stationery, party items, mobile phone Hall, bringing together the people who have been part of the charity’s journey. It will be a very memorable accessories and children’s toys. event for Di, celebrating the charity which she simply says is ‘very much my life!’. 2-4 High St., Arundel BN18 9AA Events for you to help celebrate 30 years of Tel: 01903 882113 The Snowdrop Trust Email: [email protected] Open Mon-Sat: 9am-5.30pm • A very important event in the charity’s calendar is the Annual Charity Walk at the Arundel Castle Estate Park Looking for work? near Hiorne Tower on Sunday 14th May. Hundreds of supporters enjoy a 1- or 5-mile route and take in the Do you enjoy cleaning? stunning views of the South Downs, made possible for Are you trustworthy & reliable? many years through the generosity of the Duke of Norfolk. Do you need flexibility? • Champs Hill, near Coldwaltham, is hosting a talk and Would you like to earn £13 per hour? demonstration by the award- winning florist, Matthew Get in touch today... Spriggs on May 18th. 01903 444266 - www.missmop.net • There is an outdoor cinema night at Madehurst Cricket ground on 2nd September. • Architectural and Building Surveying services • A Supercar Track Day on 29th July at Goodwood Motor Circuit. • Planning and Listed building applications All events will be featured online for booking at www. thesussexsnowdroptrust.com. • Pre-acquisition surveys and Party wall surveyors Do your own 30 for 30 RURAL • URBAN • COASTAL • HISTORIC • CONTEMPORARY The charity also wants to encourage people to partake in their own fundraising event or challenge using the Contact Kevin or Phil on 01243 774764 number 30 in 2023. It could be a 30-mile walk, bake [email protected] 30 cakes, 30 hours of running, invite 30 friends for a www.sloaneandbrown.co.uk party for a donation. Tell 30 people about the charity, remember to include the charity in your Will or just 21 give £30 in this special year. Whatever you plan, it will contribute to the work of the Care at Home Team. The charity would be delighted to talk through your ideas on 01243 572433 or head to the website for more details. www.thesussexsnowdroptrust.com

The Bell | SPRING 2023 Quietly Getting On by Christian Doyle Quietly Getting On is a series of portraits of women I’ve met by chance who to me embody the mind set of that DURING the first wave of Covid, when we were all time in history. I wanted to hear their stories, how they’d fearful to switch on the news, I thought about how the coped with some of the most challenging situations pre-war generation of women now in their mid-eighties imaginable; the loss of children, of husbands, friends and nineties had experienced life in the hardest of and beloved relations, not to mention the frailties and times. Even after the war ended there was not much anxieties common to us all. As we talked openly about comfort to be had in material things and certainly no their lives I was struck by the complete lack of vanity; tolerance of feeling sorry for yourself. Women were no sense of being special or remarkable in any way expected to marry and have children, absorbing all the and there was invariably more concern for me and the dramas of family life keeping their problems and worries project than how they appeared in the photographs. to themselves. Caroline 86 Willow 88 Caroline is the widow of a rector Willow is a sculptor and artist who in a small Sussex parish. Mother of trained at Chelsea School of Art in five and foster mother to many, her the 50’s where she met her husband, children remember her as a strong Ron. She was elected to the Society of supporter of her husband’s work Portrait Sculptors following her work while being at the centre of a bustling at Tussauds Studio in London. She household. She and her husband openly talks about the losses she has used to organise long hiking trips endured without self-pity and with for the whole family with incredible a sense of quiet resilience- a quality energy and although those children which all these women seem to share. are adults now, that same energy is She sings in a choir, walks daily, does repurposed to supporting the welfare Pilates and takes life drawing lessons. of others. Her house is still a warm Her work reflects the stillness in her and welcoming place, cake on the character, beautifully sculpted forms table, Caroline knitting, mending and of babies, children and animals; she cooking and never wasting anything says she never stops learning. that can be reused. 22

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell Marigold 95 Jenefer 86 Marigold lost her husband in 2019. Fitzroy was I met Jenefer during a camping trip to Galloway a farmer and the man she loved for nearly 70 last summer quite by chance. We were invited years. Their daughter says they did everything in for coffee to discuss this project and she was together. Marigold had trained as an architect very excited to be part of it. Her career as a and was in charge of all the renovations to Master Mariner (one of the very few women in the cottages on the farm- now run by her the world to have the qualification), took her all son. I photographed her in this tiny church over the world with the Merchant Navy during at Clapham where she has worshipped since which time she saw ways in which sea safety moving to the area in 1956. The iron door key guidelines could be updated, having witnessed she is holding was forged by her grandson, a fatal accidents which could have been avoided. blacksmith and the angels behind the altar are The changes were then adopted by the RNLI. original William Morris ceramic. As a child in an Now she is involved with an organization which army family she lived in India, Egypt, South and provides holidays for the homeless as well as East Africa and arrived back in the UK in 1944 on a starting her own charity giving help and refuge packed troop ship with the father she hadn’t seen for soldiers suffering from trauma, opening for four years. She says, “Oh yes, I am definitely her own house by the sea for anyone needing quietly getting on!” a break. Camille 86 Camille was born in London and has vivid memories of the neighbouring houses being bombed- at one point the glass blowing out of a bedroom window shattering over her baby brother in his cot. He wasn’t hurt but soon after the family moved to the Midlands leaving her father on bomb duty at the War Office going around the streets on his motorbike. Inspired by her mother, she has always loved France, lecturing in European Studies in London for many years in between long visits to Provence during the holidays. Today she and her husband John (married in 2014) are preparing to emigrate there for good as both their children’s families are residents. When we met there were maps spread out on the kitchen table as they planned their next adventure; as John comments ‘it’s never too late to be inspired to do something new’. 23

The Bell | SPRING 2023 Christabel 85 Christabel trained as a doctor in Obs. and Gynae. Nora 89 at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London before Nora came to London from Donegal as a young moving to Sussex and is one of the few breeders woman in the 1950’s joining her six older brothers of British White Cattle which now roam freely who were already working there. Her son tells on the common near her farmhouse. She has me that back in Ireland family and community huge feed sacks of paperwork about every cow were everything, with birthdays and Christmases she has ever bred and admits to caring more being an excuse for parties of up to 60, with long about their welfare than her own. The day I went evenings of music and dancing. When Nora met her to photograph her she was in an old coat tied husband, they left London and took on two pubs on up with baler twine walking into the woods to the coast which they ran successfully for many years. the herd with a walking stick in one hand and a Not only did they serve the best steak sandwiches, machete in the other. Her conversation ranged but Nora’s rule was ‘No drunkenness, no swearing or from the behaviour of wasps and hornets to I’d send for the taxi with the blue flashing lights!’ international politics. I felt very honoured to be She has dementia now and is looked after by her allowed to photograph her and the reason was, family at home who help her relive- and retell in according to her neighbour, that I’d taken ‘a very her lovely Irish voice- the many stories of life in good photo of one of her best cows’. Ireland and as a young woman in London. At her last birthday she sang all the old songs and was Rayna 86 apparently the last woman dancing. Rayna invited me to her house in Portsmouth after meeting her in a wool shop. I’d seen her earlier as 24 she parked her rusty Ford on a double yellow line and walked with two sticks into the shop having driven 35 miles from home in heavy motorway traffic. She’d had polio in her 30’s which left her badly disabled. She is a dressage champion and said she loved it when she’d arrive at the arena in a wheelchair and could see that the judges were unconvinced about her ability to win. But she did win and wrote a book about her riding career. She is also a beautiful pianist and a dress designer who taught design and fashion at Westminster College. When I rang her to tell her of the various awards this series had won, she said she was thrilled for me and that she was moving to California with her boyfriend because the climate would suit her better.

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell Betty 86 Betty’s story is a romantic one and it was wonderful to hear her retelling it, surrounded by photos of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She’d met her late husband David at junior school and they married in their early 20’s, setting up home in the little pink house directly opposite David’s family home in River Road. David’s grandmother had had 13 children in that two-bedroom cottage. ‘People asked how she managed- well you just did didn’t you?’ Having lived in Arundel almost all of her life, Betty and her family are so much part of the fabric of the town. She worked at St Philips Primary School for many years which is where I first met her as I dropped off my youngest child to school many years ago. Eve 88 There was great respect shown to us always as we Eve trained as a midwife and then travelled from house to house on our bikes. Our uniforms a district nurse in Liverpool, before had to be immaculate, and a strict code of dress and going back to midwifery for another behaviour had to be adhered to at all times’. 26 years. She was married to Stanley for 56 years and together they moved down to the South Coast when Stanley retired. Her story is a reminder of how hard life could be in community nursing and is a small slice of British history. ‘Poverty was rife; most of the people I visited were poor with every home having just an outside toilet and no bathroom. Equipment such as forceps, scissors and kidney bowls had to be boiled up on stoves. Dressings were prescribed by the doctors and picked up by patients at the surgery with bandages being washed at home and rolled up again ready to reuse. As district nurses, we rehabilitated stroke victims, gave patients bed baths as well as tended to bed sores and cared for the dying. ‘Quietly Getting On’ is part of the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize now on show at the NPG. The series was shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society’s International Photography Exhibition and the Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2022. 25

The Bell | SPRING 2023 What in Life Were Wings Clare Toole-Mackson reviews this It is the story of Zofia, Barbara’s mother, who in 1940, remarkable book by local author, at the age of 15, was seized by Russian troops from Barbara Isbister. The introduction is by her home near Lwów in Eastern Poland, what is now the author herself. Lviv in Ukraine, along with most of the inhabitants of her village, and deported thousands of miles away, ‘We’ve come to protect you. It’s not an invasion.’ Sounds enduring a horrific journey by cattle truck which many familiar? There are parallels between events in Poland did not survive, to one of Stalin’s Forced Labour Camps, during WWII and Ukraine in 2022, remarkably in the in the Gulag, deep in the Siberian forests. I do not want same place – Lwów, now Lviv. to give any spoilers so will not recount the whole of Zofia’s story but suffice it to say that in spite of suffering This ‘secret’ story is the incredible, true, wartime unimaginable emotional pain, horrors and privations, as experience of my mother; forcibly deported to a Labour well as a punishing workload at the hands of her Russian Camp in the Siberian Gulag. I felt compelled to write this, captors, Zofia miraculously survived and continued not only as a tribute to her and all who suffered under to live an equally unusual and courageous life, dying Stalin’s regime, but also because few in the West knew in 2017 days before her 94th birthday. She was the anything about it. penultimate survivor among her peer group who had experienced Stalin’s Forced Labour Camps. A fusion of recollections, history, and imagination. One girl’s fight for her life and freedom.’ And so to the book’s title; certainly enigmatic, but it is the first of two lines by the 19th century Polish poet, I MET Barbara to talk about her new book and about Cyprian Norwid, which provide the book’s first epigraph: some of the influences in her life. She was born and brought up in London, attending a girls’ convent ‘What in life were wings grammar school, Notre Dame, Battersea. She recalls History may bring to heel’. the view of the iconic power station and gasworks from the top section of a classroom window. A diversion Barbara’s totally convincing interpretation was that was observing the daily changing movements of the for many people their dreams and aspirations can be gasworks’ cylinder. Luckily, most lessons did not take crushed by the subsequent happenings in their lives, place in that classroom, meaning that her ‘inspirational’ most notably by the events of history, describing her English teachers could influence the future paths she mother’s life most succinctly. would take. The book is categorised as ‘Historical Fiction’. The After school she completed a degree in English followed recounting of the events of history is accurate but in by a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics at the telling Zofia’s story, Barbara has used her imagination in University of London. She became Head of Academic a hugely effective and profoundly moving way. As well as English in the newly created Department at the shock at Zofia’s horrific experiences, the reader enjoys University of London’s School of Oriental and African lyrical descriptions of Zofia’s earlier ‘golden’ life and Studies. She has taught English literature, language, marvels at her ability to relive this as a strength and stay academic English and been a teacher trainer at in coping with her situation. university and college levels in London and Sussex. But how did Barbara obtain the essence of the book Barbara moved from London to Arundel in 1989 and has – Zofia’s story? As a child she would listen to her lived there ever since with her family. Her book, ‘What mother’s recollections. Round these Barbara wove in Life were Wings’, was completed in 2022. this extraordinary and riveting story. Not surprisingly, the process of writing the book had been simmering I will begin by saying entirely without reservation that for some time. She would jot down fragments of her this is a truly remarkable book, by turns heartrending mother’s story in spare moments, a productive time and cheering, but always vivid and totally engaging. often being her daily commute from Arundel to London. It is a story of an indomitable human spirit and a determination to survive, the keeping alive of hope ‘I felt compelled to write this story of my mother’s against all odds. Certainly it is a story of ‘Man’s wartime experience, not only as a tribute to her and all inhumanity to man’ but also of the inspiring mutual help the deportees who suffered under Stalin’s regime, but and support of which human beings are capable when also because I realised very few people in the West knew thrown together in the most appalling of circumstances. anything about it.’ 26 Detailed and lengthy research into the historical and

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell I can think of is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Gulag political background of the years covered was also Archipelago’. ‘What in Life were Wings’ is an unforgettable required. ‘Anecdotal, historical, re-imagined and and unique testament. Having finished reading it, I felt fictionalised elements had to be blended into a coherent a heavy sense of loss at parting from Zofia’s company narrative. It was like piecing together several distinct but am also convinced that she would have thoroughly jigsaws into one giant whole.’ With more time to applauded her daughter’s telling of her story. devote to writing, the process came to the boil over See www.whatinlifewerewings.com for more information approximately three years. Available from all good booksellers, The Book Ferret in Arundel, Waterstones, W.H. Smith, etc. ‘The book was finished at the start of 2022, before the invasion of Ukraine. I was shocked to discover 27 similarities between what had happened over eighty years ago in the very same place (Lwów/Lviv) with what was happening in Ukraine in 2022. They claimed then and now: “We have come to protect you. It is not an invasion.” I wondered how Zofia, living in post-war London, had managed to assimilate and attempt to reconcile the events of her life so far. There was a sizeable Polish community in London, including people who had survived the Russian deportations and some who had experienced the Holocaust. They provided great mutual support and contributed to the healing process. Remarkably, Zofia’s strong Roman Catholic faith did not desert her throughout her time in the Gulag. There are references to religion running through the novel, as in the quoting by Zofia of lines from the Lord’s Prayer at highly relevant moments. In London she derived strength and comfort from the Roman Catholic church where they worshipped, and from its community. Moving stories of the Holocaust and its survivors are in plentiful circulation at the present time. However, the only other account of life in the Gulag

The Bell | SPRING 2023 Michael de Larrabeiti inadequate wartime educations. Having obtained the A profile of the author of ‘Foxes Oven’, the necessary A levels at polytechnics in London, they were book which arguably put Arundel on the both reading degrees, Angus at Birkbeck College reading literary map, by Marian Stevenson. history and Michael at “Trin Coll Dub”, as he called it, reading English and French. Both financed their studies LIFE is full of co-incidences, don’t you find? This with jobs as and when they could and Clarksons proved article would have been interesting enough about a a favourite. Tour-guiding in the wine regions of France- London boy who came to be evacuated to Arundel what could be better? during the war and went on to use his experiences here in his book “Foxes Oven”. Michael would dip in and out of our lives. He eventually married, moved to Great Milton in Oxfordshire, and But to make it a little more personal, when I was first had three delightful daughters with his wife, Celia. married and still living in Wandsworth, South London, However, none of that stopped him from leading a Michael turned up one evening looking for a bed for the very peripatetic life! He loved to travel and would take night. He was, after all, my husband’s best friend. Born any and every opportunity to do so. One of his more in Battersea, the son of an Irish mother and a Basque remarkable trips was with Tim Severin, the historian. father, Michael was a one-off. Tim was planning a trip in the steps of Marco Polo. The plan was to travel on motor bikes, and he needed two I had met my husband, Angus, on a Clarksons holiday. companions. He advertised the trip in The Times and How many readers remember that ground breaking Michael jumped at it. The other respondent was Stanley holiday company that took the sleepy tourist business Johnson, father of Boris! by storm in the early 70s. I was tempted by a trip to Burgundy- four days and three nights in Beaune, flights But Michael was determined to write and early on needed to Dijon, hotel, all meals, trips to Cluny, Vezelay and to earn a living by any other means. Apart from tour- Rochepot, not to mention many of the famous vineyards guiding, Michael turned his hand over the years to cinema with tastings thrown in. All for the princely sum of projectionist, waiter, shop worker, cameraman, roofer, night £17.50! Even as I write the price, it’s hard to believe. My watchman and garage hand. But his determination paid future husband was a tour guide on that holiday and off. Between jobs he started to write and published his first Michael had got him the job. book in 1972. “The Redwater Raid” was a Western written under the pen name of Nathan Lestrange! However, his Both men were mature students, the products of rather output took a more serious turn from then on, many of his books drawing on his own experience. 28 In 1978 he published a memoire, “A Rose beyond the Thames”, chronicling his early life. (Incidentally, our copy is inscribed on the fly leaf- “For my chum Angus J without whose friendship this book would have been finished years earlier.” Typical Michael!) When war broke out, he records how he was sent by train with a label round his neck to Arundel, to stay in a house in Maxwell Road “with Aunt Vicky and her husband Colin”. And so began our town’s connection with the writer. At first, his evacuation here was not a happy time, missing his mother, Rose, he was desperately homesick. “I hated being evacuated. The war was exciting, but it was happening in London not in Arundel. Everything was wrong. I was separated from my brothers and I was lonely”. Eventually, three of his brothers were sent to join him and things looked up when the “London Gang” began to make their presence felt. “My brothers never lost a fight while they were evacuated and they never let the locals get us down, outnumbered or not”. One of the

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell highlights of his time in Arundel was watching the dog each other by now, Michael enjoying being paid to fights. On one occasion he describes how a Spitfire and travel, writing for The Sunday Times travel section. Messerschmitt engaged right above the town. However, true to form, he eventually knocked on our door in Tarrant Street to see where we had landed up, “Then the Spit got in behind the Jerry and you could happy to regale us with his memories of the town during feel the pilot’s thumb on the button and everyone in the war. Thereafter, he would come back and stay from the town gave a vicious jerk of the shoulders and said, time to time, researching a new book he had in mind. ‘Go on, give it ‘im, give it ‘im, the swine’. And out came the sound of the cannon, dah-dah-dah-dah-dah…’”. The Drawing on his wartime experiences in Arundel and later doomed German pilot came down in Swanbourne Lake, in Offham when his mother rented a cottage there for a but for a small London boy it was great. “There was few months, “Foxes Oven” was finally published in 2003. something marvellous for kids about the war” he wrote, As Michael explained- “It’s an anti-war novel in a way, but “you could get away with murder”. that’s simplifying things too much. It’s about the strain of being evacuated, it’s about the strain of being put in a Michael was becoming established as an author and strange family, it’s about the strain of war and it’s about the while he might have preferred to make his name with strain of growing up………. I was born and bred a snotty- a more serious work, it was the publication of “The nosed little Cockney but I just fell in love with the area, the Borribles”in 1976 which raised his profile as a writer. views out towards Burpham, the river, the castle, the park, Being Michael, he produced an antidote to the Wombles the deer- it affected my childhood imagination”. of Wimbledon Common, creating characters who had a “bad start in life”. Foul-mouthed and fiercely territorial, Michael’s style is easy and fluent and when I read his they were expert at stealing, fighting dirty and getting words, I can hear his voice. But there is an intimacy the better of the local police force. The trilogy proved to about his writing which I think any reader will be important for it caught the mood of the time when appreciate, partly I suppose because he put so much respect and deference were beginning to fall away. of himself and his life into his work. Rather like Laurie Lee who has also been written about in an earlier issue But to return to Arundel. By a circuitous route, Angus of this magazine, Michael de Larrabeiti put our small and I had moved here in 1987, the year of the Great Sussex town on the literary map. Hurricane. The two friends were seeing rather less of Contact Jon Rogers, Heidi Wood or Samantha Stowell at 1 London Road Arundel BN18 9AZ Providing advice on  Agriculture  Commercial Property  Conveyancing - Residential & Commercial  Debt, Debt Recovery & Bankrupcty  Family  Litigation  Mergers & Acquisitions  Personal Injury  Private Client Expert legal advice in your local area  Tax 01903 881122 29

The Bell | SPRING 2023 Messages from the Churches THE NEW YEAR seems far behind us already A COUPLE of years ago it was difficult to imagine what and the days are getting longer. Easter holidays are the world would look like after lockdown and how we being planned, and of course the preparations for the would emerge from the pandemic. Despite the many coronation of King Charles are already in full swing. challenges we face at the moment life as we know it is Although not exactly born to be King, Charles has in the process of resurrection. There have been changes known from a very young age what his particular and we know that we need to make further adjustments destiny was to be. He has waited a long time, but like to the way we live not least to protect and enhance the many things anticipated, it came with grief and sorrow, world we inhabit. In London recently I saw a wonderful as he could not succeed to the throne without first exhibition put together by university students showing losing a beloved mother to that old enemy, death. To how they imagined a more sustainable future, it was full sit on the throne, someone first had to vacate it. In of hope, promise and opportunities. Many might say May, although King already, Charles will, as it were, that this is a blessing we receive when we are young, make public acknowledgement of his acceptance of but it is also a gift from the young to the rest of us the duties and responsibilities of his position. He will who are further along life’s journey. Part of the gift the sit on a magnificent throne, have a splendid, jewelled young bring us is the opportunity to be ‘young at heart’, crown placed on his head, and will hold out his hands to bearing joy and wonder in life and seeing how life could receive the orb and sceptre of his office. be different and better. Of course, he could abdicate his responsibility; when one looks at the difficulties such public life can bring Writing in his letter on the environment in 2015, who could really blame anyone from shying away from Pope Francis writes: We are speaking of an attitude accepting such a burden. But he has been prepared and of the heart, one which approaches life with serene preparing for 70 years for this moment. attentiveness, which is capable of being fully present to Prince William and Prince George were both born someone without thinking of what comes next, which to be kings. We are told that George is aware of his accepts each moment as a gift from God to be lived to destiny, but that his parents are determined to give the full. Jesus taught us this attitude when he invited us him as normal a childhood as possible. I wonder how to contemplate the lilies of the field and the birds of the his parents felt when they first looked at that tiny baby, air, or when seeing the rich young man and knowing his and thought about his future? It must have seemed restlessness, ‘he looked at him with love’ (Mk 10:21). incredible that this little scrap could one day be King. As He was completely present to everyone and everything, a new parent, it’s hard to imagine them ever growing and in this way he showed us the way to overcome that up, never mind to such significance. unhealthy anxiety which makes us superficial, aggressive I wonder what Mary and Joseph felt when they looked and compulsive consumers. In this season of the at Jesus, in his borrowed manger? They knew he was Christian year we remember and celebrate the passion, born for great things, yet in that stable it must have death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the coming of seemed impossible. And on the road to exile in Egypt. the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This assures us of God’s love And in the carpentry shop in Nazareth. They knew he for us in Jesus Christ and his closeness to us helping us was destined to be King, but I’m sure they tried to give to contemplate new life and seeing its possibilities for a him as normal a childhood as possible. better way, to be a people of joy and hope. But actually Jesus wasn’t born to be King, he already was the King. The King of Heaven who left his throne to CANON DAVID PARMITER come down to his people on earth, and to become the Arundel Cathedral way they could share in his kingdom in heaven. And although already a King, there was also for him a 30 public act of acceptance that must be gone through in order to fulfil the needs of his people. Jesus was led not into a throne room and seated in splendour, he was led to a place of death outside the city gates, and a wooden cross. The crown rammed onto his head was not of gold, but of thorns. He held out his hands not to receive orb and sceptre, but nails. He could have abdicated his responsibilities. He knew the pain and suffering that was before him, but he turned his face steadfastly towards the cross. He finished the work

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell he started in that stable 33 years earlier. henchmen of death itself, the inevitable consequence of Jesus knew that to step back upon the throne he had our sin, are transformed into the light, glory and life of vacated with a people forgiven and accepted, someone the resurrection. had to die. And he paid the price himself so that we I wish you a joyful Easter don’t have to. He is seated there now, his work is finished. But is ours? CANON DAVID TWINLEY You see, Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross demands a St Nicholas Arundel response. We have to come to him, there on the cross, and accept that it is we ourselves who should be Easter Services hanging there, as punishment for our hatred towards ARUNDEL CATHEDRAL God. We need to accept him as King of our lives, and as Saviour of our souls. PALM SUNDAY Masses 6pm at the Convent of the We can of course choose not to have a King, or a Sunday 2nd April Poor Clares, Crossbush, Saturday 1st Saviour. We can choose to ignore the coronation, and live as republicans. We can choose to ignore the Cross April and 9.15 and 11.15am in the Cathedral with blessing of palms this Easter, we can choose to ignore the God who created us. We can choose to live in an eternity where HOLY THURSDAY there is no light, no love, no hope, no joy, no peace. Or we can kneel before our King, and worship him, and Thursday 6th April 8.00pm Mass of the Lord’s inherit a kingdom where there will no more death, or Supper followed by mourning, or crying or pain. Choose for yourself. watching to midnight at the altar of repose PASTOR JIM BRADDOCK 11.50pm Compline Arundel Baptist Church GOOD FRIDAY IN A few weeks’ time King Charles and his Queen Friday 7th April 10.00am Stations of the Cross Consort will be crowned. Although we’re told to expect 3.00pm The Passion a simpler liturgy, much of the ceremony surrounding the HOLY SATURDAY coronation is ancient. The most sacred part of the service is when the King Saturday 8th April 8.30pm The Easter Vigil and is anointed on the hands, breast and head, a tradition First Mass of the that goes back at least as far as the anointing of King Resurrection Solomon by Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet EASTER SUNDAY about three thousand years ago. Many may argue that we now live in a post-Christian Sunday 9th April 9.15 am Masses country, and yet the coronation is a deeply Christian 11.15am act of worship, one in which it is God who bestows sovereignty upon the King, calling him to model his reign ARUNDEL BAPTIST CHURCH on the kingship of Jesus Christ. For centuries monarchs seem to have emphasised above GOOD FRIDAY 10.30am An Hour at the Cross all else the role of the king as ruler, whilst forgetting that Friday 7th April 10.30am Easter Sunday the rule of Christ is just and gentle, a rule in which the EASTER SUNDAY Celebration “He is Risen” poor and marginalised are lifted up. Sunday 9th April For Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth the role was that of service. Throughout her reign it was clear that she ST. NICHOLAS’ kept at the forefront of her mind the words of Jesus: “The Son of Man did not come to be served but to PALM SUNDAY 10.00am Liturgy of Palms and serve.” It wouldn’t surprise me if this is precisely the Sunday 2nd April Sung Mass model that King Charles will also follow. HOLY THURSDAY 8.00pm As Easter approaches, however, there is one other Thursday 6th April Sung Mass of the Lord’s startling image that comes to mind—the crowning itself. GOOD FRIDAY 10.00am Supper Since the coronation of Charles II in 1661 every monarch Friday 7th April 1.30pm has been crowned with the magnificent St Edward’s Children’s Easter crown. At Easter we remember that Christ didn’t receive HOLY SATURDAY 8.00pm Garden a crown of gold but a crown of thorns—a crown of Saturday 8th April 8.00am Celebration of the suffering and pain, a crown of self-giving sacrifice. EASTER SUNDAY 9.00am Lord’s Passion This mysterious, kingly crown points us to the great 10.00am mystery of Easter. Namely, that through the self-giving Sunday 16th April 4.00pm Easter Vigil sacrifice of Christ on the cross, pain and suffering, the Easter Holy Communion Eucharist at St. Leonard’s, South Stoke Sung Mass of the Resurrection Easter Eucharist at St. Mary Magdalene, Tortington 31

The Bell | SPRING 2023 Christian Worship ANGLICAN Parish and Priory Church of St Nicholas, Arundel Canon David Twinley • www.stnicholas-arundel.co.uk Parish Office - Telephone: 882262 • Vicarage - Telephone: 885209 Sunday 8.00am Eucharist (1662) Tuesday 10.00am Eucharist 6.30pm Eucharist Wednesday 10.00am Eucharist (1662) Friday 12.00noon Eucharist Parish Church of St Leonard, South Stoke 2nd Sunday 9.00am Holy Communion 4th Sunday 3.00pm Evensong BAPTIST Baptist Church, Torton Hill Road Pastor Jim Braddock • Telephone: 07882 784042 Sunday 10.30am Morning Service Communion 2nd and 4th Sundays as part of Family Service Wednesday 10.30am Homegroup and Bible Study Contact Jim Braddock or Les Voke (884156) CATHOLIC Cathedral of Our Lady and St Philip Howard The Revd Canon David Parmiter • The Revd David Clifton, Retired Deacon Cathedral - Telephone: 882297 Saturday 6.00pm Vigil Mass Sunday 9.15am Family Mass 11.15am Sung Mass Weekdays excl. Mondays 10.00am Mass Holy Days 10.00am & 7.00pm Mass Convent of the Poor Clares, Crossbush Public Masses at the Convent are currently suspended Christian Groups & Courses in Arundel ANGLICAN BAPTIST House groups Homegroup & Bible Study: www.arundelbaptistchurch.org.uk Tel: Parish Office 882262 Wednesdays 10.30am www.arundelcathedral.org CATHOLIC Tel: Les Voke 884156 www.stnicholas-arundel.co.uk RCIA (Rite of Christian initiation for Adults) Tel: Cathedral Office 01903 882297 32

SPRING 2023 | The Bell Forthcoming Events CORPUS CHRISTI 2023 Please see separate listing for EASTER SERVICES. The Feast of Corpus Christi falls in June this year. The Carpet of Flowers ARUNDEL CATHEDRAL will be open to the public on Wednesday 7th June and Thursday 8th Masses will continue to take place at the normal times, SPECIAL SERVICES June with Mass commencing at 5.30pm on the Thursday, followed by & events will be as follows:- the procession to the Castle. The Cathedral is also open while the Carpet is being laid on Tuesday 6th June. We are always in need of volunteers! If you’d like to get involved, please contact the Parish Office on 01903 882297. MARCH ST. NICHOLAS’ CHURCH MARCH Fri 3rd 7.00pm Stations of the Cross Sat 4th 5.00pm Noye’s Fludde – Benjamin Britten Fri 10th 7.00pm Stations of the Cross Thurs 16th 12.30pm Community Lunch (01903 882262 for A choral retelling of the story of Noah and reservations) the Ark. Tickets from Eventbrite Wed 8th 10.30am-12 Silver Sterlings – Polishing and cleaning Fri 24th 7.00pm Stations of the Cross Fri 31st 12.30pm Lent Lunch in aid of Family Support Work group. Join together for coffee & a chat as (01903 882262 for reservations) well as cleaning help Thurs 9th 10.45am Bereavement coffee group in Cathedral APRIL House. All welcome Mon 10th 10.00am Easter Pop-Up Cafe Thurs 20th 12.30pm Community Lunch (01903 882262 for Sat 11th 1.00pm Stabat Mater – Pergolesi, Arundel Cathedral reservations) Choir. FREE entry with retiring collection to offset concert costs and support the MAY Cathedral Music Foundation Thurs 18th 12.30pm Community Lunch (01903 882262 for reservations) Fri 17th 7.00pm Stations of the Cross Sat 19th 7.30pm Arun Choral Society Concert, see www.arunchoralsociety.co.uk for STATIONS OF THE CROSS information and tickets Wed 22nd 10.00am Mass in the Fitzalan Chapel These will take place every Friday at 7pm from 24th February up to and Sat 25th 7.30pm Angmering Chorale concert, see including 31st March, alternating between St. Nicholas’ and Arundel theangmeringchorale.org.uk Cathedral. The first one is at St. Nicholas’. Thurs 30th 11.00am Cathedral Chapter of Canons’ Mass & Meeting Happenings Fri 31st 7.00pm Stations of the Cross APRIL Sat 1st 1.00pm Seven Last Words of the Cross – Robert Sholl. Organ music for Holy Week by Tournemire and others. FREE entry with BIRTHS & BAPTISMS retiring collection to offset concert costs and support the Cathedral Music Foundation 20-Nov Maïlys Alix Nicholson-Lepine Wed 5th 6.00pm Diocesan Chrism Mass 27-Nov Eva Margot Haydon (St. Leonard's) Tues 11th 10.00am Mass in the Fitzalan Chapel 16-Dec Flyn Shahani & Marlowe Balfour Shahani Sat 15th TBC Leconfield Singers Concert, 08-Jan Frederick Gabriel James Silk see www.leconfieldsingers.co.uk for details 08-Jan Clara Ann Whitehouse Sat 22nd 11.30 am Confirmation Mass 22-Jan Noah Joseph Conor Hicks Sun 23rd 2.30pm St. George’s Day Service Sat 29th 11.30am & Confirmation Masses DEATHS/FUNERALS 3.00.pm MAY 26-Oct Rogers Beetlestone (77) 02-Nov Cora Elizabeth Gillies (66) Sun 7th 3.00pm Confirmation Mass 11-Dec Adrian Anthony Geoffrey Myers (50) Fri 12th 3.00pm Newchurch Male Voice Choir recital. Free 11-Dec Barbara Razall (89) entry 20-Dec Michael James Moore (78) Sat 13th 11.30am & Confirmation Masses 21-Dec Margaret Mary Gammons (93) 2.30.pm 01-Jan Alida Jobst (92) (St. Leonard's) Sun 14th 3.00pm Confirmation Mass 08-Jan Patrick James Nolan (84) Sat 20th 1.00pm Organ Recital-Robert Sholl. Featuring Vierne’s Sixth Organ Symphony INTERMENT OF ASHES Sun 21st 9.15am First Communion Mass 3.00pm Confirmation Mass 01-Sep Michael Wells (98) at St. Mary Magdalene, Tortington Sat 27th 3.00pm Confirmation Mass 25-Oct Andrew McCartney (33) Sun 28th 3.00pm Confirmation Mass 25-Oct Patricia Mc Cartney (71) 25-Oct William McCartney (75) 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF ARUNDEL CATHEDRAL 33 1st July 2023 marks the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the Cathedral Church, or as it was then, the Parish Church of St. Philip. Celebratory events will take place throughout the year, including a series of concerts (details in the events list or see www.arundelcathedral.uk) and Vespers and a Mass on the weekend of the Anniversary STATIONS OF THE CROSS take place throughout Lent on Fridays at 7pm alternating between St. Nicholas’ Church and the Cathedral. The first Friday, 24th February, will be in St. Nicholas’.

School BellTheBell | SPRING2023 Arundel Cof E Primary School them confidence to explore and challenge themselves in by Andrew Simpson Headteacher the choices that they make in life.’ WITH Spring and Summer just around the corner, I ‘…the behaviour of pupils is exceptional and the care that would like to take this opportunity to thank you for they show each other is clearly evident.’ your continued support of your local school. I wanted to take a moment to express my sincerest gratitude ‘The school community provides a wealth of opportunities for the hard work and dedication Gill has put into for all pupils to lead and engage in positive social action. editing this wonderful community magazine. She is a They support a local homeless charity and projects in wonderful servant to her community and her willingness India and Sierra Leone. Pupils create, organise and run an to collaborate with other interested parties in our admirable number of projects of their own. Pupils make community has allowed us all to have richer lives. The their own important choices when caring about 'God’s ACE community thanks you for your dedication to the precious world’. They have a boundless ambition to help. people of Arundel. They are advocates for causes such as reducing the use of palm oil and plastic in the ocean.’ I hope you enjoy reading about some of the fun activities we have been up to at ACE over the past few weeks. ‘School life is greatly enhanced by its deep-seated, mutually beneficial relationship with St Nicholas church.’ SIAMS inspection prior to Christmas In December, we received a visit from SIAMS, the I want to take this opportunity to thank the community organisation which inspects church schools. I wanted of Arundel for your support and cooperation in allowing to reach out to you to update you on the outcome of ACE to be part of life in Arundel and to those parents who the recent inspection at our school. As a church school, came in and spoke to the inspector. Your efforts ensure we have to undergo two different inspections- from that our children have ethical and moral viewpoints Ofsted and from SIAMS (Statutory Inspection of Anglican through the various projects we have been allowed to be and Methodist Schools). I am happy to report that the involved in. inspection went very well and we received extremely positive feedback from the inspection team. Here is a link I also want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the to the report: https://www.churchofengland.org/about/ staff and governors at our school. Their hard work and education-and-schools/church-schools-and-academies/ dedication to their roles played a significant role in the siams-inspections/siams-inspection-reports successful outcome of the inspection. We were absolutely thrilled with the report we received I would also like to publicly thank the jewels in the crown from our inspection – we were graded Excellent in all at our school, our wonderful children, who are a real areas. Here are some highlights from the report: credit to our school. ‘The school's well-established and widely-known Christian I am confident that, with your ongoing support and the vision has a profoundly positive impact on the learning efforts of our dedicated staff, we will continue to provide and wellbeing of the whole school community. ‘ an exceptional learning environment for your children. ‘The Christian vision runs through the curriculum' like a Southern Cross Country Finals at Windlesham House golden thread'. As a result, pupils flourish because they Our children were simply understand it deeply and put it into practice in their own fabulous and tried so hard lives within and beyond the school.’ at this highly competitive event, with children from ‘Teaching and learning in religious education (RE) is both the independent and excellent, most notably in Christianity, Islam, Judaism and state sectors there. I was so Hinduism.’ proud of their dedication and enthusiasm to do their best ‘Pupils enjoy RE, and pupils of all abilities, including for their ACE school. the more able, find the lessons thought provoking and challenging. Pupils articulate very clearly how RE gives ‘There's no “i” in team’. It's an age-old motto that's both grammatically correct and relevant in team situations in 34

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell sport and elsewhere. Central opportunity to have a hands-on learning experience. to a successful operation where everyone works as a A group of our children discussed a number of issues and team is cooperation. Without talked to them about their pride in supporting the Eco it, a team would merely initiative at our school. be unable to function as efficiently as it otherwise Indoor Athletics Success could. Team sports are I think sometimes it is inherently cooperative, and important to highlight when run parallel with teamwork as a vital tool to bringing our ACE pupils perform success to that group of players. ACE clearly had this at amazingly. To be honest, this event and this is the old ACE motto of ‘one for all and I could probably do this all for one’! nearly every day with some of our lovely ACE pupils. Top results (out of 1,000s) On this occasion, our fabulous indoor athletics team’s Ava Joy 14th • Jack S 20th performance last Monday was outstanding. We won all Billie 20th • Eva 23rd the running races and every single member of the team Olivia 24th tried their very best. A special well done to a couple of Year 4 children who stepped up and performed at a high My favourite bit was Jude level. Another feature was our sportsmanship and the in Year 6 who helped his fact that we were the only school to actually make the effort to go over to all the officials and thank them for friend in Year 6 who fell over. their hard work. Manners may be old fashioned but I believe they are essential if we want to live in a society When I asked him, he said he which values the word respect. did because he believes the ACE Vision reaching out to our We came in 1st place overall. neighbours in love. Here are the results- We came 3rd in the Year 5 competition in the southern Year 5 Girls- Winners • Year 5 Boys- Winners Year 6 Girls- Runners Up • Year 6 Boys- Runners Up area. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Lee for We came 7th in the Year 6 competition in the southern area. coaching the children so fabulously well, Mrs Simpson and Mrs Meyer for their excellent leadership and supporting This is pretty impressive considering there are nearly 100 the children and Mrs Bingham for organising it. schools in this area! Year 4 make a trip to National Science Museum Arundel Post Office We had a lovely adventure to London and a very short Supports ACE trip on the tube to visit the Science Museum. The children were praised universally for their wonderful We are very fortunate that behaviour and it always makes you proud when children many organisations want demonstrate impeccable manners. to support our school and one of them is Arundel Post The trip to the Science Museum enhanced the children's Office. Paul from the Post learning journey by bringing to life the science, Office came to visit us last technology, engineering, and maths that has shaped our week to give us a donation to support our Goblin Car. It's lives today. great we are continuing to get further support to make a new car a reality! ACE visit the O2 Young Voices has been giving children a platform to sing West Sussex County since 1997 when the choir was created by David Lewis. Council visit ACE The aim was to introduce young people to a spectrum of music styles, developing their knowledge and interest in John Godfrey, Lord the subject, along with their confidence. Lieutenant s Task Group chairman, and colleagues It is lovely that our children had the opportunity to sing came in to see the ACE tree nursery and our tree planting alongside 8,000 other children in the magnificent O2 arena. linked with The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative. They were very impressed that a little school in Arundel can be Mrs Meyer stated, \"“It is such an uplifting event and so involved in so many initiatives and allow their children the brilliant to see our ACE pupils finding their voice and celebrating their love for music.\" 35

School BellTheBell | SPRING2023 St Philip’s Catholic Primary School instrument that they would like to learn to play. by Lucy Horne Headteacher Year 6 had a rail safety workshop in school. The rail safety team member came to talk to the children WE are now fully in the swing of the Spring Term and about how to keep safe when using the train to get enjoying the many activities and events that come with to and from school when they move into Secondary this time of year. As the nights start to stay light a little school in September. For many families, this step up longer and the spring flowers start to bloom we have in independence can be an anxious time so it is really been busy with a host of opportunities to develop skills useful to have some ideas, suggestions and advice on and learning. Here are just a few highlights. how to do it safely and successfully. We welcomed ‘Gooey Stuey’ into school for a Science Trips and events assembly. The theme was gravity and the children Reception Class children went on their first trip by thoroughly enjoyed learning about how it works coach to Worthing to watch ‘Jack and the beanstalk’ and why we need it. The children left the assembly pantomime. The children had a wonderful time and it recognising that Science can be fun. was a great way to introduce them to their new topic ‘Fairy Tales’. The Friends of St Philip’s kindly paid for the Our many guitarists performed in a guitar concert coach out of their fundraising pot. recently. Along with their guitar teacher, all children performed in groups with two children performing their All children in the school were invited to the grotto own compositions and songs. It is always an uplifting at Arundel Lido. It was a wonderful treat for the and enjoyable time when our musicians display their children. They walked there, met Santa and listened talents to the rest of the school. to a story, were given a gift (kindly sponsored by various companies) and then played Christmas games. We are grateful to Nikki and her team at the Lido for organising it all. Children in Years 3, 4 and 5 went to Chichester Festival Theatre to watch a children’s concert. This is an opportunity for them all to learn about the different instruments in the orchestra and how each of them sound. As a school where we hold Music in high regard, this is a great chance for children to see the instrument they are learning in a full orchestra or to see an 36

SPRING 2023 | The Bell Sporting events process is to have student teachers in school. This term There are many sporting events taking place during we have two student teachers who are in their final year Spring, including Gymnastics competitions, football of teaching. It of course helps to encourage new people festivals and hockey events for which we are fortunate into the job but also it means that as a school, we have to again have a hockey coach coming in weekly to train extra staffing in school to support learning. our Year 5 and 6 children. It has been lovely to welcome prospective families to look around our school, ready for their child starting Year 6 travelled by train to St Philip Howard school for Reception Class in September 2023. It allows us the a Deanery Sports Day in January. This is a day where all opportunity to show off the range of subjects and children in Year 6 from St Philip’s, St Mary’s in Bognor experiences we have to offer. We are very proud of our and St Richard’s in Chichester, compete in several children and their learning and it is always a joy to share activities run by the secondary school. The class came this with others who haven’t been to the school before. second overall and Millie was awarded the ‘Best Athlete’ Extra-curricular clubs from all three schools. What an accolade! There are a variety of clubs on offer both before and after school here at St Philip’s. One of the most recent We took 32 athletes to an indoor athletics competition ones to start this term is our ‘Worship Band’. This this term. The children in Year 5 and 6 took part in track happens on Tuesdays and alternates weekly with choir and field events. There were long jump events alongside (Singing Superstars). There are guitarists, drummers, hurdles and throwing events plus relays and individual strings players, wind players and keyboard players and running races. The children practised in school for their we are very much looking forward to hearing their first chosen event and enjoyed an evening of competing performance. against the other Locality schools. Re-starting after a break of three years is our Goblin Kit Car Club. Children in Years 5 and 6 can design, build Our Cross Country winners from last term are taking and race our two battery powered cars and learn the part in the County finals at Windlesham House School. skills that go with it. They will then have a chance to This is a wonderful opportunity to compete against race the cars in events involving other schools from all teams from schools outside our Locality Group and over the country. Deanery Group. We also have Tennis, Science, French, Art, Karate, Eco and many more clubs on offer including the lunchtime Our Year 5 children were invited to apply to become activity club run by our Sports Leaders. Sports Leaders in school. They had to apply by letter, explaining why they would be good in the role. They 37 then undertook training and are now delivering lunchtime activities to the younger classes, alongside our Year 6 leaders. Wider community Year 4 designed and wrote condolence cards to King Charles after the death of the Queen. The children were very excited to receive a card from Buckingham Palace from the King, thanking them for their kind words and thoughts. Each Catholic school undertakes an RE inspection every 4-5 years. Our official inspection is due next Spring but this term we have an interim monitoring visit. This allows us to ensure we are still on track to maintain our ‘Outstanding’ rating. It is good practice to evaluate our provision regularly and to ensure we are giving children the best Catholic/Christian provision that we can. Every year we take part in the ‘Picture Books to Shout About’ initiative. It is organised by Sussex Library Service and all schools who sign up, are sent 4 different books to read. Each class then votes for their favourite and we decide on an overall favourite school choice. The winner from all participating schools is then announced on World Book Day in March. We are keen to encourage new teachers into the profession and one of the ways we can support this

The Bell | SPRING 2023 THE ARUNDEL PATI E NT G R O U P SPRING 2023 | NEWSLETTER ASCA Raffle – a great success option on the phone to Come and Meet cancel an appointment so The ASCA annual Christmas raffle was you don’t have to wait for ASCA and some of held as part of the Arundel Christmas the phone to be answered. the Surgery staff It is simply not fair on celebrations on 17th December. We were others not to release slots At the Arundel Community Fayre that you don’t need. on Saturday 11th March very pleased to be allocated a lovely stall Arundel Town Hall ASCA is at the Christmas Farmers Market on the Town Square. We had an amazing array of prizes, ranging from a luxury hamper, ASCA Committee members. Anne Harriott various Christmas goodies, afternoon tea & Colin Heriot manning recruiting for the Committee for 2 at a local tea shop; entrance for 2 to the stand We are a small charity and all the patients at Arundel Arundel castle and a very popular prize of Surgery are part of our wider patient group. We have a small a beautiful pair of handmade teddy bears. Although a very committee who organise a number of events and talks during cold day it was a little warmer than earlier in the week and the year. We are now looking for new Committee members. so the market was very busy with Christmas shoppers. We are interested in hearing from people who are patients at We were kept busy all day selling tickets and we raised the Surgery who are willing to be active committee members; £563.00, which is one of our most successful raffles. including a new Secretary as well as enthusiastic general Thanks so much to all of our raffle donors. members. individuals with ideas. We are also interested The funds will be used for equipment at the Surgery. As to hear from anyone with knowledge of different social we reported last year, we had just purchased a new ECG machine and very soon ASCA is funding alterations to the media platforms, who is willing to either be a wider part of Surgery reception to make it more wheelchair and disabled friendly. So, if you visit the surgery when this work is the Committee or is willing to act as an occasional advisor. underway, please bear with them. Interested – then give us a call via our chairman (see details below) or meet us at the Community Fayre. Over 100 Doctors appointments Helping Hand wasted a month! We all know that the demand for Surgery services is high but The surgery has been monitoring their missed appointments sometimes we are only looking for advice or need a form filling and have found over 100 patient appointments are wasted out; or we might feel we want to ask the doctor something a month due to people not turning up. When ASCA talk to but are not sure whether to bother them. Well - why not use patients, they are always keen to see improved access to the Surgery eConsult service. This is a web-based service GP’s saying they sometimes have to wait longer than they and is available via the Surgery website. If you are not that want to see a doctor. So, it is so sad to see this number of tech savvy somebody else in the family might help set you up. lost and wasted appointments. Please, if you are unable to Also just an advance notice we are all excited to see the new keep your appointment, make every effort to cancel it well Surgery Web site, it is so easy to use, has lots of information, in advance so that it may be offered to someone else who is part of a wider local initiative which means it well supported really needs it; not doing so without a valid reason deprives it will be kept bang up to date. It will offer new ways of other patients. When you ring the surgery there is a menu accessing services over time. Another good IT solution that many have found really useful is the NHS app on your phone or tablet. You can use it to order your repeat prescriptions as it takes it right into the surgery record. Again if this all seems too much, or you might find the tech just too much but it may well be worth seeing if anyone you know uses it. Later this year ASCA is hoping to organise some demonstrations and help sessions. For more information about ASCA contact Liz Horkin Chair on 01243 814323 38

SPRING 2023 | The Bell Dear Editor www.lovearundel.org PAULINE CARDER Shortly after the Millennium, it became clear that the museum would be obliged to move from its High I WAS deeply saddened to hear of the recent death Street home. Pauline was utterly determined to save of Pauline Carder. She was one of those unforgettable the collection and obtain a new building in which it people whose absence leaves many holes in the could be displayed. Initially, few people thought that fabric of life. A great networker, she was active in so would be possible. We worked closely together for many organisations that a brief tribute is bound to be a decade. I concentrated on the Lottery application incomplete. and interpretation of the collection, whilst she Pauline had a long and distinguished career as a teacher masterminded the additional fundraising strategy, found in Littlehampton. She took an interest in local drama an architect and negotiated for the site for the new societies, and was for many years an organiser and development. The entire collection was stored, and a reader for Poetry Arun, which is where I first got to ‘mini-museum’ created in a portacabin. know her. In the 1990s I joined Arundel Museum Society which Pauline had helped to found in 1962. Serving Pauline often likened the process to that of, ‘a dung on the committee, I was very impressed by Pauline’s beetle pushing its pile up Everest.’ It was a stressful hard work, enthusiasm, and insistence on professional period and would have defeated many people half her standards of collection care and presentation which led age but her energy was phenomenal. The landmark to the museum gaining several awards. building in Mill Road was completed in 2013. Pauline was awarded an MBE in 2014 for her hard work, and made it plain that she considered that the honour recognised the huge efforts made by the museum volunteers and Trustees during the process. She was also well aware that opening a museum is one thing and running it another, and she maintained her input and enthusiasm through to the end, rejoicing in the positive comments of visitors and museum professionals. Outside of her more high-profile activities, such as her work with the Chamber of Commerce to promote Arundel, Pauline had a wide range of interests. Her allotment was a great joy to her, as was the garden at her home in Tarrant Street. She was a capable dowser, (she located a spring on the allotment). She adored cats. As I got to know her, I discovered that, behind her public face, Pauline was a very private, strongly independent person. She had a dry sense of humour. She overcame some long-term health issues with iron determination; she was a great advocate of various alternative therapies. Driven by her passionate interests and convictions, she could be abrasive, but although rarely revealing such feelings, she cared deeply. Few people, other than the recipients, were aware of her many quiet acts of generosity and personal kindness. She will be greatly missed. ROSEMARY HAGEDORN Devon. formerly of Arundel 39

The Bell | SPRING 2023 ADC PLAN FOR RIVER ROAD profile of our campaign and The Mayor is planning to CAR PARK crank up the petition against the BnB and if you haven’t signed it already you can sign it now by googling IN recent years it has become frighteningly obvious that 38degrees.org- Arun District Council and please note when local authorities try to get involved in property that everyone in every household can sign the petition. development schemes it is like watching Picasso trying to play a Stradivarius. CLIVE AND ANNIE SLATER River Road, Arundel Not surprising then that Arun District Council finds itself so out of tune with public opinion in Arundel where ADC PLAN the whole community is united in their unanimous FOR RIVER opposition to the Council’s plan to spend over half a ROAD CAR million pounds of taxpayers’ money building a bonkers PARK 2 BnB in the heart of the town’s conservation area. THIS is what democracy In spite of the financial projections for the scheme looks like- a group of being exposed as hopelessly inaccurate and opposition people not blockading a strengthening by the day the Council seem happy to motorway or throwing cock a snook at local opinion and to just turn a deaf ear paint around, but to calls for this extremely risky scheme to be dropped. gathering on a cold January day to challenge a local authority determined to ride roughshod over the The Council seem utterly determined at all costs to interests of those it serves. avoid doing anything to address the chronic shortage of parking that residents have to grapple with on a I hope that by the time this is published Arun District will daily basis. A parking solution could provide the Council have come to its senses. with a regular income for one tenth of the cost of their proposed BnB and without endangering their already OLIVER HAWKINS well publicised fragile reserves. Tarrant Street, Arundel The Council Leader, and current Chairman of the RIVER ROAD PROPOSED Tolkein Society, possibly sensing that the tide is turning DEVELOPMENT against them is now issuing thinly veiled threats to local residents that if they continue to complain then the WHEN I was the mayor, 2004 and 2005, Arun District council might inflict something even worse than the BnB Council was a pleasure to work with, understanding, on the town (e.g. like selling the site off to developers) helpful, and open minded. Every planning application and residents should be careful what they wish for. that Arundel Town Council objected to was fully reviewed by ADC and ATC objections were taken into It would seem bizarre indeed if in an election year account. that a culture of self-aggrandisement should develop amongst our elected leaders to the point where there I agree with Annie and Clive Slater and Oliver Hawkins, if is a danger their institutional narcissism could even ADC are justifying their decision simply to make money become “hobbit forming”. The Taxpayers Alliance have helped to raise the national 40

SPRING 2023 | The Bell based on an asset that can in the future be sold, this is a fundamental breach of their duty owed to the greater as well as pursuing her own interests. She shopped for community. What has gone wrong at ADC? Is there a local residents; she looked after an elderly resident of ‘higher body’ that this can be referred to? the Arundel Priory; she volunteered for many years at While I am no longer a resident, my interest in all things St Barnabas House Hospice and she helped during town Arundel has not diminished. ‘clean-up’ days in Arundel. JOE HAYES Cora was a committee member of The Victoria Institute, Villentrois, France not only keeping the venue spotlessly clean but also being a formidable member of the Front of House team CORA GILLIES for Drip Action productions. THE winter edition of The Bell included the sad A talented musician, Cora played her flute in local announcement of the passing of long-time Arundel concerts and sang with The Arun Choral Society before resident Cora Gillies. joining The Chichester Singers. Cora was a founder I would like to pay tribute to her life by describing member of the Arundel Peace in Palestine group, some of the ways in which Cora touched so many lives helping to organise events, talks and fund-raising through her unassuming actions and her involvement in activities. Her travels abroad often involved voluntary the local community and beyond. work: following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy in Before retirement, Cora had been a teacher for many her native New York, she helped at distribution centres, years. As well as teaching PE, Music and Religious sorting and handing out care packages. Often spending Education, Cora organised countless extra-curricular Christmas time in New York, Cora would help care for activities such as visits to art galleries, skiing trips, homeless people by working in soup kitchens. theatre productions and concerts. The number of messages and tributes received by Cora’s family from Cora immersed herself in these activities without past pupils has been a testament to the way in which looking for recognition or thanks, such was her modest she motivated and encouraged her students; it was and private nature. obvious that Cora was a well-respected and much-loved teacher. Perhaps many people will remember Cora doing what Having retired, Cora dedicated herself to helping others she loved most: walking. She spent many hours in Arundel Park and up on the Downs, always appreciating and acknowledging how lucky she was to live in our very special and beautiful part of the world. Cora was a talented sportswoman. A regular Arundel 10K runner, she participated in many events usually raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Care. Cora also completed marathons in London and New York. Her strict training regime usually involved pasta, rest, a glass (or two) of champagne and, occasionally, a short run. Remarkably, this seemed to work. Cora also loved to play tennis. When the club was forced to lock its gates during Covid, we improvised by rallying in the library car park, soon realising that our tennis was far more consistent when there was no net involved. Cora will be greatly missed, by many people and for many reasons. She leaves a lasting legacy of love, kindness and generosity as well as a true love for her home town of Arundel. POLLY ATKINSON Ford Road, Arundel ARUNDEL AND SOUTH DOWNS COMMUNITY AS an Arundel Resident and a Member of the Arundel Chamber of Commerce it seems only natural to have ambitions to realise the potential of your home town - a potential that resides in our extraordinary Social, 41

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The Bell | SPRING 2023 Entertaining Arundel 28 High Street, Arundel, West Sussex At Arondelle we have combined the art of coffee with the art of BN18 9AB antiquing. Our small, friendly café is nestled within our intriguing antique and gift shop. Sit in lovely surroundings and enjoy our delicious 01903 884283 Lavazza coffee or tea out of a china cup, and browse the shop at your leisure while you do so. 13 Tarrant Street, Arundel, BN18 9DG £ 01903 882977 www.arondelle.co.uk [email protected] 25 Tarrant Street, Arundel BN18 9DG Instagram @arondelle_arundel 01903 882222 Here you will find a wide selection of home-made cakes and pastries, cream teas, full lunches, lighter snacks – all made on the premises – together with a wide choice of drinks to enjoy your meal. £ The chefs at the new look Butlers are creating beautifully presented, classic, modern cuisine. The light, airy bar and beautiful Mediterranean terrace are open for cocktails, wine, and coffee. Our gorgeous new private dining room is also now open for events, parties or a small get together. ££ www.butlersarundel.co.uk At The China Palace you will not just find a large Shezuan menu but tastes and aromas from every corner of Asia. Malay, Vietmanese & Thai. Our Chefs are varied to bring the taste of Asia to the centre of Arundel. ££ 67 High Street, BN18 9AJ 01903 883702 37 Tarrant Street, BN18 9DG Bakery, café and restaurant. Juniper offers a seasonal, high quality, produce-driven menu that changes frequently. Served in a relaxed and 07719 386405 welcoming space, everything is made and baked on-site daily (including the famous sourdough and cinnamon buns), to enjoy in house or to take London Road, away. Breakfast, lunch and dinner (Friday and Saturday evenings only). Arundel, BN18 9BA ££ 01903 883145 Instagram @juniper_arundel • www.juniperarundel.co.uk Comfy seating and traditional hospitality you will find hearty food, prepared fresh and daily by our fantastic chef. Our menu changes with the seasons and promises contentment. Rooms available. ££ 44

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2023 | The Bell Mill Road, Swanbourne Lodge is situated at the gateway of the magnificent 1,000 Arundel acre Arundel Park. Cream Teas • Open daily all year round • Rowing Boat BN18 9PA Hire • Over 30 Flavours of Ice-Cream available. 01903 884293 £ www.swanbournelodge.co.uk A beautiful Georgian Coaching Inn full of History. Set in the ground of Arundel Castle, with 37 individually decorated guest bedrooms. Dine with High Street, Arundel, West Sussex, us in our fantastic restaurant or relax in ’The Tap’ which brings a host of BN18 9AB local brewers and vineyards together to offer their finest drinks. Catch some 01903 882101 sun in our sun trapped secret garden, a rare offering within Arundel. We look forward to seeing you. www.norfolkarmsarundel.com ££ 2&8 Castle Mews, The Parsons Table offers locally sourced, seasonal food using classical Tarrant St, Arundel, cooking techniques to create incredible flavours. Join us in our comfortable BN18 9DG contemporary space for lunch and dinner and enjoy our sunny terrace in 01903 883477 the Summer months. www.theparsonstable.co.uk ££ 41 High Street, Arundel, West Sussex A contemporary dining experience serving light lunches and steak and fries with a modern day twist. We offer prime meat, fish or vegetable steaks, cooked to BN18 9AG perfection on the extreme heat of our specially commissioned robata grill. Each steak comes with its own Steakist signature sauce, served with the crispiest 01903 882024 golden fries. Selection of sides, desserts and cheeses are also available. ££ www.thesteakist.co.uk The Swan Hotel Our traditional menu makes us one of the very best pubs in Arundel serving food. From our full English breakfast with local sausages and fair- 27-29 High Street, Arundel, BN18 9AG trade espresso, to the classic fish and chips. 01903 882314 ££ The WaTerside Café Family run cafe with motor boat hire right on the River Arun. Mill Road, Arundel BN18 9PA £ 07779 930236 [email protected] Arundel You drink - we drive! 4,6 and 8 seater available. Station 01903 884444/889988 www.castlecarsltd.co.uk Food Disabled Access Dogs Allowed Rooms No Dogs Live Music To be included in Entertaining Arundel please call Pauline Allen on 01903 885378 £ = Low price range ££ = Mid price range £££ = High price range 45

The Bell | SPRING 2023 Helplines ARUNDEL AND 0800 numbers are free; 0845 numbers SOUTH DOWNS are charged at a local rate. RENOVATIONS LTD Age UK 0808 800 6565 30 Years Building Experience Alcohol Advice Service 08000 241499 RENOVATIONS & CONVERSIONS of Alzheimer’s 01903 262666 PERIOD & Arthritis Care 0808 800 4050 MODERN PROPERTIES Arun Counselling Centre 01903 714417 Arundel Tel: 01903 882904 Blind 4sight 01243 828555 Mobile: 07881 807485 Mobile: 07533 277161 Breast Cancer 0808 800 6000 www.aandsdrenovations.co.uk Carers (Weds & Thurs) 0808 808 7777 Childline 0800 1111 Citizens Advice Bureau 0344 4771171 Community Stroke Team 01903 843600 Cruse Bereavement Care 0300 311 9959 (24 hr answerphone) 01273 671899 Deaf Association (Minicom) Dentist 24/7 01903 882273 Drug Advice (24 hrs) 0300 123660 Eating disorders: National Helpline 01603 621414 Meningitis (24 hrs) 0808 800 3344 J A S design tel: 07889 277320 Mental Health Sussex 0800 030 9500 email: [email protected] Multiple Sclerosis Society 0808 800 8000 Do you require any of the following? National Debtline 0808 808 4000 Stationery Rape Crisis Surrey & Sussex WMeaFdgodaliFzdnliegynreesSrstsaBCtraiotoBcanohleouorkrgyseuseNsPeowLssotlgeeorstsAtdeLvreesarfltests (RCSAS) 0808 802 9999 Relate tel: 07889 277320 If YES... then GET 01903 202512 email: [email protected] IN TOUCH NOW! Samaritans Freephone 116 123 Scope 0808 800 3333 46

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The Bell | SPRING 2023 Directory of Groups To make any changes or to be added to these listings please call Gill on 889918. ARTS Nina Gard 882138 Sharon Blaikie [email protected] Arundel Art Society David Shilston 885866 Arundel Festival of the Arts Arundel Museum Society Arundel Players [email protected] Downland Art Society Michelle Brown 236721 Drip Action Theatre Bill Brennan 885250 / 07761 652154 Poetry Arun, Warwick Court Diane Ayling 882819 Sussex Scribes Calligraphy Cathy Stables 01243 782240 [email protected] MUSIC Arun Choral Society Arundel Community Singers Caroline Cox [email protected] Debbie Wells www.pheonix-bigband.co.uk Phoenix Big Band Isabelle Pietersz 07976 313733 Sarah Prideaux 882830 Riversong Laura Murray The Alternatives 884760 Arundel’s own Rock Band The George Singers - Burpham [email protected] The Hanover Band Stephen Neiman 889996 [email protected] 07787 169977 PRE-SCHOOL The Learning Tree Chuckleberries Pre-School Bury Village Hall 01798 831407 Gill Hart YOUNGSTERS 01903 773758 [email protected] 1st Arundel Beavers 07955 782854 07754 947053 1st Arundel Rainbows Rachel Stanford 0845 4741908 3rd Arundel (St Nicholas) Guides Karen Snewin Ist Arundel Scout Group www.arundelscouts.org.uk 07974008392 or 01243 552033 (Beavers, Cubs & Scouts) Lynn Kendall [email protected] Arundel Youth Club 01903 882431 [email protected] Centurion Explorer Scouts, Arundel Bob Rendall 0845 2691908 882262 Scout Hall Bookings 368248 St Nicholas Church Parents, Carers and Toddlers 882756 889825 SOCIAL 884156 Arundel Bridge Club Marion Denney Arundel Catenian Association Jim Edwards Go Club Sue Paterson Men’s Breakfast Les Voke 48

SPRING 2023 | The Bell The Victoria Institute [email protected] 01903 884786 Women’s Institute Polly Mutch 07713 015215 SPORTS Tricia Simpson [email protected] Douglas Wase 07795 594944 Arundel Boat Club Chairman: Mark Harrington 01903 771147 Arundel Bowling Club www.arundelfc.co.uk 07859 108941 Arundel Carpet Bowls Club Membership Secretary, Karen Byrne 882548 Arundel Cricket Club Coach: Colin Piper 07887652618 Arundel Football Club [email protected] [email protected] Arundel Lawn Tennis Club 882404 734335 Arundel Lido www.arundel-lido.com 02380-694988 or 7585553707 Arunners Running Club Phil McErlain 01903 882734 Arundel Petanque Club Secretary: Steve Love Carole Barker 07456 427172 Arundel Pilates www.arundelpilates.co.uk Fiona Howells 882462 Arundel Yoga Club Friends of Arundel Castle James Rufey 07961 171567 Cricket Club (FACCC) Yoga for the Community Dawn Bailey SPECIAL GROUPS Arundel Agenda 21 Kay Wagland [email protected] 884926 Arundel Bus Group Pauline Halls 882732 Arundel Chamber of Commerce Sharon Blaikie [email protected] Arundel Community Land Trust Hilary Knight [email protected] Arundel Community Orchard Group Nell Paton 01903 885300 Arundel Community Partnership Andy Batty 883571 Arundel Fairtrade Group Pip Young 884311 Bob Tanner Arundel Gardens Association Anne Alidina 882127 James Hazelgrove Arundel for Peace in Palestine Irene Holmes 01903 882758 Richard Esling Arundel Masonic Lodge [email protected] Arundel Riding for the Disabled [email protected] Arundel Wine Society John Munro 01903 882061 ASCA Arundel Surgery Julia Plumstead 07884 491094 Community Association Richard Brennan [email protected] Forget-me-not Dementia Group www.arundelprobus.club 882191 Macular Support Group Chairman Angela Standing Mid Arun Valley Environmental Survey 01903 884997 07786540889 Probus Club of Arundel 718639 Royal British Legion 07743 159437 Say Aphasia Say Aphasia [email protected] 07796143118 St Nicholas Bellringers David Hall 01903 884724 [email protected] Swallow Club Daniel Hodson 07801 233094 49

The Bell | SPRING 2023 Useful Numbers Airports: Gatwick 0844 8920322 Heathrow 0844 3351801 Buses: Stansted 0844 3351803 Southampton 0844 4817777 Chamber of Commerce: Churches: Arun Community Transport 01903 792110 Compass Travel 01903 690025 Councils: Stagecoach 01903 237661 District Councillor: Enquiries 07780 705813 Electricity: Gas: Baptist Jim Braddock 07882 784042 Hospitals: or Ruth Claridge 07931 569118 Cathedral 01903 882297 Library: St Nicholas 01903 882262/885209 MP: Andrew Griffith 01903 737500 Museum: Arun District 01903 882954 Police: Town Council Post Office: • Messages for Arundel Town Councillors may be 01243 777100 Schools: left at the Town Hall office and will be forwarded. 01903 884678 Streetlights: West Sussex Surgery: 0800 0727282 Tourist Information Office: Paul Dendle Trains: 0800 111999 Water: Emergency 01243 788122 50 01903 882543 Escape 01903 205111 01903 883188 St Richard’s Arundel 01903 885866 Worthing 999 Enquiries 101 01903 882510 [email protected] 01903 882113 01903 883149 Enquiries 01903 882115 08457 581622 Emergency Non-emergency 01903 882191 01903 882517 Delivery and Sorting Office 01903 737838 Post Office Counter 08457 484950 C of E Primary St Philip’s Catholic Primary 0330 303 0368 0800 820999 Faults Appointments Emergencies Enquiries Linkline Enquiries Leakline