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SPRING 2022 | The Bell Dear Readers by Gill Farquharson – Editor The Bell Editorial Team NIGEL Cull’s wonderful cover photograph of Eric Nash at the age of 94 is a Clare Toole-Mackson, testament to the advantages of living in a town like Arundel. In Clare Toole- Oliver Hawkins, Pauline Allen Mackson’s profile on Page 12 we can read of those 94 years spent working, (advertising) and enjoying the countryside, although retiring still keeping very active and being Gill Farquharson (Editor). interested in everything, particularly his beloved Museum. Maybe we could all learn a little from Eric! The Bell is the town magazine This year is of course the Queens Platinum Jubilee and Arundel has every of Arundel. It is an ecumenical intention of celebrating with her. There has already been a commitment by the publication produced quarterly Town Council to set aside a budget to plant trees as part of the Queens Grand by an unincorporated group Canopy. Bob Tanner our Tree Warden and his two newly appointed Assistant of volunteers. It is posted to Tree Wardens, Fiona Keating and Trevor Andrews, have already overseen the 3000 homes and businesses planting of one commemorative tree in Jubilee Gardens. You can read all about within the BN18 9 postcode the other plans in Bob’s feature on Page 25. and an additional 500 copies Food sourcing is a very topical subject at the moment and the advent of direct are distributed by hand within sourcing suppliers such as the Sussex Peasant have provoked the debate the town and its environs. The further. In her article on Page 20, a new contributor Deborah O’Reilly examines publishers have the sole right to the concerns many share about the source of our food and outlines a few ways accept, refuse, edit or abridge we can all enjoy local produce. This month’s recipe from The Parsons Table any article, notice, letter or Head Chef Lee Parsons, echoes the theme with the benefits of foraging in a advertisement and do not delicious sounding recipe for wild garlic pesto. Try it out and let us know how accept any liability. The views you get on! expressed by contributors are As Eric’s life story testifies, working is an essential part to keeping well and not necessarily those of the happy. Not all are so lucky that they automatically have the right to work and publishers. only 6% of people with learning difficulties actually manage to at the moment. Arundel resident Debbie Lyall has worked tirelessly to try to right this wrong Our cover picture is and set up The Right to Work Community Interest Company. Oliver Hawkins by Nigel Cull talked to her about her life and the specific challenges she has had to overcome to help these people (Page 16). Designed by JAS Design email: On a lighter note, Oliver and his daughter Tabitha had the idea and produced [email protected] the execution of the Arundel Alphabet featured in the centre spread of this Printed by Bishops email: issue. It features one letter taken from 24 different signs in and around the [email protected] town. See if you can identify them. Easter is on its way, and you can find the Easter Messages from three Churches TO SUBSCRIBE to The Bell and the Easter services on Pages 34 – 37. 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 2022 2022 | The Bell 22 about arundel | for arundel | by arundel 46 42 15 30 38 03 Dear Readers 14 06 About Town 12 Eric Nash – A True Mullet 46 A profile of garden designer Christine Fowler 15 The Arundel Bee Project 48 ASCA 16 Debbie Lyall – The Right to Work 50 Letters 20 Can Real Food Reign Sovereign Again? 52 Entertaining Arundel 22 Arundel Town Council 54 Helplines 25 Under the Greenwood Tree 56 Directory of Groups 30 An Arundel Alphabet 58 Useful Numbers 34 Easter Messages from the Churches 36 Churches 40 20 38 The Parsons Table Recipe 16 40 School Bell – ACE 5 42 School Bell – St Philip’s 45 125th Anniversary of Cricket at Arundel Castle

The Bell | SPRING 2022 Jenny Hayden-Bell, ATobwount one of the three Make Ford mums who now Road Safe Update organise the group, THE campaign to explains: ‘Numbers create a safe walking and cycling route are rather lower between Littlehampton and Ford is alive and well. than usual due to On 26th January, Arun District Council voted unanimously being closed during to support the route at a full council meeting. They also confirmed the route is one of their top 5 priorities for the lockdowns and TODDLER new cycling and walking routes and have given it the then a shortage of green light for some funding over the next two years. The volunteers, so we’re PLAYGROUP Council vote followed a petition signed by 1,500 residents really hoping to get across Arun supporting the project. this lovely community St Nicholas’ Church resource thriving More good news came in December when Joy Dennis, Fridays during term-time Cabinet member for Highways and Transport at West 9.30-11am, £1 per family Sussex County Council intervened with Highways FacebToodo@dk:lreeSrat lGlNyrgiocreuhapot,lsaiAtser’uBnadbeyl and England, now known as National Highways, to persuade them to finally chip into the cost of revisiting the again.’ business case for the Ford Road project. At last, that work is now under way. About eight families The next step is to conduct a Detailed Design Stage which attend now but there is room for more. They are very will plot the exact route and consider all the implications and costs. It will then be put to public consultation. Andy fortunate to have a huge number of toys for pre- Batty, part of the Arundel Town Council working group said, ‘Whilst it is expected that WSCC and Arun will contribute to schoolers, including train sets, dolls and ride-on vehicles. the cost of a Detailed Design Stage, we will need National Highways to come to the table. After a slow and frustrating There is also an arts and crafts table, and the bubble few months, the campaign has notched up a couple of successes and there is again some momentum. We just machine is very popular with the children. need National Highways to prove they are serious about this when it comes to funding the Detailed Design Stage”. “Life can be quite isolating as a parent of young children, St Nicholas Parents, Carers and and that’s been especially true during the covid era. I’ve Toddlers Group found it really helpful myself to spend time with other NOW that life is opening up again after the pandemic the St Nicholas Toddler Group is in full swing again. The local families, sharing war stories- so I’d like to urge group has been running for many years and some mums who attended when their children were small are now other local parents to come and have a cup of tea and grandmothers! It’s aimed at parents with pre-school children, so babies right up to four-year-olds. a chat while the kids play together. If you’re planning 6 to send them to one of the Arundel schools, it’s a great opportunity to meet future classmates. The group also need more volunteers, both parents to help run the group- it’s not arduous and you don’t have to be there every week- and anyone who might like to come and help make teas/drinks and biscuits for the children. If you would like more information email Jenny Hayden- Bell on [email protected] The Tennis Club ups its game! FOLLOWING a very successful 2021, Arundel Tennis Club is planning for another good year. Membership is at an all-time high while both the ladies’ and the men’s first teams secured promotion in the summer leagues. Developments last year included the installation of new LED floodlights which have provided much needed extra winter playing time. In September, the club hosted a very successful tri- club tournament which will be repeated this year. In addition, this year our Club Coach, Colin Piper, is introducing a mixed box league as well as restarting his much loved (!) cardio tennis sessions. Our Club Secretary Fiona Watson likes to emphasise the Club’s social credentials and fun evenings have been held at both La Campania and Motte and Bailey to which all members social or playing are invited. Arundel Tennis is for players of all ages both for those who wish to be competitive on the Tuesday evening sessions or those who enjoy joining in the hosted social session tennis,

SPRING 2022 | The Bell particularly on Thursday evening and Friday or Saturday Coworking Event’ in Arundel on Wed, 9th March from afternoons. Julian Larter also hosts his popular sessions for 09:00 – 13:00, at Arundel Town Hall. Working on your older players on Tuesday and Friday mornings. business alone can be quiet, lonely and isolating and To find out more about the Club please contact either can sometimes send you stir crazy! Occasionally you Karen Byrne our Membership Secretary (07887 652618) just want to bounce something off another person who or Colin Piper, our Coach, for details of his courses gets it. Bring your laptop or craft project and get some (07767 815722). company whilst you work. Tea, coffee & water provided. This is for local, small business owners who normally THE Chamber and Visit Arundel have teamed up on a work on their own, either at home or in their office, live collaborative marketing approach for Arundel in support within a 10-minute drive of Arundel and want to be part of the business community and are delighted that a of the wider business community here. Tickets can be £3,000 grant has been secured from Arun District Council purchased at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pop-up- for Arundel marketing which will be used to promote coworking-event-arundel-tickets-239422728827 Arundel as a destination. The Arundel Marketing Plan will For further information or to join the Chamber of be presented as part of the evening at the Visit Arundel Commerce, please contact via their Facebook page Networking Event at Arundel Castle on 3rd March. facebook.com/ArundelChamberofCommerce. Email After the success of the markets held on Tarrant Street [email protected] “Creating a sense during the 2021 Festivals the Chamber and Arundel of connectedness amongst the towns various enterprises.” Town Council are looking into the possibility of holding two more markets this year. The first would be in March Calling all singers! funded by the Welcome Back Fund grant that Arundel Town Council received. The second potentially on the THE end of the COVID restrictions has allowed the June Bank Holiday weekend that has been organised for choir at St Nicholas’ Church to return to some normality the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Businesses and their Organist and Director of Music, Sarah Plumley, on both Tarrant Street and other parts of the town are is now keen to recruit more members. being consulted for their views in advance. St. Nicholas’ is fortunate in having a committed Chamber networking events for local businesses will voluntary choir who sing every Sunday at the 10.00am continue to be held on the first Wednesday of each Sung Eucharist, leading the congregation in the hymns month. These will alternate between breakfast and and the Mass setting, and singing an anthem for choir evening meetings and are open to non-members. only. They also sing for occasional weddings and funerals Membership renewals for 2022 are now due and cost plus extra services at the special festivals of Easter and £30, still very much below the pre-Covid figure of £50. Christmas. Evensong on the 1st Sunday of each month Small business owners, freelancers and entrepreneurs will be starting again now and there is a choir practice are being invited to attend the very first ‘Pop up every Friday evening. The choir is a friendly, supportive group of committed adults who strive for high standards of musicianship and a sensitive musical enhancement to the worship. They normally sing in four parts – soprano, alto, tenor, bass. Sarah explains: ‘We would be particularly glad to see a few new basses, and also want to encourage children and teenagers to join – or indeed it would be lovely to welcome whole families.’ It is useful if new adult 7

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SPRING 2022 | The Bell members have some idea how to read music (and/or to be sustainable. So we are working towards having a are prepared to work hard on this between practices) year-round paid Festival Co-ordinator whose role would and can sing in tune, potentially even with a voice that become full-time when the event began. However, there balances with the rest of the choir. Sarah admits ‘This will always be a significant role for people who volunteer may seem a big ask, but if you would be keen to join, and give so much time and effort free of charge, both on please contact me ([email protected]). I’d the Festival Committee and in running the event. be delighted to arrange to meet at the church for a discussion about what is involved and to hear you sing There are ongoing discussions with Arundel Town your favourite hymn!’ Council and other stakeholders in the town as to whether the framework of the August Festival can be If you love to sing, what have you got to lose! extended into other events for example a Platinum Jubilee Festival in 2022, a Christmas Festival that would A Pilgrimage Through Time take on ‘Arundel at Christmas’. Many other festivals of comparable size and ambition are run for profit by A unique Arundel event in June a Management Company. That is not a route that we wish to take in Arundel; the Festival should continue to AN exhibition will be held in a marquee in the new belong to the community. Parish Garden at St. Nicholas’ Church in conjunction with the Cathedral’s Corpus Christi Carpet of Flowers. All this of course costs money and several smaller fundraising events were held throughout the pandemic The exhibition will set out the history of Arundel where businesses and residents recognised the from medieval times and will cover St. Nicholas’, the difficulties and made generous donations. At the outset, Cathedral, the Castle and the Town. It will feature the Festival Committee were given confidence that fascinating results of the extensive new research that the Festival would be possible by a grant from Arundel has taken place in recent years. Town Council. The Festival gave several charities the opportunity to raise funds for example Sporting Bears It will be open from Saturday 11th June to Sunday 19th who enjoyed their most successful Festival ever. June (entrance free) and it is hoped that the combined attractions of the Exhibition and the Carpet of Flowers Sharon Blaikie, Chair, comments “We are seeking to will bring many visitors to Arundel. create a different system of governance, with Trustees to nurture the direction and vision of the Festival and a SINCE last August, Committee to oversee the plan and operation with the the Arundel Festival full support of central teams and hubs for the variety Committee has of areas e.g. volunteers, logistics, marketing. We are carried out a detailed looking forward to bringing back some of the traditional review of the event events as well as new ones for this year offering the full so that a full range of range of the arts and also being able to utilise the whole individuals and groups of Jubilee Gardens once again”. could contribute opinions and The full review will be available to read on the Festival reflections that will help in developing the Festival in the website. If you have any comments or feel you could future. Overall it was generally agreed that the return contribute as a volunteer, fundraiser, or sponsor, please of the ‘live’ Festival was a great success, especially given email [email protected]. the difficult circumstances. Ford Road Development The foundations have been laid for new, promising ventures such as Cathedral Concerts, The Music Festival, THE Community Land Trust in Arundel has been working Events exclusively for residents, and Café Culture and in towards the delivery of affordable homes for the town in future, even more venues in town will be encouraged line with the Neighbourhood Plan. Alongside the Norfolk to run events. This will involve greater coordination, Estate and Arundel Town Council, some significant marketing, programming and ticket sales. One strength milestones have been achieved in recent months, of the Festival is that a number of events that take place including the signing of a key agreement and the launch under its ‘umbrella’ are organised and run by other of an e-form to register interest in the affordable housing. individuals and groups, and the Festival Committee will continue to engage with them to offer to support, In November, Fitzalan Estates, Arundel Town Council maximise co-ordination as well as building these events and Arundel Community Land Trust signed the into the Festival promotional programme. ‘section 106’ (pictured). This agreement cemented the commitment to affordable homes, and other community Not surprisingly, the two main areas requiring contributions arising from the development, such as the improvement are manpower and finances. The existing potential for a new community building and ‘growing model whereby volunteers undertake the planning space’, which could be used as allotments. 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The Bell | SPRING 2022 achievement for the people of Arundel and, enshrined in the ‘section 106’ agreement is the priority for people Council and West Sussex Council signed the following with Arundel connections.’ The rented homes will be week, and the Outline Planning Consent has now been owned by Arundel Community Land Trust and managed announced on the Arun Council website. on their behalf by Aster, an experiences operator of affordable housing. Aster will have the freehold of the Earl Henry signed for the Fitzalan Estates (FE), The Town Clerk, Carolyn shared ownership homes and sell off equity under the Baynes, for Arundel Town Council (ATC) and Chair, Darrell Gale for Government’s Shared Ownership scheme to those Arundel Community Land Trust (ACLT). The signing was witnessed by people participated in the shared-equity scheme. Alastair Deighton (FE), Mayor Tony Hunt (ATC), Angela Standing (ATC) Gale added: ‘What is fantastic for the whole of Arundel and Hilary Knight (ACLT). is that over half the land allocated for development includes new public open spaces for the whole The CLT says: ‘The agreement is the result of months community to enjoy, linked to existing paths, and really of hard work and negotiation to achieve the aims making these homes part of the community.’ of Arundel’s 2019 Neighbourhood Plan to provide For further information contact Carolyn Baynes – much needed truly affordable homes for the people Arundel Town Council Town Clerk Tel: 01903 881567 or of Arundel, and in so doing keeping the community email [email protected] together when people with local connections would otherwise have to live elsewhere because of high house Snowdrop Trust Fundraising prices and rents.’ Park Walk 8th May James Stewart, who chaired both the 2014 and 2019 Arundel Neighbourhood Plans and is currently a EACH year The Snowdrop Trust needs to fundraise director and treasurer for the Arundel Community £400,000 to continue to support families of children Land Trust was present at the signing of the agreement with life threatening or terminal illness. They are and was absolutely delighted. He said: “I feel that this delighted that the Duke of Norfolk has again given momentous occasion for our Town is a direct result of them permission to hold their annual fundraising walk the process started ten years ago when we started work day at Arundel Castle Park on Sunday 8th May 2022. on the first Neighbourhood Plan for Arundel, and it is This is their biggest fundraiser of the year and they fantastic seeing this coming to fruition”. look forward to welcoming you, your family, friends Mayor Tony Hunt is equally enthusiastic. “This is a and colleagues for a gentle walk to enjoy the stunning milestone in so many ways, as these new homes will views of South Downs. Dogs are welcome on leads. mean that we can respond to the shortage of affordable You can choose to walk the 1 mile or 5 mile course homes in Arundel in a sustainable and responsible between 1pm and 3pm. There’s a small entry fee (£5 way, that respects the wishes of the community in our Adults, £2 Children, Under 5’s free) and all sponsored Neighbourhood plan. Not only that, but it will also walkers go free – pre-booking is advised. There will be deliver new facilities for the whole community to enjoy.” a tea tent serving delicious home-made cakes, a steel Meanwhile, as The Bell goes to press, Arun District band performer and workshop and a bear tombola, toy Council is expected to launch the e-form for people tombola and raffle. For more information visit www. with Arundel connections, who meet the financial sussexsnowdroptrust.com criteria, to register their interest in the new Social Rent and Shared Ownership homes that will be built on the St Nicholas’ Church land off Ford Road. There will be 20 socially rented and Community Lunches 7 shared ownership homes in the development, with the rented homes at about 50% of market rates, rather FOR some time now, on the third Thursday of each than the 80% allowed to qualify as Affordable Housing. month, St. Nicholas’ Church has offered a hot meal Darrell Gale, Chairman of the CLT said ‘This is a real with a glass of wine and a pudding, in an endeavour to 10 beat the ‘Covid Blues’. A good number of people in the community of Arundel, who have perhaps felt isolated and in need of good conversation, have welcomed this

SPRING 2022 | The Bell initiative. There is no charge for the lunch and transport window and shop front displays which were part of the can be provided to and from the Church. ‘Best Dressed’ competitions. The local primary schools If you would like to come along, places must be booked Christmas card competition and social media campaigns, and Fiona Maxwell in the Parish Office (Tel: 01903 such as ‘Elf on the Shelf’, also added to the excitement. 882262) can be contacted from Tuesday to Friday, 9.30am – 3pm, to reserve a place. ‘Arundel at Christmas’ this year supported several St. Nicholas’ looks forward to welcoming more guests charities including Elevenses (supporting people with throughout the year. Dementia) Arundel Community Aid (supporting families in need) Chestnut Tree House and Medical Detection Arundel at Christmas Dogs. The Goodie Bag Initiative for Christmas Day was also hugely appreciated by the recipients. THIS year the format of Arundel at Christmas meant that events were spread out over December making it Sharon Blaikie Chair comments “I’d like to thank more sustainable and financially viable with a balanced everyone involved in making the coordinated approach footfall. As with the Festival in the summer, Arundel at work so well – it’s remarkable that so many events were Christmas, provided the umbrella marketing and event still able to take place.’ platform under which businesses and organisations could promote their programmes. For further information or to feedback, please There was an Arundel at Christmas committee formed contact Arundel at Christmas Facebook page or email to oversee the ‘live’ events in the centre of town and [email protected] pull together all the town’s events into one ‘What’s On’ programme. The Committee, Chamber of Commerce, its Monan Gozzett Expand Tarrant members and the visitor attractions all worked together Street Office with great support from Visit Arundel, Arundel Town Council, and the Welcome Back Fund. It was great to be HAVING taken over able to deliver the ‘live’ aspect of the event which included all three floors of their the Tree Lighting, Festive Sundays and Christmas Markets. building in Tarrant During December more than 30 performers appeared Street, Monan Gozzett around the town including local musicians, brass and steel have now recruited bands, choirs, and Chichester University students. another solicitor. Adding to the spirit of Christmas were all the amazing Stephen Sampson is an Estate Planning expert who moved to West Sussex after completing his qualifications in 2008. He initially worked for Edward Hayes LLP in Worthing and Bognor where he first met Maria Monan and Neal Gozzett ‘so this feels like home.’ Outside of law, Stephen was previously the Treasurer for the Chichester Law Society and the Lord’s Taverners West Sussex Region. For the last five years he has been Treasurer of The Bognor Regis Friends of the Hospitals, which supports the staff and patients of Bognor Regis War Memorial Hospital through various projects and improvements to the hospital. Whilst at Edward Hayes LLP, Stephen became a full member of STEP (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), and then took the STEP Advanced Certificate in Will Preparation, achieving a distinction and the highest mark in the country for 2014/15. His advice is simple: ‘The important thing to remember is that every adult needs a Will, regardless of the financial value of their estate. In my experience, without a Will the most bitter disputes amongst families can be about items with sentimental value but no or low financial value.’ 11

Eric NashTheBell | SPRING2022 A True Mullet by Clare Toole-Mackson somewhere that I had been taken to see the wild daffodils, but which did not impress me. He then confided IT was Eric who first told me about the wild daffodils! that the top end of Fittleworth Woods was THE place. I met him many years ago at St. Nicholas’ Church, of And how right he was! I have tried to walk there every which he is a stalwart member. I can’t remember how we Spring and then compare notes with Eric. Last March the came to be talking about nature. I think I had mentioned amazing profusion of daffodils was the best display ever. From this Eric’s love of nature is evident, though he tells Eric pictured with an original press from © Nigel Cull the West Sussex Gazette Print Room. 12

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2022 | The Bell me that disappointingly he hasn’t yet seen a kingfisher involved cycling between the High Street and the station this year. His house is ideally placed, on the river bank, to five times a day to collect the red envelopes containing watch for kingfishers, but numerous other birds visit his the news from all the area correspondents. His unofficial secluded garden, encouraged by the food he provides for duties included buying snuff for the foreman! Eric has them. By his landing stage at the end of the garden are long been a familiar figure in Arundel riding his trade recorded the levels of floodwater over the years – useful bike through the streets but sadly he no longer does this, information for the Environment Agency! confessing that at 94 he is now ‘rather wobbly’. The house, ‘Kingfishers’, was In 1945, when the war had just finished, Eric joined up, built in the 1990’s by Eric and but because of being deaf in one ear rather than being his wife Jasmine, whom he involved in active service he followed his trade as a married in 1950. printer. After six weeks’ general training at Chichester and six further weeks assisting the armourer, he joined The house, ‘Kingfishers’, was built in the 1990’s by Eric the Royal Army Service Corps to his surprise as a linotype and his wife Jasmine, whom he married in 1950. It sits operator printing the Forces newspaper, the ‘Union Jack’. in the place where the Castles’ old stonemasons’ offices This took him to Austria, Naples, Padua, Venice, where he and yard were at the end of River Road. Stone for the spent six months, followed by a spell in Athens. He was building/rebuilding of the Castle in the 19th century would demobbed in 1948 and returned to his job at the West be brought upriver by boat and offloaded there. Indeed, Sussex Gazette, having completed his training as a printer. Eric remembers as a boy playing there with his friends. He has dug up ‘grub saws’ in his garden which were used Jasmine and Eric bought a tandem after they to cut the stone. He and Jasmine did most of the work were married and before their children (Alan and on the house themselves, Jasmine being responsible for Carolyn) were born spent several holidays touring the painting, Eric for the construction, taking three years southern England, hugely enjoyable in those days of to complete. In the garden is a beautiful floor design of comparatively traffic-free roads. Minton tiles, salvaged from the river. He has a remarkable memory Sadly Jasmine died in 2004, but in the west end of St. and is a fount of knowledge Nicholas’ Church is a beautiful and lasting memorial about the history of the town to her- double glass doors engraved with a pattern of and its people flames, through which the light shines constantly. At the age of 62 Eric took early retirement but his life Eric’s first home was in Tarrant Street. His father was the was as busy as ever. He was one of the founders of the gardener in charge of Tunnel Gardens which supplied Arundel Museum which in its new building is now a vegetables to the Castle. These were delivered by means lasting testament to the vision, enthusiasm and foresight of a tunnel running from near to the present Church of its founders. Retirement gave him time to become of England School right up to the Castle. It still exists, more involved in the life of the Museum and he has though it is now closed. continued to give loyal and dedicated service to a cause close to his heart. He has a remarkable memory and is a Eric has always been a practical person, right from his fount of knowledge about the history of the town and its early days at school when he responded to the request people- fascinating to listen to. A large khaki greatcoat for someone to paint the windows with clear emulsion on a chair in his study provoked a question from me. Eric to stop glass splinters. He was then put in charge of explained that he collects Home Guard material, which the stirrup pumps during the war. While he was thus will be on display in the Museum to illustrate a talk. occupied, he missed out on time learning to spell, about which he was blithely unconcerned at that stage, though ‘Kingfishers’ inside resembles a museum, full of treasures it did become rather important later on! He left school and mementos. Beginning outside, Eric had the foresight early, at the age of fourteen (for which special permission to rescue the long blue and white enamelled sign which was required) to begin a trial two-month period as an hung above the West Sussex Gazette offices in the High apprentice with the West Sussex Gazette, whose offices Street until they closed. In the study is a bound pile of were then and remained for many years in the High newspapers, the Sussex Weekly Advertiser & Lewes Street. Some years ago, The Bell published a fascinating Journal. The date on the top one is 1795! Inside is an and detailed article on Eric, ‘My Life as an Apprentice advertisement for Dr Samuel Johnson’s New English Printer’, so I will just record the salient points here. Dictionary – remarkable. The paper is fragile but the Fortunately, he was able to ride a bicycle, as his new job print, though small, is still clear and black, and remains 13

The Bell | SPRING 2022 DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT OR TAKE so because it was hand set, Eric told me. I wondered how PART IN THE THAMES SOURCE these had come into his possession. Apparently from the TO SEA CHALLENGE? newsagents run by Miss Burcher in Tarrant Street, after it closed. What an amazing legacy! Andy Davies, a long term Arundel resident Displayed on a board in the entrance porch are 28 canal was diagnosed with plaques, witness to Eric’s travels on all of England’s Limb Girdle Muscular inland waterways. In his garage he still has the boat, Dystrophy in 2019. which he himself built, which sailed all these canals. This means that his muscles working out from his pelvis, are slowly dying. Eric says he is always busy. I’m sure that is why he still appears so youthful! As well as working on his allotment As a committed walker, cyclist and runner, he was keen to he also does woodturning on his lathe, which he was in explore what he was still able to achieve. the process of moving into the conservatory. He showed me a perfectly formed banana, fashioned out of wood So, he has divided the Thames Path Source to Sea (184 miles) from a fallen branch of the redwood tree in St. Nicholas’ into 30 sections. These vary from 3.5 to 10 miles each and, churchyard. At the moment his most prolific production with some Arundel help, are being completed on the weekend is wooden door wedges and fruit, which sell like the of 17/18 September 2022. Each stage will be walked/wheeled proverbial hot cakes in the Museum shop. by a mix of able bodied and less able bodied. How to sum Eric up? He is a man of many abilities, friendly, The objectives of the event are to: still very much involved in life and sprightly in his nineties. His remarkable memory contains a wealth of historical 1. Raise the profile of Muscular Dystrophy information about Arundel places and people. Although I cannot perhaps accord him the status of a National 2. To encourage people with Muscular Dystrophy to take part Treasure, he is without doubt an ‘Arundel Treasure’! 3. To raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy research. If you are at all interested in supporting this event in any way, could you please contact Andy on 07887802983. The Gay Farmer ARUNDEL AND Multi Award Winning Organic Extra SOUTH DOWNS RENOVATIONS LTD Virgin Olive Oils 10% off orders over £30.00 30 Years Building Experience THEBELL10 RENOVATIONS & 20% off orders over £60.00 CONVERSIONS of THEBELL20 PERIOD & Free UK delivery over £30.00 MODERN PROPERTIES www.thegayfarmer.co.uk Also available at Arundel Farmers Arundel Tel: 01903 882904 Market, Edgcumbes and House Mobile: 07881 807485 Arundel Mobile: 07533 277161 14 www.aandsdrenovations.co.uk

SPRING 2022 | The Bell The Arundel Bee Project An update by Nick Field Nick with Christine and Doug Hart WITH Spring just around the corner, it won’t be long before all sorts of pollinators are hatching, coming out The Community Apiary is also being developed. I am of hibernation and generally making an appearance delighted to have the help of local beekeepers Doug and after a long period of winter inactivity. Christine Hart, and between us we have planted what in time will become a new hedge in front of the existing For the supporters of the Arundel Bee Project however, woven barrier. Arun District Council very kindly donated a work has continued through the winter on several projects number of whips of various types last summer, complete in readiness for the start of the new pollinator cycle. with supports and protective covers. It was unfortunately too dry to plant them last year so they have wintered on Since late November, a group of volunteers have been my allotment, but they are now in place and should grow meeting each Sunday morning and clearing the verges fairly rapidly over the next few years. on either side of the walk and cycle way that was built The hives in the apiary are fairly quiet at the time of a few years back leading to Arundel Station. Its been writing, with the bees generally clustered around the hard work as weeds, grasses and nettles have taken queens inside, only making brief appearances on the a firm foothold over the last few years (at the time of warmest winter days. It won’t be long however before writing over 50 black bin bags full have been removed, the queens start laying thousands of eggs again and and there will probably be double this number before the bee numbers will rapidly increase. With the hopeful everything has been dug up), but the plan is to seed retreat of Covid, we are hoping this summer to be able both sides of the path with wildflowers in early Spring to show interested local residents what the inside of with the planting of bulbs and plugs in subsequent a hive looks like during our weekly hive examinations years, thereby creating a much more pleasant and explain what the bees are doing- maybe some who environment while also providing a much needed food come to look will become interested enough to become source for pollinators. If this is successful, the next stage beekeepers themselves? will be clearing the grass area next to the taxi rank and Lastly, and I know this has been mentioned a few times seeding and planting to make the station concourse in the past, the plan for installing planters of pollinator look more attractive. Volunteers for this work are very friendly plants in the town looks like it’s finally going welcome- we currently meet at 10:00am every Sunday to happen. These are the old wooden and metal cattle morning on the walkway and will continue to do so until troughs that have been kindly donated by Angmering the work is done, so please come and join in if you have Estate. It’s a complicated process involving applications an hour or two to spare- all help is much appreciated. for licences, insurance etc, plus of course securing them, filling them with soil, planting and watering and this has been much complicated by Covid, but I’m hopeful that they will be in place this summer. There is already one in situ tucked away at the edge of the Pollinators Garden opposite the Arundel Museum, in case anyone is curious to see what they look like. Filled with flowers, they not only will provide for pollinators, but will also help our town look even more attractive than it already is! 15

The Bell | SPRING 2022 Debbie Lyall The Right to Work 16

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2022 | The Bell by Oliver Hawkins cluster of two hundred pubs all over the country, one of which, significantly, was the Eagle in Tarrant Street. ‘Work is more fun than fun’ Noel Coward Debbie insists that it was the friendliness of the people she met every day in Arundel that decided her to make NOEL Coward may not be the most typical her home here. With her track record in corporate representative of the working man, but his axiom holds training she was invited to lecture in business studies at true. Most would agree that the opportunity to work is an Chichester College, at the same time gaining teaching essential element for a healthy lifestyle. Around 20% of qualifications, but it was a chance encounter at the working age adults in the UK have some kind of limiting, college that set her off on what would become her long-term illness, impairment or disability, and levels of principal mission. Taking a different route one day employment for them are way below average. Of the one through the college buildings she found herself in and a half million people with what are termed learning the Learning Disabilities Department and was soon in difficulties, less than 6% are in work. This depressing conversation with two students with Downs Syndrome. statistic has far- reaching repercussions: most often it Chichester, like most further education colleges, had leads to unfulfilled lives that lack choice, opportunities, built up provision for such students with learning challenges, socialising and friendships, and at worst it disabilities in the wake of national policies to transfer leads to a greatly increased chance of mental health students from special institutions into lives within illness. Things are better than they were. More inclusivity the community which included education. Debbie in education, particularly at the level of further education, was sufficiently intrigued to volunteer to help in the combined with appropriate legislation and improvement department, transferring to it in due course, and soon in employment practices have led to a significant year- becoming the departmental manager. on-year increase in jobs for those with disabilities, but the challenge remains. It was from a background in Debbie moved to Highbury College, back to Chichester, further education that Debbie Lyall moved from teaching and then back to Highbury, completing post-graduate young people with learning disabilities and behavioural studies in special needs education and developing a problems, to providing supported work opportunities network of links with local companies, Social Services for them, by setting up The Right To Work Community and other agencies. However this left Debbie increasingly Interest Company (CIC). Working in partnership with dissatisfied with the low progression of her students into local businesses and institutions, her organisation offers proper employment. Things came to a head when the a range of opportunities for people who can and want to College management backed out of a collaborative project work, but need support to do so. planned with Staunton Country Park, Debbie made the bold decision to go it alone, setting up The Right to Work Though a long-term Arundel resident Debbie was born CIC. That initial project has been transformed into a major in Suffolk. Her father, descended from Devon fishermen, work opportunity for people with learning disabilities. was working in the prison service, but decided to Staunton is a 1000 acre Regency landscaped parkland and move south. As Debbie relates it he stopped off at the forest on the edge of Portsmouth, where through Debbie’s Battersea Dogs’ Home to pick up an Alsation and settled enterprise around 40 people each day do essential work in Hampshire where he set up what was to become a and are seen as an integral and important part of the highly successful security company. Despite a happy overall staff team. Jobs include growing and harvesting and comfortable home life Debbie reckons she had vegetables to be sold in the Staunton shop, lawn mowing, no role model for her own future, knowing no women litter picking and garden maintenance, collecting and who had careers, and with no expectation that anyone preparing firewood, and a range of other crafts connected within her peer group could attend university. At her with outdoor life. A whole new area of land is currently tough secondary school she did her best to stay in the being developed as a community garden and orchard, and background and left with minimal qualifications. But it would be difficult to imagine a more inspiring landscape in the world of work she began to flourish. In a job in which to find employment. selling advertising space for the West Sussex Gazette newspaper group, she so impressed a client from The next project for The Right to Work to tackle was Whitbread’s Brewery that she landed up being offered with Hewitt’s Cafe in Emsworth. Originally set up to the job she was supposed to be advertising. Once in provide a lunch club for local pensioners the cafe had post she credits her rapid promotion to the company’s worked previously with Debbie and her students. When need for female representation in an industry hitherto the Community First charity which managed the cafe almost exclusively male, and she soon found herself pulled out of the organisation Debbie was able to take it running nationwide sales and management training. In on, gradually extending its range of services. Persuading due course she moved to work independently, running a the elderly locals to feel comfortable being served by young people with learning disabilities was not too great a problem, and the cafe is now able to develop in 17

The Bell | SPRING 2022 its staff a whole range of hospitality and catering skills, from food preparation and cooking to customer service, ARUNDEL CATHEDRAL CENTRE cleaning and clearing. Debbie is at pains to stress how helpful the various authorities and agencies, such as The ideal venue to cater for your Havant Council and local social services, have been in special occasion or event! facilitating her activities, but it’s clear that behind the scenes of any such enterprise an enormous amount of St. Mary's Hall, seating 100 - 120 sensitive and demanding work has to be done meeting St. Philip Howard Hall, seating 60 and negotiating with the other interested parties. Cashman Room, seating 30 The third main strand to the Right to Work CIC is the Art Hire includes heating, use of kitchen Invisible initiative, giving the opportunity to young people and equipment, PA and loop system. to develop their artistic potential within a vibrant design workshop. It’s been said that an artist is not a special Please call 01903 882 297 kind of person, but that each person is a special kind of or email [email protected] artist. The success of Art Invisible bears this out. Starting for information on prices,availability, in premises at Staunton Park and moving later to rooms at Hewitt’s Cafe, those working with the Right to Work terms and conditions. teams are supported and guided by talented artists who work hard to stretch and challenge each individual, giving London Road, Arundel, W. Sussex BN18 9BA artistic advice and increasing knowledge of famous artists and artistic styles – ensuring that everyone continues Open Tuesday - Saturday to develop and grow. Subjects include art and design in [email protected] various media, with the artists benefiting from the sales www.theparsonstable.co.uk of designed items in the Hewitt’s shop, or through sales 2-8 Castle Mews, Tarrant Street, of artworks wherever exhibition opportunities occur. In Arundel BN18 9DG Tel : 01903 883477 the early years Debbie would organise shows in Arundel, as part of the Festival Gallery Trail, but now the net is • Architectural and Building cast much wider, with the University of Chichester and a Surveying services particularly strong collaboration with the Pallant House Gallery and its association with Outside In, a national • Planning and Listed building charity that aims to provide a platform for artists who applications face significant barriers. It must have been enormously gratifying to all at The Right to Work to see the Director of • Pre-acquisition surveys and the Art Invisible team awarded the British Empire Medal Party wall surveyors in the recent New Year’s Honours list for her work in this area. In addition to the success of the artists in terms of RURAL • URBAN • COASTAL • HISTORIC • CONTEMPORARY sales, Debbie has witnessed dramatic improvements in the individuals’ confidence and social skills. Some who Contact Kevin or Phil on 01243 774764 at first would be unwilling to enter a room with other [email protected] people in it are now active ambassadors for Outside In. www.sloaneandbrown.co.uk In one of the most remarkable cases a young man whose difficult behaviour had alienated him from his own family 18 has progressed to a stage where his father can now regard him as his best friend. Under the current editorship The Bell has profiled well over a hundred Arundel individuals, all living interesting and productive lives. A few have known since childhood what they wanted to become, but in most cases their young selves would have been astonished to see where their careers would lead. The Right to Work enterprise is now well established, with a staff of 24 of whom 16 have learning disabilities, and a bright future. But how little idea Debbie would have had, as she took a random route home out of Chichester College, that a casual conversation with two young people would lead to such a fruitful outcome.

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The Bell | SPRING 2022 Can Real Food Reign Sovereign Again? Burpham resident Deborah O’Reilly is an comes from. There is helping of enlightened economics ex-corporate responsibility adviser, an that goes with it too. The New Economics Foundation animal lover and eco-activist. Here she has calculated that £10 spent in a local food business is examines some of the issues around our worth almost £25 to the local economy. This is what the ability to obtain ‘real food’ not sourced idea of food sovereignty is about – returning control of via multi-national corporations. what is grown and how to growers and communities. SEEING scant or empty shelves at Arundel’s local Any visit to a Farmers Market is a lively demonstration Co-operative store these days, brings home our that people are interested in food. But these markets vulnerability to food imports. The UK only produces occur usually just once a month. How can citizens get about 20% of the fruit it consumes and 56 % of access to good, ethical local food more regularly? Who vegetables. This not an intelligent position to be in. After from and how do we find out about them? It’s not so a long honeymoon, the dominance of the supermarkets easy. A look at the on-line local food producer map Big and the global, cheap- food culture (eight companies Barn (discovered as a well-hidden link on the National control eighty percent of our food supply) now looks Park’s website) shows just a few, some of them very more like an unhappy marriage of over-exploited specialised, some very well-known like Pallants. farmers, animals & land and long, vulnerable supply chains. Add to that the legally sanctified absurdities of For something a bit different, step in innovative local food international trade, where equivalent produce or even business models like The Sussex Peasant (SP). This thriving live animals are imported and exported by the same and passionate enterprise is based around a collective countries, sometimes from the other end of the globe, of fifteen Sussex small farmers. Eighty percent of their often, to low standards. produce is organic and SP acts as an ethical distributor and marketer for them, taking the risk of guaranteeing farmers The problems created by industrial agriculture are the sales, collecting the produce and selling it from various complex and global. It’s hard to conclude if Big- mobile farm shops on weekly pitches secured in towns Ag’s formula works for anyone except multinational around West Sussex, including in Arundel, every Saturday. companies. What sort of dubious techniques and The Sussex Peasant is very deliberately a custodian chemicals must be used to keep such highly-travelled of certain values and practices – low or no chemicals, foods “fresh” after days or weeks? What sort of callous biodiversity enhancement, high animal welfare. After four food culture transports sentient beings to their deaths, years, they now have five mobile farm shops, waste is in terrible conditions for days or weeks? Does being minimal and anything unsold is given to local food banks or so dependent on food that is so hard on animals, the if meat, it is frozen. Another key aspect of their approach is environment and our gut biomes really make any sense? the traceability of the farms from whom they source – all What does it say about us that we accept this machine- are lovingly described on their website – the one closest to like, corporate food landscape? Arundel is Nutbourne Nursery near Pulborough, noted for their many different & flavourful tomato varieties, grown Bring The Stolen Harvest Back Home pesticide free. If we are keen to “reclaim the stolen harvest” as Indian In this age of homogenous anonymity, isn’t it more food campaigner Vandana Shiva describes it, doesn’t interesting and comforting to know where our food buying more local food seem like part of the answer? comes from and that it didn’t originate hundreds or And not just from a food security viewpoint. There are thousands of miles away? numerous studies advocating wide- ranging benefits of local food systems, including, less air miles, higher Core to Sussex Peasant’s philosophy is that good freshness and nutrient content, better custodianship food, well farmed creates a type of “social glue”. Ed of the land and animals, more biodiversity and a closer Johnstone, co-founder stated “We want to restore a connection between consumers and where their food local food network, the land the produce grows on and its farmers, into pivotal roles within their community. With 20

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2022 | The Bell greater respect for the land and farmers, careers Infrastructure Fund, which would enable new in agriculture and land stewardship could once and upcoming farmers to access the funds, land, again be seen by young people as a desirable and equipment, know-how and marketing support worthwhile pursuit”. that is needed to create viable local and regional food webs. Around West Sussex there are other inspiring examples to unearth, operating at different In the meantime, how could we be part of this? scales of output, many going it alone to tackle the most Ed from Sussex Peasant would like us to think more about pernicious/negative aspects of the agri- food system like where our food comes from, prioritise what is locally- pesticides, waste, food miles, plastics. These include The grown and eat seasonally. As well as shopping more from Room, at Nutbourne Place Farm which produces and independents, why not let your MP know that you would retails on a small scale, sustainably without chemicals like to see real government support for smaller scale, local and almost no plastic and with an educational mission growing and distribution projects? For those who can too. Wayside Organics, Oving offers Soil Association afford it, perhaps become an investor in social enterprises standard fresh vegetables and fruit with a “deep green” that aim to secure cultivable land for local food approach and a belief that farming can be light on the production and new –entrant farmers, before it is forever land and wildlife. As they say “there’s more to a veg priced out of the market for anything other than housing box than the veg”. The Greenhouse at Stane Street, development? The Ecological Land Co-operative and the Pulborough, calls itself a “back to basics” grocery and Vegan Land Movement are two innovative models trying one of its special features is how it minimises the use to do just that. A step further in engagement would be of plastics with refills of household cleaning products to take a whole town approach to using all available, into your own containers. They also carry a huge range useful space to grow vegetables and fruit for everyone. of loose dried foods from cereals and beans to herbs & Started in Todmorden, Yorkshire, Incredible Edibles has spices, handily dispensed into your own bags. now become a growing and educational network of towns aiming to “create kind, confident and connected If we really want to give ourselves greater control over the communities through the power of food”. Perhaps availability and quality of what we eat and even to rebuild Arundel could join this network? our relationship with food, it seems we need many more small businesses and networks like these. What can be In the famous and wise words of Vandana Shiva- “The done to support their emergence and success? time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the The Farmworkers Alliance, Sustain and RSPB are highest gift and the most revolutionary act”. lobbying government to establish a Local Food 21

The Bell | SPRING 2022 Arundel Town Council From the Mayor’s diary, Autumn-Winter 2021/22 New Councillors Presentation to Centenarian November 11th: November 23rd: Presentation to Lilian Charman We unanimously (née Lawrence), the oldest living ‘mullet’. Lilian’s co-opt two new family attend. Lilian tells us how her father came to councillors onto Arundel as a stone mason at the castle, met her Arundel Town mother and never left. She described dances in the Council. Carolyn Atherley Chamber in the 1930s and swimming at the Kenney and Oscar Lido and in the Arun until she was in her 80s. We Ashton-Konig bring present her with a salver engraved “100 Years young valuable experience and still going strong”. and convince us that they can help Community Awards us to achieve our objectives. December 2nd: Following resident Carolyn and Oscar in their ceremonial robes which nominations we make date from 1846 a posthumous award to Dee Gillin which is Remembrance received by her son Sunday Jason. The Young Peoples’ awards go November 14th: to James Gray for Thankfully back to outstanding work normal this year. on the environment and to Izzy Johnson for her Many veterans support to the 1st Arundel Rainbows. Community join the traditional Recognition Certificates are presented to Bob procession with Tanner (for his work as Tree Warden and for the the Macebearer, Garden Association), John Paton (for reviving the Councillors, Arundel Victoria Institute) and Sharon Blaikie (for making the MP Andrew Griffith 2021 Festival happen and for her leadership of the and Arundel Chamber of Commerce). The Community Cup is churches. Pupils awarded to John Munro, whose citation includes his from both Arundel work in founding and leading the Macular Support primary schools Group in Arundel. Judging by the applause all of the read excellent awards are very popular. John is the first winner who poems that they have written themselves. First Aid Training November 21st: Town Hall staff and some councillors completed their First Aid Training with Platinum Ambulance Service. The day ends on a high when our trainer announces that we are the first-ever class in which everyone has passed their test with 100%. 22

SPRING 2022 | The Bell is allowed to take the cup home, which adds £5 to Town’s our annual insurance bill! Christmas Outdoor Display Arundel at Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony Competition December 3rd: December 17th: After threats of We meet Father lockdown, there Christmas and is much relief Charles Smiles that we can go whose Tuc Tuc is now decorated with Christmas ahead and many lights. We start by visiting Bagel & Coffee, joint- people come to winner of the best business display and present them the tree lighting. with a £100 cheque for their chosen charity-Chestnut We use the Tree House-and then go to the other joint-winner, opportunity to raise money for our local charities and Spencer Swaffer Antiques, whose chosen charity is Elevenses collects £250 with only a single collection Diagnostic Dogs. Father Christmas and I then head box. MP Andrew Griffith speaks, carols are sung and off in the Tuc Tuc and lots of excited children are Canons David Twinley and David Parmiter lead the brought out to see us, although most likely just to prayers and bless the tree. I thank Sharon Blaikie and see Father Christmas! The prize goes to a fabulous her team yet again, this time for all they have done display at 19 Torton Hill Road, whose chosen charity to prepare the Chamber of Commerce ‘Arundel at is also Chestnut Tree House. Christmas’ programme. December Farmers Christmas Wreath Workshop Market December 6th: Our Festive Wreath-Making December 18th: Workshop goes very well and it is a good kick-off Another highly successful event for the plan to host more resident events in market, well-attended the Town Hall. It is a beautiful building and should be without feeling used more. overcrowded. Traders like the new stalls we have purchased with support Schools Christmas from Arun District Council. Some traders tell us that Card Competition Arundel is the best market they attend. Residents say they are pleased that we went ahead with the market December 13th: We lay despite the Omicron surge. out the children’s cards in the Atherley Chamber. Children’s Christmas Craft Morning There is outstanding artistic talent in both schools, and December 20th: We host our first Children’s we struggle to choose the Christmas Craft Morning including a story read by winners. Eventually we get Father Christmas and lots of Christmas activities. there, and Sharon Blaikie and The Town Hall event team are now considering I visit both schools to present turning the building into a Winter Wonderland next the prizes on the last day of term. December. Grant Stop Press Presentation to Lifecentre January 18th: National Highways launch their 8-week A27 Arundel Bypass consultation in our Town December 14th: Hall. They will then apply for a Development Consent For Lifecentre’s Order in September. PR purposes we present a giant January 26th: Arun District Council debate our cheque to CEO Kathryn Slatter on the Atherley 1,500 signature petition asking for support for a safe Chamber terrace. Kathryn speaks to us about the Arundel-Ford cycle and walking path. The result is work Lifecentre is doing in Sussex. As Commander they vote unanimously in favour of our project. We John Carter of Sussex Police commented recently, are working well with ADC in a number of areas to whilst the police can pursue the perpetrators of achieve positive outcomes for our town. sexual crimes we need a social shift in society to address violence against women and girls. ARUNDEL TOWN COUNCIL “The Town inspired by Heritage and Nature” 23

The Bell | SPRING 2022 JS BACH ST JOHN PAS S I ON F R I DAY 1 5 A P R I L 2 0 2 2 1 9 . 0 0 St Ni c h o la s ’ Ch u rc h , A r u n de l, B N1 8 9AT Philippa Hyde Soprano Simon Wall Evangelist Tim Morgan Alto Alex Ashworth Christus Peter Davoren Tenor Edward Price Pilate THE HANOVER BAND CHORUS THE HANOVER BAND Andrew Arthur director/organ Tickets and further information from These concerts are promoted by T H E H A N OV E R B A N D. C O M The Hanover Band Foundation TELEPHONE: 0333 666 3366 (Bookings Only) Registered Charity No: 11338061 Tarrant Place, 65 Tarrant Street, Arundel BN18 9DJ 24

Under the www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2022 | The Bell Greenwood Tree by Bob Tanner, Arundel Tree Warden Centuries of Arundel folk have valued trees and sailing ships were probably built, and certainly repaired, in the ARUNDEL has always been a green place, as early Port of Arundel by local craftsmen using local timber. paintings and drawings testify. They show banks of None of old Arundel’s buildings could have been built trees surrounding the Castle and stretching towards without a plentiful supply of wood from the forests the town’s centre. The flat farmland to the south of the of West Sussex out of which huge oaks were once town has long had oak trees, planted as hedgerows to dragged by teams of oxen to shipbuilders in Chatham’s delineate field boundaries and the so-called Duke’s Ride Naval dockyards. And one cannot ignore the fact that was an avenue of oaks stretching westwards from the wood burning on the home hearth was the only way Castle. Several of them survive today. of cooking and heating, and surviving bitter winters, for centuries. Trees have therefore been of vital By the nineteenth century, Duke Henry was planting importance locally. many more trees along the new road, now called Mill Road, leading to the dairy, and beyond. Today we are learning to value and appreciate trees for different reasons. We understand their importance as Bob Tanner and Trevor Andrews © Nigel Cull 25

The Bell | SPRING 2022 tree work is proposed in planning applications and to encourage and support the general public. we seek to counter climate change, restore biodiversity and improve our own mental health and well-being. Fiona and Trevor are already making significant But our trees have never been so under threat as they contributions and have been welcomed by Julie Bolton, are today as plant viruses and insect pests threaten to the County Arboriculturist who has provided training bring about the disappearance of whole species. We materials and other support. lost our beautiful English Elms a couple of decades ago and now Common Ash trees are fast disappearing as The current and on-going tree planting programme Ash Dieback disease takes hold. Climate change is also started in 2019 when the Town Council bought twelve having a significant effect. The 1987 hurricane devasted young Lime trees to replace dead and dying trees trees in Southern England and strengthening gales along Mill Road. At the same time, Arundel’s Gardens topple more with increasing regularity. The flooding risk Association funded two dozen Lime saplings that has to be carefully managed too as trees of any age will were planted by children at our two local schools. simply drown if having to stand in floodwater for long. The children have “taken possession” of the trees But enough of all this doom and gloom as there is they planted and can follow their growth into mutual a lot of good news, encouraging developments and maturity. When large enough, these trees can be used local initiatives, all designed to counter the expected as further replacements are required on Mill Road. losses and to accelerate the essential new tree planting programmes locally. In 2020, thirty-five young Lime trees were quickly Arundel Town Council is fully committed to keep Arundel sponsored by local residents, and these helped to fill as a green, friendly place, popular with residents further gaps in Mill Road. Now three more are about and visitors alike for its many qualities, including its to be planted following further sponsorship. That will treescape. I was appointed Arundel’s first Tree Warden complete the restoration of Arundel’s beautiful double about six years ago and two Assistant Tree Wardens, avenue of Lime trees for the time being, but other Fiona Keating and Trevor Andrews, have now joined me. planting programmes are in the pipeline, including in Our role is to provide a focus of attention on all tree- the grass verge along part of Canada Road where several related matters locally, to advise the Town Council when trees once stood until the 1987 hurricane. 26 Look out for the fundraising appeal in the next edition of The Bell, and elsewhere. The QGC is a unique, UK- wide tree planting initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022, by inviting people to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee.” By the end of 2021, the Town Council had set aside £2,000 for tree planting, as part of the Queens Green Canopy (QGC). The QGC is a unique, UK-wide tree planting initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022, by inviting people to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee.” This decision by the Town Council is thought to be the first firm indication of town and parish council support in West Sussex and hopefully the first of many. Once again, the ancient borough of Arundel is leading the way for others, so says Dr John Godfrey, the West Sussex Deputy Lieutenant (DL) who is chairing the QGC Committee of DLs driving the QGC initiative nationally. The Town Council’s current plans include the planting of several individual specimen trees before the end of the 2022 planting seasons which run from October to March each year. They are:-

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www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2022 | The Bell 1. A significant tree was planted by the Mayor of 4. A tree to replace one lost in Jubilee Gardens and Arundel on 6th February in Jubilee Gardens to mark planted to commemorate the Festival of Britain in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The Amelanchier x 1951, will be planted there. Grandiflora “Robin Hill” forms a dense, upright small tree, spreading with age. The pale pink flowers open The search continues for a suitable site for the first from pink buds then fade to white and are followed Arundel Tree Nursery where seedlings and young by dark purple berries. The foliage opens bronzy, saplings can be allowed to grow on until large enough to turns green in summer and produces orange and red be planted in Arundel’s many green spaces. shades in autumn. Already, over fifty saplings have been donated and are 2. A tree in memory of all Covid-19 victims will be safely heeled-in on a local allotment. planted in Arundel. The precise type of tree, location and timing have still to be decided but a central Arundel has many notable Arundel site is preferred. Davidii involucrata may Trees and, jointly with local be appropriate. The so-called handkerchief tree is resident Marty Lovell, an a medium-sized deciduous tree with bright green, App has been developed broadly ovate leaves to 15cm in length. Flowers very which allows the user with small, in rounded heads 2cm in width, held within a a mobile phone to listen to a pair of creamy-white, ovate bracts to 20cm in length. commentary describing some These white bracts resemble handkerchiefs hanging of them. on the tree’s branches Arundel has many notable Trees and, jointly with local 3. To say “thank you” from the people of Arundel to resident Marty Lovell, an App has been developed the NHS staff and volunteers working throughout which allows the user with a mobile phone to listen to a the pandemic, a suitable tree will be planted, commentary describing some of them. perhaps within the grounds of the Arundel Surgery. (Subject to consultation). As you wander around Arundel you will see a great variety of trees. Ever wondered what they are, their characteristics, historical significance and uses? Now you can enjoy a guided tour of some of the most “Notable Trees of Arundel”. Here the listener is led around the town taking in various stunning specimen trees. The narrative is supported by photographs to aid identification and the tour can be accessed by using the following link: https://www.visitarundel.co.uk/notable-trees-of- arundel/ This tour is soon to be available on a mobile phone App which will be free to download. Check it out at IZI Travel. The Arundel Tree Fund has been opened to receive donations and sponsorship money for further tree planting work in Arundel. If you would like to donate to the Tree Fund you may do so on-line using the following information:- Name: Arundel Tree Fund Sort code: 30-95-09 Account number: 00734056 Thank you very much. Your generosity will help to ensure Arundel remains the green and pleasant place for residents and visitors to enjoy for many years to come. 29

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The Bell | SPRING 2022 Easter Messages from the Churches AS the sight and sound of the fireworks on AS I write this the sun is shining, the New Year’s Eve fade away and the sun rises evenings lengthening, and 2022 is in full on the first day of January, many of us take swing. We are reassured in the press that stock of things. As we stand at the dawn of a this time we really are coming to the end new year we make resolutions—lose some of restrictions (if we remain cautious), that weight, exercise more, smile more often, stop being such travel will become possible again (if we a gossip… the list is endless. But, as many of us know only choose carefully), and follow the rules and regulations. too well, these resolutions rarely stick. A survey I chanced We are hoping to take a break in April, but then we had it upon over the New Year found that as many as 23% of booked for 2020, then for 2021, so who knows? people abandon their good intentions within a week. Maybe you are hoping to get away for a break this Why? Lack of willpower? Too many temptations? Easter as well. One thing is for certain, it won’t be For Christians, it’s the season of Lent, the six weeks leading as easy or straightforward as pre-covid or pre-brexit up to Easter, that moves us to pause, reflect and re- days, when we just got in the car or jumped on a plane orientate our spiritual lives – to step off the broad and easy and visited just about anywhere in Europe without way that leads to destruction and return to the narrow way hindrance. Now we have to make sure there are no that leads to life as Jesus so vividly described it. tests we have to take before departure, fill in the correct Lent is modelled on Jesus’ own forty days and nights in forms, insurances, and have all our documentation fully the wilderness. There, he was tempted to embrace the completed and up to date. After all, it would be awful seductive power and honour of this world – a power and to spend weeks planning and hours travelling, just to be honour that’s focussed on selfish desire. But he resisted. stopped by border control and told we are not allowed How? By focussing on the will of God – a will that is to enter. Just ask Novak Djokovic! Even all his fame and centred on self-giving love not selfish desires. It was this wealth and talent could not prevail against the entrance focus – this unmoving point of reference that enabled requirements of the Australian government. him to remain faithful and keep going through the times The Bible tells us we are all on a journey, travelling to our of temptation and privation. This year we celebrate the final destination. And it poses the following questions: Do Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. During the seventy-five years of you know where you are going? Do you know how to get her reign the Queen has no doubt enjoyed many highlights there? Do you have the right ‘entry documents’? – moments of pleasure and joy. And yet even the Queen Jesus told his disciples “In my Father’s house are many rooms; doesn’t live a charmed life. Like you and me she has also if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to experienced times of great pain. But what must have made prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for these times all the more difficult to bear is that they’ve been you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also played out in the full glare of the media. may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I What keeps her going? As she has made clear, it is her am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where faith in Jesus Christ. He is her focus – the fixed reference you are going, so how can we know the way?” that enables her to live out her promise to serve her Do you know where you are going? Jesus says that the people to the end of her life. No doubt it’s something final destination is His Father’s house. that she inherited from her father, King George VI, who at Do you know the way there? Jesus said he is going to the outbreak of war quoted the words of Minnie Louise prepare a place for us, and he will take us there. Haskins: And I said to the man who stood at the gate of Do you have the right entry documents? Jesus says he is the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the the only one we can get them from. unknown.” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and Jesus answered “I am the way, and the truth and the life. put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you No one comes to the Father except through me.” better than light and safer than a known way.” This conversation took place in the upper room, just As we journey through Lent towards the bright light before Jesus was taken to be crucified that first Good of Easter, this is the perfect time for all of us to reflect Friday. That event was what he meant when he said he on our lives – who we truly are – and focus on the one was going to prepare a place. The cross, the tomb and who not only gives us life and being, but also gives the resurrection was the preparation of our place there. meaning to our lives. The one who, through the death Why? The Bible tells us that God created us to have a and resurrection of Christ, gives us true life. For not relationship with Him, but we said thanks, but no thanks. only does this focus bring joy, contentment, peace We refused His authority over us, in some cases we denied and fulfilment such as the world can never give, it His very existence. And God cannot, will not tolerate that. also enables us to keep going through the challenges, But He loves us, He still wants that relationship. So He temptations and pain that life inevitably throws at us. sent His beloved Son to show us how much he loves us, by May God bless you. CANON DAVID TWINLEY St Nicholas Arundel 34

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2022 | The Bell taking the place we deserve for our rebellion, separating In a few weeks’ time we will celebrate the feast day of St. himself from the Father he had been with since before Richard of Chichester and this is how a tribute in one of our the beginning of time, so we could take up our place in His liturgical books describes him: There was something big house. If we don’t want a relationship with Him, then we and impressive about St. Richard, something large, warm can choose not to have it. Jesus invites us in, but we have and comfortable. If the Church had not seen fit to canonise to choose whether to accept the invitation. him, he would certainly have been canonised by popular opinion, for he was just the sort of man whom people loved God’s house is only a suitable residence for those who and revered. A human being fully alive, Glory to God. love and trust God. The only way we can enter into it is Happy Easter. by accepting the personal invitation of the Son, Jesus Christ. To acknowledge that our entry papers cannot be CANON DAVID PARMITER filled in except by him. It doesn’t matter what we have Arundel Cathedral achieved in life, how much money we have made, unless we accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour we cannot enter. Happenings This Easter, why not come along to Arundel Baptist BIRTHS & BAPTISMS church, to one of the services or events, and find out more about this most amazing offer and invitation, and 23-Oct Jonah Thomas Elphick maybe start out on the most incredible journey of all. 23-Oct Edie Rose Elphick 24-Oct Frank Albert Iarlaith Davitt PASTOR JIM BRADDOCK 24-Oct Sadie Rosalie Muireann Davitt Arundel Baptist Church 30-Oct James Robert Laurence Parker 30-Oct Ruby Grace Margaret Monk HAPPY Easter! Those two words point to 31-Oct Georgia Taylor Mumby the foundation of our Christian faith that 31-Oct Gracie Caitlyn Mumby Jesus died on the Cross and rose again on the 19-Dec Maja Alice Cecile Wright third day in accordance with the scriptures. 09-Jan Giacomo George Binstead This has enormous significance for our lives 09-Jan Amelia Michaela Lawman and we celebrate for a good while. The Easter season 09-Jan Jessica Raphaela Lawman stretches to the Feast of Pentecost, this year celebrated 09-Jan Alettia May Mustchin on Sunday 5th June. This coincides with the extra bank holiday to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We give MARRIAGES thanks to God for Her Majesty’s service and send her our congratulations and prayers. The long Easter season is a 18-Dec William Merrell & Erin O'Donnell reminder to us to live its message, a life infused with the presence of the risen Jesus. St Irenaeus (130-202AD) says DEATHS/FUNERALS that the glory of God is a human being fully alive and that is a wonderful description of how we should celebrate Easter. 07-Sep Violet Cortinas-Rosell (92) To me the models of fully alive people are the saints 25-Sep Pastor Steve Lomas (66) and there will be plenty who have not made it to formal canonisation- I am sure we have all met people who fall 15-Oct Matthew Rosenfeld (39) into that category. The saints are people who enhance life through their openness to God and service of humanity, 04-Nov Freda Jackman (96) although they may not always do this in the obvious ways. They often start their work in a little corner of the world 05-Nov Deirdre ‘Dee’ Gaye Gillan (83) doing what they can for those who come to them in need. Through the gift of God, which we see in the power of 05-Nov John Denman (66) the resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit their work and influence grows and more people are inspired 09-Nov Margaret Atkinson (87) to dedicate their lives to the work they have taken on. Mother Theresa would be a good example of how God 25-Nov Ellen Barbara Goddard (89) works through the saints. Easter invites us to be fully alive and shows us that the path to this is openness to God, 05-Dec Jacqueline Cicely Brassfield (83) through faith in the power of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead and in the Holy Spirit coming to us through 09-Dec Jane Agger Riggs (90) our prayer. The aim of our prayer is that God works through our lives. 28-Dec Robert 'Robbie' Rosenfeld (78) Through prayer God raises us up to be fully alive so he 30-Dec Elizabeth Willcocks (91) can be seen in our lives and others can give glory to him. 05-Jan Margaret Hartigan (91) INTERMENT OF ASHES 29-Oct Detta O’Cathain 22-Dec Donald Harman 35

The Bell | SPRING 2022 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 Family Service 6.30pm Communion 2nd Sunday 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 36

SPRING 2022 | The Bell Forthcoming Events The Ascension of the Lord on 26th May is celebrated with a Sung Mass at 7.00pm ARUNDEL CATHEDRAL Former Archbishop Rowan Williams visits Arundel on 28th & MARCH 29th May. There will be a Friends of St. Nicholas event on the 28th & the Bishop will preach on Sunday 29th. 5th March TBC Diocesan Rite of Election Service Lent/Easter Services 12th March 1.00pm Organ Recital by Robert Sholl Anglican See 2021 Organ Concerts – Arundel Cathedral 01 Mar Shrove Tues 6.30pm Mass followed by a Pancake 17th March 11.00am Cathedral Chapter of Canons’ Mass & Party (reservation required) Meeting 02 Mar Ash Weds 10.00am Holy Communion (Traditional) 19th March 7.30pm Angmering Chorale Concert with imposition of ashes Angmering Chorale – Home Page 7.00pm Sung Mass with imposition of ashes (theangmeringchorale.org.uk) 04 Mar 7.00pm Stations of the Cross APRIL 18 Mar 7.00pm Stations of the Cross 9th April 7.30pm Arun Choral Society Concert 27 Mar MotheringSun 8.00am Holy Communion (Traditional) Arun Choral Society 10.00am Sung Family Mass 13th April 6.00pm Diocesan Chrism Mass 3.00pm Evensong at St. Leonard’s, 23rd April 12 noon Union of Catholic Mothers Annual Mass South Stoke 24th April 11.15am Mass – visiting choir – the Plaxatol 01 Apr 7.00pm Stations of the Cross Singers 08 Apr 12.30pm Lent Lunch (funds to charity) 2.30pm St. George’s Day service with 10 Apr Palm Sun 8.00am Holy Communion (Traditional) Bishop Richard 9.00am Mass at St. Leonard’s, South Stoke 29th April Evening Diocesan Mini Walking Pilgrimage gather 10.00am Blessing of the Palms and Liturgy 30th April 10.00am Mass with walking pilgrims of the Passion 14 Apr Maundy Thurs 7.00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper MAY 15 Apr Good Fri 1.30pm Passion of the Lord 14th May 7.30pm Invicta Voices Concert. Conductor 16 Apr Holy Sat 8.00pm The Easter Vigil Matt Bamford. A concert of a cappella 17 Apr Easter Day 8.00am Holy Communiuon (Traditional) music at Arundel Cathedral in aid of 9.00am Mass of the Resurrection at St. Barnabas Hospice and Turning St. Leonard’s, South Stoke Tides. 10.00am Sung Mass of the Resurrection 29th May 3.00pm Worthing Deanery Confirmations 24 Apr 5.00pm Easter Eucharist at St. Mary Stations of the Cross take place throughout Lent on Fridays at Magdalene, Tortington 7pm, alternating between St. Nicholas’ Church & the Cathedral. All services at St. Nicholas’ Church unless otherwise shown The first Friday, 4th March, will be at St. Nicholas’ Baptist CORPUS CHRISTI 2022 15 Apr Good Fri 10.30am “An Hour at the Cross” 17 Apr Easter Sun 10.30am Easter Sunday Celebration The Feast of Corpus Christi falls in June this year & we are planning for the Carpet of Flowers to be open to the public Roman Catholic on Wednesday 15th June & Thursday 16th June, with Mass 02-Mar Ash Weds 10.00am Mass commencing at 5.30pm on the Thursday, followed hopefully by 7.00pm Mass the procession to the Castle. The Cathedral is also open while the 05-Mar 6.00pm Mass carpet is being laid on Tuesday 14th June. If you would like to get 06-Mar 1st Sun of Lent 9.15am Mass involved, please contact the Parish Office on 01903 882297. 11.15am Mass It is advisable to check the Cathedral website 11 Mar 7.00pm Stations of the Cross www.arundelcathedral.uk for more information. 25 Mar 7.00pm Stations of the Cross 08 Apr 7.00pm Stations of the Cross ST. NICHOLAS’ CHURCH 09 Apr 6.00pm Mass in the Cathedral Centre 10 Apr Palm Sun 9.15am Mass with blessing of palms Normality continues to return to St. Nicholas’. The Sunday Group 11.15am Mass with blessing of palms for all pre-teenage children is back in action, as is the Babies’ & 14 Apr Holy Thurs 8.00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper Toddlers’ Group on a Friday from 9-11am. One long planned-for followed by waiting to midnight innovation, the monthly Community Lunch, was launched on at the altar of repose 25th November. The upcoming dates are 17th March, 28th April 11.50pm Compline & 19th May. Continuing the theme of food, a Pancake Party is 15 Apr Good Fri 10.00am Stations of the Cross planned after the evening service on Shrove Tuesday. 3.00pm The Passion – Collection for Holy Canon David continues his dedicated pastoral care, taking Places Home Communion to those unable to attend services. He also 16 Apr Holy Sat 8.30pm Easter Vigil & First Mass of the visits the Priory twice a month for the same purpose. Resurrection Choral Evensong will return in April, on the first Sunday of the 17 Apr Easter Sun 9.15am Mass month at 6pm. 11.15am Mass 37

The Bell | SPRING 2022 The Parsons Table In our monthly series of recipes from TPT zest. Using a wooden spoon or spatula work the Lee Parsons celebrates the wonderful ingredients into the potato until a stiff paste. This should flavour of wild garlic, growing in our take no longer than 1-2 minutes. Be careful not to over hedgerows from March to June. Here it is work it as it will affect the texture of the finished gnocchi. turned into a delicious pesto to be served Divide the potato mix into 8 even pieces. with gnocchi. Enjoy! On a flour dusked surface roll each piece of gnocchi dough into the approximate thickness of wine bottle corks. Gently lower the rolled gnocchi into the boiling salted water. Simmer until the gnocchi has risen to the surface. Allow to float for 1 minute. Remove from the water using a spider or slotted spoon. Lay the cooked gnocchi onto a lightly oiled tray and allow to cool in the fridge for half an hour. Once cool cut into approximately 1inch lengths. Store until required. WILD GARLIC PESTO Yields 300ml 100g wild garlic – freshly picked 30g parsley – flat Italian 1pc garlic clove –finely chopped 10g(1 tbsp) pine nuts, roasted 250ml extra yirgin olive oil POTATO & SOFT HERB GNOCCHI WITH WILD GARLIC & PARSLEY PESTO, RICOTTA CHEESE POTATO GNOCCHI 4 medium Maris Piper potatoes 2pc egg yolk or 60g pasteurized egg yolk 100g plain flour or gluten free can be utilised as a substitute 30g Parmesan – finely grated 2tsp chives – chopped Finely grated zest from 1/2 lemon Additional flour for dusting and shaping the gnocchi Method Wash the potatoes. Pierce the skins all over, using a fork. Bake in a preheated oven until cooked – approximately 1hour 20 minutes at 170 c. Place a pan of lightly salted water on to boil. Once soft remove potatoes from the oven and cut in half lengthways. Allow to cool for 5 minutes. Using a table spoon scoop out the soft flesh into a mixing bowl and mash. Add the flour, egg yolks, parmesan, chives and lemon 38

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School BellTheBell | SPRING2022 Arundel Cof E Primary School Andrew Griffith MP Christmas Cards Winners by Andrew Simpson Headteacher I think it is wonderful THE Covid-19 pandemic has created the largest that our local MP disruption of education systems in history, affecting takes the time to meet nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries the children in his across all continents. But even as we face a time of constituency but also continued disappointment and concern, there is reason makes the time for for optimism. Education and its focus on young people them to take part in a and the future is an inherently positive undertaking number of competitions and as I write it also feels particularly important to which he organises. In underscore that ACE’s mission to teach and to nurture this case, the annual Christmas card competition which is one we embrace and celebrate even during difficult involves a significant number of schools, to help design times such as these. Our commitment to learning a Christmas card that he personally uses and one which remains entirely undiminished: the days ahead will see gets sent to our Prime Minister too. us absolutely wholeheartedly, energetic and focused on doing what is best for Arundel’s young people. I am pleased to announce that Otillie I thought it would be a nice idea to begin this edition was the overall with a poem composed by a number of children in our winner and Poppy school. Even though it is about Christmas, it is one which was runner up. can be considered at any significant time of the year This is a wonderful for an individual and one which illustrates a message of achievement for our thinking about how others are feeling, which provides us little school. You can all hope for our youngest members of society. see some photos of the winning entries and our children receiving their Thinking of you this Christmas prizes from our MP. Christmas is such a joyous time to appreciate the ones we love. Super Milly This Christmas I want to send wishes to those we lost up above. Everyone has problems, To some, Christmas is not the same because a troubles, and griefs of loved one passed away, some sort in life. And the grief is overwhelming each and every day. When the school Christmas holidays approach, With the ever changing we miss them even more, requirements of life with Traditions never feel the same, and memories are Covid-19, this has been all we have left to adore. so present in all our We will always remember their name and never forget lives. Charity is the act their faces, of kindness to others, And as long as we keep them in our hearts, they can a conscious act of the never be erased. heart, without expecting a reward. When Charity is So this Christmas, my wish is for everyone who is carried out selflessly, it is a one-way act where a person feeling a little blue gives without a need for something in return. Charity To find some peace, joy, and comfort with everything begins with the inward recognition of a need to show you do. compassion to others. At ACE, we often see friends Merry Christmas to all our special angels up above. waiting for one another whist packing away their lunch Merry Christmas to you all. or whilst they do up their shoelaces – these small and simple acts demonstrate compassion. People learn to 40 downplay their own needs or problems, in order to extend compassion, kindness, and love to help others,

SPRING 2022 | The Bell which is in line with our vision statement: reaching out collective climate of empathy and selflessness towards to our neighbours in love. our own peers and classmates is so important and we hope, during these more challenging times, everyone Cultivating attitudes to charitable and selfless activities in our Arundel community will hold a hand out to help is achieved through the home and school environment. someone else. Children are natural born helpers, we see that with our younger pupils, but often with age their eagerness to Small Schools Southern help dwindles. At home, children learn the act of giving Area Champions by being active members of the household, contributing With over 68 schools in this to chores or jobs around the home in order to support category of schools being one and help their loving parents. All without the need or form or smaller, we came out expectation of getting something in return. as champions of the south, without conceding a single goal When it comes to teaching children to be charitable, we - or even a shot on goal- and have found that role-modeling isn’t enough, although it scoring a bucket full of goals. does help! This is primarily one of the reasons why we had We will now go onto the County charity week last term and why we are so proud of Milly. Finals to take on the east, west and north areas of East and West Sussex. Milly set up the Reverse Advent The boys were magnificent and were praised by other Calendar a number of schools for their sportsmanship, spirit, skill level and years ago and it has determination to play at a high standard. All these boys been wonderful to see have been at ACE from reception class and it clearly how this little idea has does make a difference. One of the boys said prior to blossomed and led to the tournament, \"Mr S, you have been with us since ACE families making reception class and you have made us into a team a difference to others. Families brought in certain items of players who put the team first.\" This indeed is an to support those people who are going through more interesting and wise statement from the young man challenging times in their lives. What is wonderful is that who understands the ACE philosophy of putting the this all began with one focused conversation. needs of the many before the needs of the one! Having focused, intentional Football, like all sports, is essential for people to discussions with children about understand how a society can only be successful in the charity increases the likelihood that long term if everyone thinks about what is best for the they will give or think of others. many rather than the individual. Charity builds empathy, which is a critical social and emotional skill. ACE has represented the Southern Area in over 6 It can be argued that charitable different sports now in the last twelve years, not a bad activities are important to develop achievement for a little school in Arundel which is five a sense of citizenship – in terms of times smaller than some of the biggest schools in the individual engagement, participation in collective school region. We have won on 3 occasions at that level too! activities, and engendering a broader sense of social responsibility. It has been lovely to see how Milly clearly Thank you to the Littlehampton has inspired so many of us to think of others rather than Churches and Roger just ourselves. Many of you will know that we have been very fortunate over the years I wonder what kind of world this could be if more with a vast number of people who people had this wonderful outlook on life? support the Christian ethos of the school. Roger Purdom is one of When Charity and giving is incorporated into the those wonderful people who come curriculum and school life at all key stages, like it is at in. A retired pastor, school leader ACE, we believe pupils feel a sense of responsibility to and chair of governors, he has given a lot to our school support and involve themselves. and our children. Through the work of Littlehampton Churches community project we were given comics Cultivating kindness in the learning environment is for all our children this Christmas. What a wonderful critically important. Teachers and teaching assistants at gesture of love and I would like to publicly thank all the ACE constantly praise pupils when they show generosity members of these Littlehampton Churches for thinking and empathy to others, simple things like lending a about the people in their community. classmate a pencil or sharing words of encouragement during a learning task or sporting activity. Building a 41

School BellTheBell | SPRING2022 St Philip’s Catholic Primary School by Lucy Horne Headteacher SPRING is arriving and with it comes the hope of new beginnings. As we begin the season of Spring, I would like to share with you some of the highlights of the late Autumn Term and the beginning of the Spring Term which we have particularly enjoyed. We are delighted that the children are once again able to team attended a festival in late January and won all of enjoy trips with their classmates. Reception Class went on their matches. For them, this was their first sporting event their first school outing to see the Beauty and the Beast outside of school and against other local schools. Year pantomime in December. They enjoyed watching this 4 girls team have their finals for the County in February. Christmas classic and took part fully in the ‘He’s behind Our Cross country runners and teams will represent the you!’ parts! The coach journey and day out will be the county too in February in a final which will be held at first of many they go on at St Philip’s, but the first time is Windlesham House. always extra exciting! Chichester Festival Theatre has been once again working As part of their topic ‘Storms and Shipwrecks’, Year 6 with Year 6; the children gain so much from working with visited SeaCity in Southampton where they enjoyed the the drama and scriptwriting teams from the theatre and Titanic exhibition, trying their hand at stoking the ship’s we are very fortunate to have this resource come in to boilers and steering along the Solent. Year 4 have been school offering their expertise. to Fishbourne Roman Palace this term. Always a favourite destination for pupils, the workshops help the children Every term we reward the most improved or most bring their lessons about ancient history to life and what consistent readers from each class in memory of one of they have discovered, stays with them when they return our former Reading Buddies, Mrs Sherlock. From the fund to the classroom generously set up by her husband, our star readers each receive a lovely hardback book to cherish. Last term they We are also looking forward to the recommencement were all presented with the latest publications by authors of sports competitions this term. Having been gifted such as JK Rowling and David Walliams. In January, we had new sports kits by Oscar Romero High School recently, a book fair in school. Each child was able to look through our Year 4 girls won their football tournament back in the cases of books and then put one or two titles on a November and we were ready for many more successes. Unfortunately, most fixtures had to be cancelled towards the end of last term, however we have football tournaments, cross-country meets and gymnastics competitions all planned for the coming months, which teams across the school are preparing for. Our Year 2 42

SPRING 2022 | The Bell wish list to take home. Many children were lucky enough children. To that end, in February we welcomed Zoolab to have a book bought for them and read at home. The in to school. They brought a number of exotic animals commission from the sales is given to the school and we primarily to compliment Year 3’s ‘Rainforest’ topic, but use it to replenish our stock in the library. they also visited the other year groups so that all the children could share in the experience. Children learned Despite the recent chilly weather, the children have been about the animals and their habitats, and in some cases enjoying the latest addition to our playground. This term were even able to handle them. the Wendy house, basketball hoops, goal posts, trim Year 6 were delighted to receive letters from their pen trail and climbing frame have been joined by the new pals in France. They have been corresponding with their obstacle equipment: Adventure Island! This was chosen French pen pals for the last two years; they have even by the School Council and the funding was taken from our written some phrases in French, putting into practice Sport Premium ringfenced money which is given by the what they have been learning in class. As a school government to make children more active in school. who has the award of ‘International Schools’, we have Our Year 6 School Councillors decided that they would languages high on our agenda. Year 5 have a pen pal like to raise funds to help the Friends (our PTA) who link to Spain and many of the classes research the wider haven’t been able to hold any events for the last two world in their Geography lessons. years. They wrote a letter to parents asking for donations Finally, we had an Ofsted Inspection in mid-December and managed to drum up some fantastic prizes. The raffle which saw us maintain our ‘Good’ rating. The feedback raised a wonderful total of £3,100 which will be used was very complimentary about all areas of school life. for events, trips and special visitors to benefit all of the The report commented on how engaged and focused our children are, and that they were keen to talk about how much they enjoy school, as well how kind the staff are – one child said that, “teachers are so kind and all the children try hard to be like them.” Behaviour was ‘strong’, as was provision for all abilities, including for children with additional needs. Governance and accountability were commended strengths, as was the quality of education provided. The inspector saw that the children have a good start in Reception and that this builds all the way through the school. We already know all of these things about our school, of course, but it is lovely to have outside validation, and for external people to see how super our school is. The report can be read in full on our school website https://www.stphilipsarundel.org.uk/ 43

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www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2022 | The Bell 125th Anniversary of Cricket at Arundel Castle The History In 2021 the Club managed to get through the year partly with government grants like many other businesses, IN 1895 the 15th Duke of Norfolk built a 3.5-acre but they also managed to host 45 days of cricket of amphitheatre at the Ground for Arundel Castle Cricket various forms (some behind closed doors and others Club. It was two years later that the first cricket was with restrictions). ‘Obviously the hospitality revenue was played on the ground and after his death his son Bernard, massively hit but Membership income was pretty much the 16th Duke, carried on the tradition and arranged the same as the year before which was very pleasing cricket for players from all levels of the sport. Cricket at indeed’. James explains. Arundel Castle will always be associated with Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan – Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk. It So now the focus is on this year, and it starts in March was he who, in organising matches between the 1930’s with a dinner at the Castle which has sold out. James and the 1970’s, created the unique blend between is busy planning the season. ‘We’re planning a series country house cricket and the game at near first-class of matches and events – are currently talking to the level. The Ground is generally acknowledged to be one of Lord’s Taverners, the PCA and other 3rd parties. There the most beautiful anywhere in the world and provides will be Varsity Cricket (Oxford v Cambridge – Men’s and the perfect setting for players and spectators alike. Women’s), as well as the Actors versus the Authors’. In 1975, after Duke Bernard’s death, his widow Lavinia, The Club will also partner with the Arundel Festival and Duchess of Norfolk, encouraged by family and friends, host a vintage cricket match on Friday 19th August. The decided to keep cricket going at Arundel Castle and match will replicate the first ever fixture on the Castle for this purpose the Friends of Arundel Castle Cricket Ground – West Sussex Gazette v Estate XI. Club (FACCC) was formed. Membership of the Club is currently around 800. A new development is that the catering operation at the Club will no longer be bought in. The appointment of chef In 1986 the charitable arm, the Arundel Castle Cricket Helen Smith, who also works at Pulborough Rugby Club, Foundation was formed. The Foundation is focused on has introduced in-house catering with the intention of the development and education of children and young using high end, independent & local based suppliers. people (mainly aged between 7-19 years) with a special emphasis on the disadvantaged and those deprived of On the marketing side there are also new developments opportunity. The London Schools Community Project planned with the help of a new board member, Tim supports the social, emotional and physical development Percival, who was previously the Marketing and of disadvantaged children from London inner city schools. Communications Director of England Rugby and the British The SEND Project provides sports, learning and social and Irish Lions. Tim is currently Director of Marketing & experiences, adapted to meet the needs of children with Communications for Northampton Saints RFC. special educational needs and disabilities. Not only is Arundel Castle Cricket celebrating 125 years, 2022 Plans but it is also the Queen Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June and on the first day, Thursday 2nd, the Club are James Rufey, Chief Operating Officer of the Club is planning planning a community day (Villages T10 Festival) which to make the 125th Anniversary one to remember. The last will be free for all Arundel residents. More details will be two years have been tough for obvious reasons although released about this soon. it helped that in 2020, when the England team took over the Ageas Bowl (home of Hampshire) for their Covid All in all, there’s a lot going on this year for the Club. headquarters, Hampshire decanted to Arundel. ‘They used Let’s hope for lots of sunshine too to make it a bumper us for training and two four-day games against Surrey and cricket season! Essex. It was quite challenging – various risk assessments and operational procedures had to be signed off by the English 45 Cricket Board’, James recalls. ‘It was great because it gave us some activity for the staff but also brought in revenue.’ They were also aided by a generous supporter who gave a donation for the delivery of a Festival of Cricket that summer.

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www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2022 | The Bell by Gill Farquharson enjoyed success. However, in 2003 IBM bought PWC and this time the changes were very unwelcome. WHEN Christine Fowler planned her move from Wimbledon to Arundel in 2018 pre-pandemic, she was Four years later and unhappy in her role, Christine had looking forward to establishing her thriving garden decided to leave the corporate world and make the design business in West Sussex. Despite the pandemic, leap into garden design. She was living in her house in she has still managed to achieve a great deal both in her Wimbledon and needed to get the garden revamped so business life and socially. approached a garden designer. Watching the designer work was the catalyst for Christine realising not only that Born in Henley her family lived in a house in she would love to do that sort of work but also that she Wokingham designed and built by her architect father. could do it. She enrolled at the Garden Design School She was by her own admission, ‘Horse mad and spent based in Painshill Park in Surrey where she completed an most of my time riding at the Pony Club, for the intensive, yearlong Diploma in Garden design. She loved Prince Philip Cup team and for friends. Later at Exeter her time there and graduated with Distinction in 2008. University she studied Zoology but like many left with little idea of what she wanted to do. She spent some She set up her business in Wimbledon where the time in advertising sales and a media agency before gardens she worked on were mostly mid-sized gardens joining Hewlett Packard as a trainee sales executive – from courtyard gardens to one acre plots. ‘I get a great based in their City office. It was the right choice sense of fulfilment when people like the gardens I have and she stayed nearly twenty years filling a variety created.’ Her early account management experience of of roles the last being Manager of their insurance listening to clients’ business problems, understanding sector accounts. This brought her to the attention their requirements and budget and then proposing of consulting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers who in a solution has proved very useful in developing her 2001 successfully headhunted her to work in Business business. Most people ring for an initial no obligation Development for their insurance clients. The two firms chat on the phone. Once she has listened carefully to had very different cultures, but Christine adapted and what people want, and just as importantly what they don’t want, explained a bit about how she works and One of Christine’s designs 47

The Bell | SPRING 2022 Looking for more information try For More Information About THE Arundel Surgery Web Site ASCA contact Liz Horkin Chair ARUNDEL on 01243 814323 PATI E NT G R O U P https://arundelsurgery.co.uk 1. S P2. R I N G 2 0 2 2 | N E W SNewsletter Spring 2022 L E T T E R Successful fundraising at ‘Arundel at Christmas’ Market ASCA held a fundraising Christmas Raffle at the Christmas Market in Tarrant Street. Raising Successful fundraising atfunds for a new vaccine fridge, after one of their current fridges failed. So, on a very cold day role in Arundel. 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The wider bears’ competition at Christmas. The ASCA due to the travel. jabs for all the housebound patients in the practice. There had been issues in a number of Amanda’s routine clinics had to to raise £3-400 on the day but we had such wonderful This meantvisiting housebound patients nationally as the requirements for using the Pfizer rslsjeoaeubgcci,opsintenipdccilpvduorodeosirnbedtglse,wmttshhaseiotwaisniumttghrg1ile5onercmyadtllinasheuecrtreidevgeiscdeewestin,toihpntdatahrdkteeiwciptuvhalaeeitdrieblynorutioancasrrtiueeslarrasedtel oddaonrdentia£fhsfaei,c6mfutols2itroeitel3hvsnee..sAsf.ifrHtAsewtmraasanoevndmdianehgavaelscFabooebmbleermuaeanitrndtyed/eeMwpeailnrlcdbhien;mgSooanklointohgkewbpoClaueoontvsfirdorakressTiwtoeuaexartntfsgie,oednal inntoisethde. A big thankyou to Amanda for her hard patients whose clinic appointments were aBAberulllnoedneeltioosfqoupuitreupcrraoccmtihpcaeacntsusreesveesrtauhlnhdeoeurtsfoerobikdouthgnidsemlivaewminmhtohitcehrhtuarsakcl,vaoillltashgoteusg;ihnshceeenhtaxrsacl ess oPfos£te1rs0W0eb0s.ite & Faceboroekonortgifiacantioinssed to make sure this happened. now seen the far reaches of the practice area, up and down lanes and we Meet Wendy Callaghan – Advanced ASCA Events coming upunderstand even crossing a field! The wider rural communities take much more Finally – ASCA are aware that the Surgery Doctors & Staff have continued to provide a great service during a Nurse Practitionertime due to the travel. This meant a number of Amanda’s routine clinics had to be period when Covid cases are still quite high locally and many staff at the Surgery ASCAhave had to take taimne toiffcipates holding our Annual Talk some time in April reorganised. A big thankyou to Amanda for her hard work and to the patients alongside ourdue to their own or family illness. This has been hard AGM if all is well. Dr Alex Thornton Smith will whose clinic appointments were reorganised to make sure this happened work for everyone , so we still need to be patient in these difficult times. Wendy has recently joined the practice present his delayed talk ‘Have I got cancer Doc?’. as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, which means she can diagnosis and We also hope to have an Easter fundraising activity as we deferred our ‘name those bears’ competition at treat patients, including prescribing Christmas. The ASCA committee will be making plans as we feel able and depending on the Covid situation drugs, referring patients for tests, x in February/March; So look out for texts, posters, our website and Facebook notifications. rays and to other specialists. She sees Wendy Callaghan urgent appointments ‘on the day’, Advanced Nurse Finally – ASCA are aware that the Surgery Doctors & Staff including patients with longer term Practitioner have continued to provide a great service during a period when Covid cases are still quite high locally and many staff conditions if they have an acute problem. Of course at the Surgery have had to take time off due to their own or family illness. This has been hard work for everyone , so we she always has access to the GPs if she needs them. still need to be patient in these difficult times. Wendy originally trained in the Army and has had a wide and varied career. After leaving the Army she trained as a District Nurse and was a Sister in the community, she has also worked in A& E, and in her roles in GP practice has also supported family planning and women’s health . About 15 years ago she did her Masters in For more information about ASCA Advanced Nursing Practice, and then went on to work as a practitioner in the wider West Sussex area. So contact Liz Horkin Chair on 01243 814323 she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience 48

www.lovearundel.org SPRING 2022 | The Bell has a clear understanding of their budget she then Cordon Bleu arranges a visit to walk round the garden together. The outside caterers for next step is to produce a written report outlining their cocktail parties, discussion and her costed proposal for the design work. funerals and business She charges a small fee for this initial consultation- refundable when the work goes ahead. functions across West Sussex. By 2018 the business was settled and doing well but Contact Barry or Lucy Hopkins on 01903 882611 London had ‘started to lose its appeal after thirty years – the noise, the dirt and the fact that many of her 49 friends had moved out all persuaded her it might be a good idea to move. What really made the decision for her though was when they announced that Crossrail’s southern hub was going to be Wimbledon and that it would involve ten years of building work.’ She started the process of finding the place and, having rejected Chichester, decided on Arundel which she knew and liked from previous visits. Her second viewing in town was at her current cottage in Mount Pleasant, which she saw and immediately thought ‘This is it!’ She finally moved here in March 2019. The pandemic and lockdown of course have had an impact on the work Christine could do since she has moved here but she has still completed three big projects as well as several smaller ones. Contractors are less expensive in Sussex than London, but plants costs are the same because they mostly come from Europe into trade nurseries – ‘it is still a significant investment. However, what people don’t necessarily realise is that a well designed and planted garden will not only help you to sell your house, but it will also add significantly to its value.’ Christine has got stuck into Arundel life. She is now a committee member of the Arundel Gardens Association and will be organising their talks in future. She attends Lyminster Church (where an old school friend was the Minister), plays a lot of golf at Worthing Golf Club, and is a regular at the Tuesday Bridge Club at the St Mary’s Gate. She also has an allotment on Ford Road which she acquired just before the first lockdown. ‘It was fantastic because I was on the allotment in beautiful sunny weather every day for just about three months at the beginning of lockdown!’ She also volunteers on Friday mornings at Denmans Gardens. She has given talks on Garden Design both in the Arundel Festival last year and at AKIN, Arundel’s creative collective. Last summer Christine put forward a design for one of her gardens to the Society of Garden Designers for adjudication, which is a necessary stage to becoming a Registered Member. There are very few full members of the Society – to become one you must have three gardens pass adjudication and her submission passed! She is now working on her second garden application to be submitted. Christine is certainly a gardener who doesn’t let the grass grow under her feet!

Dear EditorTheBell | SPRING2022 DEE GILLIN Jason. When she was asked in an interview why she gave so much of her time to the town, Dee said simply ‘ THE sad news last November that Dee Gillin had died It’s because I know I’m doing some good – it makes me meant Arundel had lost one of its most loved characters. feel that I’m doing something for everyone in the town. A resident of Arundel for over 40 years, she touched so And I do love Arundel’. many people’s’ lives and will be sorely missed. MALCOLM FARQUHARSON I first met her through her tireless charity work dressed Tarrant Wharf, Arundel as a duck selling raffle tickets for the Lions Club annual Festival Duck Race. This was an annual fixture and she GAME SHOOTING V later sold tickets for the Museum, Chestnut Tree House, BIODIVERSITY the Lido and The Friends of St Nicholas for the same event. She also dressed up as an elf for the annual Lions I WAS delighted to read Kay Wagland’s article about Club Santa’s Grotto. the wildlife friendly properties of ivy- a plant sometimes maligned and misunderstood. Then I read with interest, Dee earned the nickname ‘Sheepdog’ when she helped the profile of the two new figures fronting up the often- Mark Philips on his historic Museum walks by following revered Norfolk Estate and was astonished that Alastair the group and keeping track of stragglers. A member of Deighton described biodiversity as the “mission” of the the Arundel Baptist Church for many years, she was also estate with landscape features designed to maximise always prominent in their fundraising efforts. opportunities for insects, birds and mammals. More recently Dee could be seen dog walking around I do not understand how a shooting estate is compatible the town and loved nothing better than to stop for a with the centrality of biodiversity, nor how a narrow chat and a catch up. She was always happy, saw the best focus on a few bird species can really be called in everyone and brought a smile to the face of anyone biodiversity. From many direct observations around this who stopped and spoke to her. area of Fenn traps, snares and other traps, plus having researched this subject, such estates destroy all species In 2021 the Arundel Town Council rightly recognised that are deemed any sort of threat to young pheasants Dee’s contribution to Arundel by presenting her with a posthumous Community Award, collected by her son 50