Caring 4 Sussex
For everyone who cares about Sussex
1929: It’s difficult to imagine our current Queen Elizabeth once being a child herself, but here she is, at the age of two, making sandcastles in the garden of Craigwell House, Aldwick, Bognor Regis – just like any other child. She was there visiting King George V, her grandfather, who was recuperating from a serious …
There was speculation for days before he finally made it into the world, with local radio presenters becoming almost inaudible with the height of their pitch as the rumours circled. Everyone wanted to be on duty when the announcement came, which it did on May 6th, a few hours after the 5.26am birth of Archie …
As we welcome Spring, with some areas in February blessed with the hottest temperatures on record for this month, the sudden omnipresent sound of birdsong is surely something few of us have been able to ignore. And in the wilds of Knepp Castle Estate, near Horsham, a remarkable recovery has been taking place in the …
It wasn’t long after the 97-year-old Duke of Edinburgh crashed his car that he agreed to surrender his driving licence. Driving at this age is no longer a rarity, and the number of over 90s now driving in the UK has surpassed 100,000 for the first time. Yet while the number of accidents involving older …
The benefits of so-called ‘intergenerational care’ are fairly well documented, and a documentary series by Channel Four in 2017, Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds, was so popular that they made another one that was screened last October. There are also plenty of examples of children being taken into care or nursing homes …
Out of all the divisiveness and vitriol we have suffered over the past couple of years there is one thing we can surely all agree on, no matter which way we voted. It’s been a total shambles. At the time of writing, Parliament hadn’t voted on Theresa May’s proposal. If you’re reading this before December …
WORTHING, UK: Worthing-based care home Melrose has formed a partnership with a local nursery to share the benefits of inter-generational care between older residents and young children. Over the last four months, Melrose has developed the project with Woodstock Day Nursery, which sees two groups of six children visiting the care home on a weekly …
Bristol F2B Fighter leading an RAF SE5a courtesy of the Old Warden Airfield in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. Even before the RAF was founded in 1918, air bases along the Sussex coast were sending planes and Zeros — ‘blimps’ — up to try and spot German submarines desperately trying to cross the channel. Anti-submarine patrols operated out …
From this vast altar—pile the souls of men Sped up to God in countless multitudes: On this grim cratered ridge they gave their all. John Oxenham (1852-1941) Part of a poem on the dedication stone at the Newfoundland Memorial Park in Beaumont Hamel, France. When the 2nd battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment arrived in …
It is a quite staggering feat of engineering. Whether you’re for or against wind farms, the 116 steel turbines of the Rampion wind farm 8-12½ miles off the Sussex coast are a remarkable sight from the beach, but they’re astonishing to see up close. Twenty-six square miles of the English Channel are now dotted with …
And the winners are… More than 400 food and drink producers gathered at Brighton’s Amex stadium in February in a black-tie ceremony to celebrate the county’s farming and food and drink industries. The winners of the ten Sussex Food and Drink Awards were handed trophies by Danny Pike, of BBC Sussex, and actress Julie Graham. …
In these days of rapidly ageing populations, the emphasis has been on how to find and fund care for those who need it. But West Sussex County Council estimates there’s a whopping 89,000 people in the county who are caring for them as part of their unpaid, daily lives. It’s a tough role – and …
