Caring 4 Sussex
For everyone who cares about Sussex
The heads of 11 Sussex secondary schools have joined forces against ‘County Lines’ drug pushers in the county, who the police say are targeting secondary school children to deal illegal drugs for them. In a collective letter sent just before the six-week summer vacation to the parents of pupils at Worthing schools Bohunt, Chatsmore, Davison, …
Since man has been capable of stacking one rock on top of another, we have been building walls to keep The Others out. There is evidence to suggest the walls of Jericho were built for defensive purposes as well as flood protection, we’re pretty certain Hadrian’s Wall was constructed by the Romans to protect their …
As Caring4Sussex went to press, the cricket fans in the editorial office were still reeling from an outstanding third Ashes test victory by England – snatched from the jaws of what seemed like certain defeat by Ben Stokes’s heroics and stalwart tail-ender Jack Leach. It had seemed impossible, thanks to a woeful first innings score …
When Simon Papouis saw the three unlabelled reels of film, he knew instantly they were old. 1920s old, at the very youngest. They’d been sent to him by a customer from Cornwall, whose husband had jemmied open an old brown leather suitcase she’d inherited from distant relatives. She had heard these relatives had ties with …
Seventy-five years ago, the pebble beaches of West Sussex crunched not under the feet of welly-booted dog walkers and flip-flopping sunseekers as they do today, but by thousands of pairs of soldiers’ boots, tank tyres and landing craft. Close your eyes for a moment and imagine the scene as you strolled along any prom or …
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 …
