June’s inspiring guest was Becky Sims from Fox Red Flowers who, whilst creating a beautiful table awning, told us about her experience of giving birth prematurely during COVID. Following this difficult experience she was inspired to work as a fundraiser for the Ickle Pickle charity which helps give newborns more of a chance as they start their journey in the world.

A unique hospice for children in West Sussex. Our goal is to provide the best quality of life for children, young people and their families, and to offer practical, social and spiritual support throughout each child’s life.

Midhurst Palliative Care CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) raises funds to enable the Midhurst Macmillan Service to provide its community-based, consultant-led specialist palliative care service to patients across Hampshire, Surrey and West Sussex.

After a very successful end to the year the society matched raffle money in order to make a special Christmas donation to this very worthy local charity.

The generosity of our members with the October raffle enabled us to donate £300 to the Poppy Appeal local branch.

Following our wonderful Members’ Day at Philip Jackson’s Sculpture Garden, the society honoured the sculptor’s request for a donation to his favourite charity.

Conserving chalk downland for ever with respect for the past

The Murray Downland Trust is a Registered Charity established to conserve, improve and encourage the appreciation of the natural and archaeological heritage of the Sussex and Hampshire Downs.
The stated, formal charitable objects have been drawn widely and are “for the public benefit, the preservation, protection, development and improvement of areas of land of botanical, zoological, ecological, archaeological, historical or landscape interest or beauty, by the acquisition by gift, purchase or lease or management by arrangement, of downland, grassland, fenland, woodland, agricultural and common land and any other land whatsoever."