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Our aim is to bring you news from local groups, societies and non-profit-making organisations in an interesting and informal website and publication.
If you haven’t seen a copy of our latest newsletter you can download the pdf from our Newsletter-pdf link; you can also find previous issues there too. A limited number of printed copies are available at various pick-up points in Lancing, Sompting and Shoreham.
If you have an interest in tracing your Family Tree and wish to share your knowledge or learn from others, then please come along to our next meeting. If you enjoy the Interest Group meeting and wish to continue attending you can join the main Lancing and Sompting U3A group which allows you to attend as many meetings as you wish.
If you are a newcomer, it would be useful for the Group Coordinator to know you will be attending, please call Anne Richardson on 01903 753 195
The meeting will be at the Farmers Pub on Thursday 12th November at 2.15 pm.
This month’s topic is Immigration/Emigration plus a short discussion session about preparatory work for our visit to NRO Kew on 24th November.
THE SOMPTING COMMUNITY CENTRE
Loose Lane, Sompting
Coffee Morning
10.00 – 12 noon every Wednesday
Gentle exercise!
10.30 – 11.15, sessions run by a qualified instructor each Wednesday
FOOT CARE
A qualified foot health practioner will book appointments to be held at
the Centre on Wednesday mornings from 9.30 – 12 noon.
Book directly with June Draper Dip. CFHP MPSPract on 01903 523875
A range of treatments available
First consultation with June (longer) £22
Further consultations £18
Nail trimming £12
In a neighbour’s south facing garden this afternoon. At least 6 Painted Ladies, 2 Large Whites, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Comma and a Speckled Wood; not bad for October.
Our sister site www.tithingtimes.wordpress.com has just added a link to a great audio walk around the wonderful ruins in Midhurst made by local broadcaster Richard Vobes on a recent visit. Enjoy
We now have 155 members enjoying a range of interests from
Art Appreciation to Walking.
You are welcome to attend our monthly meeting, starting at 2.30pm at the Tabernacle Hall, next to Co-op, North Road, Lancing. Admission is £1. There will be a speaker and chance to learn about the interest groups on offer.
We have a new Interest Group called Past Times which held its first meeting recently and a new Music Appreciation group. The committee will be be asking for a show of interest for a Mah Jong group.
Refreshments are available.
Lancing and Sompting U3A, Help the Aged and the WRVS offer YOU an opportunity
to explore Computing and Information Technology
Chesham House Centre, 124 South Street, Lancing
We look forward to seeing you
The Lancing Horticultural Society hold their Autumn Flower Show at the Sir Robert Woodard Academy, Boundstone Lane, Lancing; doors open at 2pm. Trophies will be awarded at 4pm.
Lancing has a history of market gardening, with many of it’s past residents working in the nurseries in Lancing and Sompting, supplying vegetables and flowers to London and the cities of the South.
Our local Lancing and Sompting U3A Group held their monthly meeting in the Lancing Tabernacle Hall on Tuesday 1st September. It was very well attended and included several non-members who had come along to enjoy the speaker and find out what the group had to offer. The speaker, from Amberly Museum and Heritage Centre spoke about the history of the museum and its many interesting displays and working exhibits. Using a slide show he told us many interesting stories about how they came by the collections and the tremendous skill of their volunteer workforce in rebuilding and restoring old exhibits like busses, trams and steam engines. It was a very enjoyable talk.
Many people expressed an interest in an organised U3A visit to the museum in the near future.
Another well attended event was the launch of the new WRVS Lunch Club on Wednesday 2nd September. Based at the newly re-furbished Chesham House Centre the pilot scheme aimed at the older local population, many of whom live alone was very well received. Many had fond memories of the Centre and were pleased to learn it has plans to launch several other schemes including a ‘drop-in’ cafe in the near future.
