Previously Known As Yapton News & Views JANUARY 2019 Issue No 94

Yapton News Previously known as Yapton News & Views

JANUARY 2019 Issue No 94 Parish Council YAPTON PARISH COUNCIL Information Chairman The Parish Office is open Stephen Haymes, Woodlands Park House, on a Monday, Wednesday Main Road, Yapton, BN18 0EZ Tel: 01243 551475 and Thursday Vice-Chairman Michael Pickthall, 2 Tack Lee Road, Room 4, Upstairs Yapton, BN18 0HB Tel: 01243 555442 Yapton and Ford Village Hall Members (rear entrance) Derek Ambler, 11 Graham Road, Yapton, BN18 0JT Tel: 01243 551156 9.30AM TO 12.30PM Martin Clark, [email protected] Tel: 01243 555804 Peter Dunkley 14 Navigation Drive, Yapton, BN18 0FS [email protected] Tel: 07766 221550 Mrs Pam Evans, 2 Mornington Crescent, Felpham, PO21 8HG Tel: 01243 868684 or 07796 657081 James Gadd, 68 Loveys Road, Yapton, Your local Police and Community BN18 0HG Tel: 01243 552337 Support Offcer will no longer be Anthony Kendall, 15 Cherry Avenue, Yapton, available at the Parish Council Offce BN18 0LB Tel: 01243 552033 To contact Sussex Police for Vicky Newman, [email protected] non-emergencies dial 101 Tel: 01243 551207 or e-mail: There is one vacant position on the Council [email protected] Clerk of the Council or report online Andrew Gardiner, 38 Ruskin Avenue, North Bersted, Bognor Regis, PO21 5BW Tel: 01243 859141 Yapton & Ford Local History Group email: [email protected] Monday February 4th 2019 web: www.yaptonpc.gov.uk A Hundred Years of Ford Airfield in Words and Pictures Committees A Presentation by Allen and Kevin ALLOTMENTS Misselbrook Tony Kendall – assisted by Monday March 4th 2019 Mick Caiger 01243 552435 Hillaire Belloc – Sussex Writer An Illustrated talk by Chris Hare EMERGENCY & RESILIENCE Derek Ambler, Pam Evans, Michael Pickthall Yapton and Ford Local History Group meet on the first Monday of the month PLANNING in the Club Room at Yapton and Derek Ambler, Peter Dunkley, James Gadd, Ford Village Hall at 7.30pm Tony Kendall, Mrs Vicky Newman All are welcome Non-members Admission £3.00 PLAYING FIELD Peter Dunkley District Councillors: Stephen Haymes, Woodlands Park House, Main Road, Yapton, BN18 0EZ Tel: 01243 551475 Derek Ambler, 11 Graham Road, Yapton BN18 0JT Tel: 01243 551156 County Councillors: Middleton division: Jacky Pendleton, Oakdene House, 44 Southdean Drive, Middleton-on-Sea, PO22 7TB Email [email protected] Tel 01243 585979 Felpham division: Hillary Flynn, 2 Flansham Business Centre, Hoe Lane, Flansham, Bognor Regis PO22 8NJ Email [email protected] Tel 01243 825757 YourYapton News Published by Yapton Parish Council JANUARY 2019 Issue 94

Firstly, may I wish all May I publicly send a huge thank you to all readers of the Yapton of the regular contributors to the Yapton News and residents of News and to the willing band of people who Yapton a very Happy New distribute just under 1,900 copies of the Year. I hope you all had magazine to all households in Yapton, six times an enjoyable Christmas a year! I am always looking for volunteers to and New Year however spread the burden of the delivery of each you chose to celebrate edition, so please let me know if you feel you these special times with may be able to help. families and friends. At this time of year some One area where local residents often feel of you may have thought about making a New concerned about is the volume of traffic using Year’s resolution. Whatever you may have the roads in the village and the speed of traffic resolved to do, or not as the case may be, I particularly in Burndell Road. In the coming hope you can keep to it for as long as possible. weeks I will be calling a meeting of all those interested in contributing to ideas and possible As is usual at this time of the year we are solutions to assist with the management of looking forward, so I have been, once again, traffic in the village. We would aim to involve looking back over the last few editions of the the local County Councillor, the Police, Parish Yapton News, and have been thinking about Councillors and any other agencies who have ways to update and improve the magazine, responsibility for the management of our local particularly looking at the content, and who roads network. are the main contributors to the magazine. In SIX editions, we will be celebrating the A favourite topic of mine is the question of 100th edition of the Yapton News, and I hope Planning Applications and the sheer magnitude to make that a special edition. New ideas, of the numbers of new housing planned for pictures and articles are always welcome, the village in the coming months and years. There are many applications which have either you can send them to me by post, or e-mail, been approved recently or where building or just drop them into the Parish Council has not yet commenced and others awaiting Office. I have already introduced some new consideration by the local planning authorities. regular contributions from the Primary School The two applications for around 550 houses and from St Mary’s Church. If you belong to on the Strategic Site between Bilsham Road a group that is currently not mentioned in and Drove Lane is due to be considered by Yapton News, then please do let me know. I the Arun Development Control Committee want to help the people of Yapton, through on the 23rd January 2019. The Arun Planners the medium of the Yapton News, to feel proud are recommending that these two planning of their village and the local community in applications are approved subject to the final which they live.

Cover: Yapton Village sign at the entrance to the village from Barnham by Andy Faulkner 3 confirmation of the Section 106 agreement. village now that the Arun Local Plan has been This will be available to view online with the agreed. If you feel you would like to contribute Development Control Committee papers. The to this updating process then please do not Section 106 agreement is a legal document hesitate to let me know. which sets out the contributions which the Finally, the current councillors term of office developers will make towards educational, comes to an end in May 2019. Local elections highway, recreational and sports facilities, are planned to take place on the 2nd May 2019, and other infrastructure. It is pleasing that when the 10 seats on the Parish Council will be the agreement will confirm that funding and contested. Four years ago, when the elections land will be made available to expand the last took place, only 3 candidates came forward Primary School on the North End Road site and the parish council had to fill the remaining to accommodate the anticipated increase in places by co-option. Further information will pupils from the new housing in the village. become available over the next few weeks, With around 1000 additional homes planned including the date by which nominations the Parish Council will be working hard to have to be submitted, but if you would like seek improvements to the village facilities an initial conversation about becoming a local to cope with the additional population and parish councillor then please do not hesitate their educational, medical, transport and to contact me. other facilities that this increase in housing will bring. The Council is also reviewing and Andrew Gardiner updating the Yapton Neighbourhood Plan to Editor. [email protected] try and manage any further expansion in the

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4 Christmas at Yapton Primary School

December was a particularly special month for one group of children at Yapton Church by Andrea Andrews of England School – our 4 and 5 year olds Year R Teacher celebrated completing their frst term at primary school.

5 To mark the occasion the children invited their families – mums, dads, grannies and grandpas to join them for a special Christmas tea party. The children worked hard making cards, hats and cakes in preparation for this exciting afternoon. The highlight was seeing the children standing on the stage wearing their Christmas jumpers and hats singing a lively selection of Christmas songs. It was magical seeing so many proud grown- ups watching their children perform with such confdence! Of course the Year R children wrote a very important letter to Father Christmas. The staff at the Co-op and Post Offce provided a fabulous welcome for the children as theyeach bought a stamp for their letters. Postman Barrie then visited school in his post van decorated in true Christmas style! He collected all the children’s letters as well as providing each child with a gift. A perfect village community occasion!

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10 It’s because of God’s love for us that we are able to go and love others… Soup from Heaven came into being about 10 years ago when Veyanke Hodson (from South Africa) gave her life to Jesus and joined Yapton Free Church. Each summer Veyanke and her family would travel to Cape Town to visit family and at the same time make connections with people in their community with needs that they felt, with support from family and friends, could help. From a chat in the car-park with the guy guarding her car began a work amongst the poorest loveliest people on earth. Since 2013 Veyanke has taken teams of all ages from Yapton Free Church to meet these people, love on them, pray with and bless them. Whether that be in practical ways or just letting them see how much they are loved. One of the things we do is work with a group of were there in January 2018 and Will’s comment Christians in Cape Town called the ‘Bavarians’ was “they’ve never seen a white tummy before”! who fund raise and source things like shoes for children without. They along with us support Things that we take for granted such as Xolani a lovely Christian who runs a football electricity and running water are not there club for boys from one of the poorest informal for some of our friends. They live under settlement sharing the love of Jesus, encouraging the bushes near a station! But they have a them to stay off the streets thus avoiding joining great community and we visit them in the gangs. The Bavarians have sourced kits and evening when we are there enjoying a time of boots for the boys so that they can play in the fellowship together before giving them some local league! They organised a match when we soup, food and clothes.

11 These are some of the guys that come to our soup kitchen each day for lunch and then on Sunday join with us for a service of worship, hearing about God and sharing lunch together. The soup kitchen is two shipping containers joined to make a room with hardstanding outside. This is one of our favourite places spending time with these lovely lovely people. It is very humbling to think that the clothes they stand in are all they have and they have NO food in their cupboards - if they have cupboards! Time and love are two of the most precious things we can give these people. We do not have the means to change their circumstances but we can, with God’s Holy Spirit, help change the way they think about themselves and start to build their self-worth with hope for the future. We don’t come away with a warm fuzzy feeling because of what we do, often we leave in tears but the compassion and love of Jesus takes us there to bless them. As a charity and as friends we also have great pleasure visiting and supporting – • Ray of Sunshine House and Bright stars, two homes for abandoned children… • Tyberburg Hospital, where we are allowed to chat and pray with the patients. Our favourite

12 ward is the “shootings, stabbings and road traffc makes us realise what is important in life and it’s accident ward”, They are all God’s beautiful not things… children! That is not the limit of our work so If this article • Churches to bless and empower to keep on has inspired you to fnd out more please check keeping on in their walk with Jesus… out our website www.yaptonfreechurch.net or contact us through Yapton Free Church via our • People in their homes where, although email at [email protected]. Thank sobering, they are cheerful and their lifestyle you and God bless you.

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14 St Mary’s Church by Revd Richard Hayes Imagine … It’s not the beginning of 2019 but 1919 … Now, jump forward to 1969, remember or imagine the beginning of that year…

What a difference in just 50 years! Think of all the south side. Over the centuries they had to the things that in 1919 was the stuff of dreams add buttresses to stop it from falling down ( go or even beyond imagination. Perhaps there’s and have a look, if you took it up to the height of never been another period of so much change Pisa it would be at a greater angle… and it really and development. Much of what we take for would fall down). granted now was, at least, in embryo in 1969, Why did it do this? Foundations. unlike 1919! Someone, somewhere, got it wrong. The What will people think when they look back foundations just weren’t right from 2069? The new, the glossy, the impressive, the Let’s go further back, how about 1219? Or 719? innovative still needs foundations. They’re By 719 Wilfred had started the process of built or created ON something - previous skill, spreading Christianity across Sussex. Yapton learning and creativity, a philosophy, a view was probably a little settlement ( we know it’s point. Saxon because of the ‘…ton’ bit which means What do WE build our lives on? Have we ‘village’) and it might have been founded by one foundations that are safe to build or develop our of Wilfred’s monks. The frst thing he would lives on? have done is put up a wooden church, eventually replaced in the late Saxon or early Norman St Mary’s church has been around, in one form period with a stone building which was rebuilt a or another, for over 1,000 years. It might be few years later and so we got OUR church. around for quite a few hundred years more. It’s not because it’s got good literal foundations 719… 2019… and onward… (because it hasn’t) but because it’s built for a purpose. It’s the spirit behind our church that has We’re encouraged to make new plans and do provided a foundation for thousands of Yapton new things at this time of year. Change happens, villagers lives for a thousand years. it has to, it’s vital to who we are that we change THAT spirit is more important and embrace new things. However we can learn than any building, and HE will a lesson from those in the village who built the continue to inspire many of lovely tower at church. your neighbours through “Let’s have a tower!” And up it went… and then what might be a very it started leaning! Falling back into the ground on challenging 2019 and, we hope, might inspire you a little too.

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Yapton Free Church Report by Jo Jeffers Wishing you a very Happy and blessed New Year from all of us at Yapton Free Church. We pray 2019 will be a year flled with peace, love and joy for you and your families. I don’t know about you but I always fnd having enjoyed the build up and preparations for the Christmas period it is also exciting and a time for refection as we move into the New Year. An opportunity to take stock and give thanks for 2018 but also a time to seek God for his plans and purposes for our lives in 2019. As a church we set apart the 7th to the 12th of January for a time of prayer, fasting and seeking God’s plans for the coming year. None of us know exactly what 2019 will bring for us, our families and the wider world but we do know that we want God’s will to come on earth as A combonantion of traditional carols and it is in heaven. Each morning began with praying Christmas readings. together and then continuing with prayer and worship in the evenings. This culminated in a continuous 24 hour prayer and worship session from the 11th to 12th January including readings from the bible.

Brother and sister from Yapton Free Church sang a beautiful Christmas duet. We believe that God loves Yapton, UK and the world and in the bible, it says in 2 Chronicles if we seek Him we will fnd him and if we humble ourselves he will hear our prayers. God told Solomon in the Old testament that if times Fun and games at the senior citizens Christmas of trouble came to a nation they should seek lunch which included a comedy sketch on the Him. I believe in the UK and across the world real meaning of Christmas, songs, an interview this is what God is calling His people to today. with Mary and a shepherd and a delicious lunch His exact wording was: “If I close the sky so serviced by volunteers from Yapton Free Church there is no rain, or if I command the locust to and the wider community. Continued Overleaf 17 Around the Village devour the land, or if I send a plague among My Theobald). Veyanke agreed and said “The event people, and My people who are called by My was a great success and it was wonderful being name humble themselves and pray and seek My able to honour all the guests who attended. I face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will have heard many many positive responses about hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their the day from guests as well as helpers!! It was land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears brilliant!!” The event brought together a diverse attentive to the prayers offered in this place” (2 number of people from the community including Chronicles 7:13-15). God will hear our prayers some of the residents of Evergreens requesting when we truly humble ourselves and seek His the event be repeated next year. Watch will in our lives and for our nation. this space. On the 23rd December we enjoyed a wonderful festive Candle Lit Carol Service, where we remembered to keep Christ the main thing in Christmas. The Queen in her traditional Christmas day speech also called the nation to look to Jesus as she shared how only a few people acknowledged him when he was born; but now “billions follow him. I believe his message of peace on earth and goodwill to all is never out of date. It can be heeded by everyone. It’s needed as much as ever” (The Queen). This is so true and was the message shared in between the carols. The service included a combination of Christmas carols, bible readings, a calypso song Brother and sister from Yapton Free Church sang accompanied by dustbin drums, a fag dance and a beautiful Christmas duet. a duet from two children in our church. It was a lovely evening involving the youngest to oldest At Yapton Free Church the Christmas in our community, ending with delicious mulled celebrations began early in December 2018 wine and mince pies. with the senior citizens lunch on the 8th. This was a wonderful Christmas event organised by Over 2019 we encourage and would welcome Veyanke Hodson, Sue Theobald and team and young and old to join us at one of our services was an opportunity to gather the senior citizens or groups run in and for the community. We of Yapton to celebrate the true meaning of begin the year with our popular Alpha supper Christmas with a combination of lunch, carols, on Wednesday 16th January at 7:30pm. You are sketches, readings, songs and games. Hennie, invited to join us for a delicious FREE three Rose, Liz and others did an amazing meal, course dinner and a brief introduction to the whilst the gents served the tables dressed in Alpha course. Do let the offce know if you are tuxedos and black tie. planning to attend. The course runs for 10 weeks on a Wednesday evening from 7:30pm – 9:30pm “The real meaning of Christmas was very much and is a great opportunity to explore some of the purpose of it all and we know that this did the diffcult questions in life, such as why is their very much come across with the sketches, Marje’s suffering and what is the purpose of my life? testimony and Veyanke’s amazing summing up Alpha introduces the Christian faith and gives at the end. She was brill. But it was team and an opportunity to explore and discover why church working together and was wonderful to billions of people across the world have chosen be a part of and see people’s gifting’s being used to follow Jesus. and a spirit of love and service to others” (Sue 18 On a Wednesday morning during term time we hang out, play a variety of games & hear some hold our popular parent and toddlers group good news for a change. The ‘subs’ is just £1 each from 10 am – 12 pm at the Old Church Building. that help to keep the equipment we use and do All babies and preschool children with their fun things throughout the year. We are a friendly parents/carers are very welcome to come along bunch of youth so why not come and check us and enjoy a time for the little ones to play, do out. This February Hugo and Hanneke will be craft activities and cooking whilst the adults sit taking a team of 11 committed volunteers out to and relax with a cuppa and biscuits. We ask for a Nepal to visit some of the schools we support voluntary donation of £2 per family just to cover and to see how the new Christian school which our costs. The morning fnishes with fruit time, opened last year is running. Each of the team singing, dancing and action rhymes. If you would pay for their own tickets and accommodation like to support the toddler group (with prizes in Nepal and then use their individual gifting’s or sponsorship), they are holding a sponsored to serve on team. They will also be holding a toddle run (on Wednesday 23rd January) to weekend pastors and leaders conference which raise much needed funds towards the planned is expected to attract around 500 leaders. These disabled toilets and kitchen extension. Contact conferences are a wonderful time of teaching, Jo for more info on 01243 552232. encouragement and ministry for the many pastors and leaders who work out in the rural communities of Nepal. They will also the visit the Bethany sewing project and I anticipate they will have a very interesting article to include in the next edition of Yapton News. Watch this space!! If you are local and looking for a church in the New Year you would be very welcome to join us at any one of our services, Alpha course or community groups. If you want more information you can go to our website www. All hands on deck in the kitchen yaptonfreechurch.net or call the offce on 01243 552233. Once again, a very Happy and Blessed We hold a Men’s Breakfast once a month, New Year to you all. normally on the frst Saturday of the month at ...... the Old Church Building, 8:00am until 10:00am. It is very much an open gathering of men across the village who have a hunger for good food and Friends of Avisford Medical to grow in God. We have a variety of speakers Surgery - Working for your Surgery and on the 5th January welcomed Alistair Ghinn, Report by Gill Henry, Treasurer who works for Chichester Harbour churches, (mainly with the younger generation), but also Now that the Christmas sharing in the churches vision to know Jesus, to festivities are over and we discover the gift of His love and to follow in His enter 2019 I hope we have ways. Alistair shared on some biblical principles left behind the wet overcast which can help us when using the internet. You weather and are enjoying can listen to previous talks on the Yapton free the brighter, colder weather church webpage under ‘Men’s Breakfasts’ or that we expect in winter. There may be some alternatively join us for the frst Saturday of the challenges of winter ahead and the NHS month in February at the Old Church Building. website can offer useful advice on their Help We do not charge for the breakfast however Us to Help You – Stay Well in Winter campaign voluntary donations are welcome towards the which can be found on www.nhs.uk or on our cost of the catering. website www.avisfordfriends.co.uk. On our website you can also fnd the latest practice On a Friday night the youth meet at the Old newsletter, information about the National Church Building from 7:30pm - 9:30pm for 11- Patient Participation news and much more. In 14 year olds and 7:30pm - 10:30pm for 14-16 the Spring we will be holding one of our free year olds. A space where youth can come and health talks at the moment the topic is to be

19 Continued Overleaf 19 Around the Village decided – look out for details on our website, in the Avisford Medical Group Surgery or posters in the local shops. Possible Topics for the coming year are Sepsis in children, COPD and breathing diffculties, Eye Conditions. If you have a health topic you would like us to cover please drop a note into the local surgery or email – avisford. [email protected] Our talks are open to all interested members of the local community not just Avisford Medical Group patients. Come and join us you will be very welcome. In our last article we put out a plea for patients to join our management committee. Thank you for all your responses we now have a full committee but are looking at the possibility of maintaining a list of volunteers more of this next time...... Yapton Guides Report by Anna Drynan The Rainbows spent time last Guides and Rangers take part in the term celebrating the autumn and winter, played Reindeer Run. some Halloween games and took part in the Reindeer Run for Chestnut Tree House. The girls wore their antlers and fashing noses and ran laps of the hut (inside because the weather was so awful). They were very pleased to have raised £75 for the hospice which was a great effort. The Rainbows ended the term with a movie night and enjoyed chicken nuggets and chips from the local chip shop. The girls are looking forward to more fun and games next term. The Brownies were busy last term working towards two badges - their Artist badge and the Remembrance badge. For the Remembrance badge the Brownies spent their time playing games from the war time, found out about ration books and what they were used for, made soldier biscuits and tasted trench cake, designed a medal and completed their badge by attending the 100th Anniversary Remembrance Day at the Village Hall and Ford Memorial Gardens. The girls fnished the term making Christmas crafts, playing games and enjoyed a fun trip to Out of Bounds to play ten pin bowling. The girls are all looking forward to a new and exciting year and Brownies making cake.

20 planning lots more fun activities to try. family, the Penfolds of Barnham. Their family business originated in Arundel in 1833 providing The Guides and Rangers took part in the Reindeer a service to agriculture initially with their Run and braved the winds of Storm Diana to traction engines. Sandra started her talk by giving complete 5 laps of Murrell’s Field raising £220 for details of the family and how they expanded and Chestnut Tree which was a fantastic achievement. diversifed their operation. James Lear Penfold They enjoyed a movie night, chocolate themed left the family business several years after night and a mock tail evening. Several Guides the death of his father, James senior, who had helped out at a charity sale to earn themselves founded the business. He moved to Barnham and a volunteering badge and the girls also made set up is own business with one traction engine the Christingles for the local service and found and one driver. He concentrated initially on time to go and see a Pantomime. In January the threshing, eventually expanding into other areas Guides and their Young Leaders worked for the of trade. These included Penfold Haulage and National Trust as part of a Winter Challenge a Motor Garage with workshop. His machines weekend at Basecamp in Slindon. Preparations were used for threshing during the day and heavy are now underway for an extreme Winter Camp, goods haulage by night using his steam engines. Sparkle and Ice which will be amazing (if a little During the 1920’s the company extracted and cold!!). We hope to be ice skating, taking part in transported aggregates, owning sand-pits in outdoor activities, watching a flm and having a Washington, Slindon and Eartham. The aggregate freworks display with Guides and Rangers from operation wasn’t only confned to dry land, they all over the country at Foxlease, a Guiding site in had a feet of dredgers whose names included the New Forest. Fingers (and toes) crossed for Pen-Dart and Pen-Yarr, unloading at their good weather!! wharfs in Littlehampton and Shoreham.Sandra The Rangers (our members aged 14-18) helped continued by describing how the Penfold ‘Brand’ out at the Reindeer Run by marshalling and diversifed further becoming a major producer of cheering the Guides on, enjoyed a Christmas ready-mixed concrete. Eventually the company’s meal at Prezzo and bounced and laughed their feet of vehicles totalled 50 or more. Another way through an evening on KTROO’s bouncy branch of the business involved metal spraying boots. They are planning to get their Festival Goer and shot-blasting and traded under the name of badge at Sparkle and Ice and continue to work Penfold Metallising Company, a company which is on the new and exciting programme launched still trading today. last September. The Ranger unit celebrates its 8th Birthday this January so no doubt that will be an excuse for a party!! We send all our best wishes to everyone for the year ahead and are looking forward to helping our members have lots of new and exciting opportunities in 2019! Please see Girlguiding’s website if you wish to join as a member or a volunteer with one of our units. https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/ ......

Yapton and Ford History Group The Third Battle of the Atlantic Report by Allen Misselbrook To end 2018’s programme of talks, the Yapton The Penfolds of Barnham & Ford History Group invited back Commander John Ford (Retd.) who had spoken at the Group’s The Yapton & Ford Local Ford Centenary Exhibition. John had been a Fleet History Group welcomed Air Arm pilot and had spent some time stationed back Sandra Lowton for their at HMS Peregrine, Ford. John made a spectacular November meeting. She gave entrance into the meeting wearing his fying an illustrated talk about a local 21 Continued Overleaf 21 Around the Village suit complete with helmet and commenced and expertise that was available to the two his talk by giving a resume of his career in the protagonists. On the West’s side there were Fleet Air Arm.’ He joined the Royal Navy in an array of warships, aircraft carriers, airborne 1948, straight from school and shortly there radar aircraft all crewed by professional sailors. A after he volunteered to become a pilot in the major advantage was a string of acoustic listening Fleet Air Arm. After completing a fying course devices positioned across the North Atlantic in Florida John was posted to RNAS Ford and, from Nova Scotia to the UK which could pick up as with all shore based Naval Air Stations, was the movement of any Eastern Units moving down commissioned with the name of a bird. In the from the Soviet ports into the Atlantic. The Soviets case of Ford, it was HMS Peregrine. One of his had long distance surveillance aircraft known responsibilities was to train new pilots. as ‘Bears’, fghter aircraft known as ‘Badgers’ and Missile Carriers. They also had submarines The main theme of John’s talk was the North which could travel at 30 knots underwater, but Atlantic Ocean and its importance during the they were so noisy traveling at that speed their ‘Cold War’. His audience were given a short positions could be easily tracked by the West’s listening devices.Eventually the Soviets could not keep pace with the West’s seemingly endless supply of funding with the result that the Soviet Union came apart and that particular Cold War thawed. One of the highlights of John’s talk was a 10-minute video commentated on by Raymond Baxter, of Phantom’s, Buccaneers and Gannets taking off and landing on HMS Ark Royal in the 1980’s. The next meeting of the Yapton & Ford Local History Group will be on Monday February 4th when Allen & Kevin Misselbrook will be giving an illustrated talk on the centenary of Ford Airfeld. The Group meetings are held in the Club Room of the Yapton & Ford Village Hall on the frst Monday of the month. The doors will be open at 7.15pm. Members are free, guests £3.00 per person. Tel: 01243 552715 Email: [email protected] Website www.yaptonhistory.org.uk ...... Yapton Coffee Morning history on the origins of the cold war between Community Group the eastern and western (NATO) powers. A Report by Elsie Nichols situation that became critical once the Soviet Looking back over the year, the Union had developed their own nuclear and Coffee group has had a very hydrogen bombs. The situation that existed successful year. We have been between the East and West was given the initials fortunate to donate to several charities this year MAD standing for Mutually Assured Destruction. and to other local events. Over the year we John continued by describing the equipment welcomed new guests, some of whom remain 22 with us, and we would be happy to welcome two which was raffed and won by Gwen our more people to join us. treasurer.

Our periodical raffes have been a success, and The last event of the year was our Christmas our members have been very supportive, some party which was great fun, with lots of chat, have generously given some of the prizes, and games and lovely food. The new year starts a big thank you to them. At our last meeting for us on the 7th January with guitarist Harry in December we had our Christmas Party and Hinscombe. We have various events planned Raffe, this brought our 2018 meetings to a close, including a talk by a speaker from The Cat and we re-commence on Wednesday 9th January Rabbit Home, a Skittles evening and meals out 2019. Once again we send our good wishes to at different pubs and restaurants. New members the Editor of “Yapton News” who works very are invited to come along to any meeting. hard to get this magazine out to all the residents These are held on the frst and third Monday every month - this helps to keep them aware of of the month at 2pm, in the Clubroom at the what Yapton has to offer for all age groups. rear of the Village Hall. For further information On behalf of the Coffee Group, we wish everyone call me, Pam, on 01243 868684. Wishing good health and happiness in the 2019. Yapton is all our members past and present a happy, an ever-growing community and we hope some healthy and prosperous 2019. of the new villagers will join us in the future. We ...... extend a big welcome to our Wednesday Coffee Morning Club. Coffee/Tea/Biscuits from 10:30 Yapton Women’s Institute am to 12 noon each week, and we would love Report by Alison Coote to see you, come and join us, you are assured At our November meeting we of a big welcome. All this takes place in the remembered the campaigns of Main Hall ofw the Village Hall, the hub of the the suffragettes to grant women village, and there are no entrance fees to pay! the right to vote. Members, ...... and visitors from other local institutes, enjoyed quizzes, Yapton Evergreens Over 50’s singing songs from the era, craft Report by Pam Evans activities and a brunch buffet. The committee dressed in costume of the period, and we also We bring to a close a very had an exhibition of photos and documents about active year in our club and look members' relatives who had signifcant roles at forward to exciting events in that time.Christopher Beaumont entertained 2019. In November we had a us on his xylophone in December, with a varied Race Meeting supervised by selection of music, including several pieces Tony and Hazel Bleach who are composed by Patrick Moore. The meeting was good friends of our club. Later followed by an excellent Christmas lunch at the in the month we were entertained by Jon Scott, Old Stables in Fontwell. Our meetings take place a very talented musician who sang and led us in on the third Tuesday of each month, (except for a cheerful singalong. The following week several December - 2nd Tuesday), start at 10.00am, and members lunched at China Royal in Bognor. are held in Yapton Village Hall. There is always time to chat over a cuppa and a biscuit; we have Early December we were given a talk on baking a raffe, and a bring-and-buy sales table. We also by Katie from Blossoms Bakery who brought have two walking groups (the Hikers and the along a selection of cakes for us to enjoy with our Strollers). So if you are looking to meet new interval tea. Her pop up café at the Village Hall on people, then we would love to see you. There is Tuesdays has become a popular event each week. no age limit, and you don't have to be retired to Our Christmas meal was held at a new venue, join the WI. The Beachcroft Hotel in Felpham. This proved to be a great success and was well attended. We For further information, please contact our were greeted with mulled wine on arrival and president, Mrs. Alison Coote - 01243 773276 or had an excellent meal served effciently by the [email protected] pleasant staff. The hotel donated a Roast meal for 23 Continued Overleaf 23 Around the Village

Yapton & Ford Cub Pack We would also like to thank JT Mackley Ltd who Report by Katrina McAnaspie donated a supply of high vis jackets, which made walking in the dark with so many young children We had 24 Cubs sleepover at much safer. It was interesting to see some of the the hall for our annual Christmas cars visibly slow down as they approached our Crafts and Christingle event. We crocodile of refective vests. Outdoor activities spent the day making tree decorations, tea are not so easy to plan during the winter months, light holders, wooden sleighs, peppermint creams but we enjoyed a walk around Swanbourne lake and of course a Christingle each. We then walked in Arundel, culminating in a game of Spotlight, to the Church to celebrate the Christingle which gave everyone a chance to test their service and take part in its 50th anniversary. On torches and although it was cold we managed the way back we took a little detour around St to avoid the rain. Keeping our programme Mary’s Meadow to admire the Christmas lights. interesting and as varied as possible we arranged for an evening at Air Hop, a trampoline centre in Chichester, which went down well with all the children as they jumped, bounced, traversed and generally wore themselves out for an hour. We are looking forward to the New Year and the new challenges that it will bring in the form of sleepovers, day trips, badges, crafts and camps to name but a few things being planned. As we say farewell to some Cubs as they move on to Scouts in the New Year, we are also looking forward to welcoming Beavers to replace them Cubs in high vis jackets watch Christmas snow. as they join our Cub Pack...... Walberton Arts Society Report by Elizabeth Sturt The monthly lectures of the Walberton Arts Society cover a very wide range of subjects indeed and there is always something fresh on offer. Tasha Marks founded AVM Curiosities (AVM = Animal Vegetable Mineral) in 2011, a year after graduating from Sussex University with an Art History degree, specialising in food history. Since then she has been concocting fantastic creations that cross the boundaries between art and cuisine, for example edible bubbles foating in the air which Cubs at the St Mary’s Christingle Service. have to be caught on the tongue. One of her We sang carols at one particular house and illustrations was a Middle Eastern themed table were then treated to the “Switching on of fruit, nuts and spices which she had arranged ceremony” followed by refreshments and a snow alluringly to tantalise guests with its visual appeal storm. A huge thank you to Mr & Mrs Collett and rich fragrances: only when a bell at last for arranging such a treat for the children. rang was tasting allowed! Tasha enthralled her 24 audience at the November meeting with these Feb 26th at 2pm. Everyone is welcome – if you and many other examples of her art, and one are not a member there is a £2 admission feel. wonders how many of those present will have ‘Commercial Horticulture’ A Personal View is been tempted to create their own smaller scale the subject for the January talk and Houseplants works over Christmas to astound their families. is the subject for February. There will be a raffe And so we come to the New Year, with the frst and refreshments at both meetings. If anyone lecture The Textile Arts of Mexico on Tuesday new to the village would like to come and 22nd January. Chloe Sayer has been researching meet us to see what we do, you would be very Mexican traditions since 1973. She has organized welcome. Membership is £6 per household and numerous exhibitions, worked on several the membership year starts in January. For more television documentaries and made ethnographic information contact our membership secretary collections for the British Museum. Something Jan Wood on 01243 554501 or jan.wood@ different again for February (Tuesday 26th) in the doglover.com. Further dates for your diary are shape of The Italian Job by Richard Whincop. The our Barn Dance on March 6th and our Spring speaker is a local artist who was commissioned Show on March 23rd. Posters with details will by the City Council of Cosenza in Italy to paint be around the village nearer to the event. We a series of fbre-glass panels to tell the story of look forward to welcoming back our existing the city so as to encourage both local pride and supporters and hope to see new faces during 2019. tourism. He will be describing the project in some detail, including his preliminary research, ...... and also recounting how one of the panels was stolen and subsequently recovered by the Village Hall Report police. Then on Tuesday 26th March stand by for Report by Derek Ambler Constable in Brighton by Sarah Cove. The fnal fund-raiser of 2018 our Christmas Quiz Night, The Walberton Arts Society welcomes new went very well adding a useful members and casual visitors to its meetings boost to our bank balance. which take place on the fourth Tuesday of Although only six teams booked tables in the month at Yapton and Ford Village Hall: advance, on the night there were ten teams doors open at 1.30pm when tea and coffee competing and this led to a tie break between are available before the lecture starts at 2.15. The Cottage Gardeners and Gwen’s team Entry for non-members is £6. Details are of her neighbours, who won. The Small Mat available on the website: www.taswalberton. Bowls club were unable to raise a team on this org.uk or from me on 01243 551292. occasion so they made a donation to hall funds ...... instead which was gratefully received. Over the Christmas period the foor of the main hall Yapton & District Cottage has been stripped of its old coating, sanded Gardeners’ Society and had a number of coats of lacquer added. Report by Anne Hollis The Badminton Court lines have been Happy Gardening for 2019! The repainted and the foor now looks pristine. days are getting longer (just!) This is an expensive process which together and so we can start to think of with a central heating boiler breakdown that planning what we want to do with our gardens required replacement parts, a cracked hand for the coming year. It is a great start to having basin in a Gents toilet and sundry electrical more colour in the garden by coming to our improvements and problems generally, leaves us Primrose Sale in the Club Room of the Village facing a depletion in our bank balance of around Hall on Feb 16th 10am – 12noon. The plants are £5,500. All the more incentive to fnd new ways supplied by Ferring Nurseries and are very good of raising money against future needs. Hence if quality at very reasonable prices. Come early to anyone has any bright ideas or is prepared to have the most choice. It is also an opportunity to do a charity sponsored run on behalf of the meet with friends over a cup of tea/coffee and hall, please let us know. Our plans for 2019 David’s famous cake. We also have two afternoon are still to be fnalised and will be publicised meetings in the Club Room on Jan 29th and in the March edition of the Yapton News. 25 Tailored stationery solutions to make it easy to promote your services, publicise your business and communicate with your customers

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Parish Council Budget and Council Tax for 2019/20 – The Council considered a report from the Clerk and Responsible Financial Offcer regarding the Council’s draft budget for the fnancial year 2019/20 and the prospects for the Council Tax. The Council agreed to continue provision for spending on services and the activities it provides at the current levels which produced a forecast total expenditure for 2019/20 of £63,180. The budget also includes a net increase in expenditure of £4,500 to deal with increasing requirements in certain areas (e.g. maintenance of play equipment and the playing feld), plus a provision of £4,500 to meet the anticipated costs of the parish council elections due to be held on the 2nd May 2019. The agreed budget results in a Net Expenditure of £58,750, which is funded from a combination of the Council Tax and from Council Reserves. The Council agreed that it would be prudent to restrict the use of the small amount of reserves it holds, and agreed to a higher increase in the Precept which determines the amount of Council Tax payable on each property in Yapton. The Council agreed to increase the Council Tax payable from the 1st April 2019 by 10%. This will result in a Band D equivalent Council Tax for Yapton of £42.34, an annual increase of £3.85 or around 7p per week per Band D property. Planning Applications – The following applications are due to be considered by the Development Control Committee of Arun District Council at a special meeting on the 23rd January 2019 commencing at 2.30pm.

Y/91/17/OUT Land at Bilsham Road, Yapton Outline application for the development of Applicant: Gleeson Strategic Land up to 250 residential dwellings, vehicular access, public open space, ancillary works Case Offcer: Mr D. Easton and associated infrastructure. Departure from the Development Plan

Y/92/17/OUT Land at east of Drove Lane, Yapton Outline application with all matters Applicant: Landlink Estates Limited reserved save access, for up to 300 dwellings, link road, surface drainage, Case Offcer: Mr D. Easton open space and landscaping. Departure from the Development Plan and Access route is within the Yapton (Main Road) Conservation Area.

The Development Control Committee has been recommended to approve these two planning applications subject to the confrmation of the Section 106 Agreement. The S106 will include provision for funds for investment in, amongst other important infrastructure improvements, expanding the existing primary school to provide for a 1.5 form entry, improved medical facilities, sustainable transport / cycle routes, new and upgraded sports and play facilities for young people and appropriate mix of affordable / social housing. New Planning Applications – At the time of writing the Parish Council has been notifed of an application to build a new crematorium on a 10 acre feld off Gravetts Lane West, Bilsham. Details of when this application will be considered by the Parish Council will be published on the website, notice board, parish council facebook and twitter accounts. Elsewhere in this magazine is an advertisement from Southern Co-op with details of a public consultation on the 25th January 2019 about their proposals for a new crematorium on Grevatt’s Lane (south of the A259), Climping.

Next meeting: Monday 11th March 2019 – meeting of the the Planning Committee and the Parish Council commencing at 7pm in the Club Room of the Yapton & Ford Village Hall, Main Road, Yapton. The meetings are open to the public and you are very welcome to attend.

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