Findon News

July 2020Community newsletter forFindon, West SussexIncluding the Church Parish of Findon,Clapham & Patching

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Closing Date for Next Publication : 20th July 2020

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Findon Sheep Fair 2020

CANCELLED

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From the Rectory

Rev. Helena Buqué, Priest in Charge and Colin Cox, Curate: c/o The Rectory, School Hill, Findon, BN14 0TR. Tel: 873601

findoncprectory@gmail.com www.findon-clapham-patching-churches.com

Helena and Colin have recorded anon-line service each Sunday.

It is available on theChurch website (see below)

If we were to play a word associationgame and I said ‘church’ to you, youmight perhaps reply ‘pew’ or ‘service’.Of course, it might be somethingentirely different but we won’t go there!We think of church as a building,usually but not always ancient, and ofthe worship that takes place there. Forsome, that might be limited to weddingsand funerals. But in reality, church is thepeople of God, so although ourbuildings have been closed for worshipfor some time the church itself cannotbe closed and is still very much activeand alive in the community. All of uswho call ourselves Christians are thechurch and we take it with us.As I write this brief article there is hopeon the horizon of the easing of thelockdown and we will very shortly beable to open our church buildings onceagain, but just for private prayer. This initself presents quite a challenge toensure we have everything in place tokeep our visitors safe.Although, as I’ve mentioned, the churchare the people, these sacred buildingsare very important to us for they areplaces where so many prayers havebeen said down the centuries it almostfeels they have seeped into thestonework. They are also the placeswhere we reserve the holy sacrament,the bread and wine consecrated at HolyCommunion in memory of our Lord’ssacrifice for us on the cross. Many ofour visitors remark on the sense ofpeace they find there. So, we rejoice atbeing able to open our church buildingsonce again and share that peace. It hasbeen particularly sad that we have not

been able to hold funerals in ourchurches. We will however be holdingmemorial services for those who wouldhave liked a church funeral for theirloved ones once the restrictions arelifted.During this time of lockdown our way ofbeing church has quite radicallychanged. We have quite a large team ofpeople phoning around to offer supportand have a natter, in place of our visits.Our services are recorded withcontributions from the congregation andcommunity and are posted on ourwebsite and Facebook. We also havean evening Zoom service at 8pm onSunday. This is usually but not alwaysCompline and is now attracting quite afollowing. Last Sunday we had a recordsixteen join us for a time of sharedprayer, whereas before the lockdownwe did not have an evening service atall. I have a feeling that once we areallowed to hold services in church onceagain this might be there to stay. Iwould expect that we will continue touse our on-line presence for worshipand outreach. God always brings goodout of every situation no matter how direand what looks like dying insteadbecome a means to new life andgrowth. May the Lord watch over yourcoming and going both now andevermore.Colin

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After our meeting on the 18th June2020 the Sheep Fair Committeeregret to announce, with heavyhearts, that we have cancelled thisyears’ Findon Sheep Fair planned forthe 12th and 13th September 2020.The tradition of the show, over 200years old, has made this a difficultdecision to make, but the right one.Only once before, during the 2001Foot & Mouth epidemic, has it beennecessary to cancel the Show.The safety and welfare of our visitors,volunteers, exhibitors, staff, andtraders have been at the forefront ofthis decision as has that of theresidents of Findon Village itself. Withthe requirements of social distancingmeasures, whatever they become, &the uncertainty regarding massgatherings we felt it was impossible tosafely hold a show of the samequality and standard that members ofthe community know and love.We take this opportunity to thank allwithin the NHS, those key workersand many unspoken heroes whocontinue to work incredibly hard tohelp the country to tackle COVID-19.We must help them as much as wecan, ensuring we are not causingeven more of a strain on all services.To all of our stall holders, farmers,judges, suppliers and contractors;Thank You for your support andunderstanding throughout this last 3months. One of our committeemembers will contact you via eMail or‘phone to discuss the outcome of this

decision. Please bear with us, thismay take a week or so.On behalf of the Committee, wewould like to thank you all for thesupport you have given us over theyears. We are incredibly grateful toour supporters and volunteers,without whom the show would nottake place. Preparations are now inplace for 2021 and on behalf ofeveryone at the Show, dancing sheepand all, we look forward to welcomingyou then.Together, we will get through thesedifficult times – keep safe and takecare.Best wishes,Simon Stace, Chairman, FindonSheep Fair.“What was needed was not bravery,but circumspection.”H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

Put it in your diaries:FINDON SHEEP FAIR –

10th & 11th September 2021

FINDON SHEEP FAIR 2020 - CANCELLED

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Monday 9am - 4pmTuesday 9am - 4pmWednesday 9am - 2pmThursday 9am - 4pm Friday 9am - 4pmSaturday 9am - 3pm

Sunday 10am - 1pm

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Monday - Friday 9am - 4pmSaturday & Sunday 9am - 3pm

Including hot mealssubject to stock availability

we will be working on a 24 hourpre-ordered service due to demand

Re-opening Monday 6th July with restrictions

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The start of gardening.

At the tender age of sixteen I’d passedthe requisite ‘O’ levels and beenaccepted as a ‘Deck Apprentice’ inBritish Petroleum’s’ tanker fleet, knownto the world as BTC (British Tanker Co)but known to employees a ‘Better TimesComing’! The first four months of mynew career was spent rowing whalersaround East India Docks, learning howto splice rope and tie knots together withthe odd bout in a boxing ring to ‘buildcharacter’.Then back home for Christmas 1957and finally the orders to join my firstship, the aptly named ‘British Hero’ inFalmouth in the first week in January.Such was my luck that the day before Ihad a raging toothache, solved by anextraction some 4 hours before catchingthe overnight train from Paddington toFalmouth. Arriving there around 6.30 inthe morning, my brand-new uniformbloodied already! Fortunately, I wasbefriended by another Apprentice whowas on his third trip and therefore Iconsidered him to be an old salt, hetook me for a memorable cookedbreakfast at a local B&B. I should pointout that on smart, posh passenger shipsthe likes of us were known as ‘Cadets’but we had to make do with the lowlytitle of Apprentices. BP believed, andrightly that as you rose the ranks toCaptain you should never expectanyone to do a job that you hadn’tyourself done. This involved scrubbing,cleaning brass, painting, working overthe side when sailing down the RedSea, unblocking toilets, working 12 hourshifts on and off in port loading anddischarging cargo and even changingnavigation lights at the top of a 100 footmast in the middle of the night with the

ship rolling 10 degrees in eitherdirection. This instilled in me the oldsaying “one hand for the ship and onefor yourself”!For all this blood sweat and tears BPagreed to pay me the princely sum of£615 over the 4 years (first year £110rising to £190 in the fourth) and an extra£30 if one survived the full 4 years!Added to this was 12 shillings (60p) ayear as a washing allowance (to buysoap with).Having met my fellow Apprentices,found our cabin, I got the top bunk! Wewere told that the ships orders were offto the Isle of Grain, BP’s oil refinery onthe Medway to load a full cargo of fueloil and then not to some exotic port inthe Mediterranean or possibly SouthAmerica, but we were bound for Tromsoinside the Arctic circle in Januarycomplete with an ice breaker to keep uscompany! No warm weather shorts orshirts but duffle coats and two pairs ofsocks became mandatory!All that was many, many years ago anda lot of water has flowed under the keelsince then. I went on to complete myfour years, duly become 4th, 3rd and 2nd

officer, obtained my Masters Certificate,got engaged, got married and westarted a family at which time I hadenough of trips of 8 or 10 months awayat a time, enough of working everysingle day on board for a minimum of 10and more often 12 hours a day. So, in1968 I started with Rolls Royce ascomputer programmer, living in Derby,going home at night and enjoying beinga family and became a gardener in myspare time!Chris Young

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ThanksTo my fellow villagers,a very big thank you for themany cards, letters andphone calls on the death ofmy husband Jim Bartlettafter a long illness.How lucky are we to live herein this lovely place.Jan Bartlett

You held me close and said" I will love you forever,I will take you home andwe will be together,your eyes are so bright,your fur is so fluffy,your ears are so long andyour tail is so puffy"You took me home andyou loved me so much,then a few years onas I lay in my hutch,I waited for someone toclean out my bed,but nobody came,just left me instead.I shivered and shookas rain fell from above,is this that great thingthat mummy called love?My food bowl is empty,

no water to drink,You have moved on andjust left me, I think!Nobody wants me,I am trapped in this box,Would they care if I leftin the jaws of a fox?They no longer want me,it was not meant to be."I will love you forever"meant nothing, you see!My eyes are so lifeless,a smile I pretend,Is my life over,could this be the end?But this is not cute andit sure is not funny,its cruel and its heartless."Where is my mummy!! "

Anon

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Findon Village Store Opening Hours(Temporary later opening due to Covid-19 Lockdown)

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Our little horse Elvis had five weeks ofacupuncture but showed noimprovement. The Vets advised us tohave a plate put in his shoulder. He hadthe operation, a plate with two screws tohold the plate in position. The Vet rangto say he would not stop biting thebandage off and has had to have moresurgery to have the stitches put back inagain, and has now got an infection. Itwas to have cost £1,500 but now hasgone up to £4,879.18. He has to stayanother week so that will cost evenmore!

I like to come in and watch The ChaseQuiz every day on TV. A soon as I satdown with a cup of tea the dogs startingbarking. I got up and went to see why.When I went into the Conservatory therewas a strange chicken sitting verycomfortably on the settee. Somebodymust have put it in the back gate. She isstill here. I went into the stable recentlyand found a hen this time. I knew whoshe belonged to as I recognised her asone I had given to our neighbours. Shehad escaped into the farmers field andthen into the field at the back ofNightingales where there is a horse.The man found the hen when feedinghis horse and put her over the fence

thinking she was one of mine. She wasvery lucky because we have a fox that isoften about in both fields.Our little hen Lola has died, she wasbest friends with Benjamin our Rabbit.Poor Benjamin is missing her. He goesand sits with the other hens who peckhim. He turns round as if to say " Whatdid you do that for? "

I have too many fish in the pond. Theybreed every year. I try to give someaway every year, so please get it touchif you would like some goldfish.Stacey

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Findon Village Store NewsJo O’Dell Volunteer/Committee Member

Since the shop opened 3 years agostorage has been an ongoing problem.We have worked extremely hard toprovide product lines to suit the needsof villagers but this has been hamperedby the lack of adequate storagefacilities. We have now had acommercial cold room installed at therear of the shop, rather than relying onprevious domestic fridges that weren’t fitfor purpose. This provides significantadditional storage capacity for chilledand chiller displayed goods (e.g. softdrinks) and will free up significant spaceelsewhere. It will enable us to keepmore stock and It will also enable us toslightly increase our chilled productsrange as we won't need everything outin the shop at once as we often do now.

We have been supporting the FindonGarden Centre until they recently re-opened, enabling sales on their behalfin excess of £2,000 during May.Alongside their goods we havecontinued to sell our own, sourced byand looked after by Becky Fagan whowill now return to being the sole providerof these going forward. We are happy to

have been able to help FGC survive avery difficult time for them in our ownsmall way.

We have decided to overhaul ourgreetings cards, partly driven by ourprimary supplier changing theiroperating model to our disadvantageand partly because we felt our rangewas too limited to appeal to the broadspectrum of tastes using the shop. Thenew card selection is excellent andhopefully we will be the shop of choicefor local customers looking for cards!Having made a significant investment inthe business to meet the needs of thecommunity at large and going some wayto future proofing our ability to do so, wesincerely hope that the communityresponds positively to this and post-covid continues to use the store asmuch as it has during the past fewmonths. I am sure that many who havenot typically used the shop before willhave been impressed with theexperience of doing so, both from anincredible product range and customerexperience perspective.

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Post Office Opening Hours:Mon to Sat 08:30 - 17:30Sunday 08:30 - 12.00

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Villagers will recall the formation ofUpdated Findon NeighbourhoodDevelopment Plan Working Group(UFNDPWG) and its mission toassess the view of villagers towardthose two housing allocation sitessubmitted by South Downs NationalPark Authority (SDNPA) with respectto new house building in Findon.

Those sites proposed, namely land atElm Rise and Soldier's Field Housewere ranked alongside a number ofother proposed sites, both scoringpoorly as voted by the village. In fact,the two sites proposed by SDNPAwere ranked lowest by a significantfactor in the vote held via anextensive polling exercise undertakenby UFNDPWG.

As a result of these findingsUFNDPWG embarked upon a lengthyexercise to establish criteria for thosehighly ranked sites favoured byvillagers, in effect creating a FindonPlan favoured by the village.

These alternative sites met thecriterion of 32 houses within thevillage that needed to be met bySDNPA and were duly submitted asan Updated Findon NeighbourhoodPlan to the Planning Inspector. TheInspector noted that whilst these sitesmet most of the planning criteria, thepresence of an existing South DownsLocal Plan (namely the land at ElmRise and Soldier's Field House sitessubmitted by SDNPA ) meant that hecould not recommend our Plan,unless SDNPA withdrew the twoallocations from its Plan.

Findon Parish Council (FPC) hassought legal advice on this point andthis has been clear that unlessSDNPA withdraw the two allocationsfrom its Plan (and they are adamantthey will not ) there is a very real riskthat pursuing the Findon residentsfavoured site allocations could lead toboth being enacted. A situation thatcould lead to an extra 60 plus homesin Findon.

It is therefore with a heavy heart thatFPC, as the ‘qualifying body’ willwithdraw its housing allocationsubmission and leave the SouthDowns Plan as the only one toprogress. This is clearly not the wishof Findon village but it would appeardespite the concept of Localism as aguiding principle for SDNPA this is notdeemed sufficiently important by themto withdraw their Local Plan.

FPC would like to extend its thanksthose hard working members ofUFNDPWG. Their efforts have beensignificant during this and the originalNeighbourhood Development Planprocess and deserve a betteroutcome.

FPC will now close down theUFNDPWG and FPC will naturallycontinue to communicate relevantprogress to the village.

Cllr Sean Smith

Chairman, Findon Parish Council

Updated Findon Neighbourhood Development Plan Working Group

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My daughter, Mabel andher friend, Martha (Both 12)held a socially distancedlemonade & snack stand onBank Holiday Monday, toraise money for Worthinghospital. They raised a totalof £617. Would you be ableto add this story to the nextFindon News magazine? We had amazing supportand donations (Chris &Sam Sherman, donating£100, and Pam & Derek Falkingham fortheir generous donation), and they aresuper proud. All followed the socialdistancing rules on the day, everythingwas individually wrapped, and theresponse was amazing!They would like to say thank you to allfor the amazing Donations, home-madeCakes & the time people gave to comeand support them!

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Cinnamon Trust.Many, many thanks to all those who have continued to support theTrust during lockdown. I have been really heartened by thedonations and the number of gift sets and dog treats you havepurchased and I will be able to make a sizeable donation by theend of the month including the continued donations in the VillageShop collecting tin.I still have some of the Cornish Gift Sets for sale and in addition some lovely giftbags of two hand-made soaps. These are priced at £3 per set or £5 for one ofeach type. In my porch at 13 The Willows with collecting tin (sorry no change) or ifyou phone me I will be happy to deliver locally.Regrettably the Cream Tea at Mike Solomon's house in August is another victimof the lockdown but we will be back as soon as possible!!May I just remind you that I am happy to be commissioned to do a botanicalwatercolour of your choice and will donate profits to the Trust.Keep well everyone.Best regards Maggie Martin (07544 572702/01903 874173)

I am delighted to say that I have sold the wisteria watercolour painting for St.Barnabas Hospice to Iain McAvoy for the sum of £80 and, with anotherdonation, I have transferred the sum of £100 to the Hospice today. Manythanks to Dorothy Barber for allowing me to pick several sprays of her lovelywisteria, to my husband John for mounting the picture and to Iain for buying it!

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Big Fleas. NormanAllcorn.As I write this the fate of Findon Fair 2020 hangs in the balance. A decision isexpected at the start of July. There have been a fairs in Findon as far back as1261 but ---”George Holford started the Sheep Fair proper on Nepcote Greensometime before 1785. In 1940 the fair was moved by order of the War Office. Itwas transported by the traction engines of the Harris Fun-Fair to West Grinstead.The Harris family are still attending the fair today.” (If these words seem familiar itis because they have been used in the Sheep Fair programme ever since I wrotethem over 20 years ago.)Even Hitler did not stop the fair but it was cancelled in 2001 due to a virus. Footand Mouth disease had broken out in pigs in Northumbria and had spread viacattle markets through the North, Wales and into the South-West. The nearest itcame to Sussex was an outbreak in north-west Kent. This stopped all cattlemovements. Footpaths were closed and people told to stay out of the countryside.On the second Saturday in September of that year some members of the Harrisfamily and a few villagers met at the corner of Nepcote Green. A symbolic plankwas laid on the ground. A young Harris grandson said, “I declare this fair open.”A few moments later he said. “I declare this fair closed.”Since then the fair has gone from strength to strength. It seems ironic that it couldbe once again stopped by a virus. How is it that we can put a man on the moonbut can be brought to our knees by a tiny invisible enemy. Not an exact analogybut it reminds me of the old poem.

Big fleas have little fleasUpon their backs to bite ‘emThese fleas have lesser fleasAnd so ad infinitum.

If only we could find a flea to bite the corona virus !

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Walking on the ancient way betweenCissbury and Chanctonbury the otherday, I nearly trod on a Stone Age manlying on the path. He was petrified!Having fallen on hard times in thedistant past, he looked down-troddenand a bit worse for wear. I stood him upon the fence, posted as a sentry towatch out for others of his tribe.The next time I went that way, FindonMan had left his post - doubtlesscaptured by another passer-by.Peter Jackson

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THANK YOUWe, as residents of Findon andsenior citizens, would like to paytribute to and thank all thebusinesses who are workingextremely hard to enable us to getthrough this very difficult period.Michael and Jacqui Grand

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In 1416 when King Henry V was on thethrone basking in the glory of defeatingthe French at Agincourt the year before,the birth of white storks in the wild inthe UK was the last recorded. That wasuntil this year when chicks werehatched just up the road from Findon atthe Knepp Estate near Dial Post.

This was the result of the White StorkProject which aims to reintroduce a wildstork population to Britain. Three chickswere hatched high up in an oak treeand are being closely monitored by theproject team at Knepp. There isevidence that storks have beenbreeding in the UK for around 360,000years, so the 600 year gap seems like asmall interlude in comparison.

The Knepp Estate has beenundergoing a ‘Wilding’ for 20 years.Originally a farm struggling to survive,the current owners decided to return

the land to a natural habitat toencourage wildlife. As well as storks,there are free roaming Exmoor Ponies,Longhorn Cattle, Deer and TamworthPigs. The habitat has also attractedmany breeds of bird including theNightingale and Turtle Dove (bothdwindling breeds), as well as a largevariety of insects and butterflies.

The Estate is open to the public all yearround, and from the car park a map isavailable detailing a few walks ofvarying distance. I went there myselfrecently and was lucky enough to get aphoto of the storks. Look closely andyou can see one of the chicks poking itshead up from the nest.

For more information, check out theKnepp Estate website atwww.knepp.co.uk

Richard Bell

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flat roofs, re-roofsand re-pointing.

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Continuing our occasional series from Findon residents aboutwhy they moved to Findon ….Why we Moved to Findon Graham and Hilary LangfordOf all the things we have ever done, moving to Findon in 2006 has been one ofthe best decisions we’ve made. In Findon we found all the elements we werelooking for in a village; a Church, a village hall, a school, at least one shop andone pub and a village green. These we believed comprised the bricks for a strongcommunity and we weren’t wrong, were we!Graham grew up in Coolham, but had moved into Horsham by the time we met,and Hilary had grown up there. We’d always planned to move away and Grahamhankered for the village life he’d known in Coolham when it was a very activevillage with a shop, garage, pub, cobblers, school, chapel and so forth. It wasdifficult however, as both our mothers were widowed, needing support and ourchildren became rooted in their schools and the community and our villagethoughts were, after all, rather vague.The time came when both our children had left home and sadly Graham’s motherhad passed away. It was in our thoughts that we would move to mid Devon as weboth had a Devonian parent. As we were growing up we’d both spent our holidaysvisiting family and felt at home there. We spent time exploring areas between thecoasts with a view that we’d need to be able to drive back to Horsham to pick upHilary’s mother and bring her to our home, all in one day. But, we didn’t findanywhere that felt right and it was clear that it was a long drive for a one dayround trip.We’d always known Findon without ever having explored it but, after one very wetspell when the forest and footpaths round Horsham were waterlogged andsquelchy mud, we drove down to walk on the well drained hills of the Southdownsand stopped in the village for a drink. Looking at the houses for sale in the villagestore window it occurred to us that this would be a very nice place to live.Although our first attempt at purchasing a house fell through, Findon wouldn’tleave us alone and before long we’d found anotherproperty and were moving in.After being here 10 years we did something wenever expected of ourselves – we decided to have adog. We were two very undoggy people but now arethe doting people living with Millie the Cockerpoo. Idon’t feel we’re a couple with a dog but insteadwe’re a family of three. All the family adore her andwe’re all much loved in return.Although Findon in its Downland setting is only ashort distance from Horsham, built on the clay andHorsham stone of the Weald, it is very different,almost like being in a different county and we’veenjoyed our life here and our family love to visit.

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Criminals are exploiting the COVID-19pandemic to try and get their hands onyour money and personal information. Todate, Action Fraud has received reportsfrom 2,378 victims of Coronavirus-related scams, with the total lossesreaching over £7 million.

How you can protect yourself fromCoronavirus-related scams:There are some simple steps you can takethat will protect you from the most commonCoronavirus-related scams. Here’s whatneed to do:1 - Watch out for scam messagesYour bank, or other official organisations,won’t ask you to share personalinformation over email or text. If youreceive an email you’re not quite sureabout, forward it to the Suspicious EmailReporting Service (SERS):report@phishing.gov.uk2 - Shopping onlineIf you're making a purchase from acompany or person you don't know andtrust, carry out some research first, forexample, by checking to see if others haveused the site and what their experiencewas. If you decide to go ahead with thepurchase, use a credit card if you haveone, other payment providers may notprovide the same protection.3 - Unsolicited calls and browser pop-ups offering tech supportNever install any software, or grant remoteaccess to your computer, as a result of acold call. Remember, legitimateorganisations would never contact you outof the blue to ask for financial details suchas your PIN or full banking password.

NHS Test and Trace scams:The NHS Test and Trace service plays animportant role in the fight againstcoronavirus and it’s vital the public haveconfidence and trust in the service.

However, we understand the concernspeople have about the opportunity forcriminals to commit scams.What you need to know:Contact tracers will only call you from thenumber 0300 013 5000. Anyone who doesnot wish to talk over the phone can requestthe NHS Test and Trace service to send anemail or text instead, inviting them to loginto the web-based service.All text or emails sent by NHS Test andTrace will ask people to sign into thecontact tracing website and will provideyou with a unique reference number. Wewould advise people to type the webaddress https://contact-tracing.phe.gov.ukdirectly into their browser, followed bythe unique reference number given to you,rather than clicking on any link provided inthe message.The NHS Test and Trace service willnever:�� ask you to dial a premium rate numberto speak to them (for example, thosestarting 09 or 087)�� ask you to make any form of payment orpurchase a product or any kind�� ask for any details about your bankaccount�� ask for your social media identities orlogin details, or those of your contacts�� ask you for any passwords or PINs, orask you to set up any passwords or PINsover the phone�� ask you to download any software toyour PC or ask you to hand over control ofyour PC, smartphone or tablet to anyoneelse�� ask you to access any website that doesnot belong to the government or NHS

If you think you have been a victim offraud, please report it to Action Fraud athttps://www.actionfraud.police.uk or bycalling 0300 123 2040.

Crime Report Fiona MacLeod

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FINDON SMALL WORKSBUILDING COMPANY

FLINTWORK SPECIALIST, BRICKWORK,RE-POINTING, PAVING & PATIOS,

EXTENSIONS, LANDSCAPING, FENCING.CALL PAUL

07939 210354 or 01903 872147

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The lockdown restrictions are beginningto ease and for many of us life isadopting some form of normality.Nevertheless, many in our communitystill struggle with some of the basicaspects of life and it is uplifting to seebusinesses, the wider community andFindon Parish Council (FPC ) continueto help those in such need. Should yoube in that category please continue toapproach FPC for assistance byphoning or emailing the Clerk, FionaMacLeod (01903 877225 orclerk@findonparishcouncil.gov.uk ).In the Council we have now held severalremote meetings across Planning andFull council using the Teams platformand notwithstanding some minor hitchesthis new medium is working well. Onplanning, it is to be noted that the recenthearing to redevelop and add newhousing to Soldier's Field Stables wasagreed by South Downs National ParkAuthority at its remote meeting held on11 June 2020. Cllr Cathrine Gear,Chairman, FPC Planning Committee,spoke on behalf of the Council inobjection to the application.Gardening services including swiftlytaking down a damaged and dangeroustree on Pond Green continued and it isgood to see the Open SpacesVolunteers Working Group recommence

their work across the village in smallersocially distanced groups and adheringto COVID 19 rules.Social distancing is a large part of ourlife in these times and it is reassuring toobserve people crossing the road toensure such distance but it is alsointeresting to feel how much more socialpeople are, friendly chat or waves arethe norm now and continue to mark thereal village feel that exists in Findon.Many thanks are due to Findon WI who,in the light of government guidelines,volunteered to make face masks forthose who don't have them within thevillage and have now helped numerousvillagers to access in a safe manner thewider community.FPC has had several commentsregarding both speeding and parking inthe village and before the lockdown theCouncil agreed to form a WorkingGroup to examine both, including bothcouncillors and non-councillors. TheWorking Group has been formed but todate has clearly been unable to meet.We look forward to making progress onthis and would welcome anycomments/thoughts from villagers.As always, we encourage all residentsto stay safe during these times.Cllr Sean SmithChairman, Findon Parish Council

Thank YouWe would very much like to thank the volunteers or volunteer who cut ourhedge along the by-pass. Who ever did it for us made a very professionaljob of it. Not an easy task as we know. We did have it cut in the winter butit doesn't take that long before it starts to get unruly again. Thank you verymuch. It was very kind of you.Dave and Lesley Power

Findon Parish Council July 2020

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Planning applications for Findon areunder the authority of South DownsNational Park and listed on the SDNPAwebsite (www.southdowns.gov.uk).Findon Parish Council (FPC) PlanningCommittee meetings are scheduledmonthly to consult on planningapplications received from the SouthDowns National Park Authority(SDNPA). Parish Consultation Letters(PCL) received from the SDNPA aredisplayed on the Notice Boards outsidethe newsagents and the Village Hall,and published on the FPC website(http://findon.arun.gov.uk) along with theschedule of Committee meetingdates.Please note that due to Findon Newspublication deadlines, some applicationsmay have already been placed beforethe Committee. Residents should checkthe Notice Boards and FPC websiteregularly to view notices and meetingdetails.Any enquiries should be address to theFPC Clerk - 01903 877225.Since the last issue of Findon News, thefollowing Planning Applications havebeen posted on the SDNPA website:

Removal or Variation of Condition -Condition 2 of Planning ApprovalSDNP/18/00856/HOUS.Le Manor Horsham Road Findon BN140RHRef. No: SDNP/20/02028/CND

A one bedroom ground floor house,courtyard and covered parking space,with art studio and roof garden for theoccupier, on the first floor, set behind anew flint boundary wall to Nepcote Lane(as a replacement for the existing

modern, incongruous brick boundarywall and close boarded fence)7 Nepcote Lane Findon Worthing WestSussex BN14 0SFRef. No: SDNP/20/02071/PRE

Demolition of existing property andconstruction of new property in thesame position within the siteLe Manor Horsham Road Findon WestSussex BN14 0RHRef. No: SDNP/20/02088/PRE

Formation of new front entrance andminor internal works.Downsedge House Stable Lane FindonBN14 0RRRef. No: SDNP/20/01911/HOUS

Notice of intention to fell 1 No. LargeOak Tree which has split and hasinternal damagePond Green Rear of The Square FindonWest SussexRef. No: SDNP/20/01888/DDDT

Change of use from B1 to D1 (officeto Dog Grooming Academy).2 Old Stocks Nepcote Lane FindonBN14 0SARef. No: SDNP/20/01805/FUL

Single storey rear extension.1 Holmbush Cottages High StreetFindon BN14 0SXRef. No: SDNP/20/01801/HOUS

Findon Planning Applications

200 Club June DrawThis month’s winner is

158 Gloria Roberts.

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