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Billingshurst Community Partnership’s Village Champions


Duke of Richmond and Denise Campbell

The Billingshurst Community Partnership has set up a host of activities for local teenagers and scooped this year's prestigious Richmond Award from Action in rural Sussex (AirS).

As part of its work in the community the Billingshurst Community Partnership has organized a “Youth Projects Team, lead by Denise Campbell, which runs a weekly youth club at the village hall as well as a programme of activities from graffiti workshops to dance nights and youth band events.

Denise also encourages youngsters to volunteer their time for local businesses and community groups with the innovative YES project (Youth Enterprise Scheme). This now has a number of teenagers spending some four hours a week helping in the community, in exchange for credits for vouchers or day trips of their choice.

The Community Partnership received their award, from the Duke of Richmond, at a celebration event held in the village hall. The Richmond Award, launched in 2006, is designed to recognize the work of a community or an individual considered by AirS staff to have done the most to encourage and ensure that young people remain in their local community.

The Duke, who was President of AirS from 1973 to 2005 said: "Through the work of Action in rural Sussex, staff come across many examples of good work designed to make sure that rural villages can be places that young people want to stay and build their lives in,"

This award is a compliment to the Billingshurst Community Partnership in general and Denise and her youth team in particular and we were proud to receive it.

Patrick Perks Chairman
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People are reminded that the fishing lake is not suitable for swimming in.

Moving the picnic benches on to the fishing platforms, and then using them for diving, spoils the use of these for others and causes damage to the platforms, as they are not designed for this purpose. It is also highly dangerous as the water depth at the side of the lake is in some cases no more than 500 mm and the exit from the lake is a muddy bank. 

Also the environment of the lake is settling down now and the fish are breeding - swimming is disturbing this and keeps stirring up the mud bottom to the lake. So please cooperate with us to keep this lake as a fishing lake and for the enjoyment of picnics and fishing - lastly if you do use the area please take your rubbish away with you. Throwing the benches into the lake is also not funny and causes more work - in the end this is paid for by your local taxes so we suggest ALL parents might like to get the message across to ALL the young people to help keep the lake as it has been designed


Recent pictures of the day fishing organised by the Billingshurst Angling Club to encourage youngsters to use the facility

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