News from our society and members…

  • Thank you from Rowans Hospice

  • Rowan's Hospice Donation of £351

    Rowans Hospice provide palliative and end of life care to the highest quality for those living with a life-limiting illness in the Southeast of Hampshire. Our highly trained hospice carers help to improve quality of life for the patient by easing physical symptoms as well as offering psychological, spiritual and social support to both patients and their loved ones.

    Our dedicated hospice care is available round the clock either in house or at home, as well as offering services for day visitors in our Living Well Centre. Wellbeing events and classes are available to carers, patients and the bereaved with no referral required.

    Whilst our care is provided free of charge, we are in fact a hospice charity and 90% of our income is generated by legacies, donations, fundraising and our retail shops. Through your generous donations and fundraising we continue to provide much needed support to the community and make a difference to so many lives and for this we thank you.i

  • Spring/Summer Events Calendar

  • £515 Foodbank Christmas Donation

    Our wonderful members raised a very impressive £515 for the Midhurst branch of the Chichester Foodbank at our November meetings!

  • Autumn/Winter Calendar

  • Ickle Pickle Charity

    £300 raised for the Ickle Pickle charity

    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.

  • Monthly Donation to Chestnut Tree House

    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.

  • £500 donation to Midhurst Palliative Care

    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.

  • £500 Over the Moon Foundation Donation

    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.

  • £300 Poppy Appeal Donation

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

  • £300 Charity Donation to The Murray Downland Trust

    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."