Tree Festival 2025 comes to Shoreham and Southwick Whatever the weather, the upcoming Tree Festival 2025 will let us reconnect with nature and appreciate the incredible role trees play in our lives. This line-up of events across Sussex and the Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere includes over 20 events in Shoreham and Southwick alone from now...

Dave Fawcett describes a walk to record the birdsong at first light by members of the Echoes Of Old Shoreham soundscape project. It’s about 5 a.m. on the first Sunday in May. A little group of us are dotted around Mill Hill, tuning into the soundscapes created by the bird song around us. We met …...

Thoughts from a walk to Thundersbarrow A three mile walk from Shoreham town centre will take you one of the best views on the South Downs. Thundersbarrow, high above the town, is an archaeological site rich in history. The hill features an Iron Age fort, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, and traces of a Romano-British …...

This is a guest article by the recently formed Friends of Adur SSSI Just under 40 years ago the Adur River Estuary (from Cuckoo corner to the footbridge in Shoreham) was deemed to be of such importance for wildlife that it was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) under the then new …...

David Gill offers a personal account of his observations from his frequent travels to various Arctic and Antarctic regions, including Iceland, Norway, Jan Mayen, Svalbard, Greenland, and Antarctica. Through his experiences, he sheds light on the changes occurring in our Polar Regions. Despite being informative and occasionally...

Already the days lengthen, the bulbs are nudging into view, and we sense the seasons moving on. Picture bright and warmth filled June days, trees still light green with new growth, and read on. This June, Shoreham will be hosting a Tree Festival with events for all ages around our town. Majoring on the Weekends of …...

A guest article by Ruby Stothard from Sussex Underwater on the background to a Shoreham Society talk on 19 July 2024. Sussex Underwater are a group of passionate local divers who love filming the diverse life in our Sussex seas, so that this underwater world is no longer out of sight, out of mind. In …...

This is a guest article from the Waste Prevention Team of West Sussex County Council. Julie Silverson, their Events & Initiatives Assistant, gave a talk to the Shoreham Society with Gigi Backshall-Wilkinson in November 2023 about reducing waste and what can be recycled. The West Sussex Waste Partnership (WSWP) is a collaboration that...

On Friday 19 April we are pleased to welcome Richard Allan and Tony Benton from the Shoreham District Ornithological Society to give a talk about the birds that rely on the environment of the Adur Estuary. Here’s Richard’s outline of their talk and photos of just two of the many birds that visit the river …...

Enter a photo of your favourite tree in Shoreham for the Shoreham Tree Picture Competition. It could be in your garden, in the street or a park nearby. It could be an unusual tree or have a special significance for Shoreham. Or maybe just a photo you like of any tree in Shoreham. The winning …...