Tree Festival 2025
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...
Celebrating International Dawn Chorus Day on Mill Hill
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 …...
Big Birthday Celebrations
All Aboard for the Big Birthday Celebrations! The Shoreham Society is heading up a big day of celebration for many of the things that feature heavily in Shoreham life and history which are reaching significant milestones, including 40 years of the Shoreham Society. Starting at 10am and going on until 3pm on Saturday 10th May, …...
Thundersbarrow Hill
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 …...
Vacancies for Volunteers
There are some roles available to help out with Shoreham Society activities which you may like to volunteer for. If you are interested in any of them or would like to know more just send an email to info@shorehamsociety.org.uk stating which one(s) and we’ll get back to you. The Event Co-ordinator role entails becoming a …...
Planning ahead
Old Shoreham is vulnerable to pressure for development and growth. The Friends of Old Shoreham are starting to explore how the community can be involved in creating positive solutions from the earliest opportunity and not be taken by surprise with other people’s plans for the area. Old Shoreham faces new development pressures:...
The Regeneration Game
Richard Bingham takes a look at three very different buildings all of which aim to contribute to the economic development of Shoreham. We live in something of a dormitory town. One third of employed residents leave Adur district each morning to go to work elsewhere. Brighton, Worthing, London – everyone is on the move. Or …...
Echoes of Old Shoreham
Beginning in March and continuing until August sound artist Simon James will be running listening workshops in Shoreham’s ‘northern territory’. “Echoes of Old Shoreham” is a community sound art project that captures and celebrates the rich sonic landscape and cultural heritage of Old Shoreham. This...
Sussex Devolution
What is the “Devolution Revolution?” Tucked away in the manifesto of the winning party in the July 2024 General Election was a statement that most of us would probably have been completely unaware of at the time… “We will transfer power out of Westminster, and into our communities, with landmark devolution legislation …...
Introducing Friends of Adur SSSI
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 …...
