ACC Grassroots

Teamwork made the dreamwork yesterday. Fantastic group effort on the Cafe Garden. Should be a lovely spot in the summer when finished. Big final push today before we hand over to the Site Maintenance Team

Back on the stone clearing in the cafe garden today - in the sunshine for a change!! More stones to shift tomorrow!!!

We had a great day meeting the stars of TV's Kitchen Impossible series, when they came to help us out with our own Food 4 Thought event! Sam and Annalie told us about their experiences on the show that followed people with disabilities being mentored by top chef Michel Roux Jr and finding paid work. They told us about their employment experience since and helped give us confidence to try new things ourselves. Sam also enjoyed his tour of our farm and meeting our animals! Our friends Tom, Andrew and Jason all had paid jobs at the event which went really well!!

The Performing Arts team did a singing show for us. They have been working hard with singing tutor Jo. They are now working on new songs for a show in May/June

Christian went to a meeting with Rolls Royce, who have us as their nominated charity this year. Doesn't he look smart!?!

The ACC Performing Arts team did their Wonderland Celebration show under the Oak Tree for an invited audience this week. Well done for all that went into preparing the show, props and costumes, it was enjoyed by all. The group plan to do more shows later in the year (hopefully it will be warmer!)

The ACC Maintenance Team are building a new accessible path and gate into the Memorial Garden so that everyone can get in there easily to enjoy it🙂We plan to have an official opening later in the year

On Wednesday 13th March, a group from ACC went along to The Jim Green Challenge at The South Of England Showground in Ardingly. Unfortunately no big trophy to bring home again this year, however we did bag one win! A big congratulations go to The Creative Arts Studio, who won a first place trophy for their Model of A Sheep 🏆🐑
The Jim Green Organisers also had the pleasure of welcoming HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh at the challenge this year, as she is the SEAS President for 2024. We all had the chance to meet HRH, Dean showed off Creative Arts’ winning sheep and Eloise was asked to present Her with a posy 😁 Big well done to everyone involved!

Fantastic visit by Theatre Inc today, who gave some amazing performances for us from their latest show. Very inspirational for our Performing Arts group.

Fascinating animal discoveries today with Rebekah's Leaf Insects at ACC. Some of us were afraid at first but we soon conquered our fears and made new friends

We went to tournament at Sussex FA HQ. A great fun and sporty day meeting friends and playing the game we love ❤️ ⚽️

A days dectectoring and learning about the artefacts found at ACC and their history

Work starting on restoring the Cafe Garden to its former glory. With a little bit of thrown in!

We attended the WSCC Highways, Transport and Planning Focus group. It was a very interesting day and we gave our views on , and

Our sewing group here at Aldingbourne have been very busy.
They have been making Cushions, hanging hearts, pin cushions and animals.
What do you think? 😃

With Children In Need just around the corner. Debbie has created a lovely bag featuring Pudsey Bear in her sewing session at Aldingbourne .

The annual Aldingbourne Halloween Spookactular was another great success😃The ACC Performing Arts team hosted a great dance party at the entrance to the woods and the Wizards Team conducted a bat hunt around Count Kamula's castle. The Events team did a great job setting up the woods, this year with an added haunted church and extra monsters!

We had a great football match with our friends at Ferring Country Centre. A good time was had by all in a very closely contested away leg

The ACC Team have been busy giving the bird hide in our Memorial Garden a new lick of paint - ready for it to turn into Count Kamula's Castle for a few days in the October Half Term!! 🧙‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧛‍♂️🧛‍♀️🧝‍♂️🧟🧟‍♀️

The ACC Team have done a great job clearing parts of the Members Garden so we can get to and use the Exercise Equipment again - Well Done.

The ACC Team have been busy giving the Cart at the front of the ACC Orchard a good clean

The ACC team have been helping The Order of St John's Care Trust
at St Wilfrid’s Priory, Arundel with their gardening and!

John has been busy with the Adopt A Station team making our plant displays look lovely all across the county

Look at this Motley Crew of Pirates from the recent Aldingbourne Trust International Pirate Day. We had great fun singing, dancing, playing games, making pottery, story telling, BBQ'n and searching for buried treasure. Ah-harghh

The ACC Team has been out in the community selling our goods and telling people about the Centre at Pop Up Fairs at Arundel and Eastergate

A great afternoon at Aldingbourne with our cooking group! On the menu today was "Spaghetti & Meatballs".

Joanne has been sewing again and completed her lovely "Duck" cushion that she made to sit on her bed.
I'm sure you will all agree it looks "Quacking" 🙊🐥

We have recently received some donations of craft materials from kind members of our local community to use at Aldingbourne . Sophie made some beautiful thank you cards to show our appreciation 😊

At Aldingbourne@Makerspace on Wednesday, cooking group made mince and onion pies 🥧

A beautiful piece of art work done by a lovely lady at Aldingbourne . This piece is inspired by the song "Summer Holiday" By Cliff Richards.