AFVBC Crawley & Horsham, Crawley Videos

On Saturday 3rd August the CHAFVBC celebrated with family & friends of George Durrant a 100 year old Burma Star Veteran at a combined birthday & club BBQ in Crawley. He had a police escort and rode in a WW2 jeep provided by one of the club members Peter Hulme. It was a lovely day and everyone enjoyed themselves very much. George was also handed an Intelligence Corps tie by one of the members, George recited his Burma Star song and even played his minute harmonic that he has kept for all this time from his service days. George you are an inspiration and the club is honoured to have you with us.

Yesterday after the drop in at 12.00 a veterans drumming therapy session was arranged by Charlie Purdie whose father Jim is a member of the group. Charlie is doing a masters degree at university and he wants to see the difference a drum therapy session makes before and after undertaking the session. The session was a very positive experience for everyone who was involved. Lots of laughter, some improvising, going wild, keeping the beat & rhythm as directed and going rouge (Jim) when you thought no one would notice. The video shows a small part of what the session was like. Thank you to Charlie & his parents for arranging this.

We had our Crawley Breakfast this Sunday at our new Venue Ifield Golf Course. Host, Atmosphere was brilliant. We will be back 14 April. We had the pleasure of 99 year old George Durant former Int Corps, 14th Army Burma who gave the assembled veterans this short missive👏👏👏👏

Westlake drop in
Presentation of plague to Audrey GM

Yesterday at the Three Bridges Football Club, veterans from the Crawley & Horsham Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club waved off Renya & John in their vehicle carrying the last of the donations for the Ukrainian appeal. They drove to a local rendezvous point for collection, the journey to Ukraine began early this morning. We all wish them a safe journey.

Ken arriving at the Friary Church of St Francis & St Anthony Crawley.

Hi Everyone, this is what Jane's cousin John Reynolds produced for us, he's a Creative Director and has run accounts for Rolls Royce, Honda, Suzuki Motorcycles and even the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

Horsham drop- in today, nice to get outside in the garden.

This video was put together to show the photos taken at our Funday on May 8th for AFVBC Crawley & Horsham. A great day for veterans and their families. If your a veteran in the local area and are interested in joining please contact us.

Great song along at Westlake Residential Care home this morning, with AFVBC, residents and staff and our own veteran pianist (Alan)and compare (Fred)Many thanks to Audrey (GM)for the refreshments and warm welcome !

Great song along at Westlake Residential Care home this morning, with AFVBC, residents and staff and our own veteran pianist (Alan)and compare (Fred)Many thanks to Audrey (GM)for the refreshments and warm welcome !

Short video of Alan playing the piano 🎶

Crawle Veterans Drop-in 13 June 2022
31 in total dropped-in at Crawley Veterans Drop-in this morning. Thanks to Helen and the team at the #stjohnscrawley Bridge Cafe, plus the support organisations, SSAFA, RBL, Barclays, DWP Armed Forces Champion and WWTW. Good to see some new faces and a few mini reunions.

Happy D Day everyone, hope your all OK had a quick catch-up with Jimmy Justice yesterday, in our conversation about D Day he said 'I was there', now there not many who can say that today. He let me take a copy of some of his photos. He also had a newspaper from 7 Jun 44. I also included one of Jimmy's lines for the poem, its very pertinent. It was a great honour to meet up with him and have a social distancing chat. He and Joy are a great asset to the club and such a lovely couple.