With over 27,000 people killed or seriously injured on Britain’s roads last year[1], Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) is taking part in this year’s Road Safety Week (14-20 November 2022) to raise awareness of the steps we can all take to make our roads safer. Led by charity BRAKE, the 2022 Road…
Launching this November, Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) is asking residents of Kent, Surrey and Sussex to Host a Roast and help the life-saving charity raise vital funds. With the prospect of days getting colder and nights drawing in, KSS is inviting people to come together with friends, family or colleagues to…
From spooky storytelling to the Surrey Hills Christmas Fair, there are activities galore to be enjoyed a West Horsley Place in the coming months! Halloween Storytelling Storyteller extraordinaire, Olivia Armstrong, will take visitors on a magical tour of the secret corridors and enchanted corners of Grade I listed West Horsley Place in a special…
Amazing Grace, the world’s most recorded hymn, will celebrate its 250th anniversary on 1 January 2023. First sung in Olney, Buckinghamshire, the Reverend John Newton (1725-1807) wrote the hymn to accompany the sermon for the New Year’s Day service in 1773 at his parish church of St Peter and St Paul. Amazing Grace…
Over a third (36%) of UK adults do not have CPR life-saving skills to save a life in an emergency, and just under half (43%) would not feel confident performing chest compressions if they were to witness someone having a cardiac arrest. A survey by Warwick University of over 4,000 adults on attitudes towards…
Watts Contemporary Gallery, part of Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village in Compton, Surrey, today announces its winter exhibition programme for the period November 2022 – March 2023. The Gallery offers a frequently-changing and varied programme of art and crafts, presenting work by established and emerging artists, giving visitors an opportunity to see and buy…
Dreams and Stories: Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries opening at Watts Gallery on 18 October (until 26 February 2023) brings together paintings, works on paper, ceramics and more created by British artists working during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to explore how this period was central to the development of modern art – in particular,…
Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) has unveiled its ambitious Five Year Strategy (2022- 2027) ‘Working Together to Save More Lives’, created to help take important steps towards realising its vision of an end to preventable loss of life from medical emergency. With demand for its world-leading pre-hospital Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS)…
Watts Gallery Trust today announces the appointment of two new Trustees: Michaela Macintyre is the Vice President of Brand & Consumer Marketing at IMG, a global leader in sports, fashion, live experiences, and media. In her role, she is focused on the development and commercialisation of IMG’s diverse and growing portfolio of global brands…
The West Horsley Place Trust is delighted to announce that Ilona Harris has been appointed as the charity’s new Director and will take up her appointment on 1 November 2022. Ilona Harris was previously Head of Commercial at Weald & Downland Living Museum, West Sussex, supporting the charity’s growth to financial stability and leading…