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January 23rd, 2025

WORTHING COMMUNITY AWARDS: CELEBRATING COMMUNITY HEROES IN 2025

29 May 2025 at Rooms Worthing

The Worthing Community Awards are back, and this year, they are excited to recognise and celebrate remarkable individuals and organisations that make outstanding contributions to our community. Following the success of the 2024 awards, the organisers are thrilled to announce new categories such as The Young Community Hero Award and the Community Hero Award for the Emergency Services.

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January 17th, 2025

New facility to be created in support of Worthing’s independent fishermen

Worthing Borough Council has drawn up plans with its community of independent commercial fishermen to transform the town’s unutilised rotunda into a new facility where they can prepare and sell their fresh fish.
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December 11th, 2024

Work starts on new memorial garden at Worthing Crematorium

Work has started on a new memorial garden at Worthing Crematorium that will provide space for 950 new burial plots.

Worthing Crematorium has three private memorial garden areas for cremated remains set within its peaceful grounds, but all those spaces are now used or reserved and over 100 families are on a waiting list for a plot.

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November 18th, 2024

Care charities initiate merger to enhance services for veterans

Two charities that care for Armed Forces veterans and their families living with disability, neurological conditions or dementia, have agreed to work towards a merger.

Royal Star & Garter operates three care homes in Solihull, High Wycombe and Surbiton, and Care for Veterans (formerly the Queen Alexandra Hospital Home) operates a single home in Worthing, West Sussex.  

A merger of these two historic charities will bring together all their existing services and expand the Royal Star & Garter group to four care homes. Consolidating services will enable the charities to share expertise, resources and support functions, to provide a more effective, efficient and wider-reaching offer to the veteran community of all ages.   

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