A West Sussex Action Group Committed to Protecting a Valued Local Asset
We had an article reporting on our event printed in the Chichester Post on the 4th January Annual beating of the bounds in city Below is short photo diary of the FoCW Beating the bounds event on New Years Day 2019 The cargo trike easily hauled a stove and plenty of ingredients for hot drinks.…
Hope every one has enjoyed a good Christmas. The Met Office are predicting good (dry) weather for our Beating the Bounds event (far better than the weather for our Christmas Event on the 15th Dec). There is a warning level 1 for UV exposure because there could be a tiny amount of sunshine between the…
The Friends of Centurion Way had planed to stage a fun Christmas event on the path on the 15th of Dec between 2pm & 4pm. Originally, we intended to warm seasonal refreshments on a portable stove and to encourage local path users to decorate lanterns to hang on the trees which are under threat if…
Hopefully, all FoCW supporters will enjoy indulging in delicious food and drink over this festive season but by the time New Year comes around most of us are desperate for some healthy fresh air and exercise. The FoCW Beating the Bounds event is the perfect remedy to over-indulgence and inactivity over the Christmas break, so why not join…
Alister Linton-Crook who is the Cycling Project Officer for the South Downs National Park Authority, has informed us on behalf of National Park Authority that: “We are pleased to announce the submission of the planning application for the next section of Centurion Way which is an important step towards the realisation of this much desired…
Join the Friends of Centurion way on the 15th Dec to celebrate the Christmas season and help raise awareness to the threat to our pathway posed by development plans. The event will be held between 2 Pm & 4 Pm. We aim to provide any one passing by with some mulled cranberry juice and various…
Philip Maber (an active member of the FoCW) has discovered from the Shoreham-by-cycle group that Sustrans have a new campaign to remove 16,000 barriers to cycling from the National Cycling Network. If we as a group can preserve the existing route of Centurion Way we will be very lucky. Our path already has extremely few…
Website Revamp Visitors to these pages may notice the FoCW webpages are being revamped. Believe it or not, the FoCW website has been on-line almost a full year. Members of FoCW know development plans are in the pipeline that threaten our path and we want to be sure even more people are ready to engage with…
This spooky story is now also covered by the Chichester Post. A ghoulish group The Fiends of Centurion Way gathered on Saturday 27th Oct for a Halloween event to raise awareness of threats to the path. Carley Sitwell created some fantastic cakes, apparently made entirely out of real spiders. We had some terrifying leaflets to…
BBC News are running an interesting story about “Young couples trapped in car dependency“. The news report highlights issues with recent relaxation of planing requirements intended to stimulate the creation of new housing developments. Some residents of these developments are hit by a double whammy of having few community amenities while also suffering from limited…