Blog to Blog

While this blog is intended to keep you in touch with the John and Ella at THE SOUTH’s office and their weekly activities and plans, Friends of THE SOUTH have their own blog at www.friendsofthesouth.wordpress.com. Here Friends can contribute your own news and views, as well as publishing your won creative work. So sign up as a user and express yourself!

If anyone is interested in being the volunteer Moderator for the Friends blog, please let us know.

Normal blogging service…

…will be resumed as soon as possible I hope.

We’ve had a very exciting period since December with lots of developments – and very little time for blogging it seems…!

Many thanks to Laura Kayne who left us in November after eighteen months hard work. Ella Burns joined as a volunteer in January but quickly moved on to being our Workshop Co-ordinator for two days a week and is now our Co-ordinator, coming in Tuesday to Friday so the office is now manned most days. We’ve also had support from Fany Chassaing, a young French student, courtesy of Pighog Press and Messenger Communications Ltd. With Ella, Fany has been doing a fantastic job, getting the website upto date and sorting out our database.

In February, in partnership with Royal Holloway, London University and Runnymede Borough Council we were involved in the second successful Runnymede Literary Festival and its associated CO-ED activities.

In April we successfully launched the first Brighton Children’s Book Festival with Laura Atkins and the University of Brighton and sponsored by The Salariya Book Company.

We’re grateful to have received an organisational development grant from Arts Council England South East.