News: in 2011 our planned changes to the calendar of regular events was disrupted by prolonged delays in opening the Durrington Community Centre. The Centre is now in full operation so the programme for 2012 will now run as planned. View our Quarterly Newsletter for details of current meetings.

Activities

The range of activities includes:

Monthly:

• Coffee mornings
• Evening meetings
• Lunches
• Walks (April to September)
• Lottery syndicate

Ad hoc

• Evening meals
• Afternoon meetings
• Outings

For information about membership, please e-mail for further details.

Focus on Worthing Friendship Centre

On an outing to Barnsgate Winery

On holiday at Ringwood

An Open Meeting

In 1993 a group of socially minded folk decided that there was a need for a club for active retired people in Worthing other than the somewhat specialist groups of U3A and Probus etc. They set up a small committee and approached the ARP050 Head Office to see if funds could be available for the setting up of a Friendship Centre. Things went well and the establishment of the centre was publicised in the local press and the first meeting was held in Ferring Village Hall on 11th May 1993.

Many tides have ebbed and flowed since those early days and now the Centre is well established having survived the demise of ARP050 and, after a brief flirtation with the ill-fated Heyday, is happily a member of the Friendship Centre Federation.

Like other centres our membership varies having reached a peak of 120 in the ARP days dropping to 100 a year or so ago as an independent Centre. We have currently 75 active members. Guests are always welcome to visit us and it would be a pleasure to meet members from other centres who may be holidaying in the area

e-mail for our Quarterly Newsletter or for an activities update.

Worthing Friendship Centre is an Independent Centre and a Member of the Friendship Centre Federation