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In Brief

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Help for the Homeless

Grateful thanks to everyone who contributed to the Meeting House Christmas Appeal which has now closed with a grand total of £1103 for the Emmaus Community for the homeless which is being established in Portslade.

Temperance Fund

A new research fund has been set up to encourage study into the history of drinking. Called the James Hudson and Mark Hayler Memorial Fund, to commemorate the work of two temperance reformers, the fund has been created out of the remaining assets of the National Temperance Fund which has ceased to function.

Officers of the fund approached Sussex because of the work carried out by Sybil Oldfield (CCS) on the social consequences of drinking. They felt that the funds could not be put to a more appropriate use than to facilitate such research. The bursaries, normally between £500 and £1000 p.a. would support such study as the history and development of the drink industry, particularly in the UK, and its social consequences; the history of drinking habits resulting from the manufacture and sale of liquor and the personal and social consequences of the habit, including drinking offences; the history of licensing legislation and other social controls of the consumption of liquor; the history of the Temperance movement and the relationship of Christian activism and social reform movements in Britain c.1800-c1950.

For further information and application details contact the Dean's Office in CCS. Closing date is the last day of Spring Term.

Warning - Car Crime

Two secretaries in SOC have had their cars stolen in the past two weeks, one from the Refectory car park on Monday 3 February (black Ford Fiesta XR2 reg C212 CUV) and the other from the EDB car park on Monday 17 February (white Vauxhall GTE reg F132 HYJ). One was found abandoned and burned out, the other was found abandoned and damaged.

If anyone saw anything suspicious on the above days, could they plese let Shirley Stay know on ext 8892.

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Friday February 28th 1997