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Hassocks Goes Gold 2023 is on now!

By Rachel BartlettBundy

For the fifth time, Hassocks will sparkle with golden bows, shimmering community events and much more. For those of you who don’t know, Hassocks turns GOLD every September to raise awareness and vital funds to improve the outcome of children with cancer. HassocksGoesGold was set up in the memory of our daughter, Pearl Dixie BartlettBundy, to help spare other families. Over the past four years, we have raised over £80K for research into children’s cancer and this year we have been able to fund not one but two new childhood cancer research projects! As per our mission statement in my daughter Pearl’s name, both will fight aggressive types of childhood cancer with terribly poor outcomes.

The Trail of Giant Gold Bows
Many local businesses and individuals have generously sponsored a golden bow. The Trail of Giant Gold Bows will be up for the whole of September, and it makes a perfect walking, cycling, or running route! Try and spot them all.


Daily Facebook auctions
Our daily Facebook auctions are an important part of the fundraising. Find out what’s up for auction on our Facebook page.

Parklands Road Exhibition
All the beautiful Teddy poster entries will be on display in the wonderful Parklands Road Street Exhibition during the whole month of September. This year’s theme is Golden Teddies and the final poster featuring the winning artwork will be available for just £1 from QD Stationery throughout September. All proceeds from the poster sales this year will be going to help Teddy & the Big C - so make sure you get one to display in your window along with your own teddy!

Shop window competition
All businesses with shop windows will be given a free poster to start your September window display - with a public voted prize for the most GOLDEN Shop Window in September!

Golden Trail Day of Stalls
Sunday 10th September is the Golden Trail Day of Stalls from 12-4pm. Check out the interactive map of stalls on Facebook and bag a bargain!

Golden Gala Extravaganza
We end the month with a Golden Gala Extravaganza on 29th Sept at The Hassocks with a gold quiz, pudding auction, live jazz music and raffle. Tickets available via Just Giving.

Here’s to a golden month of awareness and fundraising for Childhood Cancer. Details of all events will be on www.facebook.com/groups/HassocksGoesGold and www.justgiving.com/page/hgg2023

Also…

Teddy Bears to topup HGG charity fundraising this month

Chris de la Nougerade has created a range of handmade greetings cards which feature portraits of teddy bears with gilded backgrounds. They are for sale in de la Casa on the high street throughout September. 30% of the sale price from each card will be donated to the HassocksGoesGold fund.

An update on Hassocks Goes Gold 2022

By Rachel BartlettBundy

The village is full of golden sunflowers! This year there are some serious whoppers to kick start Hassocks Goes Gold for 2022! We will reveal the winners of the Sunflower Growing Competition in the October edition… but in the meantime there is so much GOLD coming this month!

The new ribbon pin badges are in lots of the shops on the high street – four brand new designs to choose from or collect the set! The gorgeous posters and gold decoration ribbons are on sale in QD Stationery at the same low £1 cost, so we hope to fill as many windows in the village with gold as possible! As ever, all money raised by HassocksGoesGold goes directly to the CCLG to raise funds and awareness of Childhood Cancer. The Children’s Cancer & Leukaemia Group are the experts in childhood cancer: funding research, coordinating medical science and supporting parents and children for the last 45 years. Thanks to the work they and others have done, over 80% of children diagnosed now with cancer can be cured. BUT… ‘cured’ only means survival for 5 years after diagnosis. There are 76 different childhood cancers, some with very poor outlooks, and some treatments have long-lasting and devastating side effects. Recurrence is too common. Further research is vital to improve real survival rates and to find kinder treatments.

I know all this from firsthand experience. Until my daughter Pearl was diagnosed in 2016, a month before her 10th birthday, I thought childhood cancer was impossibly rare and curable when found. The smiling faces of bald children in adverts for cancer charities who focus over 98.6% of their money on cures for adult cancers belies the truth. Treatments are savage and crude. Children’s growing bodies are fundamentally different and need specially designed treatments, but very few of these exist. Only six treatment drugs have ever been specifically designed for children’s cancer against the more than 200 designed for adults. The cards are dreadfully stacked against children diagnosed with cancer, it now does not surprise me that it is in fact the biggest killer of children under the age of 14. ‘Well,’ I hear you ask, ‘that’s very sad and dreadful, but what can we do?’ ANSWER: We can have a month of joyous, glittery GOLD FUN and raise some pennies along the way! Times are tough and we need some uplifting.

Let's STALL Childhood Cancer

Trail of stalls around Hassocks - Sunday 11th September 2022

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Money is tight, but anything you can give will be put to maximum use. Some events are free to enjoy. Can you spot all 117 Giant Gold Bows around the village? Or visit the Parklands Road Art Gallery of Gold Bees. Grab a bargain at the trail of stalls ‘Let’s STALL Childhood Cancer’ at the Hassocks Tyre forecourt and around the village on Sunday 11th September; or on the daily Facebook Auctions throughout September; get lucky at the Gold Tombola at the village market on Saturday 24th Sept; or see out the month in style at The Golden Gala on Friday 30th September when teams of eight compete in a Golden Pub Quiz, with a Pudding Auction, live music and raffle.
The fun even extends into October with Reflex@42 holding a ‘24-hr hair-athon’ from noon on 30th Sept to noon 1st October (ring 01273 845009 to book). The Hassocks Field Society’s Coffee Morning is at Adastra Hall on the 1st October too.

Please join the HassocksGoesGold group on Facebook for information on all the above or email Rachel at hassocksgoesgold@gmail.com. Offers of auction prizes are very welcome! Make donations via JustGiving: www.bit.ly/HGG-22 The CCLG is a registered charity in England and Wales (1182637) and Scotland (SC049948).

Hassocks Goes Gold 2022

Hassocks Goes Gold update here.

By Rachel Bartlett-Bundy

This September will be the fourth year of Hassocks Goes Gold – turning the village GOLD for the whole month of September to raise funds and awareness of Childhood Cancer. This year saw the most ever entries for the Poster Competition –all drawings of Golden Bees– which is our theme for 2022. It was super hard to pick the winners and in the end we had five winners across the different age groups, five runner-ups, two highly commended, and also a special mention as the standard of entries was just SO high!

WINNERS (Work pictured): Primrose O’Hara (PreSchool), Alice Lambe (Hassocks Infants School), Maisie Smith (The Windmills Junior), Erin Poat (Downlands), Emma Taylor (Adult).
RUNNERS UP: Hudson Hurrell-Wood and Ivy Woodbridge (Hassocks Infants School), Andy Morris (The Windmills Junior), Dulcie Field (The Windmills Junior), Layla Meadows (Downlands).
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Hettie Hodson and Maja White (Downlands).
SPECIAL MENTION: Arony Hall (Downlands).

Pictured here are the five winning entries, all of whom have their work included on this year’s Golden Poster. It will be available from mid-August from QD Stationery and at the Village Market on Saturday 27th August where Hassocks Goes Gold will have a fundraising stall full of goodies.

If you haven’t yet ordered your Giant Gold Bow, you only have until 12th August, so don’t delay! Each gold wooden bow sponsored with a minimum £20 donation will be put up across the village in a trail ready to shine for the whole month of September, with your personalised ‘Sponsored by’ dedication.

Hassocks Goes Gold has a month of glittering excitement for you:
• The return of the very popular Daily Facebook Auctions all through September.
• A trail of stalls ‘Let’s STALL Childhood Cancer’ throughout the village on Sunday 11th Sept, with a minimum of 50% from each stall going to Childhood Cancer.
• The Parklands Road Gallery – a free display of ALL entries to the Poster Competition in the windows of the Parklands Road!
• The Golden Gala on Friday 30th September – a celebration of a month of giving. Teams of either compete in a Golden Pub Quiz, with a Pudding Auction, live music and raffle. Tickets are £6 or £40 for a whole team of eight.

Donations can be made via JustGiving: www.bit.ly/3Snhypp Please email Rachel at: HassocksGoesGold@gmail.com for more information, to book your Giant Gold Bow, Golden Gala tickets or join in the Stall Trail, or if you would like to offer an auction or raffle prize.

Hassocks Goes Gold 2021 - Golden Butterflies

Golden Butterfly poster

Golden Butterfly poster

This month, the village is set to turn GOLD as Hassocks Goes Gold raises awareness of Childhood Cancer and much needed funds for research to combat this cruel disease. As children’s bodies are still growing, they need stronger treatments than adults, and many children die from the cure before the cancer.

Some Childhood Cancers (there are many different types) have good outcomes. There have been breakthroughs in adult cancer that have translated well to childhood cancers but with the majority of cancers in children being so different to adult cancer, much more research for new treatments is needed.

So here we are in September. A month to decorate GOLD, to treasure what we have and to protect the children of the future. This year’s theme is Golden Butterflies.

What you can do to help
Display a Golden Butterfly poster (pictured) sponsored by Mid-Sussex Flooring & Carpets with prizes for the fabulous artists supplied by Middleton Common Butterfly Farm. Pick up a Golden Butterfly Poster from QD Stationery.
Buy a gold ribbon, walk the Giant Gold Bow spotting trail, vote for the best Gold shop window, run the Gold Run, bid on the amazing items in the Daily Auction or take part in one of the many other Gold events this month.

Let’s have fun and raise some funds! Event details can be found on HassocksGoesGold on Facebook or Instagram. All money raised via HassocksGoesGold goes to research treatments for Childhood Cancers with poor outcomes via a fund set up in Pearl’s name: https://specialnamedfunds.cclg.org.uk/pearlpower

Pick up a September issue of Hassocks Life to read a more personal piece on page 8.