23 June 2016 12:30 PM
Lots of people turned up to Cowfold village green yesterday to wish the Purple Bus many happy returns on its 21st birthday. Other youth service buses also arrived to celebrate the Purple Bus`s two decades of bringing youth services to those rural areas in West Sussex where there is little or no youth provision.
Kitted out with comfy furnishings, computer equipment and a sound system, the bus brings advice and information, or just a place to chill, to 13 – 21-year-olds. Recent visits include Ashington, Billingshurst, Cowfold, Fernhurst, Fittleworth, Midhurst, Northchapel, Pulborough, Storrington, Tangmere, the Needles Estate, and Upper Beeding.
The bus is managed by West Sussex Young People’s Service in partnership with Action in Rural Sussex, Chichester and Horsham District Councils and other organisations that form the West Sussex Rural Mobile Youth Trust. Chairman of the trustees Bernard Baldwin said: “We are very proud of our partnership working over the first 21 years and are very pleased to be celebrating the bus’s birthday with our partners and the community we support."
The others that came to the party included Midhurst Greenpower Project with its electric go-cart which finished 51st out of 500 teams worldwide when racing at Goodwood, the Sensory Bus with all-colour flashing lights, mirrors and vibrating cushions for younger children, Horsham Matters Mobile Skate Park, Horsham’s Snack Wagon, and a mobile recording studio.
Click here for more info on the Purple Bus and other youth hubs in West Sussex.
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