Amazing volunteers honoured at Chairman’s tea party

The amazing work of an army of volunteers across East Sussex was celebrated by the county council Chairman.

A total of 65 representatives from caring groups, community associations, village clean up teams and many more groups joined Cllr Roy Galley for a thank you tea party at Herstmonceux Village Hall.

Those invited included many visited by the Chairman during his programme of community and civic visits, while others were nominated by their local councillors.

Cllr Galley said: “We have a tremendous amount of excellent and purposeful community and voluntary activity across East Sussex. The point of the tea party was to thank some of those volunteers for their contribution to Sussex society. Without their generosity and hard work, our lives would be poorer.”

Andy Miller, a founding member of Rotherfield St Martin and guest speaker at the event is pictured with Cllr Roy Galley

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Karen Bowles

Wednesday, 25 March 2026