The much-loved Saturday Morning Chef and television personality James Martin hosted three cookery demonstrations at our Peasmarsh Superstore on Friday 1st October.

The sold-out event was a resounding success, seeing the chef cooking recipes from a number of his books, Barnsley lamb chops with onion squash, pumpkin gnocchi and crispy sage, sirloin steak with Roscoff onions and miso butter, crab beignets with lemon mayonnaise and waffles with pecan and maple butter, he then signed copies of his book ‘Islands to Highlands’ as well as the brand new ‘Butter’.

Stephen Jempson said ‘It was a genuine pleasure to welcome James back again to the store, we hope that our guests thoroughly enjoyed their evening, it certainly looked as though they did, we would like to thank them for coming as well as our event partners, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, McDougalls Flour, Lurpak Butter, Hardy’s Wine and Peroni Italia for their support’. He continued ‘We have already booked two celebrity chef’s for next year’s ‘Meet the Expert’ events in June and December, our customers are in for a treat, we look forward to announcing them soon!

Our Peasmarsh Superstore played host to a number of Bank Holiday Charity Boot Fairs, with this year’s proving very popular, which in turn helped to raise a significant amount of money for local good causes.

This year’s car boots attracted hordes of sellers and enthusiastic bargain hunters, with over £1,300’s being raised.

All the money from the sales of pitches and collections on the day, were donated to Rye & District Community Transport, Rye & District Day Centre and Rye Hospital. The Easter Monday event was called off due to Covid-19 Lockdown restrictions.

Stephen Jempson said ‘Our Boot Fairs are a well-established event in the Jempson’s calendar. We take great pleasure in offering our services for the benefit of local good causes and the community over-all. Thank you to everyone who attended. We look forward to welcoming even more traders and bargain hunters to next year’s Bank Holiday events’

Pat Hughes from Rye & District Community Transport said ‘It was just lovely! Following lockdown, it was brilliant to see people so happy!’

Rye & District Day Centre’s Bill Coleman said ‘We would like to thank Jempson’s for all their support for the Day Centre, both from these events and their donations at Christmas’

Pictured are Pat Hughes (Rye & District Community Transport) Bill Coleman (Rye & District Day Centre) with Dominic Plomer-Roberts from Jempson’s

The Jempson Foundation recently made a donation to Battle Town Football Club Runners, to go towards essential equipment and emergency First Aid Training.

Esther Dunn said, “We would like to thank The Jempson Foundation for their support. The donation is so gratefully received. In order to ensure the safety of our club members we would like to train our volunteer coaches in emergency First Aid. We are committed to supporting local people who are not active. We have seen increased numbers in this group and participants have benefitted from improved mental health and improved physical health and fitness. Thank you, this donation will make a real difference.”

A longstanding customer made the excellent suggestion that in this time of need, customers be given the opportunity to hand their individual SavaClub COUPONS into Customer Services at Peasmarsh store with all proceeds being donated to The Jempson Foundation Hardship fund. This amazing act of generosity, along with Rye & Battle Food Bank Donations has raised an amazing £4,000.00 taking the TOTAL raised to date to over £24,000.00!!!

A massive, ‘Thank you’ for all your support and donations received.

Donations are gratefully received via the Jempson Foundation website to both Rye and Battle Food Banks – www.jempson-foundation.org/rye-food-bank/

The Jempson Foundation recently made a donation to Ninfield Health & Well-being, to go towards their Musical Matinees.

Jackie Langley said, “We would like to thank The Jempson Foundation for their support. The donation is so gratefully received. I run our Musical Matinees that are dementia and heard of hearing friendly. These afternoons are free and open to all. Our audience comes largely from the Ninfield and Bexhill area and we reply on donations to pay for our license, hall hire and refreshments. Thank you, this donation will make a real difference.”

The Jempson Foundation recently made a donation to Sensory Soft Play, to go towards their refurbishment project of the Community Hub.

Lisa Henderson said, “We would like to thank The Jempson Foundation for their support. The donation is so gratefully received. Sensory Soft Play are aiming to relieve the needs of children and their families (primarily but not exclusively), with additional needs in Hastings and the surrounding area through the provision of multi-sensory soft play activities. We know that many carers feel very isolated which impacts their mental health so this supports parents and carers within the local community.  Thank you, this donation will make a real difference.”

The Jempson Foundation recently made a donation to Beulah Baptish Church, to go towards the replacement of their community room roof.

Paul Hellyer said, “We would like to thank The Jempson Foundation for their support. The donation is so gratefully received. With closure of other churches, community spaces are decreasing in number in central Bexhill. When lockdown ends, we will restart day center, toddlers and youth work and also continue with meals. Recently we provided short term emergency refuge for local residents evacuated from sheltered housing. Thank you, this donation will make a real difference.”

The Jempson Foundation recently made a donation to Xtrax – Youngs People’s Centre, for accredited skateboarding coaching to qualify a young man currently at risk of homelessness for the training at Three Shill Sports Park in June 2021.

Matt Davey said, “We would like to thank The Jempson Foundation for their support. The donation is so gratefully received. We have a young man who has agreed to volunteer to qualify through Skateboarding GB/Street Games in Folkestone this year and then to deliver free sessions to other 16-24 year old’s benefiting both their mental and physical health. Thank you, this donation will make a real difference.”