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Friday, 15th January 2010, Haywards Heath

TIM FRENCH RECEIVES MBE IN NEW YEAR'S HONOURS LIST
Haywards Heath resident Tim French has been honoured by the Queen and awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honour List for his services to the local community.
Tim’s voluntary work dates back to the early 60’s when he worked as a youth leader at both the Albermarle Youth Centre and the Wivelsfield Youth Club. He then went on to coach junior athletics and was a founder member of Haywards Heath Harriers. British decathlon winner Daley Thompson is one of the many young athletes who benefitted from his coaching.
Tim, who is an active member and former president of Haywards Heath Rotary Club where, in 2007, he received the Paul Harris Award for his work in the community, also served on Mid Sussex Magistrates’ bench for twenty years where he came to specialise in juvenile youth court.
In 1993 he became chairman of Haywards Heath Town Week a voluntary organisation supported by sponsorship where, along with other local businessmen, they began by promoting a week of entertainment in Haywards Heath with all profit going to local and national charities. The year of the millennium is still remembered for a procession of over 1000 local school children dancing into the park led by Tim French along with a salsa band and organised by the volunteers of Town Week.
Tim now heads It’s Magic Promotions – another voluntary led organisation which, whilst bringing stars of the calibre of Katherine Jenkins and Blake to Haywards Heath, also promotes local musicians and gives them the experience of appearing in front of an enthusiastic audience both in a concert venue and at the well attended Broadway street festivals. These street ‘parties’ and the summer concert in Victoria Park are now firm favourites with many people both local and from further afield.
Tim has personally supported many projects including the Safepoint scheme which works on a global scale to stop the spread of disease such as HIV and hepatitis in such places as India and Africa by banning the multi-use of syringes. Nearer to home, he was very pro-active both by fund raising and by promoting a high profile publicity campaign when the Princess Royal Hospital was in danger of losing vital services to the people of Mid Sussex.
Tim, who is still working full time at his company, The French Group, a national shopfitting and design company now in it’s 40th year and based at Newick, is proud that so much of his varied work has involved the youth of the area. There is sometimes just not enough hours in the day but as Tim says ‘ It’s the way I am – I just like to be busy’
Haywards Heath resident Tim French has been honoured by the Queen and awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honour List for his services to the local community.
Tim’s voluntary work dates back to the early 60’s when he worked as a youth leader at both the Albermarle Youth Centre and the Wivelsfield Youth Club. He then went on to coach junior athletics and was a founder member of Haywards Heath Harriers. British decathlon winner Daley Thompson is one of the many young athletes who benefitted from his coaching.
Tim, who is an active member and former president of Haywards Heath Rotary Club where, in 2007, he received the Paul Harris Award for his work in the community, also served on Mid Sussex Magistrates’ bench for twenty years where he came to specialise in juvenile youth court.
In 1993 he became chairman of Haywards Heath Town Week a voluntary organisation supported by sponsorship where, along with other local businessmen, they began by promoting a week of entertainment in Haywards Heath with all profit going to local and national charities. The year of the millennium is still remembered for a procession of over 1000 local school children dancing into the park led by Tim French along with a salsa band and organised by the volunteers of Town Week.
Tim now heads It’s Magic Promotions – another voluntary led organisation which, whilst bringing stars of the calibre of Katherine Jenkins and Blake to Haywards Heath, also promotes local musicians and gives them the experience of appearing in front of an enthusiastic audience both in a concert venue and at the well attended Broadway street festivals. These street ‘parties’ and the summer concert in Victoria Park are now firm favourites with many people both local and from further afield.
Tim has personally supported many projects including the Safepoint scheme which works on a global scale to stop the spread of disease such as HIV and hepatitis in such places as India and Africa by banning the multi-use of syringes. Nearer to home, he was very pro-active both by fund raising and by promoting a high profile publicity campaign when the Princess Royal Hospital was in danger of losing vital services to the people of Mid Sussex.
Tim, who is still working full time at his company, The French Group, a national shopfitting and design company now in it’s 40th year and based at Newick, is proud that so much of his varied work has involved the youth of the area. There is sometimes just not enough hours in the day but as Tim says ‘ It’s the way I am – I just like to be busy’
Haywards Heath resident Tim French has been honoured by the Queen and awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honour List for his services to the local community.
Tim’s voluntary work dates back to the early 60’s when he worked as a youth leader at both the Albermarle Youth Centre and the Wivelsfield Youth Club. He then went on to coach junior athletics and was a founder member of Haywards Heath Harriers. British decathlon winner Daley Thompson is one of the many young athletes who benefitted from his coaching.
Tim, who is an active member and former president of Haywards Heath Rotary Club where, in 2007, he received the Paul Harris Award for his work in the community, also served on Mid Sussex Magistrates’ bench for twenty years where he came to specialise in juvenile youth court.
In 1993 he became chairman of Haywards Heath Town Week a voluntary organisation supported by sponsorship where, along with other local businessmen, they began by promoting a week of entertainment in Haywards Heath with all profit going to local and national charities. The year of the millennium is still remembered for a procession of over 1000 local school children dancing into the park led by Tim French along with a salsa band and organised by the volunteers of Town Week.
Tim now heads It’s Magic Promotions – another voluntary led organisation which, whilst bringing stars of the calibre of Katherine Jenkins and Blake to Haywards Heath, also promotes local musicians and gives them the experience of appearing in front of an enthusiastic audience both in a concert venue and at the well attended Broadway street festivals. These street ‘parties’ and the summer concert in Victoria Park are now firm favourites with many people both local and from further afield.
Tim has personally supported many projects including the Safepoint scheme which works on a global scale to stop the spread of disease such as HIV and hepatitis in such places as India and Africa by banning the multi-use of syringes. Nearer to home, he was very pro-active both by fund raising and by promoting a high profile publicity campaign when the Princess Royal Hospital was in danger of losing vital services to the people of Mid Sussex.
Tim, who is still working full time at his company, The French Group, a national shopfitting and design company now in it’s 40th year and based at Newick, is proud that so much of his varied work has involved the youth of the area. There is sometimes just not enough hours in the day but as Tim says ‘ It’s the way I am – I just like to be busy’

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