The club was founded in 1995, when chairman Bob Patching ran The Star Inn, in Steyning High Street. Members have raised more than 60,000 for good causes over the years, and were recently presented with a Steyning Millennium Award. Parish council chairman Jackie Campbell presented Mr Patching with the framed certificate at her chairman's evening event. Fullers Mr Patching left The Star in 2001, and now works for the Fuller's brewery, which, with its London Pride beer, sponsors the Herald's Monty Street column. Mr Patching told the Herald the award '“ the first the group had been presented with locally '“ had come as a complete surprise. "I was invited to the chairman's evening and I didn't know we had won it until the night," he said. "We were delighted to receive it. "It is a vote of thanks from people for what we do." Fundraising Members raise funds by holding events such as golf days, and groups and individuals benefiting from donations are all local to the Steyning area, including the town's first responder scheme. Mr Patching said: "It is just a bunch of people going round, having fun and raising money for good causes. "We hope to keep going for many years to come." Mrs Campbell said she and Steyning's parish councillors felt the Bald Headed Club was a deserving recipient of the Millennium Award. "We all felt that they have achieved so much for Steyning," she said. "They have done an awful lot. "They get together and put their minds to raising money. "They have raised a lot of money and we are very proud of them. "We thought very carefully and felt they were a group of people who had one thing in common, and that was helping others." ------------------------------------- Click here to go back to Worthing news. Click here to go back to Steyning news. Where are you? Add your pin to the Herald's international readers' map by clicking here. Email the Herald: letters@worthingherald.co.uk Click here for the Herald staff directory.