Lucky's covered most of it.....
I can't remember the full details these days of why Sussex Scoobies went offline for a while... which led to Worzel and Crowman creating SES as a replacement in 2008. They ran the club/forum (with help from ThePieman) until about 3 years ago. During that time, Big'E' and I were the events organisers.
Then it went a bit wonky for various reasons (the colourful bit) and the forum had some technical issues as well. All in the past now, but the bottom line was that Silversurfer and I took over to keep the club and forum running. We've tried to build on things since then whilst catering all types of members, young and old