Newington Festival - Villages Urged to Flex Their Muscles for Charity

Newington Village Festival will be held on Saturday, July 16, on the school field (noon-7pm) and surrounding villages are being encouraged to enter the annual tug-of-war tournament.

Gather your mates together and form a team of 8-10 people for the tournament. Apart from having some fun taking part, you could win the trophy that is currently held by the Three Tuns, Lower Halstow.

With a little help from you, this year's festival can be even more successful and raise even more money for Demelza Children's Hospice and the village school.

Among the other attractions will be a medieval re-enactment camp and fight display, live bands, dance displays, funfair, sideshows and stalls.

Newington is now one of the largest festivals of its kind in Swale, but that means it needs a lot of people to help retain its continued success.
 

The family friendly festival is organised by parish councillors and willing helpers, but it could do with more people to volunteer an hour, two or three on the day.

To find out how you can help or to offer your services contact Tony Mould at: tonymould1@sky.com

or call: 07590 464700.

For more details about the tug-of-war or to enter a team contact Richard at: sepr@hotmail.co.uk

or call: 07967 332866.

Richard Thompstone
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Upchurch Village Fete - Saturday 18th June 2016

Upchurch Village Fete Committee
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Paddock Gate Key

The Parish Council have purchased a new gate for the Paddock which was installed in February and is padlocked.

If your group requires access to the Paddock via this gate please contact the Clerk or Councillors Denny or Tucker who are key holders.

Thank you

Councillor Pamela Denny Tel: 01634 232259
Chairman Sara Tucker Tel: 01634 388971

Julia Cura Clerk to the Parish Council Tel: 01634 363906

Email: clerk@upchurchpc.kentparishes.gov.uk

Website: www.upchurchpc.kentparishes.gov.uk

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Annual Parish Meeting - 21st April 2016

This year’s annual parish meeting will be held on April 21st 2016 at 7:30pm in the village hall. There is a change to the format this year as originally this was meant to be a meeting for the parish to discuss all relevant matters, and not just a summary of the Parish Council’s year.

Many issues, outside of the Parish Council’s direct control or responsibility, are put to the council for resolution. On their own they cannot always reach a satisfactory conclusion and this meeting should provide an opportunity for residents put their suggestions to the appropriate body. It also offers the opportunity to hear of the various activities and projects of the village organisations and present an opportunity to get involved. Several of your local organisations will be present to talk with residents.

The Parish Council will take the opportunity to gather views from residents regarding play equipment in the village, be it for the Paddock or the Recreation Ground and look for volunteers to work with them to raise funds for any new equipment if required. We have set aside some money to tidy the old play area but want to know what residents want before paying out to do this and potentially create further work if we take the wrong approach!

The Parish Council will facilitate this meeting and produce some minutes to record actions taken by individuals and organisations to move things forward.

We hope you will use this opportunity to come and hear what goes on in your village and to come forward to support projects that require more man power than organisations can provide on their own.

If you would like the opportunity for a representative from your group to speak at the meeting, please contact the Clerk prior to 7th April 2016.

Thank you

Julia Cura

Clerk to the Parish Council
Tel: 01634 363906

Email: clerk@upchurchpc.kentparishes.gov.uk
Website: www.upchurchpc.kentparishes.gov.uk

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Clean for The Queen Upchurch - Thank You

Upchurch Parish Council would like to thank the Volunteers, Holywell School students, Brownies, Guides, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts who kindly gave up their time on the 4th and 5th of March 2016 to tidy the Village.

The two days were a great success. The whole of Swale gathered 288 bags of rubbish of which 63 bags were collected in Upchurch, (20 by the school on the Friday and 43 by the Village on the Saturday).

It is hoped that this will become an annual event.

Again a big thank you to everyone who took part.

Upchurch Parish Council

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Upchurch Horticultural Society - Meetings & Events 2016

Following the AGM on the 2nd of March we have some changes.

1. The new Chairman is Mick Johnson: 01795 844759

2. The meetings all will be held at 97 Chaffes Lane.

3. The list of events are as below;

The June show will be held in Upchurch Paddock at 11:30am. The September and October shows will be held in Upchurch Village Hall at 2:00pm. Monthly meetings will be held at 97 Chaffes Lane and will be on the 1st Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm.

March 2nd AGM. Start of Potato competition.

April 6th Meeting Speaker. Growing for Sowing.

May 4th Meeting.

June 1st Meeting. To plan June show.

June 18th Early Show held in the Paddock with Village Fete.

July 6th Meeting.

July? Fish & Chip evening TBC

August 3rd. Meeting.

August 21st BBQ evening at Rob and Janie’s house. (TBC) & September show planning.

September 3rd. The September Show. Village Hall.

September 7th Meeting. Potato competitions weigh in.

October 5th Meeting. Carved Pumpkin competition. October Show planning.

October 22nd. The October Show. Village Hall

November 2nd. Planning Meeting for 2017. Please bring along suggestions for next year’s shows and meetings.

December 7th. No Meeting.

All dates subject to change - New members welcomed.

Prospective new members please contact Steve on: 07703 339290 or

Email: slaming@tycoint.com

Steve Laming

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