May 14, 2020
The Town Sprucer has continued to provide its invaluable service to the community across Folkestone despite the coronavirus pandemic. Following social distancing rules and wearing relevant PPE, Peter and a core team of eight volunteers spend the day litter picking… Read More
May 11, 2020
RDHCT has provided a grant of £2500 to Folkestone Coastwatch to help fund its annual running costs. Folkestone Coastwatch is part of the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) which assists in the protection and preservation of life at sea and along… Read More
May 7, 2020
The charity Hope for Tomorrow has received £10,000 funding from RDHCT towards the costs of purchasing a new body for their East Kent mobile cancer care unit, ‘Caron’. Based at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, the unit was launched in 2013… Read More
December 15, 2016
A capacity audience packed into the Royal Albert Hall on 7 December 2016 to mark CLIC Sargent’s annual Christmas concert. Run in conjunction with music and education organisation Young Voices, the occasion featured a choir of 1500 children performing alongside professionals including popular X-Factor contestant Melanie Masson. The event has… Read More
November 7, 2016
A packed Evington Hall in Hastingleigh welcomed Sir Charles Jessel to mark the completion of upgrades to the hall’s amenities at one of the community’s regular coffee mornings. Sir Charles was a founding trustee of the charity that runs the… Read More
October 10, 2016
The organisers of the Town Sprucer Team in Folkestone have announced that the future of the scheme is secure well into 2017, thanks to an £8,000 donation from the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust. The Trust has increased its support… Read More
October 4, 2016
Dates have been announced for the spring 2017 heats of ARTiculation, the national public speaking competition run by the Roche Court Educational Trust which invites sixth form students to give a short presentation on a work of art, artefact or… Read More
August 8, 2016
Aspiring young archaeologists from a number of schools in south east Kent have taken part in the 2016 Dig at the Roman Villa site, at Folkestone’s East Wear Bay. The project is organised by Canterbury Archaeological Trust, with funding for… Read More
February 11, 2016
Ashford and Canterbury have become the latest areas to benefit from an innovative approach to care for older people that was first trialed in Cornwall in 2011 onwards. The Age UK Living Well Programme in Kent will aim to improve… Read More
May 7, 2015
Are you aged between 16-24 years? Do you live in either Shepway or Dover District? Are you interested in archaeology? Would you like to add something extra special to your CV? If you can answer ‘yes’ to all these questions,… Read More