Community All Saints’ Church Services Sunday, 8.15am & 10.15am – All Saints Church, Church Street, Loose The Alzheimer’s Society based in Loose, Maidstone, offers a variety of services to support people with any form of dementia and their carers/ family/friends. Anyone wanting information should call us on 01622 747181 or e-mail maidstone@alzheimers.org.uk. Aylesford & Eccles W.I. will hold their next meeting on Wed 23rd March at 7.30p.m. in the Brassey Centre, Station Road, Aylesford. There will be a short talk by Kay East about the work of the ACWW a charity supporting women throughout the world who need help to improve their lives and those of their communities. There will also be a chance to decorate an egg for Easter. We are always delighted to see new faces so if you feel like coming along to join us then please feel free. For information please contact Eileen on 01622 715205. AylesARA will hold their next meeting on Thurs March 24th at 2p.m. in the Community Centre, Aylesford. There will an afternoon of musical entertainment by Steve Erikson. As always there will be time for tea and a chat. For more information please contact Wayne on 01622 710734 or browse our web site. Blackthorn Trust Events St Andrews Road ∙ Barming ∙ Maidstone ∙ ME16 9AN Café, Artisan Bakery, Plant Nursery & Shop. Tel: 01622 828373. Email: events@blackthorn.org.uk Web: blackthorn.org.uk Congigational Church 157 Linton Road, Loose. We will be changing the time of the Sunday Service . From 6th of December 2015 to11am. All welcome. Tel: 01622 743952 Coffee Stop On Tuesdays, pop in for a coffee – 9.30am-12 noon – Congregational Church, 157 Linton Road Friends of Aylesford church are organising a quiz evening on Saturday 12th march 2016 at 7.00 for 7.30pm in the brassey centre, station road, Aylesford. cost: £5.00 per person come on your own and join a table, or bring a whole table of guests. For more information telephone Brenda Sladen on 01622 882395 or anita keays on 01622 719589 Lenham Community Centre Sunday 20 March 2016, from 11 am. Our very popular Spring Meeting combines an indoor Plant Fair and photographic competition with our usual lecture meeting. Tempting collection of plants for sale by local nurseries. Talk at 2.30pm by Bleddyn and Sue Wynn-Jones on Plant hunting in Colombia. More info: hpskent.co.uk or 01303 863951. Lenham Community Centre, Lenham, nr Maidstone ME17 2QT 34
Loose Area History Society will meet at Loose Infant School Hall, Loose Road, Maidstone, at 7.30 pm on Monday 14 March for a talk on ‘The Battle of Medway AD 43’ by battlefield historian Ray Wilkinson. The society meets on the second Monday of every month from October – May. For programme details visit www.looseareahistorysociety. org.uk Loose Footpaths Group Walk Sunday13th March, 10am, ½ day walk. Meet at Hernhill by the church (OS: 065 607) for a 5 mile circular walk via Dargate, Boughton-under-Blean and Boughton Street. Contact Walk Leader on: 01622 743944 Loose Valley Wives meet on Wednesday 2nd March at 7.30 p.m. when our speaker Mr. Dave Brooker will be showing us Audio Visual slides of Canada, India and Dubai. On Saturday 5th March at 10.a.m. we will be preparing the Mothering Sunday posies in readiness for the services the next day. On Wednesday 16th March at 7.30 p.m. we have one our members Mrs. Marion Cooper entertaining us with an Art Evening. All these events take place in All Saints’ Church, Loose. For more info contact Mrs. Ann Emery. Tel. 741559. Loose Valley WI First Wednesday of the month 8-10pm – KGV Parish Pavilion, Walnut Tree Lane, Loose Maidstone Flower Club 2nd Thursday of each month at 7pm. Allington Baptist Church, opposite Somerfield Hospital, 76A London Rd Maidstone, ME16 0DT. Pam Hayward Tel: 01622 741207 Maidstone Horticultural Society Thursday March 3rd, at 7.30 pm. A talk by Robert Wiseman, a specialist rose grower and judge, entitled “GROWING AND SHOWING ROSES”.We meet at the Baptist Church Hall, Knightrider Street, Maidstone. ME15 6LU. MHS meetings are open to all, members or visitors. Entry £2.00 including light refreshment. For more information visit www.maidstonehorticulturalsociety.org or call 01622 674384 or 0741460739. WINGs (Womens Independent Networking Group) Meets the first Friday of every month at The Goudhurst Inn, Goudhurst 9.15am for 9.30am start to 11am. All professional ladies and local business owners welcome for coffee and networking. £5 p/session. Contact Diane 07989 435241 or Claire 07718 990947.
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Maidstone Road Run
North Downs Walk
Cornwallis Academy, Hubbards Lane, ME17 4HX
WHEN - Sunday, June 19th 2016 VENUE - Harrietsham Village Hall, Church Road – ME17 1AP. START FROM - 8.00am. LAST REGISTRATION - 11am. OPTIONS - 3, 6 or 9 mile course across the beautiful North Downs TO REGISTER - Visit www.wealdofkentrotary.org.uk FOR FURTHER DETAILS - Phone the North Downs Walk-line on 07519320919
Sunday 20th March
The Heart of Kent Hospice invites you to join Maidstone’s biggest road run through the beautiful country roads round Linton, Boughton Monchelsea and the surrounding villages. We have three distances offering a perfect warm up for spring for experienced runners , a great route for intermediate runners or a fun run for beginners, families and children wanting to get involved. Your choices are: 5km, 10km or half marathon. All proceeds go to Heart of Kent Hospice and any sponsorship raised would be greatly appreciated. To book your place for any of the distances please visit our website www.hokh. org (where a copy of the map is also available under downloads) or contact fundraising on 01622 790195..
On completion all walkers receive a free Ploughman’s Lunch, punnet of strawberries and are entertained by a local Jazz Band. Our target this year is to reach £500,000 aggregate raised for charity and £250,000 for Cancer Research UK.
Loose…a place apart One of the many topics that Loose Parish Council is proposing that their Neighbourhood Plan will cover is the protection of the far reaching views that the landscape of Loose has to offer. In all eight views have been identified; the prime one being the view south from the footpath through the allotments looking towards Linton and the Greensand Ridge. The proposal is that any development on the rim of the view should be resisted. The protection of views has been a constant theme amongst the feed-back we have had from the public engagement events. Details of all eight views are shown on the LPC website but they will also be included in the next draft of the Neighbourhood Plan which will again be put out for public comment. If you require further details please contact the Parish Clerk, Jan Capon on 01622692712 (Mon to Wed) or email on office@loose-pc.gov.uk.
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