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Sandgate February 2020

This magazine is compiled and edited by David Cowell who is totally responsible for content.

If you do not wish to receive these magazines please email UNSUBSCRIBE to him at david@thesentinel.org.uk

for information about all the activities at the Hall go to: www.chichesterhall.co.uk

To advertise in all three of The Sentinels with circa 3000 targetted readers and growing please email me: david@thesentinel.org.uk

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TAI CHI AT THE CHICHESTER HALL

Starts Wednesday, February 19. 5:30pm to 6:15pm. Tai Chi is a great way to exercise, increase flexibility, improve overall strength and make new friends. This class is suitable for all ages and abilities, you can sit down for all or just parts of the class. Beginners are especially welcome! Simply wear flat soft soled shoes and loose comfortable clothing. ÂŁ6 per session.

The Sandgate Market has four types of stallholder: 1. Local produce: meat, veg, bread, cakes, jams, pies etc

Sandgate Farmers Market

2. Local made: jewellery, soft toys, furnishings etc

3. Local enterprise: local residents running a business but selling products not necessarily produced locally but that you might just like to buy for yourself or as gifts 4. Local causes: worthy causes that we support and hope you will too

Local produce

Marsh Produce

Sandgate Bakery

Local honey

Fire & Roast

Local made

Local enterprise

Anji's Interiors Body Shop products

Pauline's hand made toys

BOOKS Old Hall Farm

Saffron Rose Flowers

Gill Thompson Jewellery

New books added at each Market

CAFE coffee, tea and friends

Catherine Jordan Cakes

It's a Florrie Thing

Elham Valley Soaps and Candles

District Councillors' Surgery Meet your District Councillor

Support your local Farmers' Markets in 2020

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No job too small Please call to discuss your needs WOW

Hythe Farmers Market

Design-led gifts and interiors 76 High Street Hythe Kent CT21 5AL

Takes place on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month from 10am to 1pm.

In the Methodist Church Hall, Chapel Street, Hythe.

Parking is available nearby.

For more information call Eric Chauvel Market Manager 0781 7521312 eric@thefrenchdelicatessen.co.uk

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Keep us flying high Would you like to know more about Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex or maybe even get involved? •

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Learn about how the charity works, innovates and saves lives with one of our informative talks. Book one of our volunteer speakers to visit your group for free and find out more about our life saving work.

Volunteer for one or more of our varied roles and help us go above and beyond.

If you would like to find out more please get in touch - we would love to hear from you

aakss.org.uk

hello@aakss.org.uk

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01634 471 900

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SANDGATE HERITAGE TRUST

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Have you heard about The Reading Room Sandgate?

SANDGATE HERITAGE TRUST REG CHARITY NO. 287281 The Old Fire Station 51, Sandgate High Street Sandgate, Kent CT20 3AH

The Reading Room In The Old Fire Station Sandgate is a beautiful wood panelled room and is an ideal venue for small functions: Birthday Parties, small meetings, studio lighting & photography sessions, music practice, wakes etc. There is seating for a maximum

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of 30 people and there are folding tables for your use. There is a fully

01303 772873

equipped kitchen which includes crockery & cutlery settings and a

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combination microwave, tea urn, fridge, coffee machine & kettles.

07778773500

E-mail:

Please note there is NO WHEELCHAIR ACCESS. For more information please visit our newly designed website:

theoldfirestation369@gmail.com

Website www.theoldfirestationsandgate.co.uk

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www.theoldfirestationsandgate.co.uk Or ring Mike Chalk 01303 772873 or Zoe Varian 01303 248114

Just some of the groups that use the Chichester Hall on a regular basis (contact The Sentinel for details): Tai Chi Yoga Pilates Tamalpa Table tennis Short mat bowls Sandgate Society monthly talks

Rooms to hire in Sandgate

Sandgate Art Group

Need to hire a hall? There's no need to look any further.

Sandgate has a room to suit your needs.

Chichester Memorial Hall Old Fire Station Reading Room St Paul's Church Hall Tower Theatre The Library Whether for a party, business meeting, music evening, club meeting or annual general meeting, Sandgate has a room for you with space to accommodate from 10 to 300. To see if there is one to suit your needs, do email the date(s) and number of attendees to

david@thesentinel.org.uk.

We'll do the rest.

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Since going to print we are delighted to welcome The Secret Drawing Club in the evening on Monday, 3rd February and 2nd March. 7pm to 9pm. PLUS new Tai Chi class on Wednesday 19th February, 26th February 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th March and 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th April.

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Since going to print we are delighted to welcome The Secret Drawing Club in the evening on Monday, 3rd February and 2nd March. 7pm to 9pm. PLUS new Tai Chi class on Wednesday 19th February, 26th February 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th March and 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th April.

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Help us to save Prospect Cottage

We are delighted to announce an exciting partnership between Art Fund, Creative Folkestone and Tate to save and preserve Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, the home and garden of visionary filmmaker, artist and activist, Derek Jarman.

Prospect Cottage continues to be a site of pilgrimage for people from all over the world who come to be inspired by its stark beauty and by Jarman’s legacy. Without this public appeal, Prospect Cottage is at risk of being sold privately, its contents dispersed, and artistic legacy lost.

With your help a total of ÂŁ3.5m needs to be raised by 31 March 2020 to help purchase Prospect Cottage, which will enable continued free public access to the cottage's internationally celebrated garden, the launch of an artist residency programme, and a programme of guided visits within the cottage itself.

Major grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, the Linbury Trust, and private donations have already taken the campaign half-way towards its target. Art Fund is now calling on the public to make donations of all sizes to raise the funds still needed.

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To advertise in three The Sentinels with circa 2300 targetted readers and growing please email me at:

The editor of The Sentinel is also responsible for sending Hythe, Newington and Sandgate related event information to the Folkestone Herald. If you have an event you wish to publicise it is needed by Tuesday at 17:00. The information should appear in the edition two weeks later although it is not gauranteed.

david@thesentinel.org.uk

for a rate card.

Thank you.

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Now available in paperback Set in Folkestone in the heady days of the late 60s.

They say if you can remember it, you weren't there!

Two plays . One an imaginary meeting between Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan in a Fitzrovia pub. The other is Caitlin Thomas reminiscing after the untimely death of her husband.

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Funding Available The Hythe Institute Fund considers applications for funding from local organisations including schools, scouts and guide groups, sports clubs and the trustees of local halls and facilities; who may require funds for maintenance or improvements.

The recipients must be in the Hythe parish (including Hythe, Seabrook, Saltwood, Palmarsh, Lympne and Newingreen).

To apply for funding go to www.hytheinstitutefund.org.uk or e-mail us on hytheinstitutefund@gmail.com or call us on 01303 278888.

Trustees meet to review applications every four months. The cut off dates to receive applications are: • 10 January • 30 April • 30 September

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SANDGATE CREATIVE WRITING GROUP We meet on the fourth Thursday of every month at Sandgate Library from 1000-1200. There is a 'theme' for each month, but this is not compulsory and you are welcome to write a short story on any subject.

Poetry welcome too!

For more details please contact 07443 896422.

Folkestone and Hythe Cats Protection operates a Lost and Found service for anyone who's cat has gone missing, or if a stray cat has been found.

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Over 55? this blog site might just be for you

From the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design - writer and poet Philip Cowell, and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, author of The Herbarium, this playful, original, beautifully designed book brings to life the punctuation marks we use every day, including: The dashing dash So-called "quotation marks" The colon: and on and on.

Kindle edition The shouty exclamation! ÂŁ9.99 Hardback The three dots of... ÂŁ12.50 (Not forgetting the brackets) Great gift And even more

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If you have any photographs of the area either current or past do send them to me by email and I will feature them in future editions.

If you just have prints do drop them round to Clyme House (see below) and I will scan.

I am delighted to inform you that three electronic editions of The Sentinel are now published. We now produce a Sandgate, Hythe and a Newington version each month.

If you would like to receive a copy of any please email me at:

david@thesentinel.org.uk and put the name of the version you require ie The Sentinel Hythe or The Sentinel Sandgate/Hythe etc in the subject line.

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If you would like to submit an article or letter please email it to me.

I will print almost anything as long as it’s not libellous, racist or unkind.

Name must be supplied but can be withheld if requested.

Please put your articles etc in plain text or Word and images should be in .jpg, .tiff or .png.

My contact details are: Address: Clyme House, Hillside Street, Hythe, Kent CT21 5DJ Mobile: 07771 796 446; email: david@thesentinel.org.uk