Foodies Festival announces first time visit to Dunorlan Park this summer
A NEW food festival is coming to Dunorlan Park this summer featuring top local chefs, Masterchef champions and Great British Bake-Off stars. Foodies Festival, which is billed as the UK’s biggest touring celebrity food and music festival series, is a welcome addition to Tunbridge Wells following the news that Pub in the Park would not […]
Successful fireworks display sparks Round Table’s £20,000 giveaway
DESPITE being damp on the night, thousands of people braved the elements and attended the 2023 fireworks display at Dunorlan Park on November 4. Following the event’s success, the Tunbridge Wells Round Table are once again launching its annual giveaway, with local charities, organisations and individuals invited to apply for a share of £20,000. Chairman […]
Trinity Theatre receives £19,000 funding
LAST week, West Kent Freemasons announced it has provided a £19,000 grant to Trinity Theatre to support its Speech Bubbles programme. Speech Bubbles is a national primary school drama intervention scheme that supports children in Years 1 and 2 with communication skills, confidence, and wellbeing. The drama-based intervention has been running nationally since 2008 and […]
TWBC welcomes applications for £100k Community Support Fund
WITH the cost-of-living crisis continuing to directly impact many of the most vulnerable households in the Borough, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council (TWBC) hopes to provide financial assistance to organisations within the community after setting aside £100,000 to create a Community Support Fund. The Council plans to use the fund to offer five one-off grants of […]
ABC Cinema site development design sparks online criticism
Members of a local Facebook group shared their strong views on the social media site about the proposed design of the retirement village, ‘Thrive Living’ set to be constructed on the former ABC Cinema site on Mount Pleasant Road. The discussion came after resident Patrick Gillan shared his views on the development plans in the […]
TLC ‘concerned’ for future of railway amid rail fare increase
THE Tonbridge Line Commuters (TLC) shared a statement with the Times that they are ‘concerned’ for the future of railway, amid the news that ‘regulated’ rail fares are set to increase by up to 4.9 per cent on March 3. The Department for Transport, which announced the news on December 22, stated that this year’s […]
Huge support for town’s Santa Sleigh food bank collection
The Round Table’s newly refurbished Santa Sleigh completed its annual food collection route for Nourish Community Foodbank on Sunday evening (December 17). Across their eight-night collection through the streets of Tunbridge Wells, the local group collected a total of 6.8 tonnes of food, with the St John’s area donating an amazing 1.8 tonnes of food […]
Former ABC Cinema site set for ‘boots on the ground’ next month
Retirement Villages Group (RVG), the retirement living company developing the former ABC Cinema site on Mount Pleasant Road, has announced it is on track to have ‘boots on the ground’ there next month. In a statement seen by the Times last week, the company confirmed that they are ‘near the end of the contractor procurement […]
Thousands gather as festive tractors illuminate the Weald
On Sunday evening (December 17), the Weald of Kent Young Farmers Club (YFC) held their second ‘Light It Up’ tractor run with more than forty illuminated tractors parading through several villages across the Weald. There has been lots of support for the event within the local community with many people collecting donations in buckets and […]
Civic Society suggests alternative Decimus Burton Museum proposal
Ahead of its AGM this Thursday (December 14), Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society exclusively revealed to the Times that they had recently sent a letter to the Leader of the Council, Ben Chapelard, containing an alternative Decimus Burton Museum proposal for the largely unoccupied 9 and 10 Crescent Road site, currently up for sale. In […]
