Kent Gin Fest heads to Tonbridge Castle
The Kent Gin Fest is one of the UK’s biggest outdoor gin festival tours and is coming to Tonbridge this summer for its 2022 Kent Gin Fest on Saturday July 23 and Sunday July 24. It’ll be on from noon each day until 9pm. With more artists to be announced, ex-lead singer of The Drifters, […]
MCC women come out to bat for girls in Mayfield
This is the second time the prestigious club, formerly the governing body of the game, have visited the Mayfield-based school to play two Twenty20 fixtures against the best 11-18 year-old schoolgirl cricketers. According to the school, the MCC won the toss on both occasions and elected to bat first, making the most of the warm […]
St Gregory’s girls raise funds for local charity to honour the organisation’s vital work…
Chrissy, Nancy, Gemma and Mia, who all attended the school from 2010 onwards, were motivated to undertake the challenge in order to raise money for the Hospice in the Weald after it provided palliative care for Nancy’s Mum, Clare, during the last weeks of her life. The team of girls made the eight-hour journey to […]
Nourish launches summer appeal to fight children’s ‘holiday hunger’
West Kent Mind was one of eight charities in Kent to receive a £1,000 grant in funding from the Benefact Group’s Movement for Good (MFG) campaign earlier this month. The funds are ‘unrestricted funding’, meaning charities can use the money for whatever they need, without having to make a specific proposal, explained a spokesman for […]
Aspens plans ‘reverse job fair’ for the graduates of its work schemes
Young people who have been through employability courses and other life-skills initiatives through Aspens will play host to local employers at the event, held in Tonbridge’s Angel Centre on July 22. Unlike a traditional job fair, where employers lay out their own stand, and it is jobseekers who move between the stalls, the Aspens Reverse […]
Taxi drivers break rank over price hikes
Following spiralling fuel costs, cabbie Clayton Berry who claims to represent 70 per cent of the licensed Hackney Carriages at the rank, asked the Council to increase taxi fares in April. His proposal would have simply extended the old weekend rate to the whole week, adding 80p to every weekday fare from April 27. The […]
Corporate supporters celebrate Trinity Theatre’s four decades
Birthday guests sipped Piña Colada cocktails from the flamingo bar before they teed off at the 1980s-themed crazy golf event. The evening offered the perfect opportunity for Trinity to update corporate partners, supporters and friends on the venue’s heritage renovation plan, which features the National Lottery Heritage Funded clocktower project. Works are set to be […]
From protecting rhinos in Africa to ranger at Tunbridge Wells Common
An ecologist who once enjoyed the dream job of being a ‘bodyguard for rhinos’ against poachers in South Africa, Dan will take on responsibility for 250 acres of some very ancient habitats in the middle of the town, from this Friday (July 1). The Tunbridge Wells Commons extend from the A26 (Eridge Road and Vale […]
Going Out Guide June 29 – July 6
Music magazine gives The Forum its industry award… 10 years late A Best Small Venue award, given to The Forum by one of the leading authorities in the music industry, NME, has finally arrived…a decade after it was won. The Tunbridge Wells-based music venue won its NME Award in 2012, but somehow the statuette was […]
Read the Times of Tunbridge Wells 29th June 2022
