News and Local Events A Better Medway Campaign Features Our Parish
A Better Medway is an exciting new campaign for everyone living or working in Medway to help us all make small but significant changes to lead healthier and longer lives. We are delighted that, as a part of the launch advertising, our parish locations (Wainscott allotments and a snowy Upper Upnor) with local residents feature on two posters. You can join in A Better Medway by pledging to make a small change that could make a big difference to your health and well-being at www.abettermedway.co.uk. There are grants of up to £5,000 available for voluntary or community groups in Medway who would like to champion an event or idea to make leading a healthier lifestyle easier. The activity would support communities in Medway to eat healthily, prevent and stop smoking, get active, drink sensibly or cope with stress. Maybe you would like to hold a roller skating party, cookery classes or tango classes. Email Manjit Sohal on manjit@kentcf.org.uk or call 07812 555024. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hilltop Swimming Pool Opens 22 February The Hilltop Swimming Pool will re-open week beginning Monday 22 February after extensive refurbishment. It is available to hire by swimming clubs, youth associations or schools. Pool Preview Open Days Wednesday 10 February 9.30-11.30am & 1.30-2.30pm Thursday 11 February 9.30-11.30am & 1.30-2.30pm & 5pm-8pm Friday 12 February 9.30-11.30am & 1.30-2.30pm. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frindsbury Extra Women's Institute The W.I. meetings are held on the second Monday of every month at the Memorial Hall, Holly Road, Wainscott at 7.30pm for 7.45pm. New members are welcome to come and see what we get up to!! 2 0 1 0 MEETINGS February 8th - A talk by Lakeland. March 8th - Maureen Utting will speak about the Witness Care Service. April 12th - Birthday Party. Local celebrity Paul Harris will speak about Unusual Variety Acts. May 10th - Annual Meeting and Resolutions. June 14th - Mel Rees will speak about My Life and Other Setbacks. July 12th - Judie Abbott talks about the Life of a Lady Cruise Director. August 9th - Meet for a pub crawl in Upnor. September 13th - Betty Copplestone speaks about My Life as a Tour Guide. October 11th - Pat Trott on Mountmellick - The Making of a Book. November 8th - The Pudding Club - easy to make puddings by the FEWI members. December 13th - Christmas Come Dine With Me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free Family Fun in Upnor The Spring and Summer of 2010 will see more family and community events and activities with Medway Council Arts Development Team and Library Service in Upnor.
The first of these is on Wednesday 7th April from 10am - 12noon at Upnor Castle and will involve art and craft, storytelling, puppetry, magic tricks and balloon art. Make amazing nature and wildlife art, listen to a tantalising tale or two, meet Sparky the puppet and enjoy balloon art and circus tricks. Suitable for under 11s, the workshop includes free entry to the castle for the first 60 children booked onto the workshop (plus up to two accompanying adults per child and any toddlers/babies in buggies). Booking is essential for this event as spaces are limited. Please call 01634 338319 to book. Later, in June there’s more to come! Fuse Medway Festival is bringing a magical children’s theatre show, The Doctor’s Daughter for you. For more information please call 01634 338319
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Call to Arms The Medway Fuse Festival urban art production which involved the people and iconic sites of both Upnors in Summer 2009 is now available on the internet.
The Neo Futuristic Collective worked with local residents to produce this video. (Photographs and more information about A Call to Arms will be found part way down the linked page.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calling all Carers in Medway: Sharing your problems is only a phone call away Carers can now share their problems with trained counsellors by either the click of the mouse or a telephone call. Carers’ Line Medway is a free service that is provided by Care First, an independent organisation, on behalf of Medway Council. Trained counsellors are available to provide support for carers who need to talk to someone about a range of issues connected with their caring responsibility, including family and personal problems, bereavement and health-related issues. Care First also has information specialists who can help with issues such as debt management, housing and consumer issues. The telephone counselling service is available 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Carers who want counselling support or who just want to talk about an experience or situation they are finding difficult to manage can contact the team of fully trained counsellors in confidence. Carers can talk to a counsellor on the phone or through a webchat facility from Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm. They can also receive up to six free sessions of face-to-face counselling, if needed. Carers living in Medway can access this service by phoning 0800 1974517. Counselling is also available online at www.care-first.co.uk. To obtain the username and password, please email counsellingforcarers@medway.gov.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposed Development at Lodge Hill, Chattenden Land Securities plc have produced an information pamphlet about the proposed development. See the pamphlet in PDF format. [File in PDF, needs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.30pm to 6.30pm - High Halstow Village Hall, High Halstow, Kent Thursday 26th November 2009 4pm to 7pm – Hoo Village Institute, 25 Main Road, Hoo St Werburgh, Kent ME3 9AA Friday 27th November 2009 4pm to 7pm – Sports Hall, Chattenden Community Centre, Swinton Avenue, Chattenden, Kent ME3 8PH Saturday 28th November 2009 See the Consultation Poster. [File in PDF, needs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the latest Out and About newsletter and details of all the bus excursions available, click here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For a while, the Parish Council provided website space to host the Upnor Residents' Association website. But since August 2009, they have launched their own, brand new one. Go to view it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here to visit our informative web page about T.S. Arethusa and The Shaftesbury Homes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See the Lower Upnor Village Green scheme. An exhibition showing the Masterplan for this Project was previously held at the CHURCH of St PHILIP & St JAMES UPNOR ROAD. Click here for more information. Scheme received Outline Planning Permission from Medway Council, Autumn 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you searching for old parish records? Researching your family tree? Interested in local history? Then click here for more information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A list of the servicemen casualties from World War II (1939 - 1945) has been compiled. Visit it here. In memory of The Fallen from Wainscott and surrounding area, a Wreath from the Parish Council was laid by Councillors on 11th November 2009 at the War Memorial within the Memorial Hall. Members and Leaders from the Brownies were also present for this important occasion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frindsbury Extra Memorial Hall, Holly Road, Wainscott has been refurbished inside and a disabled access ramp installed. An ideal venue available for meetings, receptions, parties and other gatherings. For more details and to hire, please contact the Memorial Hall booking clerk, Freda Atkinson on 01634 719426. Go to Memorial Hall web page. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Parish Council provides a small allotment site in Wainscott. From time to time, allotment plots become vacant. For more information on how to apply, click here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Parish, being mostly in a rural setting, has a good number of marked public footpaths. This web page has a map and ideas for walks along the footpaths. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please inform the Webmaster in advance of any parish or community events to be listed here. More specific webpages of particular interest... ~~ Click here to go to... Community Safety and Neighbourhood Watch... ~~ ~~ Click here to go to... T.S. Aretheusa & The Shaftesbury Homes... ~~
~~ Click here to go to... WWII Wainscott Casualties... ~~ ~~ Click here to go to... Two Brothers Remembered... ~~ ~~ Click here to go to... A Parish pub, naval battles and Trafalgar celebrations... ~~ ~~ Click here to go to... Parish Allotments... ~~
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