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The season at All Saints' church started, as usual, with the wonderful Five Church Walk on May Bank Holiday, 4 May, when hundreds of local residents, and some not so local, set off from one of the five churches and walked to one or more of the others on the 16+ mile circular route (this year in an anti-clockwise direction), discovering sandwiches, cakes and other delights available at all the venues.  Once again it was a super day with fabulous weather, and the Kent Air Ambulance, Pilgrims' Hospice, and the participating churches all benefitted from the donations made.   See te Five Church Walk website for details for next year.

Then at the end of May, on Spring Bank Holiday 25th, we hosted about 120 taking part in the annual pilgrimage from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London who dropped in for sandwiches and a cup of tea and, as is traditional every year, warmed themselves (hardly necessary!) by the fire in the Tudor porch before heading off to Chilham and Chartham for tea and cakes.  As always it was great fun, involving a lot of sandwich making!  If you would you like to help with this - and/or the walk - in future, we'll be pleased to hear from you.  Phone 627117 in the first instance.  

 

Next it was the superb Stour Music Festival with some stunning performances of early music.  Try the website for info on next year's programme: www.stourmusic.org.uk  ​

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There are big plans for a welcome return of the Big Sound Collective for a loud, rocking, and FREE concert on Friday 11 September.  See poster on the home page.  Not to be missed!

 

But not everything takes place at All Saints' church.  Once again we repeated our open-air Sunday service on June 21st in the beautiful and tranquil setting of St Mary's church, now a ruin, by the lake in Eastwell Park.  

 

So quite a busy year, made even busier by three weddings.  Further details of all our events will be published here as available and in the parish magazine and weekly benefice pew notices.

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