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The season at All Saints' church started, as usual, with the wonderful Five Church Walk on May Bank Holiday, 5 May, when hundreds of local residents, and some not so local, set off from one of the five churches and walk to one or more of the others on the 16+ mile circular route (this year in a clockwise direction), discovering sandwiches, cakes and other delights available at all the venues. 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. All details for next year (4 May) will be on www.thefivechurchwalk.co.uk which is currently being updated and upgraded.
Then at the end of May, on Spring Bank Holiday 26th, 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, to warm themselves by the fire in the Tudor porch before heading off to Chilham and Chartham for tea and cakes. As always it was great fun, but involved a lot of sandwich making! If you would you like to help with this next year - or any other planned event - 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. Remember the address for info on next year's programme: www.stourmusic.org.uk and this was followed by a free concert by the Ashford Youth Jazz Orchestra on 2nd July. And it doesn't stop there:​
On July 13 we welcome Prof Berkeley Hill and the lovely Shepway Singers for evensong at 5pm, followed by a picnic in the churchyard.​
But not everything takes place at All Saints' church. Once again we repeated our open-air Sunday service on June 22nd in the beautiful and tranquil setting of St Mary's church, now a ruin, by the lake in Eastwell Park. What a magical setting!
So still quite a lot to look forward to. 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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