The season at All Saints' church starts, 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 walk 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. Last year 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 below for details for this year.
Then at the end of May, on Spring Bank Holiday 25th, we host 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 will be great fun, but involves a lot of sandwich making! If you would you like to help with this - and/or the walk - we'll be pleased to hear from you. Phone 627117 in the first instance.
Next it will be the superb Stour Music Festival with some stunning performances of early music. Try the website for info on the programme: www.stourmusic.org.uk
There are plans for a choral event also in the summer (details awaited), and we'll finish with a welcome return of the Big Sound Collective for a loud, rocking, and FREE concert on Friday 11 September. Further details to follow, but save the date. Not to be missed!
But not everything takes place at All Saints' church. Once again we'll be repeating 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. 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.
