May 18, 2022 | Featured News, General News, Kent County Events
Shepherd Neame is planting 70 trees at pubs across its estate as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy project to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee this year. The Faversham-based brewer and pub company has so far planted 66 fruit trees at four pubs in the South East...
May 18, 2022 | Featured News, General News, Kent County Events
Deputy Lieutenant, Georgie Warner, was pleased to be invited to the planting ceremony of The Queen’s Green Canopy on Friday 8th April along a well used PROW from Brenchley to Matfield. These trees have been named the Platinum Jubilee Orchard and were planted on...
May 18, 2022 | Featured News, General News, Kent County Events
Last month, Deputy Lieutenant, Nadra Ahmed was delighted to attend the opening of Kent Autistic Trust’s Annual Art Exhibition at Historic Dockyard Chatham. The Kent Autistic Trust has been providing support for individuals on the autism spectrum for 30 years....
May 18, 2022 | Featured News, General News, Kent County Events
Deputy Lieutenant, Bill Cockcroft, was pleased to join the Mayor of Maidstone last month to plant a lime tree in Brenchley Gardens in Maidstone as part of The Queen’s Green Canopy for the Platinum Jubilee. Thank you to the Mayor for inviting us to be a part of...
Mar 31, 2022 | Featured News, General News
On the last day of the UK tree planting season, we would like to thank everyone in Kent who has taken part and contributed to The Queen’s Green Canopy to celebrate HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We share the following message from The Queen’s Green...
Mar 21, 2022 | Featured News, General News, Kent County Events
Deputy Lieutenant, Kate Fenwick, was absolutely thrilled to attend the Launch of Wheels of Time 2022. The Wheels of Time is an initiative developed to promote education in history and heritage among young children. The scheme encourages children to visit museums and...
Mar 15, 2022 | Featured News, General News, Kent County Events
Commonwealth Day took place on Monday 14 March and Local Authorities across Kent celebrated this important day by raising their Commonwealth Flags. Deputy Lieutenants represented the Lord-Lieutenant at Flag Raising Ceremonies around the County including at Kent County...
Mar 11, 2022 | Featured News, General News, Kent County Events
Deputy Lieutenant, Peter Gilbert, recently represented the Lord-Lieutenant at the opening of the fantastic Unknown Soldier Exhibition at Rochester Art Gallery. The Artist, David Tovey, is a former soldier who has experienced homelessness. His artwork demonstrates the...
Mar 11, 2022 | Featured News, General News, Royal Visits
On 2 February, we were thrilled to welcome HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall to Kent. Their Royal Highnesses spent the day in Kent visiting many venues and groups across the County. They started the day at Sheppey Matters, a health and wellbeing...
Jan 7, 2022 | Featured News, General News
Deputy Lieutenant, Marion Regan was delighted to join East Malling Trust, the Kent-based charity dedicated to promoting horticultural research, in their planting of an Oak tree in support of The Queen’s Green Canopy which is part of the celebrations for Her...
Jan 1, 2022 | Featured News, General News, Honours and Awards Ceremonies
Congratulations to all the recipients of Honours in the New Year 2022 list. We are so very fortunate to have such inspirational people in the County and we thank all the recipients for the work they do in Kent and across the country, very well done to you all. The...
Dec 3, 2021 | Featured News, General News
The Lord-Lieutenant was delighted to be invited to visit Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex at Rochester to meet with David Welch, Chief Executive, Leigh Curtis, Executive Director of Service Delivery, Lynne Harris, Executive Director of Income Generation, Marketing and...
