The newsletter of Kennington Community Forum serving Kennington, Bockhanger, Bybrook, Little Burton in Ashford
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JUNE 2014 Published by Kennington Community Forum DELIVERED TO 5,000 HOMES We still need more residents to sign our petition for a Kennington Community Council: See Page 4 The first match gets underway after the opening of Kennington Cricket Club’s new pavilion. Full story on Back Page Let’s make it a roaring success If you have any books, CDs or DVDs the Kennington Community Forum can sell on its stall please call 01233 629511 or 01233 634410 Kennington’s biggest event of the year is only a few weeks away! The Summer Fayre is on Saturday 28 June at the Recreation Ground, Ulley Road, starting at noon. Given a fine day it is hoped a record amount will be raised for charities and local voluntary organisations. Attractions include a children’s fun- fair; Towers Cheerleaders; the May- pole dancers from Kennington Junior School, the Downs View Infant choir and family games. There will a Fun Dog Show — just bring your pet along on the day — and two new attractions: the Ashford Town Concert Band, and the DreamDragons Community Theatre Group. Visitors will be able to meet rescued greyhounds and guide dogs. More than 30 stalls will be selling a wide range of goods, and hot food, ice creams and refreshments will be available. Admission and parking is FREE. Last year’s Fayre raised £12,000 and attracted around 2,500 visitors. TOP prize in the Summer Fayre Grand Draw offers a once in a lifetime experience. You could win a two-hour guided tour (for two) of some of the most endangered species of big cats in the world.* The winners will be able to get up really close to the animals at the Wildlife Heritage Foundation Big Cat Sanctuary in Smarden and have the opportunity to hand feed one of them. The cats will at all times remain safely in their enclosures! SECOND prize is a fantastic day out to the continent on Eurostar. The winner can choose return tickets (for two) to Paris, Brussels or Lille. The Fayre Committee thanks the Wildlife Heritage Foundation and Eurostar for generously donating these great prizes. THIRD prize is a Magnificent Hamper, packed with delicious food and drinks provid- ed by participating stallholders. There are many other prizes donated by local businesses. All the money raised from the sale of tickets go to local charities or voluntary organisations. Tickets, price £1, are available in advance from stallholders or can be bought on the day from the Fayre Committee Tent. *Participants must be 16 or over YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A DAY WITH WORLD’S BIG CATS! Kennington Summer Fayre The church clock has stopped and the cost of having it repaired will be £820. When the service engineer arrived at St Mary’s to diagnose the problem he had a surprise. He discovered the clock had been installed by his grandfather. A fundraising fish and chip supper, featuring the Invicta Ukulele Band, was held at St Mary’s Community Centre, Rylands Road on 24 May. A close encounter awaits the Grand Draw winner
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JUNE 2014 Published by Kennington Community Forum
DELIVERED TO 5,000 HOMES
We still need more residents to sign our petition for a Kennington Community Council: See Page 4
The first match gets underway after the opening of Kennington Cricket Club’s new pavilion. Full story on Back Page
Let’s make it a roaring success
If you have any books, CDs or DVDs the
Kennington Community Forum can sell on its
stall please call 01233 629511 or 01233 634410
Kennington’s biggest event of the year is only a few weeks away! The Summer Fayre is on Saturday 28 June at the Recreation Ground, Ulley Road, starting at noon. Given a fine day it is hoped a record amount will be raised for charities and local voluntary organisations. Attractions include a children’s fun-fair; Towers Cheerleaders; the May-
pole dancers from Kennington Junior School, the Downs View Infant choir and family games. There will a Fun Dog Show — just bring
your pet along on the day — and two new attractions: the Ashford Town Concert Band, and the DreamDragons Community Theatre Group. Visitors will be able to meet rescued greyhounds and guide dogs. More than 30 stalls will be selling a wide range of goods, and hot food, ice creams and refreshments will be available. Admission and parking is FREE. Last year’s Fayre raised £12,000 and attracted around 2,500 visitors.
TOP prize in the Summer Fayre Grand Draw offers a
once in a lifetime experience. You could win a two-hour guided tour (for two) of some of the most endangered species of big cats in the world.* The winners will be able to get up really close to the animals at the Wildlife Heritage Foundation Big Cat Sanctuary in Smarden and have the opportunity to hand feed one of them. The cats will at all times remain safely in their enclosures!
SECOND prize is a fantastic day out to the continent on
Eurostar. The winner can choose return tickets (for two) to Paris, Brussels or Lille.
The Fayre Committee thanks the Wildlife Heritage Foundation and Eurostar for generously donating these great prizes.
THIRD prize is a Magnificent Hamper, packed with
delicious food and drinks provid-ed by participating stallholders. There are many other prizes donated by local businesses. All the money raised from the sale of tickets go to local charities or voluntary organisations.
Tickets, price £1, are available in advance from stallholders or can be bought on the day from the Fayre Committee Tent.
*Participants must be 16 or over
YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A DAY WITH WORLD’S
BIG CATS!
Kennington Summer Fayre
The church clock has stopped and the cost of having it
repaired will be £820. When the service engineer arrived at St Mary’s to diagnose the problem he had a surprise. He discovered the clock had been installed by his grandfather. A fundraising fish and chip supper, featuring the Invicta Ukulele Band, was held at St Mary’s Community Centre, Rylands Road on 24 May.
A close encounter awaits the Grand Draw winner
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The first part of the scheme to make Faversham Road safer has been completed. Warning signs for Towers School and for the crossroad junctions have been installed. Power supply to the interac-tive “flashing” sign has been improved and a dual message system means it either shows a ‘school warning’ sign or ‘30’, depending on the time of day. Redundant signposts have been removed. The final stage involves putting ‘SLOW’ mark-ings on the road and electrical connections to new signs.
Council planning officers have been left in no doubt as to what many people think about sites submitted by landowners as being available for development in Kennington. They were told that very large developments, such as 2,000 homes on land bounded by Canterbury Road, Willesborough Road and the Canterbury railway line, and a proposal to build on Ulley Farm, would destroy areas of outstanding beauty and irrevocably change the character of the area. Prime agricultural land would also be lost and there would be serious traffic problems. More than 70 people were at the Community Planning Workshop in St Mary’s Community Centre, Rylands Road, organised by Kennington Community Forum and Ashford Borough Council.
Residents also objected to sites at Orchard Farm, The Croft and Ashford Rugby Club being offered for development. Many filled in comment forms which are being taken into account as ABC assesses whether the sites are suitable for inclusion in the Local Plan to 2030. There were many concerns regard-ing potential traffic issues and in-frastructure services, especially health services and schools. Kennington Community Forum
chair Chris Morley said: “It was a very productive morning.” The Forum is objecting to the inclu-sion of land east of the A28 and NE of Willesborough Road (2,000 homes); land at Ulley Farm and at Orchard Farm. It does not object to the inclusion of land at Ashford Golf Club and Eureka Park, but has reservations. The full response is on our website bit.ly/kennington where you can also let us know your views on the proposals.
Residents were able to question Ashford council planning officers
‘2,000 homes plan would destroy areas of beauty’
Driver tried to entice children into white van Parents have been told to be extra vigilant after a man tried to entice children into his van. He pulled up next to them in Bybrook Road and suggested they should look inside the van. A police spokesman said: “They did exactly the right thing and went straight home and reported it to their parents.” Police stepped up patrols in the area following the incident on Monday 29 April. Anyone who saw the white van, which had red lettering on it, should call Kent Police on 101.
Questions are being asked about the safety implications of Kent’s street light switch-off scheme after several cars and a garage were targeted on the same night on Little Burton estate. At least one thief made off with wallets, electrical gadgets and a mountain bike, although some items were later recovered. Police told residents a suspect they chased into James Allchin Gardens got away because
they were hampered by the lack of street lights. Kelsey Lapthorn told the Kentish Express: “There are places where you just can’t go now after the lights are off. There are a lot of cul-de-sacs and little lanes and people don’t feel safe.” KCC took the decision to switch off street lights in some areas between midnight and 5.30am as part of its Safe and Sensible Street Lighting scheme.
Thief escapes in the ‘blackout’
R esidents will have the final say on development proposals, writes Kennington
councillor Phil Sims in the May issue of the Parish Magazine. He says: “There has been significant confusion concerning the possibility of housing develop-ment in the Kennington area. This is still early days for the pro-cess of developing the Plan, and though the Planning Officers
would like to think they are in charge, and know best what to do, we the resi-dents of the area will have the final say YES or NO on such proposals.” Cllr Sims told the Kennington News: “What may not have been made clear by the officers is that the quantity of land offered for
development is considerably more than required to meet the housing requirement. “Therefore there is room for the council to select which sites would be best for development, and which would create significant opposition by local residents. In 2009/10 sufficient residents voiced their objections to the developments proposed, and I and others stopped it happening.”
‘Danger road’ is made safer
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First steps to a new wildlife paradise
B YBROOK Nature Reserve has undergone a startling transformation. What was an over-grown wooded area has had all the trees
razed to the ground and left tumbled everywhere.
This is the first stage of a renovation of the Reserve and local residents are asked to comment on how they would like the Reserve to look in the future. Phil Cook, Arboreal Officer at Ashford Borough Coun-cil, took the decision to fell all the trees when he realised that many of them were becoming dangerous and the cost of making them safe was prohibitive. During the summer the felled trees will be removed from the site, off Nine Acres, and a decision about how to renovate the Reserve will be made. Should the old duckboard path be repaired? There will certainly need to be safe access to the site so the public can enjoy it. Andrew Buchanan, coun-cillor for Bybrook Ward, is planning to contribute money from his members’ grant to the scheme. The Nature Reserve was given by the developers of the area. It has catchment streams which run down to the mill ponds in Bybrook.
Kennington Community Forum, which organised a site meeting recently, would like to hear your views. Please contact Chris Morley, 01233 611196, [email protected]
Picture: MIKE FOISTER
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Why it’s so important to support our campaign Lees, Singleton, Stanhope and Park Farm, are served by Parish Councils. These have various statutory rights and responsibilities, but can for example take the lead in improving local playing fields and public open spaces, or providing and maintaining community centres. Facilities such as children’s play areas, bus shelters and litter bins can also be provided. Community Councils are elected in the
‘Kennington is effectively excluded from important consultations’
M ore than 550 residents have signed Kennington Community Forum’s petition to set up a
Community Council. KCF’s Chair, Chris Morley, said: “We are delighted by the response so far. It is clear evidence of the significant support from residents who agree it is time we had a stronger voice for our area.” Another 400 signatures are needed to ensure Ashford Borough Council undertakes a Community Governance Review. Leaflets have been delivered to every home in the area. Without a Community Council, Kennington is effectively excluded from important consultations. “When Parish Councils were asked for their views on proposed changes to street lighting, residents in the urban area were not invited to comment,” said Mr Morley. “We think it is unfair that we do not have the same level of local democratic repre-sentation that our neighbours in ‘parished’ areas have, and we believe that it is now time to change this.” All rural areas of Ashford and newer estates on the edge of town such as Goat
same way as Parish Councils and have the same responsibilities. They have statutory rights and are consulted on issues such as planning and licensing. They are able to seek protection for existing community facilities by nominating them for listing as Assets of Community Value. Many are working with residents to create Neighbourhood Plans which enable greater control by the community over development planning. If you have not yet signed the petition it is available on the Forum’s website bit.ly/kennington You can print it off, fill it in and return it to one of the following: Chris Morley, 47 Broadhurst Drive, Kenning-ton, Ashford TN24 9RQ; Robin Britcher, 169 Faversham Road, Kennington, Ashford TN24 9AE, or Bockhanger Library .
D erek and Anita Sorrell moved to John Dutton
Way in March 2012. Derek said: “Having been a Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator at my previous address I was keen to establish if the scheme was active here, so I knocked on 49 doors and asked that question. I very quickly became aware that there was no such group but from the reactions of neighbours it was apparent that there was enough interest to start a
group. We currently have 26 house-holds on board, we had an initial meeting but our main contact medi-um is by email. I would encourage all other areas to set up a scheme, it certainly is not onerous to do and can only be of benefit to us all. “I am Church Warden at St. Mary’s Church Kennington so this scheme fits in very well with my Christian faith, after all was it not Jesus who said Love Thy Neighbour.” [email protected]
Children at Downs View Infant school helped Kent Wildlife Trust sow seeds for a wildlife meadow in the school grounds. Ian Rickards, the Trust’s Ashford Area Warden, said: “Parents, governors and volunteers did a great job preparing the ground. Children sowed 30 different seed types, including yellow rattle, lady’s bedstraw and musk mallow, along with cowslip, meadow buttercup and poppy. They used a technique known as ‘seed bomb-ing’, where seeds are mixed with damp sand, and the children have to throw their seed balls, often with great gusto!” The Ashford Meadows Project is financed by Ward Homes.
SEED BOMBS AWAY!
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RUNAWAY WINNERS!
SARAH FOX raised more than £2,100 for Action on Hearing Loss. She said: “Everything went really well and I finished in 4 hours 54 minutes. The crowds and the atmos-phere were amazing! This was my second marathon. I ran Brighton Marathon last year for Deafness Research UK (now merged to become Action on Hearing Loss).” Sarah, 24, lives in Grasmere Road and is a financial control-ler at Geerings Print.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM raised £2,100 for the new Kenning-ton Cricket Club pavilion. He said: “At the age of 56 I found I had done insuffi-cient training — mainly due to regular injuries and ill-ness throughout 2013 — and that on the day it was just too hot. This was my eighth London Marathon, I ran my first in 1997, and my slow-est as I finished in 4 hours 29 minutes. By the time I crossed the finishing line Mo Farah was at home having a cup of tea!”
TOM LYNDS raised more than £1,800 for the National Osteoporosis Society. He completed the Marathon in 4 hours 55 minutes. Tom, 38, of Lenacre Street, Westwell is customer services manager at Sainsbury’s Whitstable store. He said: “The atmosphere was amazing and the crowds were awesome. I finally caught up with my family after 25 miles at Birdcage Walk which really spurred me on.”
We salute three heroes of the London Marathon
ROB PERFITT is Kenning-ton’s new Community Warden. His role is to visit crime scenes and discover what problems there are in the area and find the right people to deal with them. He can be contacted on 07773 396708.
BOROUGH councillors each have £3,000 available this year for community group projects. Their phone num-bers and email addresses are in the Information panel on the Back Page.
Kennington at War 1914-1918 tells the story of the village during the First World War and of those who are remembered on the War Memorial. Robin Britcher’s book is on sale at Bella’s Newsagent in Faversham Road and Bybrook Post Office, price £3.
Saturday school is proving very popular at Towers School. Students in years 7 and 8 have been invited to attend extra lessons on Saturday mornings. More than 50% of each year group have taken part in subjects includ-ing Maths, English and Science. There have also been sessions in art, aerial trapeze, circus skills and a range of sporting challenges. At the end of each term the students are taken on a reward trip to London to develop their wider cultural under-standing through trips to museums and monuments including the London Eye.
SATURDAY SCHOOL IS A SUCCESS
THE school day at Towers will finish at 2.30pm instead of 3.30pm from Septem-ber and the lunch break will be cut to 30 minutes. The changes will allow pupils to take part in after-school activities or join a new homework club.
THE DESIGN of the new Goat Lees Primary School in Hurst Road has won two highly commended awards in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors 2014 architectural competition. Head teacher Teresa Adams said: “We are absolutely delighted.” The school’s Summer Fair is on Saturday 21 June from 11am-2pm.
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Head teacher Frances Nation is leaving Phoenix Primary to become head of Herne Bay Junior School. She said: “It is with great sadness that I will be leaving at the end of this academic year. I have greatly enjoyed my time at Phoenix and getting to know and be part of such a caring and friendly community. I have had the privilege of working with a very talented team of staff and, most importantly, with children who are eager to learn and embrace the opportu-
nities offered to them. This has meant the job has been excit-ing and stimulating. Substantial improve-ments have taken place over the last 18 months and there continue to be a number of exciting projects ongoing. The school is now in an excellent position to move forward. I wish it well and look forward to being kept informed about its next chapter.”
KENNINGTON Juniors will represent Ashford in a Kent schools tag rugby tournament on 25 June. The team won five, and drew one, of their six matches against junior schools in a competition at Ashford Rugby Club. It was the first time Kennington had taken part. Head teacher Steve Ive said: “Our children had very little time to practise but they played brilliantly.” The team, coached by Jon Colbran, was: Adam Lane, Tegan Smith, Owen Harvey, Bomi Alabi, Amy Dodd, Jemma-Jo Linkins, Eloise Spen-cer and Aidan Blyth.
Plans for the new community building on Spearpoint recreation ground will be submitted to Ash-ford council shortly. ABC facilities manager Ben Moyle, who is head-ing the steering group overseeing the project, said: “We are await-ing the final cost estimate from the architects. Projects such as this involve a number of bodies, such as ABC, the Football Foundation and Sport England. We are confident the grant bids we have in place will be successful but we have to wait for infrequent meeting of the grants panel to receive final confirmation.” The building will replace the run-down pavilion and provide first class facilities for football, rugby and tennis clubs. It will also be available to community groups.
Sure Steps children's cen-tre held its annual "Let's Get Growing" event to encourage children to go into the garden. They were able to see how things grow, take planted seeds home and help tidy up the centre’s garden in Belmont Road. The project was supported by Dobbies Gar-den World. Sure Start team
leader Lee Robinson said: “We have also worked closely with the Singleton Environment Centre on a pond dipping event and with the WI for a cookery course for young mums. If you are a family with children aged 0-5 and not registered with your fun and free centre contact us on 01233 624857.”
PHOENIX HEAD IS MOVING ON The garden of delights
Spearpoint plan ‘will go to the council soon’
PROUD MOMENT: Linda Dash and councillor Michael Claughton cut the ribbon on a bench which commemo-rates the green in Grasmere Road, Kennington, gaining Village Green status. Mrs Dash knocked on every door in the neighbourhood asking residents to support her application to have the 2.3
acres registered as a Village Green. It was supported by 90 residents and accepted by KCC on the grounds that it has been used for a range of recreational activities for more than 20 years. It means the land cannot be built on. Councillor Claugh-ton funded the bench from his council members' grant.
Joining Hands is offering training in crafts and business skills to women who live in Bybrook. The courses are free and will be held at Gerlach House in Beecholme Drive. Courses will run for three hours a week for 15 weeks and include training in sewing, crochet and jewellery making, plus business skills such as marketing, IT and how to set up as self-employed. Courses begin in June and continue through to the end of 2015. Linda Bishopp, at Joining Hands, said: “If you wish to start your own business we will support you. You will be encouraged to run market stalls and get involved in pop-up shops. We will have small friendly classes (only five students) and you will be support-ed through the coursework. “If you are over 18 and maybe isolated or recovering from health problems and fancy learning a new skill please get in touch with me.” 07905 038378 or [email protected] The pro-ject is funded by the People’s Health Trust.
MEMBERS of Towers Youth Project were invited by Ashford Mayor David Smith to the official unveiling of the new Goat Lees Teen area. It includes exercise equipment and a basketball area. The Youth Project holds a regular Tuesday evening Youth Cub at the Goat Lees Com-munity Centre. For more information please contact Dave Yhnell, School Youth Worker on 01233 634171 extension 235.
Free courses in crafts and skills
THE POPULAR weekly Story and Crafts activity will be returning to Bockhanger Library from Wednesday 4 June. These free sessions are for pre-school children and take place from 10.30am to 11.30am every Wednes-day. All are welcome.
IF YOU have difficulty using or accessing public transport a car service is available. Call Volunteer-ing Ashford on 01233 633219.
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Please trim back
hedges and branches that overhang pavements as they are a hazard for guide dog owners and partially sighted people. Pavements obstructed by parked vehicles and bins are also a danger.
If you would like to publicise a local event on Kennington
Forum’s Noticeboard in Upper Vicarage Road please send
The Ashford Almshouse Charity (Registered Charity)
A residence is available for a person in need, resident in Ashford for 10 years and over 60 years of age.
Apply for details to
Miss L Webb, Clerk to the Trustees, 115 Faversham Road, Kennington,
Ashford, Kent TN24 9DE
Ralph Morley from Kennington captained Trinity College Cambridge to victory in the final of TV’s University Challenge. They beat Somerville College Oxford by 240 points to 135. Author Jeanette Winterson, this year's guest trophy presenter, told the winners: “That was brilliant. You were very impressive." Handing over the award, which looked like manuscript made from a wavy metal sheet she joked: “I'm sorry it looks like something from the Hobbit.” John Naughton writing in GQ Magazine said: “Ralph Morley has emerged as the real character of the series his precise diction matched by perfect manners as he consults his teammates with the sang-froid of one
getting in a round at the college bar. A Clas-sicist with lightning reactions and an omniv-orous appetite for history, no dynastic line or regnal number is safe when he's around.” Ralph, 21, wrote on his Facebook page:
“Thank you to everyone who watched. I’ve received some lovely messages over the last nine months and it’s good to know we’ve lived up to the challenge of being (I hope) entertaining.”
Kennington News is printed by Geerings Print Ltd, Ashford 01233 633366
Kennington Community Forum takes an active role in looking after the
interests of the people and the environment of our area and enables the community to voice opinions on local matters which affect their lives and wellbeing. We hold six public meetings a year and publish the quarterly Kennington News
supplemented by web and social media sites. The Forum is run by volunteers. For more details contact Chris Morley 01233 611196 or visit our
website bit.ly/kennington NEXT MEETINGS:
27 May, 29 July, St Mary’s
Community Centre,
Rylands Road, 7.30pm
Kennington WI members are busy with a varied programme including a visit to the popular Brick Lane Music Hall on 13 June and a darts group coffee evening on 20 June. Gill Whitling said: “In July we are hosting a visit for eight ladies of the FABS WI, an institute we are linked with in Manchester. We have a full weekend's events planned including a burlesque evening and an outing to Whit- stable and the Shepherd Neame Brewery at Faversham. If anyone
would like to join us on the out-ing please contact me on 633550. We are always happy for new members to join us at our month-ly meetings on the second Tues-day of each month in the WI Hall, Faversham Road, at 7pm.”
Details from Pat Owen-Smith (President) on 630134 or at www.kenningtonwi.co.uk
BYBROOK WI meets on the
second Tuesday of the month (except August) from 7.30-10pm at St Mary's Community Centre, Rylands Road and would welcome new members. Next meetings: 10 June, a talk by Prue Ander-son ‘Au Pair Over There!’; 8 July a talk by Sarah Grazebrook on ‘A Working Girl’s Account of Her Life As a Suffragette.’
St Mary’s Kennington welcomed a new director of music on 18 May. Phil Sibbald has lived in Kennington for many years and recently finished as Director of Music at Kingsnorth. The Rev Richard King said: “We are delighted that Phil has chosen to join us. The Director of Music is someone who does much more than just play instruments or lead singing. We look to him to help us get to know Jesus better as he develops our worship of God. We are a growing Church and we believe Phil’s gifts will help us be an even more welcoming and joyous place.”
New director of music for church
Ralph’s the star of TV challenge
Information COUNTY COUNCILLORS: Andrew Wickham (Ashford Rural East) 01233 840902 [email protected]
The club has received a £40,000 grant and a £10,000 interest free loan from the England and Wales Cricket Trust towards the cost of its new pavilion. The Trust said the club deserved support because of its junior development programme. EWCT Trustee, Brian Havill, said: “Having high quality cricket facilities accessible to the community will be key to sustaining grass roots cricket.” The club has a structured coaching programme for 100 boys and girls and provides coaching and playing opportunities in the local primary schools.
Treasurer John Cunningham, said: “We were delighted because in our initial enquir-ies to the Trust we were seeking a loan to help finance our building plans which have cost £145,000.
“We wanted to make the new pavilion available not only for cricket but also for local community groups. The extension will increase the size of our social area and kitchen, there are new toilets and facilities for people with disabilities. “We have had wonderful fundrais-ing support from our members. We also express gratitude for the support from Kennington councillor Phil Sims through Ashford Borough Council (£10,000), county council-lor Andrew Wickham on behalf of Kent County Council (£5,000), the Kent Sports Development Unit (£8,000) and Sport England (£50,000).
www.kenningtoncc.com
T he new pavilion had cost almost a thousand times more than the clubhouse
built in 1965, Kennington Cricket Club president Peter Grant told guests at the opening ceremony. He said: “I still have the invoices that show the entire cost was £153, 17 shillings and eight pence.” Peter said: “The genesis of the project was some four years ago when we were able to obtain a 999 year pepper-corn lease on the ground from the estate of Miss Hope Jen-nings. When I got some cost-ings for a new clubhouse I
don’t think many people at the time thought we’d be able to raise that sort of money. That we have done so is in no small measure due to our treasurer John Cunningham who spent hundreds of hours working on funding applications.” Peter paid tribute to Kennington cricketers Percy Vidler and Fred Tyrell who died in the First World War. They were among many of the club’s players who volun-teered to fight 100 years ago.
The new extension, called The Grant Pavilion, was
unveiled by Mrs Verna Grant.
Peter Grant presented bouquets to his mother, Verna, and Pat Flawn. Both spent many hours making cricket teas. Peter’s father “Twiz” and Fred Flawn were stalwarts of the team
It’s been a great start to the season for Kennington Cricket Club . . . a new pavilion and a surprise £40,000 grant
