SNIPPETS

Your magazine, the much admired Pembury Village News, is looking for one or two people to join its editorial team. You do not necessarily need to have a journalist background, but you should be able to string a few words together in easily understood and grammatical English as well as be interested in Pembury as a community. It would be very helpful if you have email and can handle wordprocessing in Word for Windows.

This is part-time, a few hours a month with absolutely no pay! The upside is belonging to a friendly (not to say positively jolly!) team of people reporting on and promoting Pembury, the community where they live.

Interested? Then email pvn@pembury.org or call Alison Morton on 01892 824938, preferably in the evening up to 9.00pm.

Fireworks

Better than ever, so the public said! The annual display organised by Pembury Parish Council in Lower Green Recreation Ground on Friday 2 November was truly spectacular. Also spectacular was the collection of voluntary donations, an impressive £1,808.85 (plus a couple of Australian dollars, a euro, 10 US cents and some Thai coins!). A big thank you to all residents who came along and contributed to the atmosphere and who helped us give a good boost to the charity funds going to Pepenbury and St John Ambulance.

Wheelchair loan

The Out & About Club has a wheelchair which can be available for free loan for a maximum of 24 hours to any Pembury Resident. If you wish to take advantage of this facility please ring Pauline Hawker on 01892 824327 to check availability.

New Pembury Hospital

Equion Consortium, comprising international companies John Laing, Laing O’Rourke and Interserve, has been chosen to design and build the new £225 million PFI scheme at Pembury.

The Trust is now working with Equion to complete the detailed designs for the new 512 bed hospital, which will be the first acute hospital in the country with 100 per cent single rooms. Equion will then submit a planning application to the local authority for the development in early 2008. Source: www.mtw.nhs.uk/your-new-hospital/

Multisports report

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council ran two-hour ‘Summer Fun’ multisport sessions in the Lower Green Recreation Ground on 10 and 17 August. They reported that 165 children turned up and joined in altogether – a great result! Roll on next summer!

Housing survey

The Borough Council will be conducting a housing needs survey in January/February 2008 and will be contacting Pembury residents to ask them to fill in a form about their housing. This is part of a 5 year programme to find out what the needs are in the Borough’s villages, particularly for affordable housing.

Memorial Garden

The Parish Council’s Allotments, Burials and Environment Working Group are developing a plan for a memorial garden and hope to launch this in the New Year. Applicants are to be Pembury residents or to be applying for a plaque in remembrance of somebody who was a Pembury resident. This is not designed as a place for the interment or strewing of ashes, but a focus for relatives who wish to have a place in Pembury to quietly remember a loved one. Details will be available from the Clerk’s office in the New Year.

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