Community gardening event in Hoo

I'll be joining other volunteers from Hoo this Saturday at the Hoo Clean Up annual community gardening event, albeit I will mainly help with litter picking (as much as I like to visit gardens, I'm not really a gardener).

The event is once again being supported by the quarterly Strood & Hoo Peninsula Times and the monthly Village Voices Community Magazine so there'll be plenty of cakes and refreshments throughout.

If you decide to pop along - take some plants if you have any that you'd like to donate and some tools.

See you there!
 

Centenary of the Armistice

The centenary of the end of the First World War will be in November and many commemorations are being planned up and down the country. I’ll be including more details about these on this blog in the coming months.

In the meantime, a local list of events, projects and activities to commemorate the centenary is being compiled by the quarterly Strood & Hoo Peninsula Times and the monthly Village Voices Community Magazine. The full list will be published in these two publications later in the year.

If representatives of local groups would like to ensure that their activities to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice is recorded on the list, it is essential for them to get in touch by writing to Village Voices Publishing, PO Box 692, Rochester, Kent, ME1 9LN. Or information can be emailed by clicking here.

I will be regularly featuring items relating to the First World War in my local history column published in the monthly Village Voices Community Magazine. I'll also be sharing on this blog more research I have recently undertaken into the life of my ancestor William Watson (from the village of Lower Stoke), who was killed during the First World War. 

Get in touch with the Village Voices Community Magazine

I regularly receive emails and letters from people wanting to promote events and bring to my attention interesting items of local news and history.

If you live on the Hoo Peninsula – the best way to ‘spread the word’ about an event coming up, share news from where you live or to promote a local business – is in the dedicated Village Voices Community Magazine.

The publication is produced and delivered every month by a dedicated team of local people. It is delivered across the whole of the Hoo Peninsula – even the most remote properties in each parish!

Village Voices is a great magazine, with lots of community news, diary dates, updates from community groups and a superb collection of adverts from many of our local businesses.

13,500 copies of Village Voices are delivered every month, to Allhallows, Chattenden, Cliffe, Cliffe Woods, Cooling, Frindsbury, High Halstow, Hoo Marina Park, Hoo St. Werburgh, Isle of Grain, Spendiff, St. Mary Hoo, Upnor and Wainscott.

You can visit the Village Voices website by clicking here, where you will also find information about their quarterly publication The Strood & Hoo Peninsula Times (32,600 copies delivered by Royal Mail every quarter).

You can get in touch with Village Voices by emailing here.