Lovely Charing - Kent

A Walk in the Woods

Spring is the time when English woodlands look at their best so what could be better than to take a relaxing stroll through a local wood.

The Village Society and Heaths Countryside Corridor have organised a walk through Hurst Wood in Charing Heath on Sunday 25th April.

The walk will start at the car park of Charing Heath and Lenham Heath Memorial Hall on Church Hill at 2pm.

The walk will last for about 2 hours and will be a gentle stroll around Hurst Wood, which is between Charing Heath Rd and CTRL. The woodland is a semi-natural ancient woodland which means that it has been a wood for over 400 years and contains traditional native tree species. The highlight of the walk will be the springtime flora. All are welcome to attend but do make sure you come dressed for the weather.

Please contact Mike Phillips for more information on 01303 815170 or by email 

Picture: Bluebell woods - courtesy of Kent Downs AONB Unit

Charing Parish AGM + Charing Businesses on Display

The Annual Parish Meeting will be held in the Parish Hall on

May 4th at 7.30pm.

Please book the date and come along and hear what the Parish Council has been up to during the year. The Charing Business Association will be present and you will be able to see what they are doing to promote Charing.

Charing Businesses on Display - meet the following Charing Business Association members and their products/services at the AGM on May 4th:

Tangerine Moon

Richards Of Charing

The Chocolate Room

Executive Cars

“44”

Tenbury Accountants

Osteopath 4 All

Wood You Like Ltd

Absent Friends - Charing Guild of Players

Rehearsals are well under way for the Guild Of Players' next production, Alan Ayckbourn's brilliant comedy, Absent Friends which takes to the stage of The Church Barn from

Thursday May 6th until Saturday May 8th. Curtain up at 7.30pm.

Tickets, priced at £6, can be obtained from Wood You Like in School Road from Thursday April 22nd - although Friends of The Guild may purchase theirs from Monday April 12th. Booking can also be made by phone on 01233 713725 (during opening hours of the showroom) although tickets must be collected and paid for (cash, exact change please, or by cheque) in advance of the performance.

Later in the month, in a collaboration with The Lenham Players, there will be a production of Alan Bennett's Habius Corpus. This will be performed at
Lenham on Friday and Saturday May 14th and 15th and
in The Church Barn the following week on the 21st and 22nd.
Tickets for the Lenham performance can be obtained by calling 01622 858561 (£8 each) or the Charing performances by calling 01233 631559 (£7 each). The show is being produced as a tribute to the late Peter Goldsmith who directed a number of shows for both drama groups and a percentage of the box office will be donated to Cancer research.