Country Market - every Thursday morning in the Church Barn
home-made pastries, jams and knitwear as well as home-grown vegetables and plants.
Kentish Teas - during summer, every Sunday from 7th June 2009 on at the Church Barn, where villagers and visitors are assured a warm welcome along with their slice of delicious homemade cake!
Ladies of the Light - Charing Christmas Lights committee
Linda, Anita (01233-714068), Margaret (01233-712853), Anne (01233-713592)
Charing Parish Church Fete and Flower Show - annual event in June (see here for more details)
History group
In 1956 the vicar, the Rev. Patrick Lury, together with parishioners and Guild members, paid £100 for a C17th tithe barn located at High Halden, some nine miles distant. Its fine old timbers were lovingly dismantled and rebuilt over a period of two years on a site adjoining Charing church.
On April 28 1958 the national press reported that 'the parishioners of Charing had erected a new theatre under the North Downs'
The Guild's first production in The Barn was Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning in May 1958 and the author visited The Barn during rehearsals. Since then, The Guild has produced plays every year, a total in excess of a hundred to date.
The Guild scrapbooks, together with photos and programmes, make interesting reading and are usually available for viewing on performance nights.
The Guild normally produces three plays a year in February, May and November. They are always pleased to welcome new members who are interested in acting or in assisting backstage. Contact details can be found on the links page of their website.
The Guild's production of Derek Benfield's 'Over My Dead Body' took to the stage of The Church Barn from May 6th to 9th 2009 and was well-received by the audiences. The show was particularly poignant as the author, Derek Benfield, sadly passed away in March this year. Benfield will be best remembered for his role as the dissaproving husband in 'Hetty Wainthropp Investigates', playing opposite Patricia Routledge.
(News and updates of the Guild Of Players can be found here)
Charing Heath Village society
The Village Society has been going for over 30 years and was set up by villagers
to bring the community together, its a not for profit group which wants to
encourage people in the villages to get together.
Please contact Vanessa Smith on 01233 712442 for more details
Point to Point Riding
(Calling everyone who has news, updates etc on the above organisations: email your news and it will be published here or in the articles.)
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