2025 Activity Reports
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14th April 2025 Main Meeting
89 members enjoyed an afternoon of "A Musical Journey of Timeless Hits" provided by Geoff Stephens singing and playing guitar. with many members taking to the dance floor an enjoyable afternoon was had by all that attended.
3rd April 2025 Social Meeting
Social, Tea & chat with chocolates! Ned; the chocolatier from the Maidstone shop N2 Sweet Lab will be coming along; with some of his goodies; to tell us about himself and his work.for more information visit their website by Clicking Here.
1st April 2025 Tenpin Bowling
11 members enjoyed our monthly meetup with the top scores being:
Ladies: Unfortunately none of our ladies scored 100 today.
Men: Dave Flexman: 138
17th March 2025 Main Meeting David Allen "Blood, Guts & Gore in Victorian England"
As a deviation from our usual style of speaker or entertainer we welcomed David Allen who told us about an entirely true story of the circumstances surrounding the murder of Julia Martha Thomas by Kate Webster in 1879. With many theatricals and even some audience participation. Graphic details were verbally explained of how Julia Martha Thomas was murdered and her body dismembered and disposed of, although her skull was not found until 2010 during building works were being carried out for Sir David Attenborough.
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More information about this subject can be found by following this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Julia_Martha_Thomas
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The talk was very well received by 113 of our members, with one member recently upgraded to a full membership and attending her first main meeting emailed the committee with the following comments (part of original email) "I would just like to say that I was made to feel very welcome by many of the members, which I appreciated. The speaker was also very entertaining, I enjoyed it very much".
6th March 2025 Trip to Brick Lane Music Hall to see Pinocchio and his Wooden Whopper
A full coach of 53 members including 4 members from MaidARA attended the last performance that included a 3 course lunch for this year.
A very good lunch was provided followed by the Adult Panto "Pinocchio and his Wooden Whopper" providing a couple of of hours constant laughter.
4th March 2025 Tenpin Bowling
This month we had a respectable 14 members attend for our regular monthly session of 3 games. Our top scorers' were:
Ladies: Pauline Lock 118
Men: Dave Flexman 155
17th February 2025 A.G.M. Plus Fire Safety Talk.
As is tradition at our A.G.M. we have a shorter talk than our normal main meetings.
This year we were pleased to welcome Corinne from Kent Fire and Safety who provided us with some very useful tips and a power point presentation on preventing the outbreak of fire in the home, that was enjoyed by all.
After our tea coffee and biscuit break we then proceeded to have our Annual General Meeting.
We had 111 members present for this meeting.
Following our AGM our chairman received the following email from our speaker. Hi Dave,
Thanks so much for having me talk at your AGM last week, it was great how receptive members were to the tips and fantastic to see so many taking up the offer of home fire safety visits.
Please find a link here for booking visits, a member asked if this could possibly be shared in one of your communications. I have also copied in the secretary for info too.
Home fire safety visits | Kent Fire and Rescue Service
At the bottom of this webpage there is a self home safety check tool that can give tailored advice based on questions answered.
Many thanks
Corinne Kerbey
Education Intervention Officer | Education Intervention Team | Kent Fire & Rescue Service,
The Godlands, Straw Mill Hill, Tovil, Maidstone ME15 6XB
T: 01622 692121 Ext. 8780 | M: 07740515990
W: www.kent.fire-uk.org.
16th February 2025 Trip to ABBA Voyage
Just a few of the 53 of our members who travelled by coach to see the fantastic ABBA Voyage Concert 1:00pm performance.
What a fantastic experience with the ABBAtars taking a lifelike digital image of the ABBA members when they were in their heyday in the 1970's.
A must see for everyone our 2nd trip to this takes place on the 30th April 2025 for some of the members missing out on this outing.
Picture curtesy of Lee Skam.
6th February 2025 Social Meeting Beetle Drive
60 Members attended
Awaiting Full Report
4th February 2025 Tenpin Bowling
We had our regular Tenpin Bowling session at Hollywood Bowl, Lockmeadow, Maidstone, where we were slightly down on members attending this month to 10. The session was nevertheless enjoyable with our top scorers today being:
Ladies: Pauline Lock 106
Men: Peter Humphrey 113
20th January Main Meeting featuring Steve Stevens Jukebox Review
It was a pleasure to welcome Steve Stevens to entertain 112 of our members in the first month of the year. He sung all our favourite songs from the 60's & 70s with a slight mix of banter mixed in.