BeARA weekly activities Senior Elastix & Tai-Chi. BeARA fortnightly activities Kurling, monthly Tenpin Bowling usually 1st Tuesday of the month and Bi-Monthly Walks. See "Diary of Events" for all forthcoming activities.

2025 Activity Reports

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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 

Brick Lane Music Hall Pinocchio & 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.


Fire Safety talk AGM

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


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

Jan Main Meeting1

Jan 2025 Main Meeting2It 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.

Thank you Steve for a most enjoyable afternoon.

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9th January 2025 Social Meeting Tea & Chat.


For our first Social meeting of the year it was decided to have an informal Tea & Chat afternoon. we had over 40 members attend for an enjoyable afternoon with a quiz on the table. 



7th January 2025 Tenpin Bowling 

Our first club event of 2025 had 13 of our regular bowlers enjoy 3 games and the company of each other with our top scorers today being:

Ladies: Pauline Lock 117

Men: Graham Morecraft 128