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Awards
Tuesday, 16th April 2019 – Presentation of Awards to:
- Capel Cares
- Frederick Scales
- Brian Tutt
Capel-le-Ferne resident recognised in Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours List
MICHAEL PAUL MARSHALL
has been awarded the BEM – British Empire Medal, for services to the community in Capel-le-Ferne.
CONGRATULATIONS MICK, FROM US ALL!
The Parish Council enquired with Mick Marshall on a “village celebration” to commemorate his BEM Award. Mick has requested that he would prefer a donation is made from the Parish Council towards providing a Water Well in Malawi which Pam Barr of the Baptist Church is fund-raising towards. This has been agreed by Councillors and an amount of £250 will be given.
“Village Commemoration” BEM Award for Mick Marshall
I first went to Africa about 9 years ago. On that visit I stayed in the guest house where our cook had malaria. I had never seen anyone with malaria before, he was so ill but had to keep working to feed his family. No sick pay in Uganda. When I came home I decided to raise money for mosquito nets. Now I am retired I make tote bags and sell them to raise money for nets. I have now been to Africa four times. On my last visit my friend and I worked at a centre for trafficked children, redecorating the bedrooms and the dining room. We stayed with the manager in his bungalow where we met Peter. Peter was trafficked as a 12 year old. Taken from his family in Malawi to work on a farm in Zambia. Thankfully someone recognised him as not “local” and reported the fact to the police. After contact between Police and Social Service and the Salvation Army, Peter was repatriated back to Malawi where he stayed in the Salvation Army’s centre for trafficked children. Now aged 23 he has a dream. He wants to be a farmer. Lin and I spent time talking to Jimmy, the Centre manager, about Peter’s dream; and we felt that we could help him realise that dream. Land in Malawi is cheap compared to England. £150 will buy an acre of land. For a viable small holding you would need 10 acres – £1,500 plus money to equip the farm and buy seeds etc. But a borehole to ensure that when the droughts come, as they inevitably do come in Malawi, the land could be irrigated would cost £3,250. More than the cost of the land! Thanks to so many generous people we have purchased the land, and sent Peter on a couple of placements to learn how to farm. Now we are raising funds for the borehole. Once Peter had been told by Jimmy what we were planning to do, his immediate response was “now I know there is a God, and I promise that I will always employ other trafficked young men on the farm, to help them get started in life, just as I have been”. Once we have raised the money for the borehole – we are getting there – we want to help a girls’ school in Blantyre to get water on site for a toilet block. There are 1300 girls in the school and only 2 toilets. I have two toilets in my house!
I am so grateful to Mick for suggesting that money, which the village would have used to give him a party, should come to Project Peter. This just reinforces what a wonderful man he is and so deserving of his honour.
Many many thanks, Pam Barr, Capel-le-Ferne Baptist Church.
HONOURS CITATION
Neighbourhood Planning
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING & CAPEL-LE-FERNE
A disappointed attendance was reported to discuss initiating a Neighbourhood Plan document for the future of Capel-le-Ferne developments and needs. Councillors decided “due to lack of response, interest and support to defer, unless someone comes forward to help”.
Do you want to protect and enhance our village, have a say over where new homes, shops and other amenities are built or what new buildings should look like?
Protect you local green spaces for generations to enjoy to come, get involved with a Neighbourhood Plan and prevent future speculative development. A Neighbourhood Plan has to involve the Community to succeed.
Can you help? See more at: http://locality.org.uk
Please write to the Parish Clerk, 39 Victoria Road, Capel-le-Ferne, CT18 7LT, providing particulars of the elements you can offer.
Thank you.
Clive Goble
22nd May 2016
Once our Councillor “Lady Cherry” had completed her housework, the unveiling of the commemorative bench to our past Chairman Clive Goble got under way. Thank you to County Councillor Geoff Lymer for providing the bench, to residents and Clive’s family for attending the event.
It is, with very great sadness, to have to inform you all that Clive Goble passed away on 9th September 2015 in hospital.
Clive was a long serving Councillor and Chairman of this Council until May this year, when he decided not to stand again for election. Clive suffered two severe strokes and had pneumonia. Our sincere sympathies are to Kathy his wife and all his family. God bless (always his words to me) and rest in peace Clive.
A short service was held on Sunday, 20th September at 4pm at the Catholic Church of Our Lady Help of Christians, 41 Guildhall Street, Folkestone. CT20 1EF. and on Monday, 21st September @ 10am a Catholic Requiem Mass at the Catholic Church of Our Lady Help of Christians, followed by burial at Hawkinge.
Paul James
Paul James has left Kent County Council and the Community Warden Service for a change of career.
As from Monday, 9th November, Paul will be working at Shepway District Council as The Licencing Officer for the District.
We are sure you would all want to join the Parish Council in thanking Paul for his dedication to the village of Capel-le-Ferne and to wish him well in his new vocation. Good luck Paul, you will be sorely missed and our very best wishes for the future to you and your family, from us all.
In due course, information on our future Community Warden services for the village will be communicated accordingly when the Parish Council are formally notified via Kent County Council.
In the meantime, if you need to contact the Community Warden Service, the telephone number of 07811 271303 will be switched to the Dover and Thanet Team Leader, Nick Thistle, or you can contact him direct on 07969 584176 or email: [email protected]
Your Police Community Support Officer is still your point of contact for all local policing concerns, email [email protected] – Please do not report crime via email, use the numbers below:
Telephone: 101 (for non-emergencies), 999 (in emergencies).
Summer Fete & Beer Festival 2015
SUMMER FETE & BEER FESTIVAL – SATURDAY, 18th JULY 2015
******************************THANK YOU EVERYONE*********************
To everyone that attended our SUMMER FETE and BEER FESTIVAL on Saturday, 18th July
a VERY, VERY BIG THANK YOU.
Especially to all the organisers, helpers who set up and cleared away, manned stalls and catering areas, paramedics and first aiders, operated the PA system and directed car parking, etc., etc..
Not forgetting Kent PA Systems and Dazzlaa’s Inflatables for providing equipment , the Capel-le-Ferne “Spitfire” Judo Club and all the Competitors and The Royal Oak Public House for working in conjunction with the Parish Council to provide an excellent day.
The weather was extremely kind to us and for once, we did NOT provide an event in “The Village in the Clouds”.
To follow, a breakdown of funds raised towards play equipment in the field, when all monies are accounted for.
TO VIEW A GALLERY OF PHOTOS FROM THE DAY PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK
TO VIEW A GALLERY OF PHOTOS FROM THE DAY PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK
Click here for Judo Competition Photos
*********************THANK YOU AGAIN EVERYONE******************
The Queen at the Battle of Britain Memorial Site. 26th March 2015
26th March 2015
The Queen, accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, will be following in the footsteps of her mother, Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The Queen Mother, who unveiled the Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne on 9 July, 1993.
Her Majesty will tour the new building during a 45-minute visit to the clifftop site and will see the new Scramble Experience and the Geoffrey Page Centre, where pupils from Capel-le-Ferne Primary School will be completing worksheets on the Battle of Britain prepared by the Trust.
The Queen and The Duke will also meet some of the last remaining members of the Few, the aircrew who defended Britain from invasion. A flypast by a Spitfire, Hurricane and Typhoon, which The Queen will watch from the balcony of the new Cockpit Café if the weather is fine, will mark the end of the visit.
While members of the public are welcome to attend the event, only invited guests will be allowed inside The Wing and so opportunities to see The Queen will be limited, particularly if the weather is bad.
The new centre, built and fitted out by the Trust at a cost of £3.5m, will open to the public for the first time at 10am on Saturday 28 March.
Battle of Britain Memorial Site, B2011, New Dover Road, Capel-le-Ferne, CT18 7JJ.
Access to the Site and the Memorial will remain free; the charge is only for the experience. No-one will ever be charged to pay their respects at the Memorial itself.
FURTHER INFORMATION – 01303 249292. www.battleofbritainmemorial.org
Fields in Trust Award 2013
Click here to download the press release for the Fields in Trust Awards Event
It’s Official – The Diamond Jubilee Field 2012
It’s Official – The Diamond Jubilee Field at Lancaster Avenue is now Protected Forever! Basically, the fact that The Diamond Jubilee Field was awarded QE II status (thanks to a lot of hard work by the Parish Council, its sub-group and Dover District Council), means that it is protected from development forever – a beautiful green space for generations to come.The official QE II plaque has now been handed over from Dover District Council to the Parish Council who are now investigating the best option for its display – watch this space for details of an exciting event being arrranged for its unveiling!
Dover District Council Community Development Officer, Lynn Brisley
Funds are still rolling in from the sponsored scoot event – please continue to hand the money to Chantal or pop through the Parish Clerk’s letterbox at 39 Victoria Road – every little helps.
Thank you.
Several more funding applications have been submitted and we are now playing the waiting game for the results – lets hope enough funds are received to make a start on the new recreational facilities as a Capel Christmas present for 2012!
Thank you for your continued support.