Standing With the Jewish Community: Uniting Against Hate
There are moments when words feel painfully small against the scale of loss. This is one of them. Our thoughts are with the Jewish community and with every family mourning a [...]
Community
Part 1: What Is a Refugee? Definition, Rights, and UK Law
Seventy-four years after governments gathered in Geneva to define who counts as a refugee and what the world owes them, the question feels newly contested. Border walls are [...]
Councillors ward budgets bring JOY to our communities
Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs receive £3,000 of taxpayers money to per year to spend on community projects that help deliver the Council’s strategic objectives. In [...]
Are you a Community Group? If so, here’s how to grab some cash for your projects
Each of your 30 Councillors have a ‘ward budget’ of up to £3,000 to help community projects. The combined maximum they as Cllrs can dispose of, in any one year [...]
How Do We Feel About Where We Live?
On Saturday 28 Jan, between 14:00 – 16:30, the New Folkestone Society is holding a free community conversation in the Church Hall of the Cornerstone Centre (former [...]
Chance to raise local community issues which affect us all.
Each year you the residents of the district are offered the opportunity to submit your ideas about which local community issues you believe Cllrs should discuss at Overview [...]
Have your say: Folkestone Place Plan 6th April
What does a Town Centre for the future look like? Ask your mum, dad, grandkids, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, and you’ll have a lot of commonalities and lot [...]
Can you help save Dance Easy?
It’s was so important for our great grandmothers or grandmothers and our mums, who in the main collected the family ration book from there. As a building, it played [...]