The Trust has been working with Woodlands Farm on one of their latest projects, to create a Memorial Orchard in memory of the men from East Wickham and Welling who died in the First World War. The Trust is providing grant funding and the team at Woodlands Farm are doing
With echoes of the efforts of local residents of East Wickham and Welling to build the Memorial Hall 100 years ago, members of Welling Methodist Church have successfully completed a £130k project to build a new community meeting room. Both projects were conversions of buildings: The Memorial Hall was originally a
The Trust was delighted to visit the Gravesend RNLI station to present a cheque for £2,000. The charity is dedicated to saving lives at sea and some inland waterways, including the River Thames. Gravesend is one of the newest lifeboat stations and one of four on the River Thames. Its
The Trust was very pleased to be able to help students from Welling School participate in a Tag Rugby Tour in Uganda, by awarding Individual Grants to those who live in our area of benefit. The tour was organised by the school, in partnership with the Tag Rugby Trust, and
The Trust was delighted to present a cheque for £2,000 to Blesma, The Limbless Veterans, the charity dedicated to assisting serving and ex-Service men and women, who have suffered life-changing limb loss or the loss of use of a limb, an eye or loss of sight. This was collected at
The retiring collection at the 2015 Festival of Remembrance raised a magnificent £1500 for the charity Veterans Aid. Early in March, Trustees Nigel Betts, Warren Foot and Jeremy Watkins, and Secretary Linda Clayton went to the offices of Veterans Aid in Victoria to meet their CEO, former Wing Commander Dr
Following the collection at the 2014 Festival of Remembrance, we are delighted to be sending a donation of £1,700 to our chosen charity for the year, the Not Forgotten Association, which was founded just after the First World War to support the wounded. This is our largest collection ever and
The Trust recently awarded a grant to the 5th East Wickham Guides for an experience of a lifetime visit to Iceland. Guide Leader Suzanne Umney’s report of their amazing trip follows: On Sunday 27th July the Guides, Rangers and 7 adult leaders met up at Gatwick airport in their matching
We are delighted that we have been able to send a donation of £1,600 to our chosen charity for the year, Hounds for Heroes. Each year we choose a charity that supports the armed services for our retiring collection at the Festival of Remembrance, where we remember the men from
