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Cancer Care Club

The club is a local support group for anyone affected by cancer. Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month (excluding December) 12-2pm at the Abbots Barton Hotel, New Dover Road, Canterbury, CT1 3DU. Contact Peter Cross 01227 793393 for information.

Canterbury Historical & Archaeological Society

Meetings are held in the Newton Lecture theatre Ng03, Canterbury Christ Church University, starting at 7pm, except where indicated differently. Wednesday, January 9, “Dining together: banquets, breakfasts and corporate solidarity in early Tudor Canterbury” by Stuart Palmer, UKC.

Canterbury Film Makers Club

The Club meets in morning of the second Friday each month, so longer notes will appear here monthly. Our website, it is at www. canterburyfilmmakers.club and includes our contact address cfm@ canterburyfilmmakers.club All the usual stuff is there, and we add Club and members’ films often. If you go to the “Programme” page of our website you can read an account of each meeting. If you like what you see, why not ask Santa for a camera that will take video and come along and meet us, a warm welcome awaits new members in a friendly atmosphere. The first two visits are free. There is nothing to report this week as we approach Christmas. We will be back just after our January meeting with more news. Next meeting will be January 11 at our new city centre venue, All Saints Church Military Road, Canterbury CT1 1PA. See “Find us” on our website. All Saints is an active Church, but when services allow it makes space available to other groups. We hope the new location will make it easier, for all, to get to us.

Canterbury Inner Wheel

Members of the Inner Wheel Club of Canterbury were in festive mood as they enjoyed a preChristmas dinner together.

Gardeners’ Club

We enjoyed a fun packed evening at the club Christmas Party held on Monday, December 3, in Lorenden School hall including a quiz and entertainment provided by the committee and wonderful food thanks to the Alma public house.

Cups and trophies were awarded to members following successes at the Spring, Summer and Dahlia shows held throughout 2018. Results as follows: Spring Show: The Spring Show Cup overall points, Frances Moskovits; The Bell (Culinary), Jenny Fagg; Best Bloom in Show, Val Anderson; Runner-up Best Bloom, Lyn Powell; The David Green Photographic Trophy, Roger Clements. Summer Show: The Den Reynolds Fuchsia Cup, Alan Warrener; The Ros Williams Cup for Best Bloom, Frances Moskovits; Best Vegetable in Show Cup, Keith Dennett; The Ospringe Parish Council Cup, overall points, Frances Moskovits; The Roy Frier Challenge Trophy, vegetables, Roger Clements; Statuette for Flowers and Foliage, Frances Moskovits; Statuette for Fruit, Paula Hammond; Floral Art Vase, Roger Clements; Hanging Basket Cup, Clare Annand. Dahlia Show: The Colin Mitchell Dahlia Cup overall points, Val Anderson; Best Bloom in Show, Andrew Bruce. The next club meeting is the AGM on Monday February 11, 7.30pm. which will be followed by a short quiz. Subscriptions (£5) are due at the AGM and the club booklet and show schedules will also be available on the night.

The club website has been updated with the coming year’s programme of events and recent photographs of the Christmas Party so please have a look st www.paintersforstalgardenersclub. org.uk. New members are always very welcome.

Potterers Cycling Club

Meet us for a lunchtime drink. This is not an organised cycle ride. We make our way to the pub individually. We have “Meets” Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12.30pm. Wednesday, December 26, no meeting; Thursday 27, The Red Cow, Sandwich. For complete list see www.potterers.co.uk

Royal Artillery Association, Canterbury Branch

Meets second Wednesday each month, January-november, 1.30pm at St Stephens Community Club, Tenterden Drive, Canterbury CT2 7BN. Membership is open to all serving and ex-artillery personnel and their partners also personnel from attached units, there are joint social and military events. For further information contact Peter

Whitstable and Herne Bay Lions Club

Members of Whitstable and Herne Bay Lions Club dressed in their costumes as Santa’s helpers to greet children from the Avenue Nursery and Forest School, Herne Bay and escort them through the tree-lined Grotto at Canterbury Garden Centre, Herne, to see Father Christmas.

All the children had brought letters they had written to drop into his post box and each child had a chat with Father Christmas and received a gift. Then there was just enough time to enjoy a drink and a cake and explore the magical Christmas decorations before catching the bus back to school.

All the children were wearing their reflective jackets, also funded by a donation from the Lions, in order to improve visibility and safety whenever the children are out and about.

Lions’ President Mike Shaw declared it was a delight to see the children’s faces, and reminded everyone that there was still time for families to visit Father Christmas, too, saying: “The Grotto will be open each weekend until December 23, between 10.30am and 4pm on Saturdays and 10.30am and 3.30pm on Sundays. The Lions are most grateful to everyone at Canterbury Garden Centre, Herne, who have made it possible for us to greet families and old friends who come to visit Father Christmas.”

The Lions sponsored two Junior Schools in Whitstable and Herne Bay earlier this year with an opportunity to join a new youth programme called ROAR which challenges children to develop ideas that could change the world and make a positive impact on the planet. The Lions have teamed up with a young IT company, 7billionideas, which put together the innovative ideas competition for Key Stage 2 pupils, now in its second year. The winning team from Joy Lane Primary School travelled to represent their school in the South East finals of The ROAR2018 competition final in December, at The Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst Place. Members of the Lions were there to support them and congratulated them on their design for an ECO Tap, which would prevent wasting water and conserve reserves. David Harkin and his colleagues from 7billionideas were there to host and run the proceedings and praised the children for the ingenuity and scope of their designs, saying they were quite remarkable.

Every one of the schoolchildren taking part received a Certificate and a Medal as a memento of their contribution to a very interesting and inspiring day.

Rotary Club of Canterbury

A red-letter day at our Tuesday meeting, honoured as we were by the visit of our indefatigable Assistant District Governor, Hilary Brian.

The speaker, Aby Evans, a community banker with Natwest gripped the attention of all present as she revealed the difference between scams, pfishing and fraud and how to deal with nuisance telephone calls, emails and supposed workmen at the front door.

The statistics are worrying : over 50% of people over the age of 65 have been victim of one kind or another of the above.

However, help is at hand : Natwest - the first highstreet bank to offer a home service to give advice on such problems to the housebound - is a partner of Friends Against Scams, a National Trading Standards initiative (www. friendsagainstscams.org.uk), while Aby can be contacted by email at abigail.evans@natwest.com