Please do your online shopping via this website and raise money for the centres charity - Use the shop link on the left of this page or enter easyfundraising.org.uk using the link under the site counter. Current Charity funds - Adult £ ....... Youth - Charity £ 1699.51 Events £ 336.21 Next four fixtures - 19 - 21 June Ramsgate Cancelled replaced by Birchington (South London invite) 26 - 28 June Bredgar 3 - 5 July Painters Forstal or Chelmesford (South Essex invite) 4 - 11 July France 10 - 12 July Wingham

EAST KENT NEWS

23 June - The Christmas rally at Addington is now fully booked.
22 June - Thank you - The youth would like to say a big thank you to everybody who has helped them raise £2035.72 so far this year. £1699.51 towards their charity, the St John Ambulance and £336.21 towards their events fund.
22 June - Peter Newman and Ian Boughton would like to thank everybody who sponsored and supported them on the London to Brighton bike ride. On behalf of the officers, committee and members of the centre, congratulations to both of you and hope you are not too sore.
16th June - Longleat - Please use the coach entrance and not the car entrance when attending the Longleat rally 14th to 19th August.
16th June - An additional rally has been organised on the 19th to 23rd of August at Ivymwead farm in Margate. For further details please go to the fixtures page.
16th June - The youth had planned to arrange a tea and cake afternoon at Ramsgate before it was cancelled. They are now going to hold this event at Stockbury, and would be grateful for any cake donations at this rally.
16th June - Click here for details and booking form for the 2009 Dinner & Dance. Members are reminded that this rally is also open to those who do not wish to attend the Dinner & Dance. The party tents will be available for evening entertainment for those who remain on site.
16th June - Click here for details on the Penny Springs rally 11th to 13th September. The dates for this rally has changed from what is printed in the rally book.
15th June - Natural England (click here) controls the caravan clubs exemption certificate. They are the organisation who have insisted that we fly the red flag and they are also showing an interest in centre rallies which should only be attended by caravan club members. Failure could result in the Caravan Club losing their exemption certificate. The East Kent centre committee take this threat seriously and are requesting that all members attending an East Kent rally should carry their membership card and be prepared to show it on request.
15th June - Thank you - Eileen Killick and the committee would like to thank everybody who attended the birthday rally and made it a huge success. The total raised for the St John ambulance was £1107, which is fantastic.
15th June - Thank you - Darren Burch would like to thank everybody who helped or/and took part in the sports at this years national.
15th June - The next EKC at Ramsgate has unfortunately had to be cancelled, however East Kent have accepted South Londons invitation to join them at Birchington for the Thanet air show. Click here for more details. Please contact Mark Sinclair-Watson direct for more details.
15th June - Officers, committee and members of the centre send their best wishes to Wendy Luxford who is recovering from surgery after having a very large tumour removed from a kidney. Wendy is in the Kent and Canterbury hospital at present and has had a very bad few days, however it looks as if she has now turned the corner and is recovering. We all look forward to seeing Wendy & Mike back caravanning soon.
9th June - The funeral of Peter Dent will take place at 12:00 on Wednesday 17th June at Barham crematorium (click here) and afterwards at Sturry Road Social club, East Street, Canterbury (Click here). It is requested that there is no black ties or flowers. Peters wish was that any money collected should be split between the Parklands resource centre (Grandson Bens youth charity last year) and Braborne Ward (Oncology) at the Kent and Canterbury hospital. Please make cheques payable to Marion Dent and send to Gary Fisher, and they will ensure the money is split accordingly. Gary's address can be found in the current rally book.
9th June - Sports page updated with 2009 National sports photos (click here)
6th June - It is with regret to announce that Peter Dent lost his fight to cancer and passed away today. Peter along with Marion attended their first rally with East Kent at Sellinge in May 2004 and enjoyed many rallies since. They also introduced their family Gary, Nicky, Ben and Rachael Fisher to rallying and they have all supported the centre with Marion & Gary on committee and Ben and Rachael on the youth. The East Kent centres sincere sympathy goes to Marion and family at this very sad time. Funeral arrangements are currently unknown, but the website will be updated as soon as the details are known.
31st May - East Kent have currently raised £17.34 so far for charity by using the East Kent Centre website when shopping online at places like Tesco, Argos, Amazon, Ebay, Comet and M&S. It is totally free and costs you nothing, all you need to do is register and enter the 'shop' of your choice through this website. Up to 2.5% of what you spend will go to the centres charity. Please use the shop tag on the left hand side of this page to enter the online fundraising page. You can go direct to our fundraising area using this address http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/ccekc. If you do not wish to register your own email address, please use user name shop@eastkentcentre.co.uk password abc123.
31st May - The Maidstone River festival weekend (24th to 26th July) will now open on Thursday 23rd July at 3pm. There is no charge for this extra night.

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