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Next Business Group
Meeting:
Wednesday, 24th February
7.30 p.m. at The Queens Inn
Hawkhurst
Next Accommodation Workshop
Wednesday, 24th March
10 a.m.
Venue to be confirmed
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HAWKHURST, KENT
Welcome to "Hawkhurst Happens" a community website for Hawkhurst in Kent, South East England.
Through Kent Rural Towns, The Hawkhurst Community Partnership was successful in obtaining SEEDA-funding in April, 2009 to deliver a 3-year programme of important projects for Hawkhurst. The Partnership also matched this funding, enabling it to deliver projects of around £200,000 for the benefit of Hawkhurst and its surrounding area.
HAWKHURST BUSINESS GROUP
Next Networking Night
Wednesday, 24th February
The Queens Inn, Rye Road, Hawkhurst
7.30 p.m.
- With presentation of new Hawkhurst website under construction -
Do you run a business in or around Hawkhurst?
Don't miss the 20th February free networking night,
and find out more about Hawkhurst's new website
For further details, contact Stephen Fleming: (01580) 755597,
stephenfleming@copythat works.co.uk
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FREE ACCOMMODATION WORKSHOP
Wednesday, 24th March 2010
10 a.m. at a Hawkhurst venue to be advised
Are you already trading as a B&B or holiday-lets, or would you like to
get started in the accommodation business?
Then 24th March is a date for your diary
Full details will follow
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Further details of the SEEDA-funded projects being delivered by The Hawkhurst Community Partnership are as follows:
- Heritage Trail and Visitor Map (published with the Hawkhurst Village Society in Spring 2009)
45,000 copies are being distributed locally regionally between 2009 and 2011
- "Flix & Pix" (2009) - Hawkhurst's successful film, photographic and arts festival. This will take place again in 2010 between Friday, 21st May and Thursday, 28th May
- a new website for Hawkhurst -
- Restoration of the canopy and pillars of Hawkhurst's iconade village-centre Colonnade
- "Beefing it Up" (2010) - a week-end of activities on 24th and 25th July to mark the Centenary of the OXO-cube which was launched in 1910 by the Gunther family from their Tongswood Estate in Hawkhurst (now occupied by St. Ronans School)
- "Ways & Means" (2011) - a celebration of Hawkhurst's famous heritage, including its notorious smuggling and the origins of the Rootes Motor Group.
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All of the above projects resulted from the Healthcheck exercise which was carried out for Hawkhurst between 2006 - 2008.
To learn more about Hawkhurst's Healthcheck exercise please read on:
The Hawkhurst Healthcheck was carried out by “Hawkhurst Happens” a new community partnership for Hawkhurst and the surrounding area. It was a broadly based inclusive community group set up to look at Hawkhurst and the surrounding area, with a view to making the village a better place to live, work and visit.
In particular it focussed on the following topics: Hawkhurst Economy, Hawkhurst Environment, Hawkhurst Social & Community and Hawkhurst Transport.
Who was in the original Hawkhurst group?
Bruce Cova (Chair), John Buckles, Phil Cornish, Cllr. Brian Fitzpatrick, Beverley Griffin, Peter Hodges, Bob Kirby, Cllr. Liz McGurk, Jacqueline Schalburg, Alec Travers, Yolanda Laybourne (Co-ordinator)
The Group is also a member of and advised by Kent Rural Towns.
For further information on Kent Rural Towns contact:
David Stokes
2nd Floor, Invicta House,
County Hall,
Maidstone,
Kent ME14 1XX
Tel: 01622 221936
david.stokes@kent.gov.uk
The Healthcheck was successfully completed in the spring of 2008.
To download the Summary Report, including the Action Plan, please Click Here
To download the full Final Report, including the Action Plan, please Click Here
Who's concerned?
Everyone! especially if you live, work or visit us in Hawkhurst; or if you live in any of our surrounding parishes such as Sandhurst, Bodiam, Hurst Green, Etchingham, Ticehurst, Flimwell etc., and come into Hawkhurst for our shops and services. |
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Why do we need an "Action Plan"?
A good, well thought-out Action Plan is absolutely necessary when bidding for funding for new projects. The first question any potential funder will ask is almost always "What is your evidence of need?".
Who paid?
Hawkhurst Parish Council made successful bids for funding to cover the costs of the Healthcheck exercise. Hawkhurst Parish Council was also the accountable body for the Hawkhurst Healthcheck.
What progress has already been made in Hawkhurst?
Following consultation and receiving feedback, we have been able to draw up :
An Action Plan. (downloadable as described above).
A series of projects called "Focus on Hawkhurst" - click here to download.
It is important that we continue to receive your feedback. We are looking for volunteers to assist in making these projects happen!
Please join in, read on, and remember, this is Your future, your community, your say.....
In July 2008 members of the Hawkhurst Healthcheck Steering Group reformed into founder members of Hawkhurst Happens - The Hawkhurst Community Partnership, with its own constitution and responsibility for taking forward the Action Plan. The founder members were :
Bruce Cova (Chairman), John Buckles, Cllr Brian Fitzpatrick, Cllr Liz McGurk, Jacqueline Schalburg, Alec Travers, Cllr Barbara Weedon and Yolanda Laybourne (Coordinator).
At the Partnership Annual General Meeting held on 7th January, 2010, Bruce Cova, Alec Travers, John Buckles, Cllr. Brian Fitzpatrick, Cllr. Barbara Weeden, Cllr. Ros Edmett, Gary Pharo, Stephen Fleming and Yolanda Laybourne were confirmed as the Partnership Trustees, replacing the Founder Members. Bruce Cova was elected Partnership Chairman, Alec Travers was elected Vice-Chairman, John Buckles was elected Treasurer/Secretary and the Partnership Co-ordinator (Yolanda Laybourne) was elected Minutes Secretary.
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