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Preparations have started already for this year's Kent Miners Festival and we are appealing for help from the community to make it a show stopping event.
YOUTH GROUPS and Organisations are urged to plan and take part in fun events at this summer's Kent Miners Festival at Fowlmead Country Park.
A day dedicated to youngsters has been planned as part of the FREE two-day Community Event which will take place on August bank holiday Sunday and Monday and youngsters are urged to get involved. The committee would like to invite a youth or representative of the youth's to join them in helping with organising the event?
Like last year, the festival will be free to enter.
We are so grateful to everyone who got involved in last year's Miners Festival especially the organisations who awarded grants and donated money, time and prizes.
This year we are looking for sponsor's to get behind us and help us to put on an Event that is fit for our Communities. Funding for an extra Marquee is being sort to enable local charities and local health and welfare groups such as Case Kent and Help 4 Heroes to showcase and promote themselves at the Festival.
We also need good quality donations for our draw, such as restaurant vouchers, ferry crossings, short breaks.
The Sunday (August 29) will be devoted to youth groups, with sporting events planned and local acts performing live music, followed by a heritage day and miners reunion on Bank Holiday Monday.
The festival is being put on in association with the East Kent Road Car Heritage Trust who will run Park & Ride on the Sunday and lay on vintage buses to ferry people to the festival from the mining villages, Deal and Sandwich on bank Holiday Monday.
Among the activities will be sporting events, brass bands, boxing, exhibitions, fairground rides, and the Miner's Reunion. A beer tent will serve refreshments and food and soft drink will also be on sale. This is a Community Event that will give Help & Support, Fun & Education to all ages of our Communities.
We cannot do it without your help, so please support this Festival?