Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Forgive me if this has already been covered but I did enquire as to who received funding and how much they received, from this years round of community port funding?
Has a list been published, please?
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Hi Gary, the published ones: Dover Music Festival (£10,000), Bechange (£7,500), Cinque Ports Community Kitchen (grant amount not disclosed), Dover Partnership Against Crime (£9,000).
Altogether 10 organisations have been awarded £71,000 according to press releases by the DHB.
Cinque Ports Community Kitchen has been highlighted twice in DHB press releases, but so far only 4 of the 10 beneficiaries have been publicly announced. I imagine a drip feed of announcements is deemed to have a greater, longer lasting positive PR impact as no complete list has been published.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Thanks Neil, I assume the Cinque Ports Community Kitchen is known locally as the soup kitchen or is this another organisation? Strange this donation amount has not been released it makes me wonder why.
I would like the Food Bank to have had the money as this would have been of benefit to those residents who are in need of help.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Nothing to do with the soup kitchen Jan they teach people on low incomes how to cook healthy inexpensive meals.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Thanks Howard obviously a very good cause so I now fully approve of this donation be it big or small.
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Guest 1266- Registered: 8 May 2014
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Cinque Ports Community Kitchen is run at the very plush Chequers Restaurant over in Deal
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Hearing rumours the PoW pier closure has been shelved.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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If true it would be a great victory for people power.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Unconfirmed Howard. Don't get your hopes up.
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Andy B
- Location: dover
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Its still open at the moment,we went down there today for a walk.There was so many people along there today enjoying the good weather,cant believe how the DHB wish to destroy it when most towns cherish their piers.Will be great to see a container port,what a tourist attraction that will be.The seafood stall was making preparations to move their stall half way along the prom near the slipway.They seem to know that something will happen soon so i doubt it will be long.I expect DHB will wait just a little longer till the good weather has gone knowing that not many people will be going to the seafront and then theyll shut it hoping it will soften the blow a little.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I shall be asking Mr Waggott for a meeting in the next couple of weeks. I want to get up to date before the DPPT AGM.
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I see that Sue's Seafood has relocated to opposite the "Missing Miner".
Terry
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Andy B- Location: dover
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Sign on the pier today notifying of temporary closure on Mon 12th for surveying work.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I don't like the sound of this at all temporary can mean any length of time. Surveying was done back in August nothing has changed since then. Why would Sue move her stall unless she knows that the current footfall will be mostly nullified by the closure of the pier?
Andy B- Location: dover
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Thats what it says just for 1 day,but we noticed theres alot of trucks and plant etc moving onto the old hoverport today with security signing them in and out.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The d.h.b. should not give in just. Because a few are not happy,close the pier and
Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I think it's more than a few not happy Vic. That pier is such a lovely walk and when I could walk I spent many happy hours on it. We do very occasionally go out there in the car but we feel cars can spoil it for the walkers so we don't make a habit of it.
Will be a very sad day if they close it for good.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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That will not happen it will reopen after the work is done so let's get it done now.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Mr Gerstein only has a few members I think the d.h.b should not meet him:-):-)just get on with the work:-).I am still off
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Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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The second artist's impression down on this
DHB website page shows that only a small part of the PoW pier will still exist as a pier (just the curved bit at the end) and it will only be accessible through a working dock area so is unlikely to be open to the public.