Come to the next of our Autumn Talks at the Purifier Building. Free to Faversham Creek Trust members, doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start and refreshments will be available on the night.
I do hope you’ll join us and learn much more about Faversham’s maritime heritage, water quality on Faversham Creek and even hospital ships off the coast of Africa!
Talk 1 – Tuesday 14th October 7.30pm
We are delighted to host an evening with Derek Cox who will be presenting his talk “Glimpses into Faversham’s Maritime Connections Around the World.” This will offer a fascinating insight into Faversham’s earlier prominence as a trading, commercial and manufacturing hub.
https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/event/maritime-connections-around-the-world
Talk 2 – Tuesday 21st October 7.30pm
Is Faversham Creek a sewer?
David Hadley and Ken Pugh, two of the three founding members of Favwat will present a talk on Favwat and their recent findings. Faversham and Villages Water Testing was established as a community group in 2022 to assess and seek to improve the quality of the waterways around Faversham. Volunteer members make regular assessments and collate data on levels of pollution and of water quality in Faversham Creek, Oare Creek and the streams that feed them using reliable scientific methods. Join us to discover their findings to date.
https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/event/is-Faversham-creek-a-sewer
Talk 3 – Tuesday 4th November 7.30pm
Coasts in Mind – Community memories of change around Faversham Creek out into the wider Swale Estuary.
Harry Farmer, Project Officer at MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) will be talking about Coasts in Mind, a three-year project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Lloyds Register Foundation. The team has been mapping a century of coastal change using local knowledge gathered through free events as well as memory and image sharing workshops with community groups and local residents.
Coasts in Mind is bringing together community groups, local museums, and archives in four key regions: Sefton Coast (Merseyside), Poole Harbour (East Dorset), the Swale Estuary (North Kent), and the Taw-Torridge Estuary (North Devon). The aim of the project is to empower communities to map the impact of climate change on some of England’s most vulnerable coastlines.
Join us and find out what Coasts in Mind has discovered along the creeks and out into the estuary so far.
https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/event/coasts-in-mind-community-memories-of-change
Talk 4 – Tuesday 25 November 7.30pm
Don Cockrill MBE who will give a fascinating talk on Mercy Ships, an international development organisation that deploys hospital ships to some of the poorest countries in the world. They deliver vital, free healthcare to people in desperate need.
You may remember that Don recently presented a talk on the 2021 Suez Canal blockage at Faversham Creek Trust’s last AGM. We’re thrilled to have him back!
Join us and be inspired by the Mercy Ships life-changing surgery and medical care.
https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/event/an-introduction-to-the-mercy-ships