Friends of the Museum Links

Herne Bay Museum

Herne Bay Museum’s page on the Canterbury City Council website.

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British Association of Friends of Museums

BAFM is an independent
organisation established in 1973, for Friends, volunteers and supporters
in museums, galleries and heritage sites. We represent 200,000 Friends
and Volunteers across the UK.

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Museums Association

The Museums Association is a membership organisation for everyone working in museums, galleries and heritage.

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Association of Independent Museums (AIM)

The national UK body connecting, supporting and representing independent museums.

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English Heritage

English Heritage is the Government’s statutory adviser on the historic environment.

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National Heritage

National Heritage, the museums action movement, is a charity supporting, encouraging and when necessary criticising, museums and galleries in the UK. It also represents the interests of museum and gallery visitors and other users.

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Department of Culture, Media and Sport

Our aim is to improve the quality of life for all through cultural and sporting activities, to support the pursuit of excellence and to champion the tourism, creative and leisure industries.

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Culture 24

Latest news, exhibition reviews, links, event listings and education resources from thousands of UK museums, galleries, heritage sites, archives and libraries, all in one place.

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Portfolios for 2010/11

In this year’s round of CCC parlour games, the music has stopped, everyone is sitting comfortably, and all the boys and girls have excitedly unwrapped whatever package they are holding to see what the year ahead holds for them. See who’s got what…

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JOHN GILBEY

Policy and Improvement:

Corporate Policy

Scrutiny

Performance

Corporate Projects

Consultation

Planning and Regeneration:

Planning Policy

Conservation and Countryside, including Arboriculture

Housing Strategic Policy & Enabling

Culture and Enterprise:

Marlowe Theatre (+ Darren Ellis)

Economic Development

Markets

Town Centre Management

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JEAN LAW

Culture and Enterprise:

International

Communications:

Press

Marketing

Internal Communications

Customer Services Client

Web and Intranet Development Client

Civic Team

Sponsorship

Advertising

Community Development and Outdoor Leisure:

Community Development

Neighbourhood Development

Community Services

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TONY AUSTIN

Housing, Community Safety & Environmental Services:

Housing Landlord

Supported Housing

Housing Options & Interventions

Asset Management (Housing)

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ROSEMARY DOYLE

Housing, Community Safety & Environmental Services:

Environmental Protection

Commercial Health

Street Scene

Community Development and Outdoor Leisure:

Outdoor Leisure

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DARREN ELLIS

Culture and Enterprise:

Museums

Sports Development

Active Life

Cultural Policy

Marlowe Theatre (+ John Gilbey)

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PETER LEE

ICT and Customer Services:

ICT

Customer Services Operation

Procurement

HR Client

Finance:

Finance

Legal and Democratic:

Democratic Services

Legal

Elections and ERO

Revenues and Benefits:

Benefits

Local Taxation

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MIKE PATTERSON

Culture and Enterprise:

Tourism

Planning and Regeneration:

Transport & Parking Strategy

Property and Engineering:

Whitstable Harbour

Engineers

Facilities Management

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ANN TAYLOR

Culture and Enterprise:

Arts & Events

Community Development and Outdoor Leisure:

Community Assets (Westgate, Kings, Horsebridge, Whitstable Castle)

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PETER VICKERY-JONES

Housing, Community Safety & Environmental Services:

Community Safety

Parking Enforcement

Licensing

Community Development and Outdoor Leisure:

Foreshore

Beach Huts

Planning and Regeneration:

Development Control

Building Control

Planning Enforcement

Land Charges

Property and Engineering:

Estates and Valuation

Building Maintenance

Architects’ Projects

Newbies at the Pier

Here’s the potted biographies-cum-pitches from the three Trustees confirmed at the AGM, one staying, two new. Michael Khoury has what I find to be a disarmingly honest and direct approach: if the Pier succeeds, the town will succeed, and his assorted business interests in the town will prosper – clear-cut and straightforward. Ian Priston looks promising as our new communications wizard, and will need to put in some spell-binding performances if we’re to pull any rabbits out of this particular hat. Andrea Leach has a solid background in the nitty-gritty world of fund-raising, and willingly walked straight into this challenge, for which I applaud him. I’m pleased with all three.

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TRUSTEES FOR RE-ELECTION

MICHAEL KHOURY
Michael has lived in Herne Bay for 23 years where his business interests include amusement arcades, catering and retail. He is a founder member of Town Partners and active in Herne Bay’s Chamber of Commerce, for which he is currently President. He started life in a refugee camp and as a young man he worked on oil rigs in the Arabian Gulf. He was Employee Relations Representative for an American company for 4 years before being head hunted for the Ministry of Petroleum. After 5 years he moved to the UK, where he met his wife June.

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NOMINATIONS FOR ELECTION AS TRUSTEE

IAN PRISTON
Herne Bay deserves a pier it can be proud of and I am committed to doing all I can to achieving that goal, particularly by helping build the trust’s profile. Quite new to Herne Bay, my wife and I moved to the area to obtain a better life for our 3 young children. We chose well! By profession I am a communications manager responsible for relationships with the media and a wide variety of public bodies for the Courts Service in London. I am experienced in new public building project management, consultation, advising government and explaining proposals to wide audiences.

ANDREA LEACH
Andrea, 44 is happily married to Kim and has 2 sons Alex (16) and Max (12). Born in Canterbury he has lived all his life locally and moved to Herne Bay over 3 years ago and is passionate about improving and developing the Town! Andrea has over 20 years extensive European B2B experience with a number of leading global FMCG companies, including the Sports Apparel and Leisure sector. As Capital Appeals Manager for a Local Children’s Charity he helped to raise £6.5m to build and open South London’s First Residential Children’s Hospice in South London. He is bilingual Italian and has extensive business contacts both locally and in London. He has worked with Britain’s Oldest Brewer Shepherd Neame as an Export Consultant for over 5 years. Andrea would like to use his Business Contacts and experience as a Trustee and seeks your proactive support to help him make a difference!

Get blooming

Competition time is growing nearer. Entry forms are now available for this year’s Herne Bay in Bloom competition. The gardening contest is open to people in all areas of Herne Bay, with prizes of gardening vouchers for a range of categories.

Forms can be collected from the library or council office in William Street or by calling 07540 392916. The closing date is Thursday, June 10 and judges will visit on Tuesday, July 6. Anyone who can help with the competition or sponsor a prize should e-mail herne_bayinbloom@live.co.uk or call secretary Colleen Ashwin-Kean on 07540 392916.

It’s time to “Grow for gold!” as Cllr Rosemary Doyle said at the recent launch by Herne Bay in Bloom. Another term in the punitentiary for the appropriately named Rosemary, methinks.

Information Panel sites

Just in from Canterbury Galactic HQ: this is where they’re thinking of putting the new information panels on The Downs…

Rosemary Selling writes:

The signs will be constructed of semi-seasoned oak (FSC certified) with grp panels incorporating the sealing of the finalised artwork in a clear fibre-glass panel. These panels offer weather protection & are uv resistant. Graffiti can be cleaned off (usually the cleaning agents used do not affect the panel beneath). The panels come with tamper resistant fixings. Slight scratches can be infilled with clear varnish. They will be lectern style to complement the views of the coastline. Hopefully the designs too, are sympathetic.

Of course nothing is completely vandal proof but the company we are using has installed many panels in Kent and Medway.  In cases of vandalism or damage we would look at repairs/remedial actions/replacement.

With regards to their locations please see plans attached these show the preferred locations of the Herne Bay in Bloom committee and are positioned to avoid the engineering structures that are in place as you known all over The Downs (and beyond!). It would be helpful if you could you let me know comments by Tues lunchtime.

• Heritage: opposite Hilltop Road.
• Orientation: eastern end of Beacon Hill, towards the Hundred Steps
• Wildlife: next to the George & Mary seat on The Lees

Homeless, begging, and saving lives

The Council sold the Coastwatch building for £54,000 – I have no idea where they spent that windfall. The Coastwatch now need to raise £60,000 for a new building. The words “insult” and “injury” spring to mind.

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Plea to save coastwatch’s “eyes and ears” service

Lookouts at Herne Bay’s only coastwatch tower have set up a fundraising scheme to stop it going under. The Friends of NCI (National Coastwatch Institution) Herne Bay initiative hope to provide financial support to the building on the Esplanade, which faces closure after its lease expires in October 2010*. It would mean the town losing the eyes and ears of 24 trained lookouts who keep a watch on the coast every weekend. The new scheme, costing members £3 a month or £60 for a life-time membership, will support the tower’s bid to raise £60,000 for a new building just 200 yards away.

Other fundraisers this month – a collection at Sainsbury’s in Westwood Cross and a quiz night in Beltinge – helped add £800 to the cause. Watchkeeper Bob Eslea, 70, said:

“It is essential Herne Bay has a watch station. The coastguard can’t spot a child on a dinghy being swept out to sea, or a swimmer in trouble in strong tides. They can’t watch over small fishing boats, jet-bikes and yachts without radar reflectors, and they can’t see the paragliders who launch from the cliffs off Reculver. There’s also a chance they could miss mayday calls made on the wrong radio frequency – calls we may pick up when monitoring the channels.”

Friends of the new scheme will receive a welcome pack and quarterly newsletter about the progress and developments at the watch station. For more details about joining the scheme email ncihernebay@talktalk.net or visit www.baywatch-hernebay.blogspot.com

HB Gazette 27th May 2010

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* The new landlords have generously agreed to extend the lease for another year so the Coastwatch now have until October 2011 to establish themselves in new premises.

 

 

Manston-Edinburgh flights start

Airline Flybe is to launch a service to Manchester from Manston from the autumn. The announcement comes on the day Kent International Airport launches its Edinburgh service. The Manchester schedule is to start from September 6.

Meanwhile, scheduled flights returned to Kent International Airport when Flybe‘s Manston-Edinburgh service took off for the first time last Thursday (20th May 2010).

The daily service to the Scottish capital launched five years after the high profile collapse of EUjet. It has been described as “a huge vote of confidence” in Thanet by tourism bosses at Visit Kent and has already created 20 new jobs at the airport.

Demand for the new route has been strong, despite the recent disruption to air travel caused by ash from the volcanic eruption in Iceland. A Scottish piper welcomed passengers boarding the first flight to Edinburgh.

The Manston route marks the second time Flybe has trialled flights from Kent, having flown passengers to Jersey last summer. The low cost airline says tickets for the new service, which went on sale in February, start at £24.99 one way, including taxes and charges.

Thanet Extra 27th May 2010

 

Herne Bay Museum – History

The museum was originally
established in 1932 and from 1936 was sited in the High Street above the
library. It moved to its present William Street site in 1997. The
William Street premises is a Georgian building now in a Conservation
Area, and William Street was the main shopping street until at least
1883.

It was run for years by the late local historian, Harold Gough,
and is funded and administered by Canterbury City Council. The museum
was a Canterbury City Council Mystery Shopper Awards 2009 silver award
winner. The gallery hosts local art exhibitions, and there is a free
events programme.

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Herne Bay Museum – Times, Prices and Location

Opening Hours

Every day 10:00 to 16:00, except New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day.
Please
Note: Circumstances may cause changes in opening times – please ring to
check before making a special trip (01227 367 368).

Prices

Adult
£2.00; Discount £1.00 (senior citizens, students, people with
disabilities – proof of status may be required); Children free to a
maximum of 2 per paying adult, £1.00 per child thereafter. Free entry
for Canterbury City Council Residents Card holders (except for some
special events). If you don’t have a Residents Card, come in and sign up
to receive free entry today!

Finding us and Getting here

• 8 William Street, Herne Bay, CT6 5EJ
• Map reference: TR 178683  Lat: 51.37236  Long: 1.12826    
• 9 miles from Canterbury via A28 and A291.
• Parking: with charge
• Accessible by Public Transport: 1 mile (1.6 kms) from Herne Bay Stn
• T: 01227 367 368
• E: museums@canterbury.gov.uk
• W: www.canterbury-museums.co.uk

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Use it or Lose it

One of the reasons that Herne Bay Museum was
vulnerable to closure was that of all the museums in the Council’s
service, its visitor figures were the least impressive. They had in fact
been dropping for the last couple of years. One of the things we can do
as a group is to help reverse this trend.

The community needs to
be more involved in its museum and the Friends can help by acting as a
conduit for ideas and initiatives. As we get bigger we can become the
voice of the town with some hope of being heard. Write to the newsletter
or the website with your ideas, moans and grumbles. Don’t forget to put
in the things you like or want more of, and don’t forget to visit. Pop
in when passing, add a click to the counter, and urge others to do the
same.

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