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May 29, 2025

Warminster: Chat Cafe Warminster - Friday 6th June



 Information provided by South West HIVE Hub

Medway: Find a Scout group in the area



Would you like to join scouts but don't know which group is near you? Please contact the groups listed below for information on when and what time they meet.

Click HERE for more information.

Information provided by South East HIVE Hub

Chatham: Brompton Play Club at the Lampard Centre - Mondays 1600hrs - 1730hrs (Term Time Only)



Play Club at the Lampard Centre is held every Monday, excluding Bank Holidays from 4pm till 5.30pm.

Booking is on a week-by-week basis. £1 per week per child.

Please email anthony-lee.peat101@mod.gov.uk to book a place (limited places).

Information provided by South East HIVE Hub

Medway Business Advice Service

Medway businesses connect with the Business Advice Service and get support to help businesses grow.

Medway has a diverse economy made up of more than 14,000 businesses.

The aim is to support business to deliver projects that can make Medway an economic powerhouse.

 
The Business Advice Service and local network offers impartial business advice to companies of all sizes and in all sectors. Designed to help guide local businesses to find solutions best suited to their own needs.
 
Resources include:

- Free business planning advice
- Help to access funding in the form of grants and loans
- Help finding the ideal Medway location for your business
- Support in recruiting staff and apprentices
- Advice on business start-up and licensing a business

Click HERE for more information.

Information provided by South East HIVE Hub

Oxfordshire: NHS Oxfordshire talking therapies

NHS Oxfordshire Talking Therapies has a number of treatment choices or options available to offer you. We deliver NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) guidance recommended treatments. To help you choose the right level of support and a choice of evidence based therapy, there are a number of different options, such as: 

- Courses and groups

- Online treatments

- One to one support

- Physical health

- Employment support

- Wellbeing service

Click HERE for more information. 

Information provided by South East HIVE Hub

Chatham: Neighbourhood Watch - catching nuisance vehicles


With the warmer weather comes an increase in nuisance vehicles on our green spaces and off-road areas. 

Neighbourhood Watch did a lot of work on off road vehicles last summer in the Chatham area and we found that the most effective and efficient way of dealing with this nuisance is to gather evidence, identify offenders and surprise them at their homes.

Often people will call us and tell us there are off road bikes with a limited description. What would really help us would be:

  • Any clear picture or videos of offenders (but don’t put yourself at any risk getting them)

  • Licence plate numbers (if vehicles have them)

  • Accompanying vehicles – often nuisance bikes travel to off road areas in vans or on trailers. Tell us the registrations of the accompanying vehicles!

  • Is it your neighbour? Are your neighbours or the family across the road always going out on these bikes but you don’t say as you don’t want to fall out with them? 

  • Click HERE for more information.

    Information provided by South East HIVE Hub

    Chatham: Vivo Housing Surgery, Tuesday and Thursday mornings


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    Surrey: Denbies live music on the lawn 2025


    Join us for a relaxing afternoon on the lawn at Denbies Wine Estate with live music from different musicians

    BRAND NEW Sofia Ford Singer & Guitarist - Sunday 1st June 1300hrs - 1700hrs

    Luke Edney - Sunday 13th July

    Luke Edney - Sunday 10th August

    BRAND NEW Sofia Ford - Sunday 31st August

    The Hatch on the Lawn will be open for refreshments throughout the day.

    We look forward to welcoming you to Dorking for this event.

    Click HERE for more information.

    Information provided by South East HIVE Hub.

    Watlington: The Undercroft farmers market until 31st July 2025


    There's nothing like fresh fruit and vegetables from a local food market when on holiday. 

    The Undercroft Market takes place every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in the market town of Watlington, Oxfordshire. Held beneath Watlington Town Hall, a historic building that was built in 1664 by Thomas Stonor, it is undercover and open whatever the British weather brings. 

    The market supports locally grown produce, showcases the tastes of the season, sells dried flowers and plants and has been operating for more than 25 years. 

    Tuesdays - 0900hrs-1500hrs

    Thursdays - 0900hrs-1500hrs

    Saturdays - 0830hrs-1300hrs

    Click HERE for more information. 

    Information provided by South East HIVE Hub

    Surrey: NHS Surrey and Border Partnerships recovery college online courses

     

    Our Recovery Colleges in Surrey and North East Hampshire are designed to support people in their recovery. They help people improve their health and wellbeing through courses on a range of mental and physical health problems. 

    The colleges are a partnership including voluntary, NHS and local authority organisations, and existing Recovery Colleges. 

    All courses are run by staff from the partnership organisations and are developed and delivered alongside our recovery coaches who all have lived experience of mental or physical illness, or are supporting someone with a mental or physical illness. 

    Click HERE for more information. 

    Information provided by South East HIVE Hub.