6 Maidstone Borough Council
Enthusiastic Ben earns East Wing extra funds A Dragon’s Den style event has secured Maidstone Museum’s East Wing Project a further £700.
Ben Potts, who works for Maidstone Borough Council, faced the dragons to work for a cash boost for a new piece of educational equipment for the East Wing extension.
The 21-year-old presented his case to an audience at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury. The panel of dragons included - Geraldine Allinson, Chairman of the Kent Messenger Group, Jaqui Thompson who is Operational Specialist at Barclays University of Kent branch and Sidney Wager, Barclays director for the Kent coast area.
There was £3,000 to divide between six applications and Ben won £700 towards a visualiser for the education room in the new East Wing.
Ben said: “I’m so happy to have raised some money for such a worthy cause. The museum is a vital resource for Maidstone and this contribution will go a long way towards the development of education and learning there.”
Ben took some objects to show during his presentation which included a 3,000 year old mummified cat and an Iguanodon neck bone which is over 130 million years old.
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from you about issues that affect your local community.
We will arrange for the right people to attend the meeting to discuss the issues you want to raise.
If you have an issue you’d like to raise email
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The visualiser will be used in the new East Wing’s education suite. It is a type of video camera that can show any document or object in High Definition, it can also save documents or objects as static or moving images.
Some other borough council staff members are also taking part in an abseil on March 26 to help raise money for the East Wing. So far £285 has been raised, to add to that visit
www.justgiving.com/eastwingers
Scrutiny needs you Maidstone’s overview and scrutiny councillors work hard to examine and improve the way we do things at Maidstone Borough Council. Are there any issues affecting your local community?
If there is an issue email
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Tel: 01622 602000 Call 01622 602750 to sign up email:
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or call Janet Barnes (Maidstone Borough Council) on 01622 602242 or
Steve Charman (Kent County Council) on 01622 694008.
Future
Meetings Rural West & South – March 24, 2011 at Staplehurst Village Centre
Rural North & East – April 11, 2011 at Madginford Hall, Bearsted
Central & North East – April 14, 2011 – venue to be confirmed
South & South East – 18 April 2011 – venue to be confirmed
To keep up to date with meetings and for more information visit
www.maidstone.gov.uk/ neighbourhoodforums
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