016 JULY NEWS /IndexMagazineTW @IndexMag Great oaks from little acorns grow Girl Power!


Within days of the news that Kings Hill is to have its own Brownie Unit all the places have been snapped up and a large waiting list to join drawn up.


Called the 1st Kings Hill Brownies, the


Unit has enrolled 16 girls between the ages of seven and 10 but that number will eventually increase to 24 later in the year. The Unit, which was set up by Kings


Hill residents, Sarah Graves (Brown Owl), and Charlene Small, who will run the group with Leaders Nikki Allison and Kate Corbet, is being sponsored by Kings Hill developer Liberty Property Trust.


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riends and supporters of Penshurst Place and Gardens gathered recently as owner Viscount De L’Isle, his son the Rt Hon Philip


Sidney and The Tree Council’s Pauline Buchanan Black unveiled a plaque dedicated to the Sidney Oak. Believed to be 1,000 years old, the


tree died last year, but fortunately a new sapling has self-seeded nearby. The Sidney Oak is already famous, chosen as one of The Tree Council’s 50 ‘Great British Trees’ marking the Queen’s


Golden Jubilee in 2002. The Rt Hon Philip Sidney said: “The Sidney Oak has watched great history unfold. We hope that the new tree will grow as well and live as long.”


Built in 1341, Penshurst Place was seized by Henry VIII who used it as a hunting lodge while courting Anne Boleyn. Edward VI gifted the estate to Sir William Sidney in 1552 where his son, the Elizabethan diplomat, soldier and ‘Arcadia’ author Sir Philip Sidney was born two years later.


• Penshurst Place and Gardens is open daily until 29th October, 10.30am-6pm.


CHARITY OF THE MONTH Hospices of Hope


Otford-based Hospices of Hope cares for adults and children suffering from terminal or life-limiting illness. The organisation has 13 charity shops in the South East including ones in Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and East Grinstead, while their shops in Otford and Faversham have welcoming tea rooms selling homemade cakes and other refreshments. Tunbridge Wells resident, Graham


Perolls CMG, OBE, established the charity following a visit in the 1980s to a cancer hospital in Romania where he met a young cancer sufferer who was in agony. Like all the patients in the hospital the man was not receiving any basic care or pain relief and was simply


left to die in extreme pain. Graham was so moved by this that he set up Hospices of Hope. Originally offering hospice care in Romania, the charity now also works in Serbia and Moldova. In all these countries the need is desperate. As well as providing hospice care, the charity trains medical professionals who pass on their new skills to their patients. Its fi rst training centre is named after Diana, Princess of Wales, who was very supportive of the charity. To date it has trained more than


20,000 professionals from more than 20 countries.


• For more information, to volunteer or donate, visit the website www. hospicesofhope.co.uk


• For more information, visit www. girlguiding.org.uk/information-for-parents/ register-your-daughter


Vicky Hales-Dutton


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