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JULY NEWS BUDDING YOUNG WRITERS HONOURED
Children’s author and TV presenter Clare Balding hosted a prestigious prize-giving ceremony in the library at Leeds Castle to honour the young winners of the Leeds Castle Big 900 Story Writing Challenge, which celebrates literacy in younger visitors. All those shortlisted were invited with
parents/carers to the event, where lead judge Clare announced the two winners and two highly commended runners-ups from each age category – 5-9 years and 10-13 years. Children from across the country entered
incredible stories on the themes of Castles and Time Travel. • ELLA DAVEY, 12, was winner of the 10-13
years category with her ghostly tale, Nine- Hundred Years. • THEO NYLAND won the younger age category with his captivating story Thomas’ Time Travelling Adventure.
• The highly commended runners-up were PAWEL BLAWAT, 13, with Digging for Adventure, and CHARLOTTE FROMOW- DORMAN, 6, with The Magic Crayon Journey. The winner’s prizes included a signed
copy of Clare’s new book, The Racehorse Who Learned To Dance, tickets to the Leeds Castle Fireworks Spectacular 2019, a private tour of the castle, a family stay at the Knight’s Glamping as well as a hamper of goodies.
CHARITY OF THE MONTH Community Car Service
The Community Car Service is much more than a transport provider. Alongside its very successful and well-used transport service, it provides social inclusion days out for its customers stopping loneliness and social isolation.
It was several years ago that Community
Car Service realised that there was a growing problem with isolation especially with their elderly customers. It fi rst started with day trips to the seaside then went on to add Christmas lunches – now it also provides a spring outing to Teapot Island and runs a lunch club as well. This all adds up to some kind of social inclusion project going on for 40 weeks of the year. Customers really enjoy and look forward to their days out, it gets them out of their homes meeting new people and making new friends. For many of them it’s the only time they ever go out socially.
The Community Car Service is a charity
that provides safe, affordable transport for those who cannot use public transport. We receive an average of 1,200 transport
requests each month, and provide transport to hospitals, doctors, dentist, day care centres, shopping, hairdressers and visiting loved ones when they are away from home. All our drivers are volunteers, some drive every day while others drive two hours a week. It doesn’t matter how much time you can give to us – we can always make good use of your time and we always need more drivers to keep up with the demand. If you think you can help with this worthwhile charity, contact us today on the number below.
• Call 01892 511627/01892 540131 or email
Info@communitycarservice.org.uk
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Love Where We Live Awards 2019 –
HAVE YOUR SAY! Nominations for the annual Love Where We Live Awards, run by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, close on 26th July, with the finalists invited to the awards ceremony in October. There are seven categories open for nominations this year, including:
• Charity of the Year • Best Group • Ethical Business
• Sports Achiever of the Year • Individual Hero • Young Sports Achiever of the Year
• Young Volunteer of the Year
You can nominate quickly and easily online at
lovewherewelive.co.uk
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