West Horsley Place reopens to visitors this spring with its biggest programme yet, enabling many more people to discover and enjoy the Grade 1 listed manor house and 380-acre historic estate. From exploring watercolours to watching The Wind in the Willows, discovering ancient woodland to immersive storytelling, the programme has been expanded for 2023…
This month, Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) and SERV Kent Bloodrunners – a charity that provides emergency courier services to transport blood products – are marking the tenth anniversary of SERV’s first delivery of blood to the life-saving charity. Through this partnership, KSS became one of the first UK Air Ambulance services…
The 16th Stratford Literary Festival today announces a stellar line-up – with three of the UK’s leading actresses, TV stars, best-selling authors, leading journalists and opinion formers and a right Royal Coronation celebration. The Festival which runs from 2nd to 7th May at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stratford will feature headline names including…
Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) needs your support! Having just announced that 2022 was the busiest year in its 33-year history, the life-saving charity is urgently seeking to recruit more volunteers in order to help with more events and activities in the coming year. The charity, which provides world-leading pre-hospital emergency care 24/7,…
Surrey Hills International Music Festival (formerly Investec International Music Festival) is delighted to announce the programme for its 2023 season. Each spring, Surrey Hills International Music Festival (SHIMF) brings world-class musicians to perform in beautiful and unique venues across the Surrey Hills. Following 2022’s focus on Vaughan Williams and his Surrey connections, this season’s…
Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) has reported that 2022 has been the busiest year in its 33-year history. Between 1st January 2022 and 31st December 2022, the charity’s crews of pilots, doctors and paramedics responded to 3,224 incidents, 64% by helicopter and 36% by Rapid Response Vehicle. 1,353 of the call outs were…
Eight Surrey charities and organisations have received a special tree from The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) ‘Tree of Trees’ to thank them for the valuable and tireless work they undertake for the benefit of their communities. Part of the ‘Tree of Trees’ sculpture – created by designer Thomas Heatherwick to be a centrepiece of…
On Friday 25 November Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, attended the Rochester headquarters of Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) to present the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medals to front line staff from the life-saving charity. KSS invited Tracey Crouch to present the medals in recognition of the exceptional role she played,…
Opening at Watts Gallery in March 2023, Halima Cassell: From the Earth celebrates the career of one of Britain’s leading contemporary sculptors. The exhibition brings together objects from the artist’s own collection – a number of which are rarely on public display – with new work inspired by Watts Gallery’s founding artists, George Frederic…
A new digital tour launching at West Horsley Place this week will give visitors a unique opportunity to discover more about the fascinating history of the Grade I listed Manor House. The tour, which will be available from Sunday 20 November on the free app Smartify – for visitors to West Horsley Place along…