The weather was perfect!
Since the day the date was announced, the thought of relying on the weather in early May was on all our minds but it was fine, and a perfect day for a celebration on the coronation. Tours of the church and the churchyard were popular, as were the self-guided history walks devised by Bob Britnell. The Manwood Almshouses were open to visitors who loved the tranquillity of the open space. Then there were the Morris Dancers who entertained a good crowd of enthusiastic supporters with their sticks and batons.
The League of Friends of Kent and Canterbury Hospital provided a wonderful tea and the hall was packed throughout the afternoon with everyone enjoying the live music provided by James Taylor, Mel Dawkins and the Knock Turns band. Many members contributed to the bric-a-brac and toy stall, and we raised £210.64 for the Food Bank as well as contributing a huge box of groceries for Lily’s Kitchen. The plant stall, organised and manned by the Garden Interest Group, garnered a great deal of interest at the perfect time for planting and planning new beds and borders.
Thanks are due to St Michael’s Road and Area Residents’ Association, The Women’s Institute, St Stephen’s Church, the Manwood Trust, The League of Friends, everyone who contributed and those who joined us for a very happy afternoon.

St Stephens Residents Association members’ views were sought on five of the draft Canterbury District Local Plan policies relevant to the area of north Canterbury where St Stephens Residents Association (SSRA) is located. In addition, residents were invited to comment on some of the content of Canterbury City Council’s (CCC) Transport Topic Paper (October 2022).
I, (Jennifer Holland), would like to thank St Stephens Residents Association members who contributed to this consultation for their well-judged thoughts and creative suggestions that will enable SSRA to respond to Canterbury City Council’s consultation about the draft Canterbury District Local Plan to 2045.
Follow this link to see the : SSRA response to Local Plan .

A map of a proposed change in speed limits which affects St Stephen's Road, Market Way and many others may be access via the following link. If these changes do not receive support from local residents, they will not go ahead. This is a once in a decade opportunity to make these changes so I would ask you to speak to your neighbours and encourage them to contact me with their views, one way or another. When a committee member was objecting to a licensing application, the barrister for the company said that, as only ten percent of the RA had objected, that meant that ninety percent had no problem with the application. I leave you with that thought. Also here is document that shows our response to the Highways Improvement Plan, so that members know how their responses have fed into the RA's overall response.
Follow this link to see : Proposed 20 mph speed limts. Follow this link to see : HIP SSRA bullet points.

Well, it didn't rain and the Jubilee celebration was just lovely. Many of you were there and saw how many people contributed to making it such an enjoyable afternoon. I am going to write to all the wonderful [a much overused word, I know but literally so here] people who made it such a success when I have finished this email. To mention individuals would mean a very long email but I think that you should know who was in the organising group that has been meeting since February to plan the event. They were Richard Norman, Felicity Tasker, Sue Pratt, Linda Pritchard, Rev Maddy and Shirley Haggar and I must mention Derek Butler who organised the exhibition in the church hall with help from Sue Pratt, Angela Doe and Libby Nichols.
Here's some views of the day.
     - Pauline

We know from the Arts and Crafts Fairs that we have many talented people in St. Stephen’s and latest ventures on this website are to offer a platforms where residents can share information about their arts and crafts with their neighbours. Firstly we bought you a page for jewellers, quilters, wood turners, basket makers and any other types of artist and now to this we have added a page for writers, of poems and short stories.

Follow these links to see more : Artists' page and the Writers' page.

New regulations entitled the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force on the 25th May 2018 require the SSRA to adopt a Data Protection Policy, a copy of which may be found via the link below, for your information.
The policy outlines what data we collect from our members (name and address together with telephone number and e-mail address if you are willing to make them available), what we do with your data and how you can exercise your data protection rights by withdrawing your consent for the retention of all or any part of the data that SSRA holds . We do not share your data with anyone else and will not use it for any other purpose without the express permission of the member concerned. All of our e-mails are bcc'd so that e-mail addresses of recipients are hidden and you can ask to be removed from the e-mail distribution list at any time by contacting our new Data Protection Officer, Pauline Walters who is also the SSRA Membership Secretary.
If any member resigns from SSRA or requests that data be removed, the SSRA Data Protection officer will be responsible for ensuring the removal of all relevant personal data from all databases held by SSRA. If you have any questions regarding our policy, please ask either Jennifer or our new Data Protection Officer, Pauline.

Follow this link for the full GDPR document : GDPR Data Protection Policy.

Have you ever wondered how to do job searching? Make benefit claims? Or learn how to generally use a Computer? Then why not join Age UK Canterbury’s new Computer Tutoring sessions called ‘Senior Surfers’.
This new service is committed to providing high quality one-to-one tutor sessions tailored especially for individual customers over the age of 50.

Potholes, Broken pavements, Street lights or Overhanging branches/shrubs :
Phone : 03000 41 91 91 or If it is an emergency, Call : 03000 41 81 81
Or you can go online at Kent County Council’s website
In case of evidence of anti-social behaviour/drug use etc., please see the Neighbourhood Watch area of the site.