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  • Welcome to the Underriver Village Web Site.
    Underriver is a small village, just south of Sevenoaks in Kent. However, despite its size, the village has an active and lively community. The website covers village news, upcoming events and the latest from the Village Association, as well as general information about local businesses, societies, clubs and organisations active in the area. Feel free to look around; we hope you find it enjoyable and interesting.

May 29, 2009

SEAL PARISH COUNCIL

SEAL PARISH COUNCIL – COUNCILLOR VACANCY

 

WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN UNDERRIVER WARD MEMBER.

(UNDERRIVER WARD COVERS BOTH UNDERRIVER AND FAWKE COMMON)

 

DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE AREA WHERE YOU LIVE?

DO YOU HAVE SOME SPARE TIME?

WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

 

IF THE ANSWER TO ANY OF THE ABOVE QUESTIONS IS YES, THEN YOU COULD BE JUST THE PERSON WE ARE LOOKING FOR!

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT WOULD BE INVOLVED IN BEING A PARISH COUNCILLOR

 

PLEASE TELEPHONE LORNA TALBOT ON 01732

763488 (WEEKDAY MORNINGS ONLY) OR EMAIL sealparishc@btconnect.com

 

WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU!

 

May 13, 2009

Diary

Aunderriver_3 UNDERRIVER EVENTS

To add details to the diary please contact Melissa, webmaster.

2008

To reserve the Village Hall for an event, please contact our Bookings Secretary: Helen Watson on 833930  (See Hall Bookings post for further details.)




May 2009

Saturday 9th    Horticultural Society Plant Sale - Absolom's Farm

Saturday 16th  St Lawrence and St Margaret's Garden Party at Fishponds, 2-5pm

Summer 2009 - Shakespeare at the White Rock pub (contact John Turnbull on 01732 810760)

July 2009

Friday 10th  BBQ and FREE wildlife events at Romshed Farm to celebrate the Living Landscape Project.  Bumblebee walks in the afternoon, BBQ early evening and a bat walk later in the evening.  For more information or to ensure a place please ring Fidelity Weston on 01732 463372

Saturday 25th    Horticultural Society Flower Show, Village Green

September 2009

Saturday 26th  Variety/talent show at village hall - more information to come.  Contact Mary Owlett on 838716


April 24, 2009

Sevenoaks Living Landscapes Vision

The Sevenoaks Living Landscapes Vision

The landscape south of Sevenoaks is one of the gems of the Kentish countryside: a distinctive patchwork of ancient woodland, lush pastures and hedgerows, punctuated by arable fields, orchards and small ponds, which runs from the Greensand Ridge through to the Low Weald. The area contains important core sites for biodiversity, and has great potential for enriching the wildlife-value of existing habitats and restoring much of the past biodiversity of the landscape.

This is the basis for the Sevenoaks Living Landscape Project, covering a stretch of countryside between Sevenoaks, Bough Beech and Ivy Hatch, which aims to create a living landscape by:

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Underriver Habitat Project

Underriver Habitat Project

The Underriver Habitat Project has been running for many years, it has raised awareness of our local wildlife and what individuals can do to help to improve the habitats in and around the village.

We are very pleased that what we have achieved in the village is now being built on by the Sevenoaks Living Landscape project being led and co-ordinated by the Kent Wildlife Trust. This ambitious project aims to link up land for wildlife in the area between their reserves at Bough Beech, Sevenoaks and Ivy Hatch and Underriver is being used as one of the foci for getting this going.

For the first year of the project a number of free courses and fun days are being organised and details of these will be posted on this website.

For more information about the project contact either Fidelity Weston on 01732 463372 or Camilla Blackburn at Kent Wildlife Trust on 01622 662012 or Camilla.blackburn@kentwildlife.org.uk

Calling all frogs, toads and newts!

March, April and May at the best times to look in your ponds and find out whether you have any frogs, toads or newts present. Look during the day and you may see their spawn, look at night with a torch and you may see them. The project is monitoring all sightings so please contact Fidelity or Camilla to let them know what you see or if you would like Fidelity to come and have a look for you please give her a ring. Even if you do not see anything we want to know!

March 03, 2009

Minutes of Underriver Village Association Meeting on 3rd June 09

 

UNDERRIVER VILLAGE ASSOCIATION

Registered Charity Number: 302831

Minutes of a meeting held on Wednesday 3rd June 2009 at the The Old Vicarage at 19.45 hours. 

Present: Nick Jordan, Anne-Marie Jordan , Tony Bird, Fionna Brooks , Mary Owlett, Helen Watson 

1. APOLOGIES   Miles Hayward, Edward Rook, Jenny Thornton, Michael Tong

2. CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON 29th April 2009

3. MATTERS ARISING

MO confirmed that she had asked Fidelity Weston to ask if the Jill and Q Fund would be able to help with supplying a picnic table for the village green and that Fidelity would be responding shortly. 

4. FINANCE

A deposit for work on the new aerator for the cesspit system had been sent off. 

5. VILLAGE HALL/VILLAGE GREEN

NJ reported that E.ON were offering the possibility of a grant of up to £20,000 to improve the energy efficiency of village halls and he reminded us that we had thought of the use of solar panels to heat the water.  The question of planning permission was raised and whether there was anything about these panels in the Village Design Statement, although TB thought they couldn’t be objected to any longer.  NJ said it would be easy to access the tank in the roof, although the tank might need replacing.  NJ would contact the E.ON people to make further enquiries.  HW said Richard Smetham had replaced various defective lights and he would be getting in another stock of fluorescent tubes and starters.  It was felt the village green was not mown sufficiently often at this season by the Parish Council (every 2 weeks was not enough) and that we should subsidise someone else to do it.  HW said we should lay down specific dates for this to be done but it was also agreed that the weather could be a problem in this respect.  HW had suggested various jobs that needed doing in the hall: clearing leaves from various areas, including drains and gutters, paintwork washed down, windows cleaned.  NJ said he would contact Jamie Finley, to ask if he could do these.  HW would chase up a starting date on the cesspit aerator.  It was agreed the new chairs were comfortable and smart, but MO was concerned that one or two seats appeared to be “scratched” as though there might have been an animal on them – and FB said there had definitely been prints of a cat (or small dog?) on the kitchen floor.

6. PLANNING MATTERS

One application was discussed.

 7. FUTURE SOCIAL OCCASIONS

MO and FB said that preparations for Underriver’s Got Talent on 26th September were going very well and that there had been a very good response.  FB showed us the programme. 

8. VILLAGE WEBSITE

AMJ reported that the small advertising link on the village website was only there in return for free technical advice to be given to the webmaster. 

9. COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVE REPORTS

Wildlife Habitat – MO said she had seen many butterflies, including some Painted Ladies.  Angela Ridge apparently had a nest of goldcrests.  HW had had a pheasant’s nest in her garden raided and, in that connection, said that she had noticed a lot more crows around this year.  A little owl, many woodpeckers and lots of ducklings had been spotted.  Horticultural Society – MO said the Plant Sale on 9th May had raised £465 in aid of the Kent Air Ambulance.  Schedules for the annual flower show and fete would be sent out shortly.  There would be a brass band at this event. TUG –The summer barbecue, with jazz band, would be held at the hall on 18th June (instead of usual first Thursday which was actually polling day).  PCC Thanks to all who contributed to Church Garden Party, including the orchestra of St.Lawrence School.  A little over £2.5K was raised to be divided between the two parishes.  Thanks also for supporting the coffee morning in aid of Spring House, around £276 was made.

At the Annual Church meeting Mrs Andrea Pierce OBE replaced Neil Fair as Church Warden, the first woman to hold this post in this parish.  Neil was thanked and presented with a framed watercolour of his boat under sail plus a cheque, being the balance of subscription after commissioning the painting. Last Sunday a combined service of Pentecost was held at St.Lawence at 10.30 am. On Saturday 6 June there will be a churchyard working party between 1030 and 12 noon bring your favourite tools.  On 21 June we shall again be up at St. Lawrence for their dedication service at 10.30 am. The next PCC is on 18 June in the church.  Judy Rissik and Chris Hurrion were married on Friday morning 29 May.  Cricket Club – HW said the club had won its last three matches.

 

ANY OTHER BUSINESS: There was some discussion on the necessity to get new members for the committee and in particular a new secretary to replace AMJ.  HW said Stone Street and St.Lawrence’s no longer had a village association, just a village hall committee.

 

DATE OF NEXT MEETING: 29th July 2009 at 19.45 hrs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 05, 2008

Christmas Market 2008

Christmas market 1 

Christmas market 2 

With thanks to Tony Marks.

December 03, 2008

2002 Queens Jubilee

2002 Queens Jubilee 1 

2002 Queens Jubilee 2 

2002 Queens Jubilee 3 

With thanks to Tony Marks.

November 07, 2008

Underriver Village Association

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW SECRETARY FOR THE VILLAGE ASSOCIATION!  You would sit on the Committee and become very involved in the village and its activities.  As the present incumbent I would, of course, show you the ropes and be available for guidance thereafter.  If you are at all interested, please contact me, Anne-Marie Jordan, on am.jordan@btinternet.com or 832187.


UVA AGM - 26 November 2008 - Report and Accounts for 2007/8 (Draft only)


Accounts for the UVA 2007/08 - draft only

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If anyone would like a hard copy of the Report and Aunts please contact Miles Hayward, Treasurer, on mileshayward@btinternet.com or 01732 8348. Copies will be made available on the night of the AGM.

 

 

August 14, 2008

Annual Horticultural Show and Fair Slide Show

Click on this link for an excellent slide show kindly produced by Deborah Kelly

www.triquetra.co.uk/underriver

 

June 24, 2008

Underriver Cricket Club

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