AGM 2026

You are warmly invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Westgate Parks at 6.30pm for 7.00pm on Thursday 14th May 2026 at the Kent and Canterbury Club, Old Dover Road, Canterbury CT1 3JB.
The AGM will be followed by a talk by Iain Goodall on : Eyes on the Stour: Citizen Science as the frontline of water quality monitoring and a brief talk by Richard Norman on : Charter for the Kentish Stour Project.

Attendance is free, though donations are welcome. Please email us at friendsofwestgateparks@gmail.com to let us know that you’re coming.

Wild flower meadow extended

With help from students from Canterbury College, the wild flower meadow in Tannery Field was extended across the tarmac path at the end of 2022, in a bid to give walkers a little bit of the feeling of actually walking through a meadow.

The work involved stripping off all the turf, raking the bare soil, and then scattering wild flower seed that had been collected in the summer. It doesn’t look much at the moment, but should be colourful in a year or two, and attracting in a wide range of insects.