Maidstone Museums’ Friends – Run by Maidstone Museums’ Foundation (MMF)

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Maidstone Museums' Friends

Run by Maidstone Museums' Foundation (MMF), Registered Charity No. 802547

President – VICTORIA WALLACE DL

Maidstone Museums’ Friends are part of a charitable, independent organisation set up to lead people’s appreciation of and support for these Museums – their buildings, collections, displays and interpretation, educational activity, research and much more. This is achieved through co-ordinated voluntary effort.

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Enjoy a night at the theatre and help MMF support a vital museum access project

September 2024

MMF is one of the charities kindly chosen again by the long-established and highly regarded Willington Players to benefit from every ticket sold by the charity for their next production, Terence Rattigan’s acclaimed Second World War drama Flare Path. This story of love, loyalty and desire is set against the backdrop of an RAF Bomber Command night mission.

Freemasonry – Centuries of Friendship and help for good causes

September 2024

For more than 300 years, Freemasons have been sharing friendship, helping good causes – and somehow courting controversy. This has dogged a movement that has more than 8,000 members in East and West Kent, 190,000 across England, Wales and Scotland, and 5,000 female members. Secrecy, alleged strange practices, aprons and “secret” handshakes, nepotism – accusations fly.

Four types of sweet apples, Golden, Talmon , Bailey & Rough

Fruits of East Malling’s Labours

August 2024

f it’s true that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, we should be grateful to East Malling Horticultural Research Station.This pioneering Kent-based institution that celebrated its centenary in 2013 has developed many new varieties of apple and also strawberry.

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