MUSIC & ARTS FOR THE SHEPWAY COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1170602 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide projects in music & arts aimed at 4 key groups, children, retired people, the disabled & those in social & economic deprivation.We run choirs for ages 4-80, & singing groups for adults with mental & physical disabilities, stroke survivors, those with dementia & Age UK. We run arts days with a variety of activities & inter-generational projects that connect the young with the elderly.

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TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SHEPWAY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN PARTICULAR MUSICAL AND ARTS ACTIVITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH ACTIVITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

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Registered contact address: Folkestone and Hythe, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Linda Harrischair
• Peter William Burns
• Philip Douglas Saunders
• Tracey Lynn Walker

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Operates in: Throughout England

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