Christmas Sandgate Library Closure:
The parish office will be closed from 24th December until 2nd January.
Very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from all at Sandgate Parish Council and Library.
The minutes of Sandgate’s Parish Council Finance Committee meeting, held on 9th December 2024, in Sandgate Library.
Finance-Minutes-09-12-2024You can find previous Sandgate Parish Council Finance Committee Agendas, Minutes and Financial Reports on this website. We publish agendas a few days before a meeting. The Clerk then posts draft minutes in the week after a meeting.
We broadcast our meetings live on our Facebook page. Those meeting recordings are then left live for a few months after the meeting, giving you the chance to watch it back later!
The next suitable meeting will formally approve the draft minutes of this meeting. When approved, the Chairman of that meeting then signs them.
The signed minutes of the meeting serve as the legal record of what has taken place at the meeting. Before a meeting approves the draft minutes of a preceding meeting, the meeting may, by resolution, correct any inaccuracies in the draft minutes. The attendance (or otherwise) of the Chairman or those voting in favour to amend or approve of the minutes is irrelevant.
Only if meeting minutes are found to be inaccurate after they have been signed can they then be altered. Inaccuracies in signed minutes can only be amended by resolution at a subsequent meeting.
Residents in Folkestone & Hythe are encouraged to make a note of changes to the household waste and recycling collections over the Christmas and New Year period.
Some collections will be made later than usual to allow hard-working crews to enjoy some time off over the festive season.
| Original collection date | New collection date |
| Monday 23 December | No change |
| Tuesday 24 December | No change |
| Wednesday 25 December | Friday 27 December |
| Thursday 26 December | Saturday 28 December |
| Friday 27 December | Monday 30 December |
| Monday 30 December | Tuesday 31 December |
| Tuesday 31 December | Wednesday 1 January |
| Wednesday 1 January | Thursday 2 January |
| Thursday 2 January | Friday 3 January |
| Friday 3 January | Saturday 4 January |
The household waste and recycling collections will return to normal on Monday 6 January. The revised schedule for specific properties can be found on the council’s website.
Cllr Jeremy Speakman, Cabinet Member for Assets and Operations, said:
“I would kindly ask residents who may have relatives, friends or neighbours without internet access to check this information for them so they don’t miss out on any collections.
“Christmas is a particularly busy time for crews – I’d like to take this opportunity to thank them for their efforts over the season and throughout the whole year.”
Meanwhile, garden waste collections are taking their usual winter break. The last collection will be on Friday 20 December before the service resumes on Monday 6 January.
A free real Christmas tree recycling service will be available again in the new year. Garden waste customers can simply leave them out on their usual collection day, while non-subscribers will need to arrange a collection in January.
There are various ways to reduce waste over Christmas – top tips will be shared on Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s social media channels in the coming weeks.
Veolia crews empty household waste bins with a fully-closed lid every fortnight – they are not able to take extra rubbish. Please recycle as much as you can; additional paper and cardboard can be put in another box for collection.
Residents are reminded to ensure their waste bin/box is out by 7am on collection day.
The agenda for the Sandgate Parish Council Full Parish Council meeting, to held on Monday 16th December 2024, in Sandgate Library at 6.30pm.
Agenda-council-meeting-16-12-24The Council meeting is open to press and public. If you would like to attend this meeting, please notify clerk@sandgatepc.org.uk in advance. Letting us know allows us to make sure we have sufficient seats for you and allow reasonable spacing.
We keep a full list of previous Sandgate Parish Council Meeting Agenda and Minutes on this website. We publish those agendas a few days before each meeting, and will also post draft minutes in the week after a meeting.
Most of our meetings are broadcast live on our Facebook page. We’ll then leave those recordings on Facebook for a few months after the meeting so you can watch them back later.
We issue agenda’s at least three clear days before a meeting. We display them on the noticeboard in the library, Parish noticeboards on the Village Green and by Enbrook Valley shops, and on our website.
The minimum three clear days for notice of a meeting does not include:
All meetings of our Council are open to the public, except in limited defined circumstances. We can only decide, by resolution, to meet in private when discussing confidential business or for other special reasons where publicity would be prejudicial to the public interest.
Those reasons might include, for example, discussing the conduct of employees, negotiations of contracts or terms of tender, or the early stages of a legal dispute.
Kent County Council are consulting on changes to the preventative Services that it funds. It proposes to cut the Community Navigation service and significantly reduce wellbeing services for older people and adults with complex needs.
How to take part?
You can fill out the consultation online at www.kent.gov.uk/wellbeingconsultation
You can call Kent County Council on 03000 415846
You can send an email to innovationandpartnerships@kent.gov.uk
You can pick up a paper copy at:
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 8th December: Now you can see just how handsome our resident robin is.
We are rapidly hurtling towards the end of the year. The rainfall for November was a healthy but surprisingly low 55.3 mm. We have had so many rainy days of late, however the rain is mostly drizzle and not torrential. Without a doubt the main topic for the weather is the constant battering from storms. They seem to be coming one after another and so we must truly be in the stormy season. This weekend brought storm Darragh which stopped us coming out on Saturday morning. Yet again we shall have to wait for it to pass before checking on the damage on top of the storm we had last week.
Fortunately Wednesday was fine and dry, giving us an opportunity at last to get the broad beans planted. The fact that we have any beans to plant at all is a minor miracle because of the ravenous rodents we seem to have in the greenhouse, so it was something of a relief to get them in the ground at last. Now all they have to do is to be able ride through the weather and the winter and hopefully survive. To help them along we got out the sad and sorry looking fleece to give them a little protection from the winds and any future frosts. We had hoped to be able to cover them with some new and hole less fleece, however the Christmas post has been slow and it had still not turned up for the great plant out. We shall now have to hope and pray that the fleece is not on its way to Folkestone already as Darragh continues to howl and rage, although at the very least it will probably have gained a few more holes.
As usual the resident robin was curious to know what we were up to this week and posed just long enough for one of our speedy gardeners to catch its likeness with her phone camera – we had been trying to do that for some weeks – now you can see just how handsome he is.
Happy with our work, we packed away just as it was about to start drizzling again, so most of our other tasks remain unfinished and are to be carried forward into next week.
What’s next?
This weeks update from the Sandgate Community Garden Diary.
So, this Friday 6th December is late night shopping night on Sandgate High Street and you are ALL invited!
There will be an extra special VIP in Sandgate Library who would be delighted to see the under 10s from 5.15pm – 6pm : free entry!
Up and down the High Street there will be plenty of places to go with friends and family.
Noyce will be open and happy to see you on the evening, as well as many other places that will be open including Workshopnumber29 with loads of perfect gifts for the perfect Christmas.
Friday is also the official reopening night for The Providence Inne Sandgate who we are delighted to welcome back with new owners Chris and Claire Louise! They have live music from The Swing Rats on Friday evening, and would love to see you, as would Docker Brewery (96 Sandgate High Street), The Ship Inn – Sandgate, Gee’s Bar – The Royal Norfolk Hotel and more!
ROKA Pizza are offering 15% off all orders for collection on their app on Friday 6th: their wood fired pizzas are ace, and if you haven’t tried a Roka dessert, try a Roka dessert.
And The Dog House will be open until 7.30 with hot drinks, cake and hosting a range of local artisans including Ann Blunt Glass, Carol Needham gifts, Sandgate ceramic and It’s A Florrie Thing Jewellery – another great source of Christmas gifts!
And why not join John Dory at 102 Sandgate High Street who will be serving mince pies and port by the glass from 7.30pm. A great way to round off your evening!
The agenda of Sandgate’s Parish Council Finance Committee meeting. We will hold the meeting on 9th December 2024 at 6:30pm. It will be held in Sandgate Library.
All documents
Our Finance Committee meeting is open to press and public. Please could any member of the public who wants to attend notify us via clerk@sandgatepc.org.uk in advance. This allows us to ensure we have sufficient seats and allow reasonable spacing.
We publish our financial reporting on the “in-running” budget monthly. So at this meeting we will consider the reports since the last meeting.
Previous Sandgate Parish Council Finance Committee Agendas, Minutes and Financial Reports.
We use (the excellent) Scribe Accounts to manage our Council accounts and generate reports.
Sandgate Parish Council’s finances are governed by our Financial Regulations and Standing Orders, and every Town and Parish Council has similar rules. Because those rules govern our financial management, we can only amend or vary them by a Council resolution.
The Council’s Standing Orders require quarterly reporting of receipts, payments and balances. For instance, they say at 17.c:
The Responsible Financial Officer shall supply to each councillor as soon as practicable after 30 June, 30 September and 31 December in each year a statement to summarise:
i. the council’s receipts and payments for each quarter;
ii. the council’s aggregate receipts and payments for the year to date;
iii. the balances held at the end of the quarter being reported
and which includes a comparison with the budget for the financial year and highlights any actual or potential overspends.
We’re now publishing our reports monthly, exceeding that requirement. Consequently we will consider the reports at the next Parish Council Resources Committee meeting.
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 1st December: Prime time for the pigeons to strip many of our plants.
We are now in December. The time is flying by and before we know it we will be in February and time to start the whole year of growing all over again. There is plenty to be getting on with before then. Hoping for some quieter weather after storm Bert last weekend, our wish was not to be granted as storm Conall followed quickly afterwards.
The Wednesday morning session was cancelled once again as there was rain followed by more rain. Luckily Saturday was dry and we were able to assess the storm damage. Fortunately one of our gardeners had already been up to the garden shortly after the storms to report back how the garden had fared and saved lots of plants by retrieving netting and tying or weighing them down.
This is prime time for the pigeons to strip many of our plants back to the bare stems. Whilst some suffered this fate, we are hopeful they may recover depending on how harsh the winter is as technically it is still autumn.
The winds had the effect of stripping most of the leaves from the trees, whipping them all around the garden and leaving them in great piles particularly in and around the pond. Our first task was to begin to collect them and compost them. Looking around, it was clear that many of our plants had suffered from salt burn where the edges of the leaves turn dry and brown, and the poor banana tree was simply shredded although still trying to unfurl a brand new undamaged leaf.
Thought has to go out to the creatures having to brave these storms. Happily our resident robin was pleased to see us again and particularly glad we were working on the plots. In spite of all the difficult weather we still have to feed the hot composter at Folkestone College. Nicknamed ‘the beast’, it resembles a smoking dragon as upon lifting the lid it spews out plumes of hot steam from its ‘belly’. All around the rim of the lid are many different ladybirds, all taking advantage of the warmth.
What’s next?
This weeks update from the Sandgate Community Garden Diary.
The minutes of Sandgate’s Parish Council meeting, held on 25th November 2024, in Sandgate Library.
Minutes-council-meeting-25-11-24Meeting video at: https://www.facebook.com/sandgatepc/videos/1630959000800052
Previous Sandgate Parish Council Meeting Agendas and Minutes. We publish agendas a few days before a meeting. We then post draft minutes in the week after a meeting.
Most of our meetings are also broadcast live on our Facebook page. Those recordings are left on Facebook for a few months after the meeting so can be watched back later.
We broadcast our meetings live on our Facebook page (although we’re sorry: this one was not). Those meeting recordings are then left live for a few months after the meeting, giving you the chance to watch it back later!
The next suitable meeting will formally approve the draft minutes of this meeting. When approved, the Chairman of that meeting then signs them.
The signed minutes of the meeting serve as the legal record of what has taken place at the meeting. Before a meeting approves the draft minutes of a preceding meeting, the meeting may, by resolution, correct any inaccuracies in the draft minutes. The attendance (or otherwise) of the Chairman or those voting in favour to amend or approve of the minutes is irrelevant.
Only if meeting minutes are found to be inaccurate after they have been signed can they then be altered. Inaccuracies in signed minutes can only be amended by resolution at a subsequent meeting.