KARA
The Kent Ambulance Retirement Association
One of the Four Retirement Associations of
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust
***** Updated 3rd April 2025 *****
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Member - Social Meetings 2024/2025
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Don't forget to pencil in the proposed dates of our Social Meetings for 2024/2025 (Updates listed in your E-News)
These are held at the Lenham Community Centre at Lenham.
Come along and join in, have a chat with old and new colleagues and enjoy the buffet lunch provided and our Guest Speakers.
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All social meeting & AGM times are 1030 for 1100 start.
Refreshments are available on arrival and a buffet lunch is provided.
Eric Hartland on Historic Images of Kent
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At Novembers social meeting Eric Hartland presented old images of locations around Kent and up to date photographs taken from the same spot, well almost, as some spots would have been a bit dangerous.
The project that Eric is involved with, is the Kent Photo Archive, a project between the Maidstone Museum and Maidstone Camera Club.
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The website currently contains over 1000 archive images.
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Croatia - Here we come!
At February's meeting Frank Stocks stepped in to give us a talk about a Charity Road Trip to Croatia with a load of Medical Supplies. Having collected the supplies and arranged for a vehicle to convey them. The team comprising of Frank, Barry Holmes and Dave Ogilvie left on the 11th March 1993.
They left giving themselves six days to do the round trip; it took seven, sometimes perilous journey including cold and snow to deliver them; one of their nights spent in the van, in which they learned they could have frozen to death.
They had left Ramsgate on the Sally line on a route which took them through France, Germany and Austria to an area, Rijeka in the (Republike Bosne I Hercegovina ) Croatia. The facility that they were delivering to, as was fate, they were desperately in need of some of the drugs and medical supplies they had on board.
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Could you give us a 'talk' on your experiences?
Brief History of Flags
John Wye gave a presentation, 'A brief history of Flags, which was well received at the April 2018 Social meeting.
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Could you give us a presentation?