Events and Surgeries

Folkestone and Hythe Liberal Democrats keep in touch all year round through Councillors surgeries that are intended to allow local residents the chance to talk to their Councillor face to face with no appointment: just turn up.

We also run regular social events and meetups across the district. Learn more below!

Lib Dem Events and Surgeries Locally

Sandgate District Councillor Advice Surgery

As part of their commitment to listening to and working with local residents, Tim Prater and Gary Fuller, Lib Dem District Councillors for Sandgate and West Folkestone, hold regular drop-in advice surgeries in the ward each month.

No need for an appointment - just turn up to discuss any issue you would like our help with. The surgeries are in a public place: if you'd prefer to speak to Tim or Gary one-to-one then please contact them directly and we can set up a personal meeting with you.

The surgeries are held:

  • The first Saturday of each month from 11-12.30pm at Sandgate Farmers Market in the Chichester Hall, 70 Sandgate High Street, Sandgate, Folkestone CT20 3AR;

Alternatively, contact Tim or Gary directly by email or phone. If you call and don't get through, please do leave a message and we'll call you back!


Liberal Drinks

  • 08 May 2024
  • 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
  • 47-49 Sandgate High St
    Sandgate,
    Folkestone
    CT20 3AH

A regular meet-up on the second Wednesday of every month for Liberal Democrat members, supporters and the Lib Dem curious in the Folkestone and Hythe area!

Simply come along for a social drink and a chat: no speeches, no leaflet delivery. It's a "buy your own" event (sorry!) but come along and say hello to our Councillors, campaigners, members and friends.

The Providence Inne is on Sandgate High Street - there is free parking from 6pm at Castle Road Car Park in Sandgate which is two minutes walk away and often on street nearby as well.

Sandgate District Councillor Advice Surgery

As part of their commitment to listening to and working with local residents, Tim Prater and Gary Fuller, Lib Dem District Councillors for Sandgate and West Folkestone, hold regular drop-in advice surgeries in the ward each month.

No need for an appointment - just turn up to discuss any issue you would like our help with. The surgeries are in a public place: if you'd prefer to speak to Tim or Gary one-to-one then please contact them directly and we can set up a personal meeting with you.

The surgeries are held:

  • The first Saturday of each month from 11-12.30pm at Sandgate Farmers Market in the Chichester Hall, 70 Sandgate High Street, Sandgate, Folkestone CT20 3AR;

Alternatively, contact Tim or Gary directly by email or phone. If you call and don't get through, please do leave a message and we'll call you back!


Liberal Drinks

  • 12 Jun 2024
  • 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
  • 47-49 Sandgate High St
    Sandgate,
    Folkestone
    CT20 3AH

A regular meet-up on the second Wednesday of every month for Liberal Democrat members, supporters and the Lib Dem curious in the Folkestone and Hythe area!

Simply come along for a social drink and a chat: no speeches, no leaflet delivery. It's a "buy your own" event (sorry!) but come along and say hello to our Councillors, campaigners, members and friends.

The Providence Inne is on Sandgate High Street - there is free parking from 6pm at Castle Road Car Park in Sandgate which is two minutes walk away and often on street nearby as well.

Sandgate District Councillor Advice Surgery

As part of their commitment to listening to and working with local residents, Tim Prater and Gary Fuller, Lib Dem District Councillors for Sandgate and West Folkestone, hold regular drop-in advice surgeries in the ward each month.

No need for an appointment - just turn up to discuss any issue you would like our help with. The surgeries are in a public place: if you'd prefer to speak to Tim or Gary one-to-one then please contact them directly and we can set up a personal meeting with you.

The surgeries are held:

  • The first Saturday of each month from 11-12.30pm at Sandgate Farmers Market in the Chichester Hall, 70 Sandgate High Street, Sandgate, Folkestone CT20 3AR;

Alternatively, contact Tim or Gary directly by email or phone. If you call and don't get through, please do leave a message and we'll call you back!


Liberal Drinks

  • 10 Jul 2024
  • 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
  • 47-49 Sandgate High St
    Sandgate,
    Folkestone
    CT20 3AH

A regular meet-up on the second Wednesday of every month for Liberal Democrat members, supporters and the Lib Dem curious in the Folkestone and Hythe area!

Simply come along for a social drink and a chat: no speeches, no leaflet delivery. It's a "buy your own" event (sorry!) but come along and say hello to our Councillors, campaigners, members and friends.

The Providence Inne is on Sandgate High Street - there is free parking from 6pm at Castle Road Car Park in Sandgate which is two minutes walk away and often on street nearby as well.

Liberal Drinks

  • 14 Aug 2024
  • 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
  • 47-49 Sandgate High St
    Sandgate,
    Folkestone
    CT20 3AH

A regular meet-up on the second Wednesday of every month for Liberal Democrat members, supporters and the Lib Dem curious in the Folkestone and Hythe area!

Simply come along for a social drink and a chat: no speeches, no leaflet delivery. It's a "buy your own" event (sorry!) but come along and say hello to our Councillors, campaigners, members and friends.

The Providence Inne is on Sandgate High Street - there is free parking from 6pm at Castle Road Car Park in Sandgate which is two minutes walk away and often on street nearby as well.

Liberal Drinks

  • 11 Sep 2024
  • 5.00 pm - 7.30 pm
  • 47-49 Sandgate High St
    Sandgate,
    Folkestone
    CT20 3AH

A regular meet-up on the second Wednesday of every month for Liberal Democrat members, supporters and the Lib Dem curious in the Folkestone and Hythe area!

Simply come along for a social drink and a chat: no speeches, no leaflet delivery. It's a "buy your own" event (sorry!) but come along and say hello to our Councillors, campaigners, members and friends.

The Providence Inne is on Sandgate High Street - there is free parking from 6pm at Castle Road Car Park in Sandgate which is two minutes walk away and often on street nearby as well.

Lib Dem Events Nationally

One-to-One Compliance Appointments

  • 02 Jan 2024
  • 12.00 am - 12.00 am

Need to discuss a Compliance or Data Protection matter in depth? 

Email the Compliance Team via compliance@libdems.org.uk with an outline of your query - we’ll pair you with one of our specialists for a 15-minute online / phone appointment.


Photo and canvassing with Rob Blackie

  • 29 Apr 2024
  • 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm
  • Maze Hill station
    London
    SE10 9XG

Our London mayoral candidate Rob Blackie will be in Blackheath Westcombe on Monday to speak with voters.

Please join us either just for the photoshoot at the start or to knock on doors with Rob.

Wroughton - Meet the Candidates!

Join us for a drink and meet the candidates for the May 2nd Local and PCC Elections! Stan Pajak (Wroughton & Wichelstowe), Alan Hagger (candidate for the Police and Crime Commissioner) plus David Kinnaird our Parliamentary candidate for East Wilts constituency!  Find out more about them and their priorities in a relaxed atmosphere at The White Hart pub in Wroughton.

 

Members' Policy Event - Regenerating Our Towns

  • 30 Apr 2024
  • 7.30 pm - 9.00 pm

Paul Roper, Councillor for Kingsmead Ward and B&NES Cabinet Member for Economic and Cultural Sustainable Development will showcase some of the high Street Regeneration programmes and activities that are in progress or under consideration in our communities. This is an opportunity to see how our regeneration resource, developed under a Lib Dem administration is making a real difference to our townscapes.

This zoom event is open to registered members and supporters. Whichever of our three constituencies you live/work in, this should be an interesting and uplifting evening. 

Please send any questions for the panel in advance to events@bathneslibdems.org.uk. Please register well in time for the session and we will email you with a zoom link in advance. 

Accessibility

Live Captioning (real-time subtitles) can be enabled on your screen - see the Accessibility webpage in Zoom for further information about how to enable live captions and other helpful features.  Please get in touch if you have any questions or particular accessibility requirements.


 

Eve of Poll Delivery Session

  • 01 May 2024
  • 10.00 am - 8.00 pm
  • 17 Lee Street
    Horley
    RH6 8EH

Eve of Poll Delivery Session

Meet 10am at Sheila's Cafe, 17 Lee Street, Horley

Lunch 1pm at Sheila's

Afternoon session - 2pm-8pm

Councillor Sally Pattle’s Advice Surgery

  • 01 May 2024
  • 6.30 pm - 7.30 pm
  • Auldhill Road
    Bridgend
    EH49 6NZ

As part of her commitment to listening to and working with local residents, Sally Pattle, Lib Dem District Councillor for Linlithgow, holds regular drop-in advice surgeries in the ward.

No need for an appointment - just turn up to discuss any issue you would like help with. The surgeries are in a public place: if you'd prefer to speak to Sally one-to-one then please contact her directly and we can set up a personal meeting with you.

Putney Action Group (May)

Join us for a Putney Action Group meeting with a difference - there will some actual action!

The meeting - first Wednesday of the month - comes the day before the 2 May West Putney by-election so we are planning something special. 

Come along and find out. Oh, and wear walking shoes. Celebration at the end expected.

Election Day in Horley on the 2nd of May !

  • 02 May 2024
  • 5.00 am - 3.00 am
  • 17 Lee Street
    Horley
    RH6 8EH

GOTV = Get Out The Vote - going to our supporters' houses and reminding them to vote - meet 9am at Sheila's Cafe, 17 Lee Street, Horley.


Polling Day closes at 10pm. Please come and help for as long as you can - let's win this!

 

Polling Day in Frognal

  • 02 May 2024
  • 7.00 am - 10.00 pm
  • 84 Agamemnon Rd
    London
    NW6 1EH

Polling Day is when it all

comes together, and we need lots of people to help reach known Lib Dems and

remind them to vote in both the Frognal By-Election and the London elections.

 

We need people to help with

Telling – sitting at a polling station for an hour or two collecting the

polling numbers of voters so that we can mark people off our list and not

trouble them again. If you are able to help with this please contact Annie on anniew@btinternet.com or text her on 07710 907431.

 

And we need help with knocking

on doors of Lib Dem voters to encourage them to vote. We’ll be starting at

10.30am and going through to when polls close. Join us at 10.30am at Hampstead

Tube Station, or whenever you can.

 

We’ll have two Committee

Rooms open from 11am (details below) acting as bases for the day, or you can

just contact one of us to join us wherever we are in the ward:

 

3 Lower Terrace, NW3 6RG, 7

minutes walk from Hampstead Tube Station (northern line)

 

84 Agamemnon Road, NW6 1EH,

accessible by 328, 139 or 13 bus. On-street parking available after 12noon.

 

Please indicate above which

sessions you can join to help us plan the day. Contact for any queries

beforehand is Janet on j.grauberg@googlemail.com,

or on the day, message Janet on 07980 650101 or Sarah on 07790 852379 (afternoon and evening).

 


Polling Day

  • 02 May 2024
  • 7.00 am - 9.00 pm

Help us maximise the local Liberal Democrat vote on polling day in Blackheath Westcombe ward.

We will need help with leaflet delivery in the morning, knocking on doors in the afternoon and evening, and collecting polling numbers outside polling stations at various points during the day.

Haringey London Elections Polling Day

  • 02 May 2024
  • 9.00 am - 9.00 pm

Join us for Polling Day here in Haringey in support of London Mayoral Candidate Rob Blackie, Constituency Candidate Guy Russo, and all of the Lib Dem London Assembly list candidates.

Please get in contact with us at contact@haringeylibdems.org if you have any questions or specific times/locations/activities you can help with.

Location: TBC

 

Polling Day!

  • 02 May 2024
  • 9.00 am - 9.00 pm

Join us for Polling Day here in Reading!

London Polling Day Phoning

  • 02 May 2024
  • 10.00 am - 9.00 pm

Join us for Polling Day Phoning in support of London Mayoral Candidate Rob Blackie,  and all of the Lib Dem London Assembly list candidates.

we are calling voters who support us across London to remind them to vote 


Wandsworth Polling day

  • 02 May 2024
  • 10.00 am - 9.00 pm
  • 6 Tideswell Road
    Putney
    London
    SW15 6LJ

join us for Polling Day here in Wandsworth in support of our West Putney by election candidate Mark Lejman ,London Mayoral Candidate Rob Blackie, Constituency Candidate Sue Wixley, and all of the Lib Dem London Assembly list candidates.

Main Contact for the day Mark Lejman on 07887626747


Waltham Forrest Polling day

  • 02 May 2024
  • 10.00 am - 9.00 pm
  • Leyton Underground Station,
    High Rd
    Leyton
    London
    E10 5PS

join us for Polling Day here in Waltham Forrest in support of London Mayoral Candidate Rob Blackie, Constituency Candidate Rebecca Jones, and all of the Lib Dem London Assembly list candidates.

Main Contact for the day Arran Angus on 07805331865


Ealing London Elections Polling Day

  • 02 May 2024
  • 11.00 am - 9.00 pm
  • 45 Grange Road
    Ealing
    LONDON
    W5 5BU

join us for Polling Day here in Ealing in support of London Mayoral Candidate Rob Blackie, Constituency Candidate Kuldev Sehra, and all of the Lib Dem London Assembly list candidates.

Main Contact for the day Jon Ball on 07860247589


Post Count Celebration

  • 03 May 2024
  • 5.30 pm - 11.30 pm
  • Chobham Road
    Woking
    GU214AL

We would love to see you at this very special liberal drinks, celebrating the outcome of the count of this year's borough elections.

Join the candidates and the campaign team so that we can thank you for all the hard work and celebrate together!

TNE & NWC By-elections Thank-you Party

  • 03 May 2024
  • 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm
  • Suite 6
    Thatcham House
    Turners Drive
    Thatcham
    RG18 4DN

On behalf of the Local Party, I thank you for your help in the recent by-elections in Thatcham North East and Newbury Wash Common.

 

To thank your contribution, you are invited to the Thank-you party, which will take place on 3rd May 2024, from 6 to 8pm, at the Lib Dem office, Suite 6, Thatcham House, Turners Drive, Thatcham RG19 4QD. 

 



Staines Councillor Surgery

  • 04 May 2024
  • 10.30 am - 12.30 pm
  • Friends Walk
    Staines
    TW18 4PG

Come and

meet your local councillors. 

We are here

to help you with any issues that you might be having. We will do our best to be of assistance where

we can, or at least help point you in the right direction. 


 

Staines Councillor Surgery

  • 04 May 2024
  • 10.30 am - 12.30 pm
  • Friends Walk
    Staines
    TW18 4PG

Come and

meet your local councillors. 

We are here

to help you with any issues that you might be having. We will do our best to be of assistance where

we can, or at least help point you in the right direction. 


 

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