Tim is honoured and delighted to have been elected as:
In May 2023 Tim was re-elected to all the above seats for four more years. At the District Council AGM on 24th May 2023, he became Deputy Council Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Governance.
Previously, Tim has served on Folkestone Town Councillor for Cheriton from 2006-2011, and Shepway District Councillor for Cheriton from 2007-2011, Kent County Councillor for Folkestone West from 2009-2013. He has sat on Sandgate Parish Council for Sandgate Village since 2011.
Contact Tim by email to tim@prater.uk, call 07956 276118 or write to 98a Sandgate High Street, Folkestone CT20 3BY. As a District Councillor he runs monthly surgeries at the 1st Sandgate Farmers and Makers Market of every month at the Chichester Hall, 70 Sandgate High Street from 11am-12.30pm. No appointment needed: just turn up.
On Saturday June 18, Folkestone/Shepway Cycle Forum and The Hub Cycle and Coffee Shop are holding a cycle events day to celebrate the start of National 'Bike Week' and the one year anniversary of "The Hub Cycle and Coffee Shop" in Sandgate. All welcome!
Kishor Gurung performs the works of Spanish, South American & the European composers at the Tower Theatre, North Road, Folkestone on June 23rd 2011 from 6.30pm.
Regular water quality tests on Sandgate beach, Kent, carried out by the Environment Agency to check compliance with standards set in the Bathing Water Directive showed that on both 4th and 18th May that the water had 'Two thumbs up' - water quality in the sample met the Directive's most stringent Guideline standards.
If you have visited a Kent hospital in the last few months, then the Kent LINk (Kent Local Involvement Network) would like to hear about your experiences, good and bad. Please take a few minutes to complete their online questionnaire, which can be accessed from the home page of their website www.thekentlink.co.uk or by going directly to http://www.thekentlink.co.uk/hospital-feedback.html
There is not much point pretending that the election results in Shepway for the Lib Dems - in common with much of the rest of the country - were other than awful.
It's sometimes easy to despair about the level of political debate in this country. We have the first UK wide referendum since 1975, on a subject as important as how we elect the people who represent us. How we elect those who set our taxes, take us to war, decide how we fund our services.
