March 2022 Sandgate & West Folkestone Focus Out Now
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20 Apr 2022
News from Tim Prater
Tim has lived and worked in Sandgate (on Sandgate High Street) since 2004.
A trustee of the Sandgate Heritage Trust, Secretary of the Sandgate Members Club, Treasurer and Trustee of the Chichester Memorial Hall, former Trustee of the Gurkha Memorial Fund and former Governor of St Martin's School, and current Sandgate Speedwatch volunteer, Tim knows and works for the area!
Tim is honoured and delighted to have been elected as:
- Folkestone and Hythe District Councillor (Liberal Democrats) for Sandgate & West Folkestone;
- Sandgate Parish Councillor (Independent) for Sandgate Village;
- Folkestone Town Councillor (Liberal Democrats) for Folkestone Harvey West;
- Hythe Town Councillor (Liberal Democrats) for Hythe East.
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, was the Vice Chair of Sandgate Parish Council from 2018-2020 and Chair from 2020 to date.
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 (and has each month since election in 2019). No appointment needed: just turn up.
20 Apr 2022
Folkestone, Sandgate and Hythe Beach Management Works Spring 2022 in progress
You'll have seen that the diggers have again hit the beach and started the regular (and very necessary!) beach management works. I asked Folkestone and Hythe District Council who lead the works on the timetable, and they say:
6 Apr 2022
Council Tax Energy Rebate - An Update
I've written before about the £150 Energy Rebate, and how payments will be made to people in Folkestone and Hythe.
TP
6 Apr 2022
Free Adult Training Courses
Things I don't get to do everyday: promote ABSOLUTELY FREE, gratis, for nothing, adult education taster courses available to ANY over 18 year old local resident.
16 Mar 2022
Power to the People: The £150 Council Tax Rebate Energy Subsidy
I hugely support giving more support to families for their soaring energy bills at this time. Notices are arriving of eyewatering price increases from 1st April from almost all suppliers, and there is no sign that is going to change in the near future. Households need help, and they are going to need help over months and years, not just one-off payments.
10 Mar 2022