Chat Time at Radford House, Tuesday’s, 10:30am – 1pm

This is just a drop in, stay as long as you like until 1pm. We have many interesting people who pop in for a chat and a free cuppa and biscuits and sometimes fruit. We do good coffee and several tea flavours. Cold drinks are also available. Occasionally, we have a treat like cakes and cheese and biscuits.

It is a place to learn all manner of things: knitting, crochet, gardening, plant care. We have speakers who have interesting tales to tell. Ralph Hoult comes and tells us about old Ramsgate, with pictures; we have had a retired Fireman, who served at Radford House when it was a fire station and told us about being a Toastmaster (a master of ceremonies). We have had many interesting speakers on a regular basis.

People bring in plants they no longer want or have grown too many of. There is a bookshelf where donated books are left for anyone who would like a read.

As Christmas time comes closer, some excellent crafters will come to show us how to make decorations for next to nothing.

Ian Carter-Chapman and his mum Valerie came and did a most welcome, comic reading, with actions.

Radford House is a place to make friends or just a casual acquaintance, meeting up now and again for friendships which mean a lot and carry on into the future. It is a place of laughter and light-hearted conversations. It can get a little loud! Crafting is also available - like when Maxine Morgan of Ramsgate Town Council calls for help to provide poppies, knitted or crocheted, to fill the town and the church gates at St. George’s Church for Armistice Day and we have ladies who knit for the Special Care Baby Unit at Margate Hospital. Kind people have donated wool to provide our super knitters with the means to help others.

We have people from different countries, like China, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, even Yorkshire, and wonderful locals. Everyone is welcome and we look forward to seeing you.

Written by:
Councillor Pat Moore,
Councillor for Newington Ward