Medway Matters 

All the latest news, events and information that’s happening within Medway!

Summer Trails

Complete the Medway Summer Trails for your chance to 𝗪𝗜𝗡 tickets for loads of attractions across Medway ☀️🏰🔎

Head on over to -
🏰 Rochester Castle
🏯Upnor Castle
🧜‍♀️ Eastgate House
⚔️ Temple Manor
🏛️ The Guildhall Museum

Pick up your FREE lanyard and stamp booklet from any of the above ☝️

Complete the different trails at each venue to earn your stamp and badge 🏅 (pssst, the badge designs mean something to each venue…)

Collect all 5 badges to claim your ultra-special Sea Plane badge, and be entered into a draw to WIN a bundle of family tickets for loads of attractions across Medway.

*All trails are free, but entry fees still apply.

MedwayGo is back for the summer

MedwayGo activities for children are back, with booking open now! Eligible children can enjoy so many exciting days of activities for free, including swimming, sports, coding, gaming, outdoors fun and so much more! A tasty hot lunch is included with each session.

MedwayGo provides activities for children of all ages, and with 102 sessions planned this summer, you're sure to find something they enjoy! We offer sessions across Medway, in many different locations to suit most parents. The activities are free for children in receipt of benefits-related free school meals, and come with a nutritious hot meal.

To sign, up, simply visit our website, find an activity you like and follow the instructions to make your booking.

Competitions

👷 𝗪𝗜𝗡 1 of 5 family tickets to Diggerland. 🎡 Enter this competition before 𝟯𝟭 𝗔𝘂𝗴 for your chance to win a family ticket to this unique theme park and play area. 🎁

🐾𝗪𝗜𝗡 your very own meerkat experience at The Fenn Bell Conservation Project. Enter this competition before 𝟭𝟰 𝗔𝘂𝗴 for your chance to win this close-up personal experience with these cute and adorable meerkats. 🎁

🐾𝗪𝗜𝗡 your very own lemur experience at The Fenn Bell Conservation Project. Enter this competition before 𝟭𝟰 𝗔𝘂𝗴 for your chance to win this close-up personal experience with these cute and adorable animals. 🎁

Baby & Bump Fair is tomorrow!

If you're pregnant or mum to a baby, come along to our FREE Baby & Bump Fair tomorrow at The Academy of Woodlands in Gillingham. There is no need to book – just turn up!

This unmissable and FREE event will focus on everything baby, including birth, breastfeeding, baby sleep, weaning and so much more! You will have the opportunity to speak to industry-leading professionals including midwives and other experts.

We're very excited to announce that Kate Quilton, who has starred in various episodes of Dispatches with ITV, will be leading a breastfeeding talk at the event.

You'll be able to take part in a hypnobirthing session, give Sweaty Mama a go, or learn all about weaning and child nutrition.

There is no need to book - simply turn up on the day and enjoy meeting midwives, health professionals and other mums!

The event begins at 9:30am, with activities lasting all day until 4:30pm.

Medway’s tastiest festival arrives

A new foodie festival will be cooking up a storm in Medway this September… 🍴

Reduced advance tickets are now available for the Medway Food and Drink Festival, taking place from Friday, 16 September to Sunday, 18 September, at one of Medway’s most picturesque locations, Rochester Castle gardens. You and your family can get up to 25% off your day ticket by booking online now.

Medway residents praise volunteers for creek clear out.

Facebook followers showed their support after our Environmental Services team joined forces with @MedwaySwaleEstuaryPartnership and Morrisons Strood, to clear shopping trolleys and other discarded items and rubbish from Jane’s Creek, between the supermarket and Strood Retail Park.

The annual voluntary clear out of the waterway sees the partners spend the day dragging out various items including a bicycle but the main haul is usually trolleys, for salvage and re-use, if possible.

It’s Time....

To sign the children up for some fun at Medway's Sports Centres and enjoy a summer holiday multi-sport club for 7 to 12-year-olds. And Premier Members get 20% discount on school holiday sports camps. Activities vary daily and include swimming, nerf fun, inflatable slide, dance, football, kick boxing, table tennis, tag archery and racket sports. Half day and full day options available.

Strood Sports Centre - 25 July – 25 August Monday-Thursday 9.30am-4pm

Medway Park - 26 July – 26 August Tuesday-Friday 9.30am-4pm

£10 per half day, £20 full day, £65 full week.

Find out this and the many more benefits of Premier Membership

Cool shows at Chatham’s Central

With the summer sun set to continue in September, what better way to stay ‘cool’ than spending an evening with legends?

Air-conditioned The Central Theatre, proudly presents Leo Sayer and The Drifters on tour next month.

Medway Adult Education

Want to know how to make a compost bin from pallets? 

Tuesday, 9 August. 10am-2pm,

The Octopus Foundation will be visiting the Medway Adult Education allotment at Fort Amherst to show people how to make compost bins from pallets. It’s a chance to get going with some basic woodworking- and the team will speak with you about what you can do next to develop your skills. On the day, you can also get involved in some planting and growing and getting to know a bit more about allotment keeping.

Free to attend and suitable for all adults. To book a space email dan.mace@medway.gov.uk  

Have your say

We have funding available from a nearby development for improvements to Esplanade Gardens, and we would like to hear your views on how to improve this open space. The consultation closes on 30 August.

New exhibition at Rochester Art Gallery inspired by Medway

Unpicking Places: Ways of Making by Christopher Tipping

📆 28 July - 14 October 2022 

“We all store impressions of places we have visited and know intuitively how somewhere makes us feel. I have been creatively looking at places since I was child, surveying spaces and gently unpicking them.”

Artist Christopher Tipping has delivered creative projects in urban public spaces for over 30 years.  Check out his range of recent and current commissions undertaken across Medway’s flagship waterfront developments.